Dukes (ward)

Dukes is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Southport Parliamentary constituency that covers the western part of the localities of Birkdale and Hillside in the town of Southport. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 13,333.^[1]

Election
2004	Ronald Watson (Con)	Leslie Byrom (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2006	Ronald Watson (Con)	Leslie Byrom (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2007	Ronald Watson (Con)	Leslie Byrom (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2008	Ronald Watson (Con)	Leslie Byrom (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2010	Ronald Watson (Con)	Leslie Byrom (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2011	Ronald Watson (Con)	Pat Ball (Con)	David Pearson (Con)
2012	Ronald Watson (Con)	Pat Ball (Con)	Tony Dawson (LD)
2014	David Barton (Con)	Pat Ball (Con)	Tony Dawson (LD)
2015	David Barton (Con)	Pat Ball (Con)	Tony Dawson (LD)
2016	David Barton (Con)	Pat Ball (Con)	Tony Dawson (LD)
2017 by-election	David Barton (Con)	John Pugh (LD)	Tony Dawson (Ind^[2])
2018	Ron Watson (Con)	John Pugh (LD)	Tony Dawson (Ind)
2019	Ron Watson (Con)	John Pugh (LD)	Tony Dawson (Ind)
2021	Ron Watson (Con)	John Pugh (LD)	Mike Prendergast (Con)
2022	Ron Watson (Con)	John Pugh (LD)	Mike Prendergast (Con)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ron Watson*	1,479	41.9	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Barton	1,224	34.7	+18.6
	Labour	Trevor Vaughan	824	23.4	+8.8
Majority			255	7.2
Turnout			3,527	33.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	9.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mike Prendergast	1,576	41.8
	Independent	Tony Dawson	816	21.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Newman	606	16.1
	Labour	Thomas Spring	551	14.6
	Green	Robert Doyle	219	5.8
Majority			760
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	John Pugh	1,729	49.2
	Conservative	Adam Charles Edward Kennaugh	797	22.7
	Labour	Lesley Delves	511	14.5
	UKIP	Al Johnson	285	8.1
	Green	Robert Michael Doyle	194	5.5
Majority			932
Turnout			3,516	32.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Ron Watson	1,409	40.1	10.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Barton	1275	36.3	10.9
	Labour	Sahar Dehghani-Barenji	710	20.2	3.5
	Green	Nick Senior	118	3.4	1.0
Majority			134	3.8
Turnout			3512	32.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	10.9

Councillors

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal By-Elections 2017: Dukes^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Pugh	1680	56.0	28.4
	Conservative	Ann Blanche Pearmain	790	26.3	9.4
	Labour	Frank Hanley	417	13.9	2.3
	UKIP	Terry Durrance	69	2.3	13.5
	Green	Nick Senior	45	1.5	3.1
Majority			890
Turnout			3001
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2010: Dukes^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ron Watson	2589	43%
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Joan Shavaksha	2137	35%
	Labour	Catherine Emily Cookson	687	11%
	Independent	Harry Forster	635	10%
Majority
Turnout			6048	62%
	Conservative hold		Swing