Pendle Borough Council elections

Pendle Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Pendle Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Pendle in Lancashire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2020, 33 councillors have been elected from 12 wards.^[1]

Council elections

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats	British National Party	Independent	Notes
1973
1976						New ward boundaries.[2]
1979
1980
1982
1983
1984
1986
1987						Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same.[3]
1988[4]	5	19	27	0	0
1990[5]	5	22	23	0	1
1991[6]	5	26	20	0	0
1992[7]	7	27	17	0	0
1994[8]	7	23	21	0	0
1995[9]	5	20	26	0	0
1996[10]	3	19	29	0	0
1998[11]	3	18	29	0	1
1999[12]	7	20	23	0	1
2000[13]	9	24	18	0	0
2002[14]	11	19	19	0	0	New ward boundaries.[15][14]
2003[16]	11	15	23	0	0
2004[17]	11	8	30	0	0
2006[18]	13	5	30	1	0
2007[19]	14	6	27	1	0
2008[20]	16	10	20	2	1
2010[21]	17	13	16	2	1
2011[22]	18	16	12	2	1
2012[23]	18	18	12	1	0
2014[24][25]	19	18	11	1	0
2015	19	18	11	1	0
2016[26]	21	17	10	1	0
2018[27]	24	15	9	0	0
2019	21	16	10	0	1
2021	18	10	5	0	0	New ward boundaries.[1]
2022	17	11	5	0	0
2023	14	11	7	0	1[a]
2024	13	0	8	0	12

1. Elected as Labour.

Borough result maps

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  2002 results map
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  2003 results map
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  2004 results map
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  2006 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2008 results map
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  2010 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2012 results map
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  2014 results map
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  2015 results map
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  2016 results map
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  2018 results map
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  2019 results map
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  2021 results map
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  2022 results map
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  2023 results map
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  2024 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;^[28] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Barnoldswick Coates	27 June 1996		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Barnoldswick Craven	27 June 1996		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Bradley	20 March 1997		Labour		Labour
Marsden	7 August 1997		Labour		Labour
Horsfield by-election	10 December 1998		Labour		Liberal Democrats
Horsfield by-election	1 March 2001		Labour		Liberal Democrats
Craven by-election	28 June 2007		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Coates by-election	2 May 2013		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Blacko and Higherford by-election	3 April 2014		Conservative		Conservative
Old Laund Booth by-election	3 July 2014		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Reedley by-election	24 November 2016		Labour		Conservative
Barrowford and Pendleside by-election	15 December 2022		Conservative		Conservative
Vivary Bridge by-election	6 March 2025		Conservative		Liberal Democrats