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Local Election Special - Live Commentary
Reporter: Adam Lord, Kyle Caldwell & Ben Winstanley
Date online: 07 May 2010
Be the first to find out the Local Election 2010 results in Bury here. We will have live commentary from the count at Castle Leisure Centre from 1pm today and the results of each ward online as soon they are announced.
3.03pm
Your new look Bury Council looks as follows. The Conservatives have 23 seats, down three, Labour have 20 seats, up four, and the Lib Dems have lost one seat and now have eight. There you have it, a great afternoon for Labour and a hung council.
3.00pm
The final result is in. Radcliffe North has elected Labour's Jane Lewis to replace Sharon Briggs, who is standing down.
2.57pm
Comfortable double Conservative win in Pilkington Park - Bernie Vincent has retained his seat, and will be joined on the council by Robert Caserta, who takes the place of retired councillor Peter Redstone. Final result on its way.
2.56pm
In Ramsbottom, Ian Bevan has retained the seat for the Conservatives. He will replace Diana Ashworth who is standing down.
2.54pm
More good news for Labour - they've taken another Conservative seat. This time, Sandra Walmsley has beaten Peter Ashworth in Moorside.
2.53pm
Another Labour gain, this time in Radcliffe East. Nick Parnell has unseated Conservative councillor Catherine Berry by 150 votes.
2.51pm
Four of those five ward results are coming up now.
2.47pm
That leaves five more ward results to be announced, with two councillors to be elected from Pilkington Park. Labour have so far achieved gained two council seats, taking one each from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
2.46pm
Results coming thick and fast now. In Elton ward, Michael Hankey retains his seat for the Conservative Party, holding off a strong challenge from Labour's James Frith to triumph by just over 200 votes. In North Manor, James Taylor has a more comfortable hold for the Conservatives, retaining his seat to mark the day's fourth win for the party.
2.43pm
Leader of the council Bob Bibby has comfortably retained his seat in Church ward for the Conservatives.It's their first win of the day but they don't have long to wait for the next as Tottington's Iain Gartside retains his seat immediately afterwards.
2.40pm
The votes for Sedgley have just been announced and it's the closest vote so far with just over 250 votes seperating the three candidates. Labour candidate Alan Quinn has unseated Liberal Democrat Andrew Garner, with Jonathan Grosskopf for the Conservative Party in third place.
2.32pm
In Unsworth, the first gain of the day, for Labour, Ann Audlin has ousted Conservative Bev Sullivan by less than 200 votes.
2.30pm
Lib Dem's Tim Pickstone retains his seat in Holyrood.
2.23pm
Rishi Shori has retained his seat for Labour in Radcliffe West. Tamoor Tariq has bben elected for Labour to the Redalves ward, replacing Farooq Chaudhry who stood down.
2.20pm
Kenneth Audin comfortably retains his seat for Labour in the Besses ward. No surprises so far.
2.17pm
Trevor Holt of Labour comfortably retains his seat in East Ward.
2.15pm
St Mary's is the first result in. Liberal Democrat Donal O'Hanlon has held the seat.
1.40pm
The scrolls are piling up as we await the first results.
1.30pm
It doesn't look like it will be long before the first results will be announced in the Bury Council Elections 2010.
1.23pm
MP for Bury South Ivan Lewis is in the building, fresh from fighting off competition from Conservative Pilkington Park councillor Michelle Wiseman in the General Election. There was an 8% swing to the Tories but it wasn't enough for the seat to change hands.
1.15pm
The atmosphere is building up, as the count is well underway.
1pm
We have arrived at Castle Leisure Centre and the final preparations are being made before the count begins.
Before yesterday's election, the make-up of Bury Council was as follows:
Conservative - 26
Labour - 16
Liberal Democrat – 9
A total of 18 seats on the council are available at this election. This is one seat
per ward, with the exception of Pilkington Park – where two seats are available.
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Local Election result 2010