Local Elections 2023: Live Blog as Peterborough heads to the polls
21 seats on Peterborough City Council are available today and your votes will decide who has overall control of the council and the power to make decisions over everything from schools, leisure, council tax to bin collections.
Polling stations are open until 10pm this evening.
Follow all of the developments throughout the day and night on the PT’s live blog below.
LIVE: Peterborough Local Elections 2023
Key Events
- 21 city council seats available
- ID required to vote
- Council currently under no overall control
- Conservatives are the largest party on council
Orton Watervile
Green hold
Oluwaseun Akinyele – Labour Party 205
Matthew Bliszczak – Conservative Party 496
Vince Carroll – Liberal Democrats 73
Nicola Day- Green Party 1786
Turnout: 35.99%
Conservative hold
Lorraine Andison – Labour Party 414
Wayne Fitzgerald – Conservative Party 842
Colette Francis – Green Party 260
Polly Geraghty – Liberal Democrats 114
Turnout 39.56%
Eye, Thorney and Newborough
Conservative hold
Michael Alexander – Green Party 244
Steve Allen – Conservative Party 1122
Annie Geraghty – Liberal Democrats 115
John Shearman – Labour Party 587
Turnout: 28.1%
Central
Labour hold
Steve Cawley – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 73
Mohammed Jamil – Labour & Co-operative Party 1579
Raymond Knight – Green Party 203
Khan Umar – Conservative Party 509
Paul Whittaker – Liberal Democrats 179
Turnout: 29.84%
Dogsthorpe
Labour hold
Kelsey Brace – Green Party 99
Katy Cole – Labour & Co-operative Party 902
Muhammad Ikram – Conservative Party 654
Robert Petch – Independent 97
Sandra Ringler – Liberal Democrats 152
Turnout: 28.21%
Heather Skibsted (GREEN) has been re-elected in Orton Longueville - having defected from Labour during her last term.
Fletton and Stanground
Lib Dem hold
Davide Broccoli – Conservative Party 343
Angus Ellis – Labour Party 348
Danette O’Hara – Green Party 145
Jade Seager – Liberal Democrats 874
Tunrout: 24.9%
Fletton and Woodston
Labour take the seat back
Imtiaz Ali – Green Party 406
Nick Thulbourn – Labour & Co-operative Party 732
Neil Walton – Liberal Democrats 98
Andrew Willey – Conservative Party 720
Turnout: 26.2%