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
Werrington
Peterborough First hold
Judy Fox – Peterborough First - Werrington Independent 1672
Rosalind Jones – Labour Party 332
Simon Kail – Liberal Democrats 78
Hayley Shelton – Conservative Party 280
Georgia Wade – Green Party 158
Turnout: 32.7%
Matthew Gladstone, Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council, reads out the first results of the night for Hampton Vale
Gunthorpe
Lib Dem hold
Sandra Bond – Liberal Democrats 1166
Madison Challis – Labour Party 269
John Peach – Conservative Party 853
Tom Rogers – Christian Peoples Alliance 54
Turnout: 35.49%
Stanground South
Conservative Hold
Simon Garner – Liberal Democrats 101
Harry Lewis – Labour Party 553
Stuart Middleton – Green Party 165
Brian Rush – Conservative Party 798
Glinton and Castor
Conservative Hold
Claire Bysshe – Liberal Democrats 270
Sue Farr – Labour Party 278
Greg Guthrie – Green Party 183
Peter Hiller – Conservative Party 1088
Turnout 35.92%
Orton Longueville
Green Hold
Aqib Mohammed Farooq – Conservative Party 561
Heather Skibsted – Green Party 868
Wendy Smith – Labour & Co-operative Party 545
Turnout 26.5%
Paston and Walton
Another Lib Dem hold
Simon Barkham- Lib Dem 836
Simon Mayhew – Green Party 78
David Powell – Labour Party 352
Alex Rafiq – Conservative Party 597
Turnout: 25.91%
Hampton Vale
Chris Wiggin retains Hampton Vale for the Lib Dems
Rhys Evans Con 402
Abdul Mannan Labour 213
Chris Wiggin Lib Dem 549
Turn out: 22.99%
Tories braced for losses as votes counted in England’s local elections
Rishi Sunak’s Tories are braced for a bruising set of local election results as votes continue to be counted across England.
The contests were the first to be fought under new rules requiring voters to carry photographic ID, and the elections watchdog said “regrettably” some people were turned away from polling stations as a result.
The Electoral Commission said that overall the elections were “well run” but the requirement to carry photo ID posed a challenge and some people were unable to vote as a result, although detailed work will be needed to understand the scale of the problem.
An Electoral Commission spokesman said: “We already know from our research that the ID requirement posed a greater challenge for some groups in society, and that some people were regrettably unable to vote today as a result.
“It will be essential to understand the extent of this impact, and the reasons behind it, before a final view can be taken on how the policy has worked in practice and what can be learned for future elections.”