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Westhoughton South

7th May 2026

Council

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Results2026

1	Ref	Glen Clarke	1,644	37.5%
2	LD	David Wilkinson	1,550	35.3%	▲ 3.7
3	Lab	Christina Ruth Saunders	455	10.4%	▼ 24.8
4	Grn	Simon Penhallow	306	7.0%	▲ 4.3
5	Con	Colin Higson	276	6.3%	▼ 6.3
6	WFI	Jack Speight	100	2.3%	▼ 3.7
7	Ind	Richard Adam Bates	57	1.3%

How is this scored?

Up to 15 points per contest:

1 point for each candidate that finishes in the top 3 (regardless of where you placed them)
5 / 3 / 1 bonus for getting 1st / 2nd / 3rd exactly right
1 point for each pair you got the order of (e.g. you said A above B, and A finished above B)

Previous Results

2 May 2024

Lab	John Stewart McHugh ★	1,146	35.2%
LD	Neil Maher	1,029	31.6%
Con	Cathryn Norris	410	12.6%
RUABFC	Dave Price	292	9.0%
WFI	Jack Speight	196	6.0%
UKI	Richard Adam Bates	98	3.0%
Grn	Heather Rylance	88	2.7%

4 May 2023

Lab	David Chadwick ★	1,163	13.0%
LD	David Wilkinson ★	1,141	12.8%
LD	Neil Maher ★	1,021	11.4%
LD	Deirdre Janice McGeown	1,008	11.3%
Lab	John Stewart McHugh	995	11.1%
Lab	Karen Millington	970	10.8%
Con	Rachel Eckersley-Fallon	637	7.1%
Con	Carol Kirkman	627	7.0%
Con	Anna-Marie Watters	611	6.8%
WFI	Sharon Ann Gough	349	3.9%
RUABFC	Matthew Kemp	231	2.6%
RUABFC	Sandy Holt	192	2.1%

How is this scored?

Up to 15 points per contest:

1 point for each candidate that finishes in the top 3 (regardless of where you placed them)
5 / 3 / 1 bonus for getting 1st / 2nd / 3rd exactly right
1 point for each pair you got the order of (e.g. you said A above B, and A finished above B)