2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, 2019
	;
; 22 of 66 seats (One Third); to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council; 34 seats needed for a majority
	; Map of wards of 2019 election;
; Incumbent Leader of the Council; Phil Davies; Labour; ;	; ; ; ;

The 2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election is due to take place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England.^[7] This will be on the same day as other local elections.

4 Candidates
- 4.1 Bebington
- 4.2 Bidston and St James
- 4.3 Birkenhead and Tranmere
- 4.4 Bromborough
- 4.5 Clatterbridge
- 4.6 Claughton
- 4.7 Eastham
- 4.8 Greasby, Frankby and Irby
- 4.9 Heswall
- 4.10 Hoylake and Meols
- 4.11 Leasowe and Moreton East
- 4.12 Liscard
- 4.13 Moreton West and Saughall Massie
- 4.14 New Brighton
- 4.15 Oxton
- 4.16 Pensby and Thingwall
- 4.17 Prenton
- 4.18 Rock Ferry
- 4.19 Seacombe
- 4.20 Upton
- 4.21 Wallasey
- 4.22 West Kirby and Thurstaston

5 Notes

6 References

Council composition[edit]

Prior to the election the composition of the council was^[8]:

↓
34	21	5	1	5
Lab	Con	LD	G	Ind

Parties and candidates[edit]

Contesting politicial parties[edit]

Party		Leader	Leader since	Leader's ward	Up for re-election?	Last election		This election
Party		Leader	Leader since	Leader's ward	Up for re-election?	% of votes	Wards	Defending	Current Composition
	Labour	Phil Davies (outgoing)^[2]	29 March 2012	Birkenhead and Tranmere	Y^{[n 3]}	45.5%	12	12	34 / 66
	Conservative	Ian Lewis	8 May 2017	Wallasey	N	35.3%	7	7	21 / 66
	Liberal Democrat	Phil Gilchrist	16 May 2013	Eastham	N	10.2%	2	1	5 / 66
	Green	Pat Cleary^{[n 2]}	22 May 2014	Birkenhead and Tranmere	N	8.6%	1	0	1 / 66
	Independent	Moira McLaughlin	22 February 2019	Rock Ferry	N	0.1%	0	2^{[n 4]}	5 / 66

At the last regular election (2018), The Conservatives, Greens and Labour all ran a full slate of candidates with the Liberal Democrats contesting all but one of the seats available with other parties only putting forward a handful of candidates between them.

Candidate selection[edit]

The Green Party selected Steve Hayes on 13 June 2018 to contest the seat of Birkenhead and Tranmere after Pat Cleary was successfully re-elected in May.^[9]

On 17 September, incumbent Hoylake and Meols councillor of 20 years Gerry Ellis announced that he had been deselected by the Conservative Party.^[10] Ellis appealed against the deselection, claiming he had been "unlawfully" discriminated against because of his age. In December, Alison Wright was announced as the new Conservative candidate.^[11]

On 17 October, Phil Davies announced in a party email that he would stand as Council Leader in May as well as not seeking re-election for his Birkenhead and Tranmere seat after serving on Wirral Council for over 27 years.^[2]

Labour's selection process began in October with the left targeting seats such as Liscard, Bidston and St James, Pensby and Thingwall, Rock Ferry and New Brighton.^[12] Both Ron Abbey (Leasowe and Moreton East) and Chris Meaden (Rock Ferry) were not selected. Bernie Mooney's successful re-selection for Liscard was questioned due to apparent irregularities in the selection process.^[13]^[14] Her candidacy was upheld by the regional party.^[15] However, on 27 February she was found to be in breach of Labour rules and subsequently removed from the panel of candidates by the by the Local Campaign Forum.^[16]

In January, Meaden resigned the Labour whip and will seek re-election as an independent.^[17]

Paul Doughty Oxton was subsequently suspended from Labour due to campaigning for Meaden.^[18]

TUSC suspended their electoral activity in November so will not be putting forward any candidates.^[19]

Target seats[edit]

Labour are targeting Eastham and Wallasey and hoping to hold on to Pensby and Thingwall and reclaim Oxton, the latter of which has been held by the Liberal Democrats in the previous two elections and whose current seat is held by a retiring independent.^[20]^[21]

The Conservatives' main target seat is Pensby and Thingwall, which they lost by just 23 votes in 2018.^[22]

The Liberal Democrats are hoping to regain a third councillor in Oxton, and the Greens are looking to take a second in Birkenhead and Tranmere and to make headways in Prenton.^[23]^[24]

Campaign[edit]

On 26 March, Wirral Labour criticised the Conservatives for starting a Crowdfunder page for the election which had, so far, raised £20.^[25] This came despite itself having used crowdfunding with Tory leader Ian Lewis saying that they [Labour] needed to "get with the programme".

Retiring councillors[edit]

Ward	Departing Councillor		Ref.
Birkenhead and Tranmere	Phil Davies ^[26]	Labour	^[2]
Clatterbridge	Adam Sykes ^[27]	Conservative	^[28]
Hoylake and Meols	Gerry Ellis ^[29]	Conservative (deselected)	^[10]
Leasowe and Moreton East	Ron Abbey ^[30]	Labour (not selected)	^[13]
Liscard	Bernie Mooney ^[31]	Labour (not selected)	^[16]
Oxton	Paul Doughty ^[32]	Independent	^[33]
West Kirby and Thurstaston	David Elderton ^[34]	Conservative	^[35]

Candidates[edit]

Bebington[edit]

Bebington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Amanda Crowfoot
	Green	Rachel Heydon
	Conservative	Geoff Jones^[36]
	Labour	Jerry Williams^[35]

^[37]

Bidston and St James[edit]

Bidston and St James
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Brian Kenny^[38]
	Green	James Parkhouse
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Parsons
	Conservative	Vida Wilson^[36]

^[39]

Birkenhead and Tranmere[edit]

Birkenhead and Tranmere
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	June Cowin^[36]
	Green	Steve Hayes^[40]
	Labour	Bill McGenity^[41]

Bromborough[edit]

Bromborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Vicky Downie^[42]
	Conservative	Des Drury^[43]
	Green	Sheena Hatton
	Labour	Joe Walsh^[44]

^[45]

Clatterbridge[edit]

Clatterbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Helen Cameron^[46]
	Green	Jim McGinley
	Labour	Kieran Morgan^[47]

Claughton[edit]

Claughton
	Candidate	±
UKIP	Alex Fay	New
Labour	Stephen Foulkes^[48]
Conservative	Nicholas Hanna^[36]
Green	Liz Heydon
Independent	Mo Morgan	New
Liberal Democrat	Christopher Teggin

^[49]

Eastham[edit]

Eastham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Harry Gorman
	Conservative	Phil Merry^[36]
	Liberal Democrat	Dave Mitchell^[50]
	Labour	Ruth Molyneux^[51]

^[52]

Greasby, Frankby and Irby[edit]

Greasby, Frankby and Irby
	Candidate	±
UKIP	Jack Bland	New
Conservative	David Burgess-Joyce^[53]
Liberal Democrat	Mark Forshaw
Green	Cathy Page
Labour	Tim Watson^[54]

^[55]

Heswall[edit]

Heswall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Barbara Burton
	Conservative	Andrew Hodson^[56]
	Labour	Brian Parsons^[57]
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Thompson

^[58]

Hoylake and Meols[edit]

Hoylake and Meols
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Alix Cockcroft
	Labour	Thomas Laing
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Reisdorf
	Conservative	Alison Wright^[11]

^[59]

Leasowe and Moreton East[edit]

Leasowe and Moreton East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Debbie Caplin^[60]
	Green	Michael Dixon
	Labour	Karl Greaney^[13]

Liscard[edit]

Liscard
	Candidate	±
Liberal Democrat	Sue Arrowsmith
UKIP	Rodney Melbourne	New
Green	Perle Sheldricks
Labour	Sarah Spoor^[61]
Conservative	Michael Taylor^[62]

Moreton West and Saughall Massie[edit]

Moreton West and Saughall Massie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Helen O'Donnell
	Liberal Democrat	David Tyrrell
	Labour	Stan Webster^[63]
	Conservative	Steve Williams^[60]

^[64]

New Brighton[edit]

New Brighton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Pat Hackett^[12]
	Conservative	Keith Raybould^[65]
	Liberal Democrat	Charlie Smethurst
	Green	Cynthia Stonall
	UKIP	Paula Walters

^[66]

Oxton[edit]

Oxton
	Candidate	±
UKIP	Chris Bunker	New
Liberal Democrat	Andy Corkhill^[23]
Labour	Jeff Davies^[67]
Conservative	Tina McDonnell^[68]

Pensby and Thingwall[edit]

Pensby and Thingwall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Phil Brightmore^[69]
	Green	Allen Burton
	Conservative	Mike Collins^[70]
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Thompson

^[71]

Prenton[edit]

Prenton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Chris Cooke^[40]
	Labour	Angie Davies^[72]
	Conservative	Hilary Jones^[73]

^[74]

Rock Ferry[edit]

Rock Ferry
	Candidate	±
Conservative	Johnathan Andrew^[36]
Green	Moira Gommon
Independent	Chris Meaden^[17]	New
Labour	Yvonne Nolan^[14]

^[75]

Seacombe[edit]

Seacombe
	Candidate	±
Green	Diane Johnson
Labour	Christine Jones^[35]
Conservative	John Laing^[36]
UKIP	Chris Wellstead	New

^[76]

Upton[edit]

Upton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Lily Clough
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Davies
	Conservative	Emma Sellman^[77]
	Labour	Tony Smith^[35]

^[78]

Wallasey[edit]

Wallasey
	Candidate	±
Green	James Brady
Liberal Democrat	John Codling
UKIP	Kriss Cringle	New
Conservative	Paul Hayes^[60]
Labour	Paul Martin^[79]

^[80]

West Kirby and Thurstaston[edit]

West Kirby and Thurstaston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Jenny Johnson^[81]
	Labour	James Laing^[82]
	Green	Yvonne McGinley
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Redfern

Notes[edit]

• italics denote the sitting councillor

^ ^a^b^c Only 22 (or one third) of seats are up for election thus party is unable to gain a majority.

^ ^a^b As the only Green on the council prior to the election, Pat Cleary is their de facto group leader.

^ Not seeking re-election.^[2]

^ Not contesting Oxton.

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[notenough-2] Only 22 (or one third) of seats are up for election thus party is unable to gain a majority.

[lonegreen-6] As the only Green on the council prior to the election, Pat Cleary is their de facto group leader.

[11] Not seeking re-election.^[2]

[12] Not contesting Oxton.

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v t e Local elections in Merseyside
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Liverpool City Council	1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Mayor of Liverpool	2012 2016
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Liverpool School Board	1870 1873 1876 1879 1882 1885 1888 1891 1894 1897 1900 Abolished
Merseyside County Council	1973 1977 1981 Abolished
Liverpool City Region Mayor	2017 2020
See also: Wards Boundary changes