Knowsley ward

Vote share over time

Each line is a party's lead candidate as a share of ballots cast. Hollow points are by-elections.

05/05/2022

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Labour and Co-operative Party Gareth Dowling Elected 970 50.5% +6.4
Our West Lancashire Janet Ingman 747 38.9% +6.9
Conservative and Unionist Party Julie Peel 204 10.6% -9.6
Majority223
Turnout—
Registered electors—
Ballots cast1,921

Labour and Co-operative Party hold

06/05/2021

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Labour Party Adam Yates Elected 881 44.1% +8.1
Our West Lancashire Neil Ronald Pye 640 32.0% -10.3
Conservative and Unionist Party Ruth Melling 404 20.2% +4.3
Liberal Democrats Stephen Leslie Hunter 74 3.7% —
Majority241
Turnout—
Registered electors—
Ballots cast1,999

Labour Party gain from Our West Lancashire

02/05/2019

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Our West Lancashire Kate Mitchell Elected 804 42.3% +6.2
Labour and Co-operative Party Nikki Hennessy 684 36.0% -4.8
Conservative and Unionist Party Ruth Melling 303 15.9% -7.2
Green Party John Watt 110 5.8% —
Majority120
Turnout43.0%
Registered electors—
Ballots cast1,901

Our West Lancashire gain from Labour Party

26/07/2018 By-election

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Labour Party Gareth Dowling Elected 641 40.8% -10.1
Our West Lancashire Kate Mitchell 567 36.1% +20.7
Conservative and Unionist Party Jeff Vernon 364 23.2% -10.6
Majority74
Turnout35.0%
Registered electors—
Ballots cast1,572

Labour Party hold

03/05/2018

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Labour Party Michelle Aldridge Elected 1,014 50.9% -0.6
Conservative and Unionist Party Jeff Vernon 673 33.8% -2.3
Our West Lancashire Kate Mitchell 306 15.4% +7.0
Majority341
Turnout—
Registered electors—
Ballots cast1,993

Labour Party hold

05/05/2016

Party Candidate Votes Share +/−
Labour Party Adam Yates Elected 1,063 51.5% —
Conservative and Unionist Party Edward James McCarthy 744 36.0% —
Our West Lancashire Peter John Banks 173 8.4% —
Green Party Gaynor Anne Pickering 85 4.1% —
Majority319
Turnout—
Registered electors—
Ballots cast2,065