2024 Crawley Borough Council election

The 2024 Crawley Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex, England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

2024 Crawley Borough Council election
2 May 2024 (2024-05-02)
12 out of 36 seats to Crawley Borough Council
19 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Michael Jones Duncan Crow
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seat Bewbush & North Broadfield Furnace Green
Last election 20 seats, 47.6% 16 seats, 40.2%
Seats before 20 16
Seats after 25 11
Seat change 5 5
Leader before election

Michael Jones
Labour

 Leader after election

Michael Jones
Labour

The Labour Party tightened their control of the council to a comfortable working majority of 14, gaining several seats from the Conservatives. Despite multiple other parties fielding several candidates in Crawley's wards, none of them made a particularly notice impact on any of the wards' results.

Summary

Candidates by party
Labour Party (12/12)





Conservative Party (12/12)





Green Party (10/12)





TUSC (10/12)





Heritage (3/12)





Independent (2/12)





Freedom Alliance (1/12)





Justice (1/12)





Election result
2024 Crawley Borough Council election
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour 10 5 83.3 15 25 69.4
  Conservative 2 5 16.7 9 11 30.6
  Green 0 0.0 0 0 0.0
  TUSC 0 0.0 0 0 0.0
  Independent 0 0.0 0 0 0.0
  Freedom Alliance 0 0.0 0 0 0.0
  Heritage 0 0.0 0 0 0.0
  JAC 0 0.0 0 0 0.0

Candidates

The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Crawley Borough Council following the close of nominations on 8 April 2024.[2] Sitting councillors standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*).

Bewbush & North Broadfield
Bewbush & North Broadfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Michael Jones* 920 51.3 -4.4
Conservative Tony Johnson 416 23.2 +0.6
Green Holly Smith 251 14.0 +3.0
TUSC Robin Burnham 119 6.6 -2.6
Heritage Dan Weir 50 2.8 +1.3
JAC Arshad Khan 38 2.1 N/A
Majority
Turnout 1,816 25.1
Registered electors 7,230
Labour hold Swing

Broadfield
Broadfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Kiran Khan* 979 54.5 -0.1
Conservative Valerie Knight 509 28.4 -1.4
Heritage Carolina Morra 174 9.7 +3.4
TUSC Christopher Ellis 133 7.4 +5.5
Majority
Turnout 1,816 24.6
Registered electors 7,384
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Gossops Green & North East Broadfield
Gossops Green & North East Broadfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Esther Barrott 914 51.6 -1.5
Conservative Anwaera Perveen 557 31.5 -3.4
Green Iain Dickson 191 10.8 -1.3
Heritage Debbie Plaister 82 4.6 N/A
TUSC Mark Wright 26 1.5 N/A
Majority
Turnout 1,780 38.0
Registered electors 4,683
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Ifield
Ifield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Beni Yianni 1,046 50.6 +4.3
Conservative Jonathan Purdy 688 33.3 -5.7
Green Ines Manning 229 11.1 +1.5
TUSC Winifred Duggan 105 5.1 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,088 29.0
Registered electors 7,202
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Langley Green & Tushmore
Langley Green & Tushmore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Shelly Bushnell 722 45.1 -18.5
Independent Karen Sudan 465 29.0 N/A
Conservative Alan Hellier 414 25.9 -10.5
Majority
Turnout 1,675 27.3
Registered electors 6,132
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Maidenbower
Maidenbower
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Dominic Ramsay 940 43.9 -7.6
Green Max Perry 614 28.7 +1.0
Labour Matt Pritchard 586 27.4 +6.6
Majority
Turnout 2,159 31.8
Registered electors 6,799
Conservative hold Swing

Northgate & West Green
Northgate & West Green
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Sue Mullins* 1,188 53.5 -1.1
Conservative Alison Pendlington* 641 28.9 -4.5
Green Nicholas Park 278 12.5 +0.5
TUSC Peter Miller 113 5.1 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,242 29.0
Registered electors 7,741
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Pound Hill North & Forge Wood
Pound Hill North & Forge Wood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Nicholas Hilton 1,236 49.1 -4.5
Conservative Paul Castle 1,014 40.3 -6.1
Green Neal Murdoch 236 9.4 N/A
TUSC Ben Newman 31 1.2 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,530 34.3
Registered electors 7,372
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Pound Hill South & Worth
Pound Hill South & Worth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Bidwell 1,099 51.8 +3.9
Labour Tony Patel 721 34.0 -6.4
Green Cyril Gambrell 247 11.6 -0.1
TUSC Ruth Gaunt 54 2.5 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,146 34.5
Registered electors 6,221
Conservative hold Swing

Southgate
Southgate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Dipesh Patel 924 46.2 -2.9
Conservative Simon Piggott* 746 37.3 +1.5
Green Robin Fitton 255 12.8 +3.4
TUSC Brett Shattock 73 3.7 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,012 30.0
Registered electors 6,711
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative Swing

Three Bridges
Three Bridges
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Atif Nawaz* 1,274 51.4 +8.1
Conservative Kevin Bonnick 809 32.6 -13.4
Green Denielle Kail 215 8.7 +0.7
Independent Muhammed Hanif 93 3.8 N/A
TUSC Timothy Holt 89 3.6 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,496 36.9
Registered electors 6,773
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Tilgate
Tilgate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Olu Adeniyi 732 48.7 +0.1
Conservative Francis Guidera 550 36.6 -14.8
Green Simon Thorn 120 8.0 N/A
Freedom Alliance Amanda Brown 69 4.6 N/A
TUSC Christopher Owen 33 2.2 N/A
Majority
Turnout 1,514 33.7
Registered electors 4,495
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative Swing

References
  1. "Notice of Election" (PDF). Crawley Borough Council. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  2. "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll" (PDF). Crawley Borough Council. 8 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
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