West Lancs Borough Council
West Lancs Borough Council is currently under majority Labour control with 15 Conservative seats, 26 Labour seats and 1 seat for Our West Lancashire .
Due to boundary alterations, we now elect 45 Councillors in the Borough of West Lancashire.
Lancashire County Council
County Councillors for West Lancashire are elected every four years and are democratically accountable to residents in their electoral division.Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. It currently consists of 84 councillors, and is controlled by the Conservative Party, who won control of the council in the local council elections in June 2009, ending 28 years of Labour control with 51 seats ( 6 out of 8 in West Lancs) . Following the May 2013 elections the county council became No Overall Control , with Conservatives holding 35 seats. On the 23rd May 2013 Labour and the Liberal Democrats reached an agreement that saw Labour form a minority administration, with the support of the Liberal Democrats. In May 2017 the Conservatives regained control and retained control in the 2021 election. The composition of the County Council is: Conservative 48, Labour 32, Liberal Democrats 2, Green Party 2.
Houses of Parliament
The West Lancashire Borough is served by the West Lancashire Parliamentary constituency. The wards of Rufford, Tarleton, Hesketh-with-Becconsall and North Meols form part of South Ribble Parliamentary constituency. Each constituency returns one MP on a simple majority. The last UK parliamentary election was held on Thursday 12th December 2019. The seat also has a parliamentary by election in 2023. The West Lancs constituency currently has a Labour MP. Currently the Government is Conservative led.
Police and Crime Commissioner elections
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) role replaced your local police authority in November 2012. PCCs do not run the police but are responsible for holding the police to account for the public. The first election for a PCC took place on Thursday 15 November 2012 and Clive Grunshaw (Labour) was elected for the Lancashire police area. The voting system for PCC elections is different to other elections in that voters put a X in a candidate's box in column 1 for their first preference candidate and then a X in a candidates box in column 2 for their second preference candidate.
Votes across Lancashire Police Authority will be counted and if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the top two candidates are then put through to the second round, were the second preference votes of all other candidates are counted for the first round top two. The candidate with the most second preference votes across Lancashire is then elected.
Our current serving Police and Crime Commissioner is Andrew Snowden (Conservative). He has held the position since 13 May 2021 after defeating the incumbent Labour candidate.