Calderdale Council election results in full: Reform UK sweeps to power

Reform won 34 of the 54 seats up for grabs across the 18 wards in the borough, giving the party an overall majority.

Labour is the next biggest party with eight seats, followed closely by the Green Party with seven.

The Lib Dems and Independents have two seats each, with the remaining seat won by the Workers Party.

The Conservatives lost all of their seats on the council.

There were several high profile casualties during the day. Conservative group leader Howard Blagbrough was ousted in Brighouse and Lib Dem group leader Paul Bellenger lost his seat in Greetland.

Current Mayor of Calderdale Steven Leigh (Conservative) failed to defend his seat, as did mayor elect Shane Taylor (Labour) in Illingworth and Mixenden.

Green group leader Martin Hey held his seat in Northowram and Shelf, as did Reform group leader Daniel Sutherland in Illingworth and Mixenden.

Deputy leader of the council, Labour’s Scott Patient, retained his seat in Luddenden Foot.

Reform won a clean sweep of seats in nine of the 18 wards: Brighouse; Elland; Greetland; Halifax Town; Hipperholme and Lightcliffe; Illingworth and Mixenden; Salterhebble, Southowram and Skircoat; Ovenden; and Rastrick.

The Green Party won all three seats in Todmorden West, and also made gains in Calder ward, picking up two seats from Labour.

Labour held all three seats in Luddenden Foot.

The Lib Dems held two of their three seats in Warley.

Here are the winners in each of the 18 council wards.

Brighouse

Darren Commons – Reform UK

Stephen Mycroft – Reform UK

Mark Kimberlin – Reform UK

Elland

James Cook – Reform UK

Nigel Hatfield – Reform UK

Peter Hunt – Reform UK

Greetland

Thomas Ian Garnett – Reform UK

Ruth Walker – Reform UK

Philip Geoffrey John Pringle – Reform UK

Halifax Town

Joseph Gibbons – Reform UK

Keith Ingle – Reform UK

Jay Shaban – Reform UK

Hebden Bridge and Todmorden East

Sarah Courtney – Labour

Hannah Louise Mickleburgh-Benn – Green

Margot Puddepha – Green

Hipperholme ad Lightcliffe

Connor Dent – Reform UK

Timothy Holden – Reform UK

Valerie Mycroft – Reform UK

Illingworth and Mixenden

Nikki Kelly – Reform UK

Daniel Sutherland – Reform UK

Andrew James Tagg – Reform UK

Luddenden Foot

Scott Patient – Labour

Katie Kimber – Labour

Kate MacDonald – Labour

Northowram and Shelf

Martin Hey – Green

David Banks – Reform UK

Dan Wood – Green

Ovenden

Paul Dale – Reform UK

Stephen Paul Hodgson – Reform UK

Gordon Thorpe – Reform UK

Park

Osman Khalil – Independent

Mohammed Shazad Fazal – Labour Party

Shakir Saghir – Workers Party

Rastrick

Simon Briggs – Reform UK

David Small – Reform UK

Jackie Wilson – Reform UK

Ryburn

Leah Elizabeth Webster – Independent

Alex Greenwood – Reform UK

Christopher John Green – Reform UK

Salterhebble, Southowram and Skircoat

Paul Hawkaluk – Reform UK

Stephen Padgett – Reform UK

Mederic Robert George Payne – Reform UK

Sowerby Bridge

Andrew Grant Varley – Reform UK

Mike Payne – Reform UK

Adam David Wilkinson – Labour Party

Todmorden West

Jamie Furlong – Green

Sarah Louise Goodfellow – Green

Oscar Seville-Leach – Green

Wainhouse

Ann Kingstone – Labour Party

Dave Mendes Da Costa – Labour Party

Cathy Featherstone – Reform UK

Warley

Ashley Evans – Liberal Democrats

Irena Corkish – Reform UK

Chris Wadsworth – Liberal Democrats