2019 Selby District Council Council election

2 May 2019 (2019-05-02)
All 31 seats to Selby District Council 16 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Con Lab Leader Mark Crane Robert Packham Party Conservative Labour Leader's seat Brayton Sherburn in Elmet Last election 22 seats, 54.7% 8 seats, 33.0% Seats won 16 8 Seat change 6 Popular vote 15,156 10,496 Percentage 47.9% 33.2% Swing 6.8% 0.2%   Third party Fourth party   YP Ind Leader Michael Jordan Party Yorkshire Independent Leader's seat Camblesforth and Carlton Last election Did not stand 1 seat, 4.5% Seats won 4 3 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 3,023 2,764 Percentage 9.5% 8.7% Swing 9.5% 4.2%
Map showing the results of the 2019 Selby District Council elections. Blue showing Conservative, Red showing Labour, Light Blue showing the Yorkshire Party and Grey showing Independents. Striped wards have mixed representation.
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

The 2019 Selby District Council election was held on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Selby District Council in England. It was the final election to the authority before its dissolution in 2023, and subsequent subsumption into the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The election saw the Conservative Party maintain overall control of the District Council with a reduced majority.^[1]

Background

At the previous Selby District Council election, 22 seats were won by the Conservative Party, 8 seats were won by the Labour Party, and one independent candidate, Mary McCartney, was elected in the Eggborough ward. Over the next four years, the following seat changes occurred:

• Jack Crawford, elected as a Labour Party councillor for Byram and Brotherton, died in early 2016. The resulting by-election was won by Bryn Sage of the Conservative Party.
• Donald Bain-Mackay, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Tadcaster, resigned from the Conservatives early in 2017 in order to run as an independent candidate for North Yorkshire County Council at that year's election.
• Michael Jordan, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Camblesforth and Carlton, defected to the Yorkshire Party in July 2018.

Results summary

Selby District Council election, 2019[1][2]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative	26	16			6	51.6%	47.9%	15,156	6.8%
	Labour	24	8				25.8%	33.2%	10,496	0.2%
	Yorkshire	5	4			4	12.9%	9.5%	3,023	N/A
	Independent	3	3			2	9.7%	8.7%	2,764	4.2%
	Socialist Labour	1	0	0	0		0%	0.7%	216	N/A
	UKIP	1	0	0	0		0%	0.3%	106	5.2%

Results by Ward

Seat changes and By-elections

In-between this election and the council's dissolution, the following seat changes took place:

• Eleanor Jordan and Michael Jordan, elected as Yorkshire Party councillors for Byram and Brotherton and Camblesforth and Carlton respectively, both defected to the Conservative Party in August 2020.
• John Cattanach, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Cawood and Wistow, was expelled from the party in April 2022 for declaring as an independent candidate at the 2022 North Yorkshire Council election, and subsequently sat as an independent.
• Neil Reader, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Escrick, resigned from the party in May 2022, and subsequently sat as an independent.
• David Brook, elected as a Yorkshire Party councillor for Sherburn in Elmet, defected to the Labour Party in May 2022.

Byram & Brotherton

Byram & Brotherton: 20 January 2022
replacing Eleanor Jordan (resigned)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Georgina Ashton	215	48.1	+13.4
	Labour	Matthew Burton	207	46.3	+26.2
	Green	Cherry Waters	25	5.6	N/A
Majority			8	1.8
Turnout			448	19.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.4

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