Friday, 8 May 2026
Calderdale Council Elections 2026: results
This year, the Calderdale Council elections are different. Instead of a third of the council standing for re-election, as normally happens, because of boundary changes the whole council is up for re-election.
Greens and Labour share Hebden Bridge and East Tod. Cllr Sarah Courtney (Labour Party), Cllr Hannah Louise Mickleburgh-Benn (Green Party), and Cllr Margot Puddepha (Green Party) are now our councillors.
Labour win all 3 Luddendenfoot seats - this ward covers the Mytholmroyd area as well. Cllr Scott Patient (Labour Party), Cllr Katie Kimber (Labour Party), and Cllr Kate Macdonald (Labour Party) have been elected.
Reform take Calderdale Council - winning 31 seats so far at 9.45 pm, 8 May. Brighouse, Illingworth and Mixenden, Elland, Greetland, Halifax Town, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, Ovenden, Salterhebble, Rastrick, Southowram & Skircoat Ward wards have each elected 3 Reform councillors. Luddendenfoot elected 3 Labour councillors, Northowram and Shelf elected 2 Green councillors and one Reform. Hebden Bridge and Todmorden East elected one Labour and 2 Greens. Warley elected 2 Lib-Dems and 1 Reform. Sowerby Bridge have elected 2 Reform and 1 Labour. Wainhouse Ward elected 2 Labour and 1 Reform. Park Ward have elected i Labour, I Independent and 1 Workers Party. Voters in Todmorden West have elected 3 Green Party councillors. Ryburn electors chose 2 Reform and an Independent.
Calderdale Councillors after 2026 results:
34 Reform, 8 Labour, 7 Greens and 2 Lib Dems, 2 Independent and 1 Workers Party
Turnout up from from 34.4% in 2024, when a third of Calderdale Council seats were up for grabs, to 45.1% this time when all seats are being fought. Calderdale has been Labour since 2019, Before then, it was no overall control for many years.
Greens and Labour share Hebden Bridge
Hebden Bridge and Todmorden East Ward Results
Rebecca Boden - Independent - 505
Scott Borrows - Independent - 801
James Thomas Connolly - Reform UK - 786
Sarah Courtney - Labour Party - 2397 elected
Paul Anthony Davies - Conservative Party - 248
Brian Hewson - Liberal Democrats - 197
Mark Richard Hill - Conservative Party - 243
Ben Jancovich - Labour Party - 1715
Richard Stephen Beaumont Knockton - Reform UK - 714
Hannah Louise Mickleburgh-Benn - Green Party -2049 elected
Mikaela Tiffany Mills-Brand - Independent - 427
Margot Puddepha - Green Party - 1917 elected
Christine Shaw - Reform UK - 730
David Percy Sugden - Conservative Party - 215
Jonathan Charles Timbers - Labour Party - 1721
Kieran Luke Turner - Green Party - 1852
David Christopher Wainwright - Liberal Democrats - 174
Chris Wood - Independent - 256
Turnout: 62.02%
5.25 pm: Labour win all 3 Luddendenfoot seats
Luddendenfoot Ward (covering Mytholmroyd) results
Jerrad Lee Dann - Conservative Party - 494
Jules Cian Devlin-Dickenson - Conservative Party - 446
Matthew Geraghty - Green Party - 772
Katie Jane Kimber - Labour Party - 1625 elected
Kate Macdonald - Labour Party - 1470 elected
Joseph Paul Stephen Matthews - Reform UK - 1438
Matthew Joel Isaac Murray - Reform UK - 1371
Scott Anthony Patient - Labour Party - 1671 elected
Mark Thomas Stanley - Green Party - 711
Emma Clare Sweaney - Green Party - 887
Rosemary Tatchell: Liberal Democrats - 370
Christopher Thomas Wade - Reform UK - 1365
Paul James Worth - Conservative Party - 429
Turnout: 53.95%
Todmorden West Ward results
Alan Philip Benton - Conservative Party - 273
Peter John Chapman - Conservative Party - 281
Silvia Clare Dacre - Labour and Co-operative Party - 1300
Jamie Furlong - Green Party - 1718 - elected
Deborah Michelle Garnett - Reform UK - 1074
Sarah Louise Goodfellow - Green Party - 1686 - elected
Tyler George Hanley - Labour and Co-operative Party - 1395
John Pendlebury - Reform UK - 1070
Stephen Ross - Conservative Party - 238
Oscar Seville-Leach - Green Party - 1458 - elected
Nikki Stocks - Liberal Democrats - 266
Diana Helen Tremayne - Labour and Co-operative Party - 1393
Julie Elizabeth Wood - Reform UK - 1050
Turnout: 49.08%
Hebden Royd Town Council
Bye-election for Birchcliffe Ward, also 7 May - results
Mikaela Tiffany Mills-Brand - Independent - 198
David John Parry - Labour - 490 - elected