By Joe Locker, Local Democracy Reporter
The chairman of Nottingham’s Conservative group says it has been a victim of a “national trend” after failing to occupy any seats on Nottingham City Council for the first time in history.
Labour claimed victory after hours of counting on May 5, and the group will now retain overall control of the council.
Nottingham Labour will now occupy 51 seats on the council, compared to 50 in 2019.
Paul Ruane, who stood for Bulwell Forest but failed to get elected, is the chairman of the Nottingham Conservative Group.
Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service he said: “I am naturally disappointed with the results, but obviously there has been a national trend going on here, the Conservatives and the party has not had a particularly great night all round.
“Unfortunately it looks like we’ve been pulled down the same route as the Conservative Party has gone down nationally.
“The Conservative Party has a remarkable amount of resilience, there have been times in the past where we have been wiped off councils before and come back and ended up taking control.”
The Nottingham Conservative Group was thrown into further disarray in the run up to the election on May 4, amid the departure of councillors Roger Steel and former group leader Andrew Rule.
The pair had left the group to stand as independents in Clifton West.
Only councillor Rule was re-elected, with Labour’s Hayley Spain coming in ahead of Mr Steel in the polls.
“It is a huge disappointment not to have carried Roger over the line with me,” Cllr Rule said of the result.
“But I am hugely humbled and privileged to have done this without a party machine behind me.”
Cllr Rule added he would now seek to work with Cllr Spain and leave his former Conservative Group to a period of “reflection”.
The Nottingham Independents, which first began work to form an effective opposition on the council back in 2019, once again managed to get its three candidates in Clifton East re-elected.
However it failed to increase its numbers despite fielding 26 candidates.
Kevin Clarke, the leader of the opposition group, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “It was a bit disappointing but having said that we’ve gone from a standing-start.
“Despite that, in places like Sherwood, we still received 1,100 votes. It is a tremendous platform going forward.
“We’ve got some good people on board now and we need to get our acts together to form an opposition.”
Labour Group and council leader Cllr David Mellen was also re-elected to his Dales ward.
He said: “There are no Conservatives on the council for the first time ever.
“The people have Nottingham have spoken they have put their confidence in Nottingham Labour despite the challenges we’ve had over the last couple of years.”
The Liberal Democrats, despite persistent campaigning in the Castle ward, failed to secure any seats, as was the case with the Green Party, in spite of a positive showing in Berridge.
Below are the Nottingham City Council election results in full, with the successful candidates for each ward listed in italics and accompanied by an ‘E’ for elected.
Aspley (3)
Graham Ransley Chapman – Labour Party ( 1796 E )
Ian Culley – Conservative Party Candidate ( 357 )
Patience Uloma Ifediora – Labour Party ( 1664 E )
Carole Williams McCulloch – Labour Party ( 1737 E )
Stewart Asquith Rotherham – Liberal Democrat ( 184 )
Neil George Slane – Conservative Party Candidate (356 )
Marjorie Anne Wroghton – Conservative Party Candidate ( 314 )
Basford (3)
Robert George Boden – Conservative Party Candidate ( 648 )
Andrew Guy Jones – Green Party ( 608 )
Richard James Minkley – Liberal Democrat ( 307 )
Salma Mumtaz – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1641 E )
Nick Raine – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1612 E )
Wayne Anthony Unczur – Nottingham Independents Putting Basford First ( 584 )
Linda Mary Woodings – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1644 E )
Cassius Yarde – Nottingham Independents Putting Basford First ( 496 )
Berridge (3)
Angela Kandola – Labour Party ( 2343 E )
Sulcan Mahmood – Labour Party ( 2007 E )
Ellie Mitchell – Green Party ( 1064 )
Peter Parsons – Conservative Party Candidate ( 474 )
Shuguftah Jabeen Quddoos – Labour Party ( 2123 E )
Bestwood (3)
Peter Gordon Foulkes-Mills – Nottingham Independents Putting Bestwood First ( 557 )
Ted Grainger – Conservative Party Candidate ( 366 )
Jay Michael Hayes – Labour Party ( 1453 E )
Rimshah Hussain – Conservative Party Candidate ( 277 )
Craig Jarvis – Conservative Party Candidate ( 332 )
Francesco Lari – Nottingham Independents Putting Bestwood First ( 710 )
Fran Loi – Nottingham Independents Putting Bestwood First ( 508 )
Irenea Maud Marriott – UK Independence Party (UKIP) ( 84 )
Georgia Emily Power – Labour Party ( 1524 E )
Diane Jean Rotherham – Liberal Democrat ( 111 )
Andrew William Taylor – UK Independence Party (UKIP) ( 126 )
Audra Marie Wynter – Labour Party ( 1383 E )
Bilborough (3)
Faith Gakanje-Ajala – Labour Party ( 1589 E )
Sam Harris – Labour Party ( 1872 E )
Helen Louise Kalsi – Labour Party ( 1731 E )
Liz Morgan-Danvers – Liberal Democrat ( 678 )
Alfred Stephen Pryor – Conservative Party Candidate ( 806 )
Bulwell (3)
Matt Genn – Liberal Democrat ( 362 )
Tony Horan – Nottingham Independents Putting Bulwell First ( 768 )
Mohammad Jabarkhyl – Conservative Party Candidate ( 384 )
Maria Joannou -Labour Party ( 1368 E )
Aleksandra Kovacevic – Conservative Party Candidate ( 424 )
Ethan Benjamin Radford – Labour Party ( 1633 E )
Michael David Savage – Labour Party ( 1228 E )
Bulwell Forest (3)
Ebun Adejuyigbe – Conservative Party Candidate ( 840 )
Samuel Awolola – Nottingham Independents ( 359 )
Cheryl Margaret Barnard – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1573 E )
Darren Buckland – Green Party ( 378 )
Samuel James Gardiner – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1477 E )
Caroline Kampila – Conservative Party Candidate ( 849 )
Sarita-Marie Rehman-Wall – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1348 E )
Paul Vincent Ruane – Conservative Party Candidate ( 815 )
Pollyanna Jennifer Sutherland – Nottingham Independents ( 306 )
Charlie Taylor – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition ( 187 )
Castle (2)
Katie Kelsey – Green Party ( 278 )
Lloydie J Lloyd – Liberal Democrat ( 734 )
Sam Lux – Labour Party ( 897 E )
Carol Jane Morrell – Green Party ( 170 )
Rebecca Lucy Stephen Procter – Liberal Democrat ( 665 )
Janet Scott – Conservative Party Candidate ( 218 )
Matt Shannon – Labour Party ( 796 E )
Clifton East (3)
Kevin Clarke – Nottingham Independents Putting Clifton First ( 1309 E )
Benedict Hal Claxton Stevens – Liberal Democrat ( 159 )
Raja Nisar Hussain – Labour Party ( 1005 )
Kirsty Marie Jones – Nottingham Independents Putting Clifton First ( 1271 E )
Asif Maqsood – Labour Party ( 973 )
William Raymond Scott – Conservative Party Candidate ( 422 )
Phil Spear – Labour Party ( 1236 )
Daniel Joseph Sullivan -Conservative Party Candidate ( 386 )
Maria Ann Watson – Nottingham Independents Putting Clifton First ( 1331 E )
Clifton West (2)
Daniel John Atherton – Conservative Party Candidate ( 710 )
Paul Simon Luke Bradshaw – Nottingham Independents Putting Clifton First ( 212 )
Emma Louise Crane – Nottingham Independents Putting Clifton First ( 212 )
Aamir Nawaz – Conservative Party Candidate ( 483 )
Andrew James Peter Rule – Independent ( 994 E )
Hayley Spain – Labour Party ( 1042 E )
Roger David Steel – Independent ( 849 )
Mark David Vandersluis – Liberal Democrat ( 106 )
Seb Wilkins – Labour Party ( 909 )
Dales (3)
Ann Venning Bourke – Liberal Democrat ( 303 )
Neil James Harbinson – Conservative Party Candidate ( 523 )
Mohammed Jamil – Nottingham Independents ( 244 )
Gul Nawaz Khan – Labour Party ( 2075 E )
Neghat Nawaz Khan – Labour Party ( 2125 E )
Lucy Victoria Marsh – Green Party ( 530 )
David Mellen – Labour Party ( 2287 E )
Penelope Anne Messenger – Conservative Party Candidate ( 481 )
Margaret Helena Trueman – Conservative Party Candidate ( 463 )
Wendy Yee Mun Wong – Nottingham Independents ( 269 )
Hyson Green and Arboretum (3)
Liaqat Ali – Labour Party ( 1676 E )
Alexander James Foster – Liberal Democrat ( 301 )
Julie Abigail Hanson – Green Party ( 439 )
Sana Nasir – Labour Party ( 1692 E )
Mansoor Ahmad Qazi – Nottingham Independents ( 200 )
Naim Saqab Salim – Labour Party ( 1497 E )
Paul Singh – Nottingham Independents ( 181 )
Collin Gary Scott – Conservative Party Candidate ( 300 )
Richard Sutton – Green Party ( 330 )
Leen Valley (2)
Audrey Jane Dinnall – Labour Party ( 1416 E )
Nadia Farhat – Labour Party ( 1338 E )
David Peter Robert Gibson – Conservative Party Candidate ( 476 )
Gary Long – Liberal Democrat ( 309 )
Christina Morgan-Danvers – Liberal Democrat ( 224 )
Gail Janise Stancliffe – Conservative Party Candidate ( 372 )
Lenton and Wollaton East (3)
Daniel Dieppe – Conservative Party Candidate ( 445 )
Oliver James Fairey – Green Party ( 663 )
Titus Benedict Wills Hopkins – Conservative Party Candidate ( 447 )
Imran Jalil – Labour Party ( 1336 E )
Pavlos Kotsonis – Labour Party ( 1384 E )
Samina Riaz – Labour Party ( 1399 E )
Tony Bernard Sutton – Liberal Democrat ( 431 )
Mapperley (3)
Leslie Eni-Itan Ayoola – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1909 E )
Barbara Joy Coulson – Green Party ( 898 )
Kirsty Lemara Jones – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1907 E )
Graham Kilbourne – Conservative Party Candidate ( 656 )
Nigel Graham King – Independent ( 210 )
Adam Fergus McGregor – Green Party ( 679 )
Peter Charles Mendenhall – Liberal Democrat ( 340 )
Sajid Mohammed – Labour and Co-operative Party ( 1646 E )
Zarmeena Abdul Quraishi – Conservative Party Candidate ( 518 )
Melvyn Alfred Shepherd – Conservative Party Candidate ( 639 )
Catherine Lynton Sutherland – Green Party ( 668 )
Meadows (2)
Margo Bohacz – Nottingham Independents for the Meadows ( 525 )
Felicity Marion Whiting Crofts – Conservative Party Candidate ( 209 )
Michael Mountford Edwards – Labour Party ( 1107 E )
Nicholas John Packham – Conservative Party Candidate ( 205 )
Ceri Pryke-Hendy – Green Party ( 271 )
Naveed Rashid – Nottingham Independents for the Meadows ( 527 )
Eunice Holland Regan – Labour Party ( 1069 E )
Michael Ian Thomas – Liberal Democrat ( 125 )
Radford (2)
William Thomas Ellis – Green Party ( 249 )
Farzarina Mahmood – Labour Party ( 759 E )
Fozia Mubashar – Labour Party ( 672 E )
Matthew Christopher Pike – Conservative Party Candidate ( 135 )
Tom Procter – Liberal Democrat ( 114 )
Sherwood (3)
Colin Leslie Allen Barratt – Nottingham Independents for Sherwood and Carrington ( 1035 )
John Edward Ramsay Burgess – Green Party ( 554 )
Sheila June Eaton – Conservative Party Candidate ( 448 )
Stephen Paul Freeland – Liberal Democrat ( 243 )
Rebecca Natalie Green – Nottingham Independents putting Sherwood First ( 752 )
Ilona Irma Hart – Conservative Party Candidate ( 392 )
AJ Matsiko – Labour Party ( 2275 E )
Nayab Patel – Labour Party ( 2075 E)
Rachel Richards – Green Party ( 629 )
Aimee Sharice Scrimshaw – Nottingham Independents putting Sherwood First ( 651 )
Adele Williams – Labour Party ( 2367 E )
St Ann’s (3)
Rohey Oley Bah – Nottingham Independents ( 250 )
Neil Barrett – Green Party ( 323 )
John Anthony Crofts – Conservative Party Candidate ( 339 )
James Housley – Liberal Democrat ( 202 )
Corall Joy Jenkins – Labour Party ( 1636 E )
Anwar Muhammad Khan – Labour Party ( 1412 E )
Sam Njie – Nottingham Independents ( 225 )
Devontay Andrew Imo Okure – Labour Party ( 1369 E )
Gisella Sobarasua – Nottingham Independents ( 269 )
Glenys Sullivan – Conservative Party Candidate ( 291 )
Boma Alade Thomas – Conservative Party Candidate ( 287 )
Jonnie Walker – Green Party ( 280 )
Wollaton West (3)
Saj Ahmad – Labour Party ( 2290 E )
Steve Battlemuch – Labour Party ( 2815 E )
Stuart Andrew Frost – Conservative Party Candidate ( 1696 )
Cinderella Griffiths – Nottingham Independents ( 499 )
Kabir Hussain – Conservative Party Candidate ( 1312 )
Zafran Nawaz Khan – Labour Party ( 2375 E )
Joginder Singh Prem – Nottingham Independents ( 327 )
Michael Howard Procter – Liberal Democrat ( 813 )
Awadh Sheikh Salim – Conservative Party Candidate ( 1182 )
Bakhtawar Singh Sehra – Nottingham Independents ( 224 )
