2013 Lancashire County Council election

An election to Lancashire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. 84 councillors were elected from single-member electoral divisions by first-past-the-post for a four-year term of office. Electoral divisions were the same as those at the previous election in 2009. Elections were held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside. The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council, instead overtaken in number of seats by the Labour Party, without any absolute majority.
All locally registered electors who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.

Results

Seat	Result	Majority
Accrington North	Labour GAIN from Independent	243
Accrington South	Labour hold	158
Accrington West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	919
Great Harwood	Labour hold	390
Oswaldtwistle	Conservative hold	441
Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors	Labour hold	1,108

Seat	Result	Majority
Brierfield and Nelson North	Labour hold	1,560
Nelson South	Labour hold	1,113
Pendle Central	Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative	191
Pendle East	Conservative hold	944
Pendle West	Conservative hold	619
West Craven	Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative	179

Seat	Result	Majority
Preston Central North	Labour hold	1,795
Preston Central South	Labour hold	1,187
Preston City	Labour hold	1,265
Preston East	Labour hold	947
Preston North	Conservative hold	957
Preston North East	Conservative hold	161
Preston North West	Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat	449
Preston Rural	Conservative hold	1,295
Preston South East	Labour hold	1,346
Preston West	Liberal Democrat hold	184

Seat	Result	Majority
Rossendale East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	133
Rossendale North	Labour GAIN from Conservative	254
Rossendale South	Conservative hold	162
Rossendale West	Conservative hold	32
Whitworth	Labour GAIN from Conservative	407

Seat	Result	Majority
Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale	Labour GAIN from Conservative	31
Farington	Conservative hold	22
Leyland Central	Labour GAIN from Conservative	341
Leyland South West	Conservative hold	212
Penwortham North	Liberal Democrat hold	459
Penwortham South	Labour GAIN from Conservative	187
South Ribble Rural East	Conservative GAIN from Idle Toad	672
South Ribble Rural West	Conservative hold	957

Seat	Result	Majority
Ormskirk West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	318
Skelmersdale Central	Labour hold	1,553
Skelmersdale East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	648
Skelmersdale West	Labour hold	1,809
West Lancashire East	Conservative hold	630
West Lancashire North	Conservative hold	1,019
West Lancashire South	Conservative hold	594
West Lancashire West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	292

Seat	Result	Majority
Amounderness	Conservative hold	664
Fleetwood East	Labour hold	760
Fleetwood West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	459
Garstang	Independent GAIN from Conservative	61
Poulton-le-Fylde	Conservative hold	1,091
Thornton-Cleveleys Central	Conservative hold	312
Thornton-Cleveleys North	Conservative hold	310
Wyreside	Conservative hold	1,869