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Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 22 May 2014. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.
The total registered electorate across Hyndburn comes to 43,404 potential voters. In this May 2014 election 16,766 turned out to vote - 38.63%.
After the election, the composition of the council was
There was also the European Election being held on the same day and voter turnout was much higher than usual.
Local Election result
NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2014 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.
References
Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2014 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA