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A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election took place on 5 May 2016, on the same day as the UK's General Election. Approximately one-third of the local council's 35 seats fell up for election on that day. The fallow year (one year out of four, next due in 2017) sees Lancashire County Council elections for all residents of this borough.
Result
The majority grouping of councillors was as the headline result of the election reinforced by one, with Conservatives having lost one of their seats to Labour, and became:
The four (out of 16) Hyndburn Local Borough Council ward seats that are NOT up for re-election in 2016 include the following wards - Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanual in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. NB: ALL Residents have the chance to vote in the Lancashire PCC elections.
The CHURCH-Ward seat, formerly held by Labour Councillor Joan Smith since 2012 and following her resignation back in October-2015, was left Vacated without a by-election called in the meantime. LABOUR veteran Jean Battle will stand for CHURCH-Ward in May’s local elections. Five other Labour councillors are also standing down and will not be defending their existing seats in May’s local elections; including Chris Fisher in Altham-Ward, Wendy Dwyer in Peel-Ward, Bill Pinder in St Andrew’s-Ward, Kerry Molyneaux in Overton-Ward, and Harry Grayson in Rishton-Ward who moved to Ireland in July-2015.