A TOTAL of 20 seats were up for grabs at this year’s elections.

Labour and Conservative each won six, the Lib Dems won three and UKIP won one. Farnworth and Kearsley First (FKF) and Horwich and Blackrod First Independents (HBFI) each won two seats.

Altogether, Labour had seven losses and made no gains. The Conservatives made two gains, in Hulton and Breightmet, but lost Westhoughton North and Chew Moor.

The Lib Dems gained three seats, although one was from a former group member who stood down at these elections.

Farnworth and Kearsley First won two seats, in Farnworth and Kearsley, taking their total to five councillors.

Horwich and Blackrod First Independents also won two seats, in Horwich and Blackrod and Horwich North East, at their first council elections.

UKIP leader Sean Hornby successfully defended his seat in Little Lever and Darcy Lever keeping his group’s total at three.

At the end of the night, the results were: Labour 23, Conservatives 20, Liberal Democrats 6, Farnworth and Kearsley First 5, UKIP 3, Horwich and Blackrod First Independents 2 and Independents 1.

The Bolton News understands that Debbie Newall has rejoined the Labour Party taking the group’s total to 24.

Here are all of the results from the 2019 Bolton Council elections:

Astley Bridge

Mohammed Akhtar (Ind) - 369

Warren Fox (Lib) - 1,417

Paul Gannon (UKIP) - 283

Steve Sutton (Lab) - 597

Paul Wild* (Con) - 1,732

Bradshaw

Kirith Ahluwalia (Lab) - 464

Laura Diggle (Green) - 179

Stuart Haslam* (Con) - 1,888

Stephen Howarth (Lib) - 200

Eric Hyland (Ind) - 333

Chris Marcroft (UKIP) - 329

Breightmet

Trish Bolton (Green) - 244

John Byrne* (Lab) - 1,060

Beverley Fletcher (Con) - 1,344

Liz Turner (Lib Dem) - 95

Ryan Wood (UKIP) - 627

Bromley Cross

Matthew Allen (Lib) - 241

Samantha Connor (Con) - 2,566

James Entwistle-Wilkinson (Lab) - 658

Liz Spencer (Green) - 296

William Townshend (UKIP) - 342

Crompton

Jeff Armstrong (UKIP) - 470

Dan Bolton (Green) - 164

Michael Langdon (Lib) - 158

Martin McMulkin (Lab) - 2,078

Siraj Patel (Con) - 1,243

Farnworth

Simon Collins (TFBM) - 38

John Cotter (UKIP) - 176

Jean Gillies* (Lab) - 1,270

Jennifer Kirk (Con) - 124

Christine MacPherson (Lib) - 51

Lisa Weatherby (FKF) - 1,863

Great Lever

David Figgins (Green) - 169

Arfan Khan (Con) - 1,254

Duncan MacPherson (Lib) - 105

Madeline Murray* (Lab) - 1,928

Derek Wunderley (UKIP) - 272

Halliwell

Yasir Faisal (Con) - 370

John Falch (Lib) - 118

Sandra Harvey (UKIP) - 295

Anthony Massey (Ind) - 89

Pamela Spurling (Green) - 140

Linda Thomas* (Lab) - 1,770

Harper Green

Matthew Barnes (Green) - 92

Peter Flitcroft (FKF) - 923

David Harvey (UKIP) - 266

Susan Haworth (Lab) - 1,484

Harun Mohamed (Ind) - 90

Robert Tyler (Con) - 285

Kevin Walsh (Lib) - 52

Heaton and Lostock

Bob Allen* (Con) - 2,324

John Gillatt (Lab) - 1,026

Sue Priest (Lib) - 437

Heather Rylance (Green) - 227

Daniel Wheatley (UKIP) - 276

Horwich and Blackrod

Michael Baines (Con) - 978

Samantha Chadwick (UKIP) - 199

Keith Cocker (Green) - 130

Rebecca Forrest (Lib) - 133

Stephen Pickup* (Lab) - 1,041

Peter Wright (HBFI) - 1,482

Horwich North East

Marie Brady (HBFI) - 1,577

Zak Brown (UKIP) - 203

Joyce Kellett* (Lab) - 926

Rod Riesco (Green) - 140

Emily Siddall (Con) - 370

Gordon Stone (Lib) - 984

Hulton

Derek Bullock (Con) - 1,617

Derek Gradwell (Lib) - 122

Shaf Shaikh* (Lab) - 1,157

Wendy Shepherd (Green) - 181

Amy Wunderley (UKIP) - 389

Kearsley

Kamaran Fathulla (Con) - 192

Connor Goodwin (Lib) - 128

Paul Heslop (FKF) - 2,376

Kevan Jones (Lab) - 529

William Pilkington (UKIP) - 283

Little Lever and Darcy Lever

Kevin Allsop (Lab) - 928

Sean Hornby* (UKIP) - 1,395

David Meehan (Con) - 1,060

Kevin Mulligan (Lib) - 169

Rumworth

Ebrahim Adia (Lab) - 2,541

Michael Armstrong (UKIP) - 221

Hafiz Butt (Con) - 380

David Cooper (Lib) - 72

Alan Johnson (Green) - 275

Smithills

Joe Harris (UKIP) - 479

Ruth Pitchford (Lab) - 864

Samuel Rimmer (Con) - 457

Garry Veevers (Lib) - 1,968

Tonge with The Haulgh

Rosalind Harasiwka (Lib) - 154

Trevor Jones (UKIP) - 663

Brian Matthews (Con) - 760

Elaine Sherrington* (Lab) - 1,152

Westhoughton North and Chew Moor

Kieran Boardman (UKIP) - 292

Bernadette Eckersley-Fallon (Lib) - 1,565

Mike Jarvis (Lab) - 565

Zoe Kirk-Robinson* (Con) - 1,270

Jack Speight (WFI) - 319

Westhoughton South

Jenny Armstrong (UKIP) - 349

David Chadwick* (Lab) - 889

Deirdrie McGeown (Lib) - 1,114

Pamela Naylor (WFI) - 369

Martin Tighe (Con) - 648

* Councillor up re-election