Election of Mayor
Full council, 19 May 2022: a named vote on the proposal.
For 40, Against 10, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (40)
- Allan Garbutt (Labour)
- Anthony Wallis (Labour)
- Charlie Keith (Labour)
- Clive Tennant (Labour)
- Darren Byford (Labour)
- David Dagger (Labour)
- David Pickersgill (Labour)
- Denise Jeffery (Labour)
- Elizabeth Rhodes (Labour)
- George Ayre (Labour)
- Hilary Mitchell (Labour)
- Ian Womersley MBE (Labour)
- Isabel Owen (Labour)
- Jack Hemingway (Labour)
- Jackie Ferguson (Labour)
- Jacquie Speight (Labour)
- Jessica Carrington (Labour)
- Jo Hepworth (Labour)
- Josie Pritchard (Labour)
- Julie Medford (Labour)
- Kathryn Scott (Labour)
- Kevin Swift (Labour)
- Les Shaw (Labour)
- Lorna Malkin (Labour)
- Lynn Masterman (Labour)
- Margaret Isherwood (Labour)
- Matthew Morley JP (Labour)
- Maureen Cummings (Labour)
- Maureen Tennant-King (Labour)
- Melanie Jones (Labour)
- Mohammed Ayub (Labour)
- Patricia Garbutt (Labour)
- Richard Forster (Labour)
- Stan Bates (Labour)
- Steve Tulley (Labour)
- Stuart Heptinstall (Labour)
- Usman Ali (Labour)
- Akef Akbar (Independent)
- Pete Girt (not matched to a member)
- Thomas Gordon (not matched to a member)
Against (10)
- Angela Taylor (Conservative)
- Annemarie Glover (Conservative)
- Cynthia Binns (Conservative)
- Ian Sanders (Conservative)
- Nick Farmer (Conservative)
- Raymond Massey (Conservative)
- Richard Hunt (Conservative)
- Simon Fishwick (Conservative)
- Tony Hames (Conservative)
- Tony Homewood (Conservative)
From the minutes
nnant, that Councillor David Jones be appointed Mayor of the Wakefield District. A recorded vote, supported by five other Members of Council, was requested by Councillor Homewood. The vote followed:- Members voting in favour of the proposal Councillors Akbar, Ali, Ayub, Ayre, Bates, Byford, Carrington, Cummings, Dagger, Farrar, Ferguson, Forster, A Garbutt, P Garbutt, Girt, Gordon, Hemingway, Heptinstall, Hepworth, M Isherwood, Jeffery, M Jones, Keith, Malkin, Masterman, Medford, Mitchell, Morley, Owen, Pickersgill, Rhodes, Scott, Shaw, Speight, Swift, Tennant, Tennant-King, Tulley, Wallis and Womersley. Members voting against the proposal Councillors Binns, Farmer, Fishwick, Glover, Hames, Homewood, Hunt, Massey, Sanders and Taylor. Members abstaining from the vote. The Mayor (Ms Austin) and Deputy Mayor (Councillor Jones). Members absent when the vote was taken. Councillors Ahm
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.