Preston City Council

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

226 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

79%

Average

77%

Median

78%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Conservative

Independent

Reform

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Labour(26)

81%

Liberal Democrats(14)

74%

Conservative(5)

81%

Independent(1)

77%

Reform(1)

76%

Ashton Independent(1)

72%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Councillor Phil Crowe
Labour
100%
2
Councillor Mrs Susan Whittam
Conservative
100%
3
Councillor Jonathan Saksena
Labour
97%

Lowest attendance

1
Councillor Jade Morgan
Labour
27%
2
Councillor Amber Afzal
Labour
44%
3
Councillor James Thomas Hull
Labour
53%

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#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Councillor Phil Crowe	Labour	33/33	100%	Good
2	Councillor Mrs Susan Whittam	Conservative	14/14	100%	Good
3	Councillor Jonathan Saksena	Labour	30/31	97%	Good
4	Councillor Matthew Brown	Labour	25/26	96%	Good
5	Councillor Suleman Sarwar	Labour	20/21	95%	Good
6	Councillor Stephen Whittam	Conservative	16/17	94%	Good
7	Councillor Mel Close	Labour	13/14	93%	Good
8	Councillor Anna Hindle	Labour	25/27	93%	Good
9	Councillor Valerie Wise	Labour	38/41	93%	Good
10	Councillor Sara Holmes	Labour	28/31	90%	Good
11	Councillor Nweeda Khan	Labour	28/31	90%	Good
12	Councillor Javed Iqbal, JP	Labour	34/38	89%	Fair
13	Councillor Martyn Rawlinson	Labour	24/27	89%	Fair
14	Councillor Freddie Bailey	Labour	29/33	88%	Fair
15	Councillor Maxwell Green	Conservative	15/17	88%	Fair
16	Councillor Michael Peak	Liberal Democrats	28/33	85%	Fair
17	Councillor Daniel Guise	Liberal Democrats	26/31	84%	Fair
18	Councillor John Potter	Liberal Democrats	19/23	83%	Fair
19	Councillor Neil Darby	Liberal Democrats	13/16	81%	Fair
20	Councillor Naoimh McMahon	Labour	17/21	81%	Fair
21	Councillor Pav Akhtar	Labour	12/15	80%	Fair
22	Councillor Lynne Brooks	Labour	23/29	79%	Fair
23	Councillor Salim Desai	Labour	18/23	78%	Fair
24	Councillor Yakub Patel	Labour	14/18	78%	Fair
25	Councillor Carol Henshaw	Independent	17/22	77%	Fair
26	Councillor Stephen Thompson	Reform	19/25	76%	Fair
27	Councillor Samir Vohra	Labour	19/25	76%	Fair
28	Councillor Tony Raisbeck	Liberal Democrats	29/39	74%	Low
29	Councillor Harry Landless	Conservative	19/26	73%	Low
30	Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Atkins	Ashton Independent	21/29	72%	Low
31	Councillor Peter Kelly	Labour	18/25	72%	Low
32	Councillor Mark Jewell	Liberal Democrats	10/14	71%	Low
33	Councillor Siraz Natha	Labour	12/17	71%	Low
34	Councillor John Rutter	Liberal Democrats	12/17	71%	Low
35	Councillor George Kulbacki	Liberal Democrats	20/29	69%	Low
36	Councillor Julie Van Mierlo	Liberal Democrats	11/16	69%	Low
37	Councillor Daniel Gregg	Liberal Democrats	8/12	67%	Low
38	Councillor Ronan John Hodgson	Liberal Democrats	2/3	67%	Low
39	Councillor Fiona Duke	Liberal Democrats	13/20	65%	Low
40	Councillor Ben Ward	Liberal Democrats	14/22	64%	Low
41	Councillor Mark Bell	Conservative	13/21	62%	Low
42	Councillor Zafar Coupland	Labour	16/26	62%	Low
43	Councillor Connor Dwyer	Labour	8/13	62%	Low
44	Councillor Sean Little	Liberal Democrats	8/13	62%	Low
45	Councillor Pat Varty	Labour	24/40	60%	Low
46	Councillor James Thomas Hull	Labour	9/17	53%	Low
47	Councillor Amber Afzal	Labour	12/27	44%	Poor
48	Councillor Jade Morgan	Labour	3/11	27%	Poor