Wakefield Metropolitan District 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

127 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

84%

Average

83%

Median

87%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Labour

Independent

Reform UK

Liberal Democrat

Conservative

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

Attendance by party

Labour(51)

85%

Independent(7)

79%

Reform UK(2)

96%

Liberal Democrat(2)

60%

Conservative(1)

67%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Councillor Darren Byford
Labour
100%
2
Councillor Samantha Harvey
Reform UK
100%
3
Councillor Matthew Morley JP
Labour
100%

Lowest attendance

1
Councillor Allan Garbutt
Labour
36%
2
Councillor Mohammed Ayub
Labour
39%
3
Councillor Faith Heptinstall
Labour
55%

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#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Councillor Darren Byford	Labour	13/13	100%	Good
2	Councillor Samantha Harvey	Reform UK	13/13	100%	Good
3	Councillor Matthew Morley JP	Labour	18/18	100%	Good
4	Councillor Gwen Page	Labour	27/27	100%	Good
5	Councillor Josie Pritchard	Labour	14/14	100%	Good
6	Councillor Les Shaw	Labour	20/20	100%	Good
7	Councillor Duncan Smith	Labour	20/20	100%	Good
8	Councillor Natalie Walton	Labour	9/9	100%	Good
9	Councillor Daniel Wilton	Labour	16/16	100%	Good
10	Councillor Stuart Heptinstall	Labour	28/29	97%	Good
11	Councillor Richard Forster	Labour	24/25	96%	Good
12	Councillor David Pickersgill	Labour	23/24	96%	Good
13	Councillor Jack Hemingway	Labour	20/21	95%	Good
14	Councillor Shabaan Ali Saleem	Labour	21/22	95%	Good
15	Councillor Jacquie Speight	Labour	20/21	95%	Good
16	Councillor Maureen Tennant-King	Labour	21/22	95%	Good
17	Councillor Brendan Fraser	Labour	16/17	94%	Good
18	Councillor Scott Haslam	Labour	15/16	94%	Good
19	Councillor Kevin Swift	Independent	15/16	94%	Good
20	Councillor Clive Tennant	Labour	17/18	94%	Good
21	Councillor Deb Nicholls	Labour	26/28	93%	Good
22	Councillor Helen Antcliff	Labour	12/13	92%	Good
23	Councillor Nick Farmer	Reform UK	12/13	92%	Good
24	Councillor Pete Girt	Independent	11/12	92%	Good
25	Councillor Michael Graham	Independent	11/12	92%	Good
26	Councillor Elizabeth Rhodes	Labour	23/25	92%	Good
27	Councillor Usman Ali	Labour	9/10	90%	Good
28	Councillor Denise Jeffery	Labour	19/21	90%	Good
29	Councillor Olivia Rowley	Labour	32/36	89%	Fair
30	Councillor Maureen Cummings	Labour	15/17	88%	Fair
31	Councillor Julie Medford	Labour	14/16	88%	Fair
32	Councillor Hannah Appleyard	Labour	20/23	87%	Fair
33	Councillor Brian Mayhew	Labour	13/15	87%	Fair
34	Councillor Jackie Ferguson	Labour	19/22	86%	Fair
35	Councillor Margaret Isherwood	Labour	18/21	86%	Fair
36	Councillor Hilary Mitchell	Labour	18/21	86%	Fair
37	Councillor Steve Vickers	Labour	24/28	86%	Fair
38	Councillor Laura Jones	Labour	11/13	85%	Fair
39	Councillor Melanie Jones	Labour	12/15	80%	Fair
40	Councillor Michelle Collins	Labour	19/24	79%	Fair
41	Councillor George Ayre	Labour	14/18	78%	Fair
42	Councillor Julie Craig	Labour	23/30	77%	Fair
43	Councillor Andy Nicholls	Labour	20/26	77%	Fair
44	Councillor Kathryn Scott	Labour	23/30	77%	Fair
45	Councillor Jakob Williamson	Independent	10/13	77%	Fair
46	Councillor Charlie Keith	Labour	13/17	76%	Fair
47	Councillor Armaan Khan	Labour	13/17	76%	Fair
48	Councillor Jo Hepworth	Labour	6/8	75%	Fair
49	Councillor Jessica Carrington	Labour	12/17	71%	Low
50	Councillor Katrina Law	Labour	12/17	71%	Low
51	Councillor Nadiah Sharp	Independent	12/17	71%	Low
52	Councillor Lynn Masterman	Labour	7/10	70%	Low
53	Councillor Stan Bates	Independent	9/13	69%	Low
54	Councillor Nadeem Ahmed	Conservative	12/18	67%	Low
55	Councillor Martin Roberts	Independent	9/14	64%	Low
56	Councillor Anthony Wallis	Labour	14/22	64%	Low
57	Councillor Jordan Bryan	Labour	5/8	63%	Low
58	Councillor Rachel Speak	Liberal Democrat	11/18	61%	Low
59	Councillor Adele Hayes	Liberal Democrat	10/17	59%	Low
60	Councillor Steve Tulley	Labour	17/29	59%	Low
61	Councillor Faith Heptinstall	Labour	6/11	55%	Low
62	Councillor Mohammed Ayub	Labour	7/18	39%	Poor
63	Councillor Allan Garbutt	Labour	5/14	36%	Poor