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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

63

Overall

84%

Average

83%

Median

87%

Perfect (100%)

9

Below 75%

15

Attendance trend by party

Labour
Independent
Reform UK
Liberal Democrat
Conservative
100%90%80%70%60%50%3 Years2 YearsCurrent Year86%85%85%85%83%79%89%88%96%73%69%60%60%58%67%

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%
28
80-89%
11
70-79%
13
60-69%
6
Below 60%
5

All councillors

Showing 63 of 63 councillors

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