The Tories have broken the Liberal Democrat strangehold in Lindley with Adam Gregg ousting sitting councillor Richard Eastwood.

Long-serving Conservative Bernard McGuin, thought to be under pressure in Almondbury, pulled clear of the Lib Dem challenge with a majority of more than 1,300.

Here’s the first batch of Kirklees Council results from the first counting session at Cathedral House in Huddersfield. Defending parties won all the other seats.

Almondbury

Bernard McGuin – Conservative – 2533

Patrycja Bartosinska – Liberal Democrat – 1170

Tyler Cain Hawkins – Labour – 846

Peter Harvey Taylor – Green Party – 322

Emma Louise Kirkham – Freedom Alliance – 52

John Richard Whittaker – Social Democratic Party – 23

Ashbrow

James Homewood – Labour – 2258

Tony William Butler – Conservative – 1595

Joan Brenda Smithson – Green Party – 447

Manjit Singh – Liberal Democrat – 224

Cleckheaton

Kath Pinnock – Liberal Democrat – 2422

Piers John Briggs – Conservative – 1728

Joseph Hayat – Labour – 589

Nicholas Eugene Whittingham – Green Party – 236

Crosland Moor and Netherton

Manisha Roma Kaushik – Labour – 2490

Neil Allsopp – Conservative – 1470

Chris Green – Green Party – 413

Suzanne Patricia Barraclough – Liberal Democrat – 324

Steve Bradbury – Independent – 149

Clare Wilson – Freedom Alliance – 70

Dewsbury South

Jackie Ramsay – Labour – 2259

Imtiaz Ali Ameen – Conservative – 1534

Khizar Iqbal – Independent – 1361

Bernard Thomas Disken – Liberal Democrat – 156

Marnie Cope – Green Party – 150

Greenhead

Sheikh Ullah – Labour – 3003

David Mills Daniel – Conservative – 1083

Sarah Jane Newton – Green Party – 831

Howard Cohen – Liberal Democrat – 285

Lindley

Adam Fenton Gregg – Conservative – 2417

Richard Anthony Eastwood – Liberal Democrat – 2172

Audrey Lewis Owen – Labour – 1131

Christine Ann Parker – Green Party – 375

Liversedge and Gomersal

Melanie Ann Stephen – Conservative – 2801

Jude McKaig – Labour – 1207

Linda Elizabeth Simmons – Green Party – 321

Tracey Louise King – Independent – 288

David Snee – Lib Dem – 193