Annual Council

Attendance (43 councillors)

Councillor	Party	Ward	Status
Altaf Ibrahim Patel	Independent A	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Present
Anthony Shaw	Labour	Darwen South	Present
Brian Taylor	Labour	Darwen West	Present
Damian Talbot	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Present
David Smith	Labour	Darwen West	Present
Derek James Hardman	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Present
Ehsan Raja	Labour	Audley & Queens Park	Present
Elaine Whittingham	Independent B	Ewood	Present
Imran Ahmed	4 BwD	Roe Lee	Present
Jackie Floyd	Labour	Billinge and Beardwood	Present
Jacqueline Slater	Conservative	Blackburn South and Lower Darwen	Present
Jean Rigby	Conservative	West Pennine	Present
Jim Casey	Labour	Ewood	Present
Jim Shorrock	Labour	Blackburn South East	Present
Jim Smith	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Present
John Slater	Conservative	Blackburn South and Lower Darwen	Present
Julie Louise Gunn	Labour	Mill Hill and Moorgate	Present
Julie Slater	Conservative	West Pennine	Present
Katrina Louise Fielding	Labour	Darwen East	Present
Kevin Connor	Conservative	Darwen South	Present
Mahfooz Hussain	Labour	Blackburn Central	Present
Martin McCaughran	Labour	Darwen East	Present
Matthew Jackson	Labour	Darwen South	Present
Mustafa Desai	4 BwD	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Present
Neil Andrew Slater	Conservative	West Pennine	Present
Parwaiz Akhtar	Labour	Bastwell and Daisyfield	Present
Paul David Marrow	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Present
Phil Riley	Labour	Roe Lee	Present
Quesir Mahmood	Labour	Wensley Fold	Present
Sabahat Imtiaz	Labour	Wensley Fold	Present
Saj Ali	4 BwD	Roe Lee	Present
Salim Sidat MBE	4 BwD	Audley & Queens Park	Present
Salma Patel	4 BwD	Shear Brow and Corporation Park	Present
Shaukat Hussain	Labour	Bastwell and Daisyfield	Present
Sonia Khan	Labour	Little Harwood and Whitebirk	Present
Suleman Khonat	4 BwD	Shear Brow and Corporation Park	Present
Tasleem Fazal	4 BwD	Billinge and Beardwood	Present
Tony Humphrys	Labour	Blackburn South East	Present
Vicky Ellen McGurk	Labour	Blackburn South East	Present
Zamir Khan MBE	Labour	Blackburn Central	Present
Mark Russell	Conservative	Livesey with Pleasington	Absent
Matt Gibson	Labour	Darwen East	Absent
Stephanie Rose Brookfield	Labour	Darwen West	Absent

Data last updated: 25 March 2026