Blackburn with Darwen.
Labour Party-controlled unitary. £194m net revenue. 17 wards across 2 parliamentary constituencies.
31 May 2026
Labour Party chamber, 2-party MP geography.
Blackburn with Darwen is a unitary controlled by Labour Party (23 of 51 seats). Net revenue is £194m for 2025-26. It covers 17 wards spanning 2 parliamentary constituencies. The MP geography crosses 2 parties — a heterogeneous setup.
Who sits in the chamber.
Labour Party 45% · last contested 7 May 2026
Councillors — the people.
| Councillor | Ward | Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aadil Chopdat | Ind | Audley Queens Park | 2026 |
| Amin Kapadia | Ind | Audley Queens Park | 2024 |
| Salim Sidat | Lab | Audley Queens Park | 2023 |
| Shakeel Choudhry | Ind | Bastwell Daisyfield | 2026 |
| Rana Khan | Ind | Bastwell Daisyfield | 2024 |
| Shaukat Hussain | Lab | Bastwell Daisyfield | 2023 |
| Tasleem Fazal | Ind | Billinge Beardwood | 2026 |
| Waqar Hussain | Ind | Billinge Beardwood | 2024 |
| Jackie Floyd | Lab | Billinge Beardwood | 2023 |
| Zamir Khan | Lab | Blackburn Central | 2026 |
| Terri Mahmood | Ind | Blackburn Central | 2024 |
| Mahfooz Hussain | Lab | Blackburn Central | 2023 |
Where revenue comes from.
This is a grant-heavy unitary authoritie: 38% from council tax vs the cohort median of 59%.
Source · MHCLG — Final LGFS 2025-26 Core Spending Power table · derived (CT exact; grants/rates split from SFA baseline)
Band-D bill.
| Council slice | £1,965 |
| County / upper-tier | £0 |
| Police | £277 |
| Fire & rescue | £90 |
| GLA precept | £0 |
| Parish average | £5 |
| Total Band-D | £2,337 |
Parish precepts apply on top, vary by parish
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How does Blackburn with Darwen split its revenue across services, compared with peer unitary authoritie-class councils? Each row is one of the ten standard service buckets. The vertical line at the centre is the cohort median share; the coloured square is where this council sits. Squares to the right of centre mean a bigger share of revenue than the median peer; to the left, a smaller share.
The subtitle on each row (“X% of net spend”) is what share of this council’s revenue goes to that service. The rank (“15 of 61”) is where this council sits within the cohort, sorted by that share descending. The delta (“+26% vs median”) is a relative reading: the council allocates 26% more of its revenue to that service than the median peer would. A small absolute difference can still be a big relative one.
Higher share doesn’t mean waste — it can reflect demographic need (more older residents), rurality, or a policy choice (e.g. keeping a service in-house). Lower share doesn’t mean efficiency — some councils move costs to fees, ringfenced accounts, or grants. £-per-head would be sharper than share-of-revenue; LAD population is pending ingest. Comparisons are within the same council type only.
Every invoice over £500, published under the Local Government Transparency Code. Best-effort, not statutory — counts and totals net negatives (refunds/reversals).
Top by total — last 180 days
| Supplier | Paid | Share | Pmts |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDACTED | £35.38m | 39.9% | 5,806 |
| SEDDON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £2.05m | 2.3% | 9 |
| THE CALICO GROUP LTD | £1.69m | 1.9% | 9 |
| WITHERSLACK GROUP LIMITED | £1.58m | 1.8% | 68 |
| NHS LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB | £1.40m | 1.6% | 4 |
| CONLON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £1.10m | 1.2% | 5 |
| LIFEWAYS PARAGON LTD | £1.06m | 1.2% | 235 |
| I CARE GB LIMITED | £0.80m | 0.9% | 322 |
| CORRECT FLOW ENGINEERING | £0.78m | 0.9% | 5 |
| BANNER BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LTD | £0.78m | 0.9% | 139 |
By service area · top supplier
Service-classified supplier data not yet ingested for this council.
Blackburn with Darwen’s territory crosses 2 Westminster constituencies, with 2 MP parties represented. The middle column shows how much of the council each seat carries.
| Constituency | Wards | % of council | Current MP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn | 12 | 71% | Adnan Hussain | Ind |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 5 | 29% | Andy MacNae | Lab |
This council holds 1 Ind and 1 Ind MPs. That’s an unusually heterogeneous geography for a Labour Party-controlled unitary — most weeks one MP is asking the council for something and another is praising it.
Sources, methods & last update
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (historic)
Core Spending Power table · 2025-26
vs 62 other unitary authorities
Police, Fire, Parish on top
22,062 payments · 3 Dec 2025 – 27 Feb 2026
2023 boundaries
Pending ingest at LAD level