For Darwen Party
For Darwen Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Stephen Potter |
| Founders | Tony Melia Michael Johnson |
| Founded | March 2007 |
| Dissolved | November 5, 2013, announced 2014 |
| Headquarters | Duckworth Street, Darwen |
| Ideology | Localism Hard Euroscepticism |
| Colours | Cyan |
| Website | |
| fordarwen.org.uk (archived) | |
The For Darwen Party was a local political party in Darwen, south of Blackburn, England, with a platform that Darweners were not properly represented on Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
Founded in 2007, the party had three Borough Councillors following the May elections and five in 2008. Councillors included former members of the Liberal Democrats, England First Party and the BNP. They formed a coalition administration with the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives from 2007 to 2010, and successfully campaigned for the creation of Darwen Town Council in 2009, on which they won seven seats.
In 2010 they suffered three defections and Labour regained control of the borough council. By 2012 For Darwen had lost all their seats and the party folded in 2014, most of the remaining membership joining UKIP.