Father-of-five sons Mr Moffitt polled 1,391 with his closest rival, Adam Boon, for Labour, gaining 970 votes. After being pronounced the winner, Mr Moffitt, 57, who now runs several businesses, said the town’s "hopes and thoughts should be with all the people affected by the terror attack in Manchester earlier in the day". It’s time for me to repay the faith that people of Wigan have shown in me, and work as hard as possible to improve their lives. Wigan Independent Gareth Fairhurst fared marginally better with 196, and the Greens’ Simon Rowlands polled 130. The result leaves Labour with a dominant 63 councillors, the Conservatives have one, and there is a cohort of 10 Independents and now a Reform UK member.