1991 High Peak Borough Council election

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Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 2 May 1991. All of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

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After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1991 [2]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 1661+536.36
  Conservative 1403-331.82
  Liberal Democrats 1030+322.73
 Independent405-59.09

Ward results

All Saints
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Roger Wilkinson115940.1
Labour David Bond1111
Labour Lilian Whitson1086
Conservative Thomas Farnsworth103135.7
Conservative Frank Postlethwaite990
Conservative Michael Wendon881
Liberal Democrats Goinden Kuppan37112.8
Green Roy Winterbottom32811.4
Green Ian Lee Webb240
Green Susan Anne Ledger240
Turnout 53.5
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour hold Swing
Barmoor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Brian Millward30755.02
Conservative Derek Walter Udale16629.75
Labour Ian Stuart Waddell8515.23
Majority14125.26
Turnout 55852.1
Independent hold Swing
Barms
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Mone65542.2
Labour Andrew Uprichard589
Conservative Terence Corrigan55936.0
Conservative Margaret Mary Williams543
Liberal Democrats David Allwright18011.6
Green Karen Thompson Beswick16010.3
Green Susan Mortin120
Turnout 52.5
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour hold Swing
Blackbrook
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Peter John Ashenden89346.5
Liberal Democrats Susan Mary Burns641
Conservative Peter Coackley61732.2
Conservative Donald Gifford Crow569
Labour Andrew Ayres24112.6
Green Catherine Tattersfield1688.8
Turnout 60.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Independent Swing
Buxton Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Mary Chape33347.57
Liberal Democrats Michael Francis Bryant25436.29
Green Roger Martin Floyd11316.14
Turnout 70050.7
Majority7911.28
Conservative hold Swing
Chapel East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats James Edward George Boote43953.28
Labour Trevor William Trimmer21425.97
Conservative Janice Elaine Bancroft17120.75
Majority22527.31
Turnout 82454.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chapel West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ann Stewart Young68123.6
Independent Muriel Bertha Bradbury59020.4
Independent Frank Peter Harrison49417.1
Green Jayne Pamela Mellor41414.3
Liberal Democrats John Frank Weigold39213.6
Labour Jane Ayres32111.1
Turnout 49.4
Conservative hold Swing
Independent hold Swing
College
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elizabeth Jane Inglefield74951.1
Conservative Alan Keith Allman734
Liberal Democrats Hillary Allwright46131.5
Green Christopher Martin Pearson25617.5
Green Justin Robert Clements254
Turnout 50.9
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Corbar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter De Leighton Brooke68248.5
Conservative Margaret Beatrice Millican664
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Rooker26218.6
Labour Valerie Mason25618.2
Green Rodney Dugdale20714.7
Green Derek Alfred Jones173
Turnout 47.5
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Cote Heath
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Robert Leslie Loader86144.8
Liberal Democrats Peter Campbell Newsam677
Labour Philip Mone60931.7
Labour Jane Ann McGrother506
Conservative Kenneth David Graham Kirk45223.5
Turnout 49.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Gamesley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Francis104583.2
Labour Richard John Cooke957
Independent Elsie Sayers1109.1
Green Marie-Helene Thomas-Jones927.7
Turnout 52.1
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Hayfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert David Mellor63353.96
Labour Colin Michael Divall31226.60
Green Judith Milling12810.91
Liberal Democrats Douglas Malcolm Bruce1008.53
Majority32127.37
Turnout 117357.6
Conservative hold Swing
Ladybower
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Albert Bingham47361.35
Labour Gillian Taylor17722.96
Green Angela Mary Ayres12115.69
Majority29638.39
Turnout 77162.5
Conservative hold Swing
Limestone Peak
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Evelyn May Thomlinson36151.28
Liberal Democrats Joyce Allwright24835.23
Labour Michael John Westley9513.49
Majority11316.05
Turnout 70455.0
Independent hold Swing
New Mills North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Roy Bickerton103832.2
Conservative Dorothy May Brennand80728.8
Conservative Dorothy Mary Livesley724
Labour Kevin John Worthington71728.8
Labour Sheila Elizabeth Rae705
Labour Charmain Bernadette Levin685
Liberal Democrats Margaret Helen Redfern668
Liberal Democrats Alan Michael Fieldsend653
Conservative Christopher Barnes575
Green Freda Kathleen Chapman24810.2
Turnout 61.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
New Mills South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Harry Norman Burfoot81249.2
Liberal Democrats Stephen John Herbert Dearden696
Labour Marion Williams67142.4
Labour Donald Peace Rae629
Green Michael John Shipley1398.4
Green Michael Jonathan Rowles117
Turnout 52.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing
Peveril
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ronald Ernest Priestley56362.76
Labour Brian Gerald Hudson21223.63
Independent (politician)Angela Helen Kellie12213.60
Majority35139.13
Turnout 89753.2
Conservative hold Swing
St. Andrew's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Kathleen Holtom96252.5
Labour John Hallsworth890
Conservative Olive MacKay49328.0
Liberal Democrats Lyn Edwards34519.6
Turnout 52.2
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
St. Charles'
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Holtom87049.7
Labour Francis Walter Stubbs845
Conservative Celia May Bloomer39121.1
Liberal Democrats David Colin Curzon32217.4
Green Iain Coram21911.8
Turnout 49.0
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
St. James'
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Norman Patrick Garlick89536.2
Labour Arthur Harrison Gilbert884
Conservative Leslie Ernest Proctor83133.6
Labour Jacqueline Margaret Wilkinson827
Conservative Graham Turner Buckley815
Conservative Barbara Sharpe806
Liberal Democrats Marjorie Jane Chapman40016.2
Green Geoffrey Keith Oliver34714.0
Green Evelyn Lesley Wilson283
Green Michael Jonathan Lindley278
Turnout 54.5
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing
St John's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brenda Tetlow65164.26
Liberal Democrats Christopher Frank Harbut22422.11
Labour Peter Roy Urquhart13813.62
Majority42742.15
Turnout 101356.4
Conservative hold Swing
Simmondley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Jeffrey Sidebottom45437.34
Liberal Democrats Gerald Seymour Wood41734.29
Labour Reginald Grills29123.93
Green Diana Lilian Virgo544.44
Majority373.04
Turnout 121655.3
Conservative hold Swing
Stone Bench
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Raymond Vernon Browne83360.5
Labour James Henry Poulton820
Conservative David Redford Allsop32323.5
Liberal Democrats Peter Francis Clayton22116.1
Turnout 45.9
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Tintwistle
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joyce Brocklehurst37254.47
Conservative Wright Brownhill Cooper31145.53
Majority618.93
Turnout 68363.0
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Whaley Bridge
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Constance Ann Smith118327.9
Independent John Arthur Thomas Pritchard117827.8
Liberal Democrats David William Lomax1174
Labour John Bottomley96722.8
Conservative Susan Jane Wallwork34821.5
Turnout 56.2
Liberal Democrats gain from Independent Swing
Independent hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "BBC NEWS | Election 2007 | Local Council Elections | High Peak council". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003
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