1994 Bromley London Borough Council election

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1994 Bromley London Borough Council election
  1990 5 May 1994 1998  

All 60 seats to Bromley London Borough Council
31 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Last election43 seats, 49.8%6 seats, 23.3%11 seats, 23.3%
Seats before42711
Seats won32217
Seat changeDecrease2.svg11Increase2.svg15Decrease2.svg4
Percentage40.9%36.6%20.2%
SwingDecrease2.svg8.6%Increase2.svg13.3%Decrease2.svg3.1%

Council control before election


Conservative

Council control after election


Conservative

The 1994 Bromley Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council. [1]

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Background

The Conservatives went into the election defending a large majority won in 1990. However, that majority had been reduced by two when the Liberal Democrats gained Chelsfield & Goddington in the 1993 by-election.

Election result

The turnout across the borough was 48.1%, the second highest turn out in the council's history.

Bromley Local Election Result 1994
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 32011-1153.340.9-8.6
  Liberal Democrats 21150+1535.036.6+13.3
  Labour 704-411.720.2-3.1

For the Conservatives, 40.9% was their lowest share of the vote of all the nine sets of elections to date and 32 was also their lowest number of seats won. Their overall majority of 4 seats was their lowest in the council's history. For the Liberal Democrats their 36.6% was their highest share of the vote and 21 the most number of seats won. The first past the post voting system was shown to have benefitted the Conservatives and worked against the Labour Party while the Liberal Democrats achieved a fair representation.

Ward results

Anerley [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Richard Gaster*55.6
Liberal Democrats William Alan Macdonald MacCormick*
Labour Clinton Valvis McCree32.2
Labour Corinna Margaret Mary Smart
Conservative David Eric Burch12.3
Conservative Adrian Grantham Smith
Turnout 46.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Bickley [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Malcolm Dear*57.4
Conservative Sheila Ann Humphreys
Conservative Ingrid Alexandra Buckley
Liberal Democrats Michael D Chuter24.3
Liberal Democrats Keith G Room
Liberal Democrats Robert R V Woollett
Labour Alan A J Bartlett
Labour Elsie M Herne
Labour Kenneth C H Herring
Turnout 47.2
Conservative hold Swing
Biggin Hill [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Colin Gostt2,08552.2+33.5
Liberal Democrats Walter Robert Shekyls1,978
Conservative David Robert Haslam*1,58039.6-6.7
Conservative John J Cokayne1,520
Labour Leonard David Hall3278.2-5.5
Labour Keith Aubrey Galley297
Turnout 49.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Bromley Common & Keston (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth*63.0+17.9
Liberal Democrats Elsie Phythian
Liberal Democrats Alexa Christine Anne Michael
Conservative Catherine Ann Bustard*26.6-12.9
Conservative Rose M Covell
Conservative Neil Richard Reddin
Labour Christopher Martin10.4-5.0
Labour Robert I Forman
Labour Pamela C Remon
Turnout
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chelsfield & Goddington (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Graem Peters*3,49158.3+19.1
Liberal Democrats Gilliam Margaret Chamarette3,420
Liberal Democrats Michael James Hall3,297
Conservative Judith Elizabeth Ellis*1,94932.5-16.9
Conservative Julian Patrick Greville Grainger*1,925
Conservative Anthony Neil Youd1,831
Labour Charles Walter Hailes5489.2-2.2
Labour Odette V Coram530
Labour Carol Anne Hannay528
Majority25.836.0
Turnout 52.6-2.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +18.0
Chislehurst (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Bryant*54.9
Conservative Kathleen Ann Boughey*
Conservative Joan Kathleen Wykes*
Labour Charles F Phillips19.9
Liberal Democrats Ian Malcolm Magrath18.9
Labour Andrew Robert Amos
Labour Paul A Dyett
Liberal Democrats Robert F Webster
Liberal Democrats George H Watson
Green Paul Ryder6.2
Clock House (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Edward Aubrey Crowe1,82041.1
Liberal Democrats Martin Arthur Lockwood1,749
Labour Deborah Russell1,38831.3
Labour Richard F Watts1,351
Conservative Alan Howarth1,22327.6
Conservative Roderick A. Reed1,131
Turnout 57.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Copers Cope (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher John Elgar*54.9
Conservative Charles George Priest*
Liberal Democrats Mavis J Dowling27.6
Liberal Democrats David A Evans
Labour Janice M Cooke17.5
Labour Bryan Edwin Freake
Crofton (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Helen Cecilia Rabbatts2,59856.3
Liberal Democrats Vivian Charles Ross2,513
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter*1,66636.1
Conservative Peter Sturdy*1,609
Labour Malcolm Barker3537.6
Labour Timothy J Camm326
Turnout 58.2
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Darwin (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield*69.2
Liberal Democrats Richard J Stillwell17.4
Labour Joyce E Galley13.4
Eden Park (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frances J D Cooke*1,49646.6
Conservative Albert George Miles*1,431
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Gee1,05232.8
Liberal Democrats Kathleen Isabel Milward962
Labour Gwendoline E Edwards20.6
Labour Andrew O Price
Turnout 45.3
Conservative hold Swing
Farnborough (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*60.1
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman*
Liberal Democrats Terence Frank Clark28.7
Liberal Democrats Sylvia C Norris
Labour Peter J Davenport11.2
Labour Lynn Ann Sellwood
Hayes (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ernest Denis Barkway*56.7
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*
Conservative Nigel G Kelsh*
Liberal Democrats Mark Andrew Gill23.7
Liberal Democrats Robert M Manser
Liberal Democrats William Harold Stott
Labour Elizabeth Ruth Johnstone19.5
Labour Peter W Rance
Labour Roy D Shufflebotham
Kelsey Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael John B Tickner*59.7
Conservative Stephen R. Oxenbridge
Liberal Democrats Russell L Egan-Wyer26.3
Liberal Democrats Edward Hilary Whitaker
Labour Neil W Entwhistle
Labour Geraldine F Scanlan
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard D Foister*35.0
Conservative John Arthur M Lewis*
Labour Catherine Boyle31.6
Labour Andrew C Barber
Liberal Peter White21.5
Liberal Gerald A Williams
Liberal Democrats Reginald William Adams11.9
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey L Roberts
Martins Hill & Town (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Peter John Ayres1,44240.9
Liberal Democrats Raymond Philip Warner1,335
Conservative Michael Turner1,24935.4
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson*1,161
Labour Cecil R Dean57416.3
Labour Susan L Yates405
Green Frances Mary Speed1734.9
SDP Martin B McCabe882.5
Turnout 46.0
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Mottingham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest William Dyer*53.4
Labour Robert Justin Yeldham
Conservative Dennis Arthur Boughey29.9
Conservative Michael John Hennessey
Liberal Democrats Ann E Ford16.7
Liberal Democrats Brian Harry Taylor
Orpington Central (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Stewart Maines*67.6
Liberal Democrats Michael John Norris*
Conservative William K E Huntingdon-Thresher17.9
Conservative Harry J Stranger
Labour Harold J Barker14.5
Labour Steven M Collinson
Turnout 49.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Penge (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patricia Mansfield*1,32645.4
Labour Peter Timothy Fookes*1,241
Liberal Democrats Daniel Ward1,06336.4
Liberal Democrats Sonia Mary Whitaker1,015
Conservative John Anthony De'Giovanni52918.1
Conservative Anthony H G Mills515
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Charles Woods*52.0
Conservative Joan Hatcher*
Conservative Anthony M Owen*
Liberal Democrats Julia C Bye33.1
Liberal Democrats Eileen G D Edwards
Liberal Democrats Justin D C Cockett
Labour Christopher John Price14.9
Labour Rosalie Huzzard
Labour Graeme M Burton
Plaistow & Sundridge (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jill E Andrew2,39244.0
Conservative Paul Louis Jemetta2,291
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*2,269
Liberal Democrats Lennard Douglas Woods1,28123.5
Liberal Democrats Michael F Deves1,272
Labour Robert Armstrong1,25223.0
Labour Michael Thomas King1,144
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright1,102
Green Joyce Linda Brown9.5
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
St Mary Cray (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Richard Holbrook*2,08748.3
Labour Susan Ann Polydorou*1,888
Labour Gordon Thomas Yates1,780
Conservative Pamela P Brockhurst1,16226.9
Conservative Leonard C Cruse1,103
Liberal Democrats Ian R Bailey1,07224.8
Conservative Anne Susan Barrow1,061
Liberal Democrats Ernest James Lovell1,057
Liberal Democrats Ann J Hawthorne1,027
Turnout 41.5
Labour hold Swing
St Paul's Cray (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Thomas William N Hawthorne2,89252.7
Liberal Democrats Martin Alan Curry2,536
Liberal Democrats Duncan Keith Borrowman2,526
Labour Colin Willetts*1,86634.0
Labour Christopher Arthur Purnell*1,699
Labour Richard Ernest Hart1,620
Conservative Bernard J Cobley72913.3
Conservative Edna P Bensaid685
Conservative Jason M Hadden637
Turnout 47.5
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing
Shortlands (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip J Haslop58.2
Conservative Malcolm Peter Hyland
Liberal Democrats Hilary Elizabeth-Anne Gaster24.5
Liberal Democrats Sheila M Machray
Labour Simon J Dawe12.0
Labour Robert N Hughes
Green Francis L Locke5.3
West Wickham North (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Caroline Mary Hubbard*52.6
Conservative Brian Charles Humphreys*
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Margaret Fitch37.0
Liberal Democrats John Raymond Maydwell
Labour Timothy J Craddock10.4
Labour Gwendolen E Pole
West Wickham South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Frederick Ivan Gray*53.6
Conservative Leonard Walter Tutt
Liberal Democrats Graham Frederick Keith Radford26.4
Liberal Democrats Gordon J Stevens
Labour Raymond G Mooney12.4
Labour Jane K Taylor
SDP Richard Henry Redden7.6

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