1998 Bromley London Borough Council election

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Elections to Bromley Council in England were held on 7 May 1998. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party lost overall control of the council to no overall control. [1]

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Because the council fell into no overall control, for the first time in the London Borough of Bromley history it was taken over by a Liberal Democrat/Labour Coalition. This ended in 2001 when the Conservatives regained the council.

Election result

Turn out across the borough dropped to 40.8%, the lowest in the history of the council.

Bromley Local Election Result 1998
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 2804-446.745.3+4.4
  Liberal Democrats 2551+441.735.0-1.6
  Labour 711011.718.7-1.5

Despite the Conservatives increasing their share of the vote at the expence of both Labour and Liberal Democrats, they still lost seats to the Liberal Democrats and with it, control of the council. Labour, despite losing votes and seats found themselves as part of the administration. For the first time, the Liberal Democrats had managed to get the first past the post voting system to work in their favour by winning a higher share of seats than share of vote.

Ward results

Beckenham

Anerley [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Richard Gaster*1,36255.5-0.1
Liberal Democrats William Alan Macdonald MacCormick*1,289
Labour Clinton Valvis McCree76531.2-1.0
Labour Andrew Jonathan Pharoah658
Conservative Adrian Grantham Smith32813.4+1.1
Conservative John Anthony De'Giovanni308
Majority24.3-0.9
Turnout 34.2-12.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -0.4
Clock House (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Edward Aubrey Crowe*1,87153.7+12.6
Liberal Democrats Martin Arthur Lockwood*1,802
Labour John Alec Dempster24.0-7.3
Conservative David Eric Burch22.3-5.3
Labour Richard Ernest Hart
Conservative Simon Henry Fawthorp
Majority29.7+20.0
Turnout 45.4-11.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +10.0
Copers Cope (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson
Conservative Russell Lawrence Mellor 1,327
Liberal Democrats George Douglas Denyer486
Liberal Democrats Patricia Bianca Mary Weal478
Labour Richard Michael Rory O'Kelly361
Labour Simon John Dawe
Majority39.4+12.1
Turnout 35.1-6.2
Conservative hold Swing +6.0
Eden Park (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jane Elizabeth Green1,47445.5+12.7
Liberal Democrats Anthony Robert Phillips1,338
Conservative Albert George Miles*1,23738.2-8.4
Conservative Robert Alistair Herd1,207
Labour Raymond Grenville Taylor52616.2-4.4
Labour Richard Frederick Watts453
Majority7.321.1
Turnout 45.8-0.5
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +10.5
Kelsey Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael John Tickner*
Conservative Christopher John Elgar* 1,909
Liberal Democrats Reginald William Adams662
Liberal Democrats Edward Hilary Whitaker636
Labour Catherine Boyle400
Labour Stephen Maynard Hale
Majority42.5+9.1
Turnout 45.9+5.3
Conservative hold Swing +4.5
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Arthur Lewis*1,10536.8+1.8
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*1,044
Labour Catherine Rose Newman99933.2+1.6
Labour Munir Malik975
Liberal Democrats Brian James Astell90130.0+8.5
Liberal Democrats Paul David Nash859
Majority3.5+0.1
Turnout 44.9-5.6
Conservative hold Swing +0.0
Penge (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Timothy Fookes*
Labour Karen Anne Roberts 958
Liberal Democrats Daniel Ward813
Liberal Democrats Sonia Mary Whitaker787
Conservative June Rose Briggs413
Conservative Robert James Erskine
Majority8.2-0.8
Turnout 35.1-8.5
Labour hold Swing -0.4
Shortlands (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Malcolm Peter Hyland*
Conservative George Roger Taylor 1,960
Liberal Democrats Heather Isabel Donovan690
Liberal Democrats Hilary Elizabeth-Anne Gaster674
Labour Laurence Ronald Pocock466
Labour Nicholas James Reed
Majority41.1+7.4
Turnout 42.3-4.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.7
West Wickham North (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Carole Mary Hubbard*
Conservative Bryan Charles Humphrys* 1,689
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Margaret Fitch673
Liberal Democrats Simon David Wales597
Labour Graham David Blackwood531
Labour Rebecca Helen Pearson-Close
Majority36.6+21.1
Turnout 42.8-7.2
Conservative hold Swing +10.5
West Wickham South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Frederick Ivan Gray*
Conservative Leonard Walter Tutt 2,022
Labour Richard Henry Redden646
Labour Janet Ilma Ambrose622
Liberal Democrats Graham Frederick Keith Radford593
Liberal Democrats John Raymond Maydwell
Majority44.3+17.1
Turnout 43.5-5.5
Conservative hold Swing +8.5

Bromley & Chislehurst

Bickley [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ingrid Alexandra Buckley*2,50720.5
Conservative Sheila Ann Humphreys*2,44920.0
Conservative Gordon William Jenkins*2,35719.3
Liberal Democrats David Malcolm Dear1,0278.4
Liberal Democrats Anne Wendy Chaplin9918.1
Liberal Democrats Susan Anne Taylor9898.1
Labour Susan Noelle Cox6905.6
Labour Arthur Harold Johnson6385.2
Labour Alfred Ernest Parish5794.7
Majority
Turnout 40.8
Conservative hold Swing
Bromley Common & Keston (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth*2,284
Liberal Democrats Alan Carter2,030
Liberal Democrats Alexa Christine Anne Michael*2,027
Conservative Stephen Leslie Carr1,670
Conservative Sharon Claire Evans1,533
Conservative Toby Sanders1,495
Labour Christopher Lee Leonard Bartram531
Labour Simon Timothy Williams
Labour Julia Margaret Ann Fogden
Majority
Turnout 36.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chislehurst (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Bryant*
Conservative Kathleen Ann Boughey*
Conservative Joan Kathleen Wykes* 2,734
Labour Charles Phillips988
Labour Andrew Robert Amos
Labour Sharon Wheeler876
Liberal Democrats Frances Catherine Borrowman742
Liberal Democrats Ian Malcolm Magrath
Liberal Democrats Olwen Michele Wade-Jones646
Green John William Taylor213
Green Glen Adrian Shipley-Younan
Majority
Turnout 38.4
Conservative hold Swing
Hayes (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thelma Ann Manning
Conservative Graham Leslie Arthur
Conservative Neil Richard Reddin 2,666
Labour Gary Ian Boxall882
Labour George Fryer Johnstone824
Liberal Democrats Bob Reginald Skinner820
Labour Michael Thomas King811
Liberal Democrats Mark Andrew Gill784
Liberal Democrats William Harold Stott
Majority
Turnout 41.4
Conservative hold Swing
Martins Hill & Town (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Peter John Ayres*1,274
Liberal Democrats Raymond Philip Warner*1,144
Conservative Philip Thomas Hollobone 1,111
Conservative Paul Louis Jemetta*1,024
Labour Iain Philip Ambler406
Labour Marcus Sherrard Oliver
Green John Robert Street109
Green Gillian Frances Windall
Majority
Turnout 38.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest William Dyer*
Labour Robert Justin Yeldham* 826
Conservative Michael John Hennessey708
Conservative Dennis Arthur Boughey685
Liberal Democrats Carmel Bernadette Anne Butler235
Liberal Democrats Brian Harry Taylor
Majority
Turnout 31.8
Labour hold Swing
Plaistow & Sundridge (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats James Gillespie1,86542.2+18.7
Conservative Catherine Ann Bustard1,82441.3-2.7
Liberal Democrats Stephen Frank Gosling1,818
Conservative Michael Turner1,812
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*1,791
Liberal Democrats Lennard Douglas Woods1,768
Labour Robert Armstrong58013.1-9.9
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright501
Labour Gordon Thomas Yates*464
Green Joyce Linda Brown1473.3-6.2
Green Ann Christine Garrett133
Green Frances Mary Speed124
Majority
Turnout 39.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +10.7

Orpington

Biggin Hill [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Colin Gostt*1,83050.9
Liberal Democrats Walter Robert Shekyls*1,742
Conservative David Robert Haslam1,48141.2
Conservative Christopher Douglas Wordingham1,366
Labour Brendan French2847.9
Labour Leonard David Hall283
Majority9.7
Turnout 43.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chelsfield & Goddington (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Graem Peters*2,47748.5
Liberal Democrats Gillian Margaret Chamarette*2,461
Liberal Democrats Michael James Hall*2,399
Conservative Adrian Stuart Marshall2,14642.1
Conservative Andre Clive Madrell
Conservative Dean Alastair Saint
Labour Charles Walter Hailes9.4
Labour Carol Anne Hannay
Labour Peter John Tozer
Majority6.5
Turnout 45.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Crofton (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Helen Cecilia Rabbatts*2,00751.4
Liberal Democrats Vivian Charles Ross*1,883
Conservative Judith Elizabeth Ellis41.2
Conservative Richard Michael Rayment
Labour Lynn Ann Selwood7.3
Labour Christopher William Taylor
Majority10.2
Turnout 49.9
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Darwin (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield* 1,268
Labour John Charles Henry Lewis210
Liberal Democrats Christine Sperling208
Majority62.8
Turnout 50.2
Conservative hold Swing
Farnborough (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 1,832
Liberal Democrats Terence Frank Clark612
Liberal Democrats Michael Curtis Chamarette518
Labour Malcolm Barker318
UKIP James Bruce Carver285
Labour Canh Linh238
Majority40.5
Turnout 41.2
Conservative hold Swing
Orpington Central (2) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Stewart Maines66.5
Liberal Democrats Michael John Morris1,475
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter57923.9
Conservative Julian Patrick Greville Grainger549
Labour Keith Aubrey Galley2359.7
Labour Christopher Arthur Purnell
Majority42.6
Turnout 37.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Charles Woods*
Conservative Tara Anne Bowman
Conservative John Richard Ince 2,791
Liberal Democrats Eileen G D Edwards1,948
Liberal Democrats Margaret Georgina Ayres
Liberal Democrats Derek Gambell1,706
Labour Joan Headington606
Labour Amanda Jayne Williams
Labour Peter John Lisle493
Green Martin James Childs295
Majority17.6
Turnout 46.9
Conservative hold Swing
St Mary Cray (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Ann Polydorou*1,38138.4-9.9
Liberal Democrats David McBride1,33237.0+12.2
Labour John Richard Holbrook*1,312
Labour Christopher John Price1,225
Liberal Democrats Michael Oldman1,255
Liberal Democrats Brenda Denise Thompson1,246
Conservative Carole Linda Bowman24.6-2.3
Conservative Valerie Anita Cosette Huntingdon-Thresher
Conservative Anne Susan Barrow
Majority1.4
Turnout 35.4
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing +11.0
St Paul's Cray (3) [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Colin Willetts1,66242.9
Liberal Democrats Thomas William Hawthorne*1,59741.3
Liberal Democrats Martin Alan Curry*1,471
Liberal Democrats Duncan Keith Borrowman*1,443
Labour Kelly Jane Galvin1,440
Labour Elizabeth Ruth Johnstone1,411
Conservative Mary Winifred Macpherson15.8
Conservative Richard John Wells
Conservative Christopher George Hillier
Majority1.7
Turnout 35.0
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "Local Elections results". The Times . 9 May 1998. p. 46.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 London Borough of Bromley
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