1999 Dacorum Borough Council election

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Elections to Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England were held on 6 May 1999. The election in Highfield St Paul was delayed after the death of a Conservative candidate until a by-election was held on 3 June. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last Dacorum Council election, 1995 reducing the number of seats by 6. The Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no overall control, although it would fall back to no overall control after the by-election in June.

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Election result

Dacorum Local Election Result 1999
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 26Increase2.svg 753.145.931,029+14.2
  Labour 17Decrease2.svg 1634.736.924,922-10.2
  Liberal Democrats 6Increase2.svg 212.214.19,499-5.1
  Independent 0Decrease2.svg 202.21,524+1.5
  Green 0Steady2.svg0.00.8553+0.1
 Left Alliance0Steady2.svg0.00.154N/A
  Natural Law 0Steady2.svg0.0<0.123-0.1

Ward results

Adeyfield East (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Pesch741
Labour Raymond Haverson736
Conservative Peter Channell579
Conservative Eliot Tyler-Waddington533
Turnout 2,589
Adeyfield West (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Keith White610
Labour Navaratnam Singam609
Conservative Michael Barry408
Conservative Hugh Scott403
Turnout 2,030
Aldbury & Wigginton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tobias Ellwood38259.5
Liberal Democrats Michael James13921.7
Labour Hugh Wilson12118.8
Majority24337.8
Turnout 642
Apsley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jennifer Beesley56366.8
Labour Rosemary Eastwood28033.2
Majority28333.6
Turnout 843
Ashridge
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frank Seely77178.3
Labour William Glennon21421.7
Majority55756.6
Turnout 985
Bennetts End (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gary Cook856
Labour Paul Eastwood821
Conservative Robert Fisher347
Conservative Arthur Craigen344
Liberal Democrats Colin Roe140
Liberal Democrats Roger Wilson113
Turnout 2,621
Berkhamsted Castle (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth Coleman577
Conservative Peter Ginger542
Liberal Democrats Betty Patterson502
Liberal Democrats Geraldine Corry490
Independent Ian Johnston342
Independent Edward Dyer278
Labour Dorothy Franks173
Labour Neil Shacklock172
Turnout 3,076
Berkhamsted East (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Lythgoe629
Liberal Democrats Philip Gibbs610
Conservative Peter Davis497
Conservative Jane Sewell477
Labour Gill Bellamy287
Labour Michael Bromberg239
Independent Norman Cutting179
Green Diana Jones77
Turnout 2,995
Berkhamsted West (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Stanley Sharpe604
Liberal Democrats John Brooks581
Conservative Ian Reay572
Conservative Carol Green566
Labour Jane Gilbert203
Labour David Franks182
Turnout 2,708
Bovingdon, Flaunden & Chipperfield (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Patricia Beale1,315
Conservative Brian O'Sullivan1,277
Conservative Anne Janes1,267
Liberal Democrats David Griffiths471
Liberal Democrats Carol Richardson418
Labour Susan Cerins373
Labour Anne Janes361
Labour Alan Olive347
Liberal Democrats Garrick Stevens345
Turnout 6,174
Boxmoor (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Janice Marshall1,015
Conservative Andrew Fairburn950
Labour Marie Hutchison940
Labour Albert Dennison921
Turnout 3,826
Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Catherine Appleby580
Conservative Andrew Williams573
Labour Robert Hutchison487
Labour Israel Berkovitch479
Liberal Democrats Jean Blackman132
Liberal Democrats Michael Kingsnorth114
Turnout 2,365
Chaulden & Shrubill (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anne-Lise Johnsen857
Labour Richard Widger824
Conservative Ann Richardson432
Conservative Brenda Griffiths428
Independent William Killen267
Turnout 2,808
Corner Hall (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Donald Bennett732
Labour Andrew Inchley657
Conservative John Hanson481
Conservative Christopher Cadman469
Liberal Democrats John Blackman145
Liberal Democrats Margaret Waugh128
Left AllianceStephen Harrison54
Turnout 2,666
Gadebridge (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maureen Flint780
Labour Ronald Coxage677
Independent Maurice Young288
Conservative Jean Reid284
Conservative Louis Pouyanne281
Independent Mark Presland199
Natural Law Diana Harding23
Turnout 2,532
Grovehill (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anne Fisher766
Labour Michael Maloney710
Labour Richard Walsh681
Conservative Janet Higgs331
Conservative Keith Reid326
Conservative Colin Peter324
Liberal Democrats Wendy Savage173
Liberal Democrats Michael Bethune149
Liberal Democrats Roger Gooden147
Turnout 3,607
Kings Langley (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alan Anderson764
Conservative Alexander McGregor696
Labour Maureen Sedlacek647
Labour Martin Smith631
Liberal Democrats Gerald Coulter259
Liberal Democrats Michael Morton250
Turnout 3,247
Leverstock Green (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hazel Bassadine1,355
Conservative Lois Blythe1,303
Conservative Margaret Griffiths1,262
Labour Richard Hebborn832
Labour Ora Warren774
Labour Alan Dickson756
Liberal Democrats Sheila Daly173
Liberal Democrats Lynda Roe162
Liberal Democrats Rodney Cottrell131
Turnout 6,748
Nash Mill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Semdley35248.2
Labour Stephen Fisher31743.4
Liberal Democrats Alan Waugh628.5
Majority354.8
Turnout 731
Northchurch
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Janette Dunbavand53767.9
Liberal Democrats Leslie Batchelor14518.3
Labour John Collisson10913.8
Majority39249.6
Turnout 791
Tring Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Denise Rance639
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Hollinghurst581
Conservative William Barnett530
Conservative Jacqueline Dawson509
Labour Dilys Carter239
Labour James Maple215
Green Colin Kruger116
Turnout 2,829
Tring East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Jameson59264.6
Labour Rosemarie Hollinghurst20922.8
Liberal Democrats Richard Lovelace11612.6
Majority38341.8
Turnout 917
Tring West (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Derek Townsend769
Conservative Stanley Mills741
Liberal Democrats Barry Batchelor505
Liberal Democrats Paul Elley446
Green John Hall258
Labour Daniel Carroll249
Labour Paul Stanton212
Turnout 3,180
Warners End (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Coxage772
Labour Rebecca Dickenson697
Conservative Fiona Guest579
Conservative Anthony Gallagher538
Green Martin Humphrey102
Independent David Clarke102
Independent Moya Presland69
Turnout 2,859
Watling (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert Chapman830
Conservative Julian Taunton829
Labour Gilian Edwards310
Labour Judith Molloy266
Turnout 2,235
Woodhall (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher Denmead476
Conservative Michael Griffiths473
Labour Brian Fisher432
Labour Simon Gluck419
Turnout 1,800

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