1999 Reading Borough Council election

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1999 Reading Borough Council election
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  1997 6 May 1999 (1999-05-06) 2000  

16 seats of 45 on council
23 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Lab
LD
Con
Leader David Sutton Ian FenwickFred Pugh
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative
Seats before3563
Seats after3663
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Steady2.svgSteady2.svg
Popular vote14,0946,5327,945
Percentage48.7%22.5%27.4%
SwingIncrease2.svg4.2%Decrease2.svg1.9%Decrease2.svg2.9%

 Fourth party
 
Ind
Party Independent
Seats before1
Seats after0
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1

The 1999 Reading Borough Council election was held on 6 May 1999, at the same time as other local elections across Britain. Sixteen of the 45 seats on Reading Borough Council were up for election, being the usual third of the council (15 seats) plus a by-election in Abbey ward, where Labour's Jane Griffiths had resigned her seat on the council.

Contents

Labour gained one seat in Abbey ward which had been held by Mohammad Iqbal, who had been elected as a Labour councillor in 1997 but expelled from the party later that year. [1] He had continued to hold his council seat since then as an independent councillor, but did not stand for re-election in 1999. Apart from that change, no other seats changed party in 1999.

Results summary

Reading Borough Council Election, 1999
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 1310+181.348.714,094+4.2
  Conservative 10006.327.47,945-2.9
  Liberal Democrats 200012.522.56,532-1.9
  Green 00.01.4397+0.6

Ward results

The results in each ward were as follows: [2]

Abbey Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jim Durkin 932 61.1
Conservative Richard Willis38725.6
Liberal Democrats John Wood20113.3
Turnout 1,511
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Abbey Ward (by-election)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour June Orton 987 65.6
Conservative Paul Swaddle32521.6
Liberal Democrats Tony Warrell19212.8
Turnout 1,504
Labour hold Swing
Battle Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tony Jones 925 67.6
Conservative Dharam Ahuja30922.6
Liberal Democrats Thomas Cook1359.9
Turnout 1,369
Labour hold Swing
Caversham Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kathryn Peak 1,236 45.2
Conservative Robert Wilson 1,15442.2
Liberal Democrats Robin Bentham34212.5
Turnout 2,732
Labour hold Swing
Church Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wilf Wild 659 59.0
Conservative Philip Gibbs25522.8
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Heydeman14613.1
Green Richard Bradbury575.1
Turnout 1,117
Labour hold Swing
Katesgrove Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Trish Thomas 764 67.5
Conservative Simon O'Sullivan22219.6
Liberal Democrats Andrew Colman14612.9
Turnout 1,132
Labour hold Swing
Kentwood Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sandy Scaife 952 44.9
Conservative Ruth Bennett68932.5
Liberal Democrats Dennis Morgan43220.4
Green John Gooch482.3
Turnout 2,121
Labour hold Swing
Minster Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stuart White 1,225 58.0
Conservative Emma Warman68332.4
Liberal Democrats Christopher Harris2039.6
Turnout 2,111
Labour hold Swing
Norcot Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Jones 971 67.8
Conservative Alexandra Mowczan24917.4
Liberal Democrats Martin Scott21314.9
Turnout 1,433
Labour hold Swing
Park Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christine Borgars 1,063 61.5
Conservative Vinod Sharma30217.5
Liberal Democrats George Hamish Hew Preston
Hamish Preston
24414.1
Green Mary Westley1196.9
Turnout 1,728
Labour hold Swing
Peppard Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Bob Green 1,608 61.6
Conservative Edward Brazil74628.6
Labour Keith Uden2579.8
Turnout 2,611
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Redlands Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Liz Winfield-Chislett 900 49.2
Liberal Democrats Martin Reilly45024.6
Conservative Abdul Loyes34518.9
Green Elisabeth Brelstaff1337.3
Turnout 1,828
Labour hold Swing
Southcote Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Askar Sheibani 1,177 67.8
Conservative Charlotte Hawkins41323.8
Liberal Democrats Sheila Myra Morley
Myra Morley
1478.5
Turnout 1,737
Labour hold Swing
Thames Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jeanette Skeats 1,320 48.1
Liberal Democrats Annette Hendry93934.2
Labour Christine Grieve48617.7
Turnout 2,745
Conservative hold Swing
Tilehurst Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Dick Ferriday 1,030 47.9
Labour Catherine Wilton73834.3
Conservative Iona Morris34416.0
Green Judith Green401.9
Turnout 2,152
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Whitley Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lawrence Silverman 831 73.1
Conservative Paul Atkinson20217.8
Liberal Democrats Max Thomas Heydeman
Tom Heydeman
1049.1
Turnout 1,137
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. "Councillor asked to quit by Labour". Evening Post. Reading. 28 November 1997. p. 1. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. "Voter apathy spoils Labour's party as Tory comeback flops". Evening Post. Reading. 7 May 1999. p. 7. Retrieved 22 April 2022.