Elections to Penwith District Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 increasing the number of seats by one. The council stayed under no overall control and overall turnout was 46.9%
Penwith is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the peninsula of the same name. It is also the name of a former local government district, whose council was based in Penzance. The area is named after one of the ancient administrative hundreds of Cornwall which derives from two Cornish words, penn meaning 'headland' and wydh meaning 'at the end'.
In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom, the term no overall control refers to a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats; and is analogous to a hung parliament. Of the 310 councils who had members up for election in the 2007 local elections, 85 resulted in a NOC administration.
After the election, the composition of the council was
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | 14 | +3 | 40.0 | 30.4 | 11,870 | +12.1% | |||
Conservative | 12 | +2 | 34.3 | 28.0 | 10,942 | -13.0% | |||
Independent | 8 | 22.9 | 22.9 | 8,936 | -8.5% | ||||
Labour | 1 | -1 | 2.9 | 12.1 | 4,718 | +6.3% | |||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 1,835 | +3.0% | |||
Mebyon Kernow | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 756 | +0.2% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Patricia Sanderson | 365 | 51.7 | ||
Conservative | Sidney Thomas | 341 | 48.3 | ||
Majority | 24 | 3.4 | |||
Turnout | 706 | 49.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Maria Fonk | 759 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Jack Dixon | 580 | |||
Independent | Stephen Freeman | 423 | |||
Conservative | Peter Powell | 243 | |||
Labour | Franklyn Bennetts | 151 | |||
Turnout | 2,156 | 46.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sarah Roskilly | 808 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Robert Lello | 584 | |||
UKIP | Jeffrey Mager | 408 | |||
Labour | Adrian Marsham | 219 | |||
Turnout | 2,019 | 44.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Terry Lello | 756 | |||
Independent | Owen Philp | 400 | |||
Independent | Edgar Philp | 368 | |||
Labour | Frederick Bultitude | 283 | |||
Turnout | 1,807 | 40.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Shirley Oliver | 736 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Duncan Cook | 465 | |||
Labour | Frederick Statham | 184 | |||
Turnout | 1,385 | 37.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Elizabeth Penhaligon | 732 | |||
Conservative | Yvonne Watson | 717 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Richard Birch | 430 | |||
Labour | Terence Murray | 325 | |||
UKIP | Bryan Bracegirdle | 207 | |||
Turnout | 2,411 | 48.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Alice Bailey | 1,021 | |||
Conservative | Henry Smith | 691 | |||
Independent | Mark Squire | 601 | |||
Turnout | 2,313 | 51.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Roy Mann | 480 | 79.1 | ||
Labour | Stella Redgrave | 127 | 20.9 | ||
Majority | 353 | 58.2 | |||
Turnout | 607 | 47.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Neil Badcock | 560 | 67.6 | ||
Independent | Malcolm Lawrence | 166 | 20.0 | ||
Labour | Nicholas Round | 103 | 12.4 | ||
Majority | 394 | 47.6 | |||
Turnout | 829 | 58.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Christopher Goninan | 796 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Patricia Angove | 670 | |||
Liberal Democrat | James Thomas | 625 | |||
Conservative | Richard Eddy | 555 | |||
Independent | Benjamin Angwin | 469 | |||
Conservative | William McFadden | 450 | |||
Independent | Gerald Nicholls | 428 | |||
UKIP | Rose Smith | 264 | |||
Labour | Brian Simm | 223 | |||
Turnout | 4,480 | 49.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Simon Reed | 684 | |||
Conservative | Sam Ryan | 534 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Ian Fraser | 508 | |||
Labour | Timothy Pullen | 264 | |||
Turnout | 1,990 | 45.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Caroline White | 762 | |||
Independent | William Aitken | 638 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Mates | 618 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Richard Clark | 574 | |||
UKIP | Robert Smith | 384 | |||
Independent | Carol Dennis | 383 | |||
Labour | Cornelius Olivier | 356 | |||
Labour | Robin Gregory | 349 | |||
Turnout | 4,064 | 39.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Ian Ruhrmund | 659 | |||
Conservative | Emma Schofield | 481 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Valerie Barnes | 374 | |||
Conservative | Michael Waters | 300 | |||
Mebyon Kernow | Phillip Rendle | 231 | |||
UKIP | John Wing | 172 | |||
Labour | Sara Olivier | 143 | |||
Turnout | 2,360 | 53.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Payne | 1,223 | |||
Conservative | Roger Harding | 1,154 | |||
Conservative | Malcolm Pilcher | 852 | |||
Mebyon Kernow | Frank Granger | 525 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Dennis Axford | 404 | |||
UKIP | Michael Faulkner | 400 | |||
Turnout | 4,558 | 56.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Adrian Semmens | 832 | |||
Conservative | William Maddern | 626 | |||
Independent | Ruth Lewarne | 493 | |||
Labour | Ann Round | 330 | |||
Turnout | 2,281 | 52.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Peter Badcock | 508 | 69.0 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Michael Hanley | 228 | 31.0 | ||
Majority | 280 | 38.0 | |||
Turnout | 736 | 45.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Mitchell | 854 | |||
Liberal Democrat | George Tonkin | 617 | |||
Conservative | Godfrey Penhaligon | 300 | |||
Labour | Ian Hope | 241 | |||
Turnout | 2,012 | 42.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Joan Tanner | 613 | |||
Conservative | Joan Symons | 478 | |||
Independent | Norman Laity | 413 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Bill Fry | 354 | |||
Conservative | Colin Sanger | 288 | |||
Labour | Graham Webster | 197 | |||
Turnout | 2,343 | 44.6 |
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