2006 Hart District Council election

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2006 Hart District Council election
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  2004 4 June 2006 2007  

13 of 35 seats to Hart District Council
18 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats before1812
Seats won63
Seats after1612
Popular vote7,5355,025
Percentage41.0%27.3%

 Third partyFourth party
 
Party CCH Independent
Seats before22
Seats won32
Seats after52
Popular vote2,9671,788
Percentage16.1%9.7%

Hart UK local election 2006 map.svg
Results by Ward

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

Conservative

The 2006 Hart Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Hart District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election results

The results saw 2 seats change hands with the Community Campaign (Hart) (CCH) group winning them both. [3] One gain saw the Conservatives lose the seat of Church Crookham East, which Peter Hutcheson had held for the Conservatives for over 20 years, to the CCH. [3] The other gain saw the CCH win Crondall by 2 votes over the Conservatives, gaining the seat which had formerly been held by Independent Norman Lambert. [3] Lambert had resigned from the Conservative group in 2005 after admitting making false claims for council tax and housing benefit. [4] The changes meant that the Conservatives remained the largest party on the council with 16 seats but were vulnerable to a coalition among the other groups. [3] Overall turnout in the election was 39.35%. [5]

Following the election the Conservative administration of the council, which had run the council for the previous 8 years, was voted out. [6] They were replaced by a new Coalition Political Group, which was formed by the 12 Liberal Democrats, 5 Community Campaign (Hart) councillors and 1 of the 2 Independents, Denis Gotel. [6] The leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, David Neighbour, became leader of the new group and the new leader of the council. [6]

Hart Local Election Result 2006 [5] [7]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 601-146.242.98,158-2.6
  Liberal Democrats 200015.426.55,025-4.8
  CCH 320+223.115.62,967+0.6
  Independent 201-115.49.41,788+4.0
  Labour 00000.02.2418+0.7
  Green 00000.01.7323+1.7
  BNP 00000.01.7318+0.6

Ward results

Church Crookham East

Church Crookham East [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CCH Gillian Butler88754.8−0.4
Conservative Christopher Butler64339.7−5.1
Labour Sarah Snape885.4+5.4
Majority 24415.1+4.6
Turnout 1,61843.4−0.3
CCH gain from Conservative Swing

Church Crookham West

Church Crookham West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CCH Simon Ambler1,00169.2+5.6
Conservative Michael Hall39627.4−9.0
Labour Mitchell Wensley503.5+3.5
Majority 60541.8+14.7
Turnout 1,44738.8+2.8
CCH hold Swing

Crondall

Crondall [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CCH John Bennison59050.1+19.9
Conservative David Evans58849.9−0.1
Majority 20.2
Turnout 1,17840.3−4.5
CCH gain from Conservative Swing

Fleet Central

Fleet Central [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Denis Gotel72647.6−0.3
Conservative Virginia Heffernan70246.0−6.1
Labour John Davies976.4+6.4
Majority 241.6
Turnout 1,52537.7−1.7
Independent hold Swing

Fleet North

Fleet North [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Parker85055.8+4.4
Liberal Democrats Maria Van Dolen67244.2−4.4
Majority 17811.7+9.0
Turnout 1,52234.2+10.6
Conservative hold Swing

Fleet Pondtail

Fleet Pondtail [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sharyn Wheale91246.9+15.4
Liberal Democrats Rodney Fisher83643.0−25.5
Independent David Green1608.2+8.2
Labour Sheila Stone371.9+1.9
Majority 763.9
Turnout 1,94554.1+6.6
Conservative hold Swing

Fleet West

Fleet West (2) [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Appleton782
Conservative Andrew Davies623
Liberal Democrats Christopher Griffin525
CCH Peter Keep489
Green Maria Keith232
Turnout 2,65139.1−2.3
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Frogmore and Darby Green

Frogmore and Darby Green [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Robert Harward99270.7+8.6
Conservative Nigel Milton-Tomkins32623.2−3.2
Labour Joyce Still856.1−5.4
Majority 66647.5+11.9
Turnout 1,40335.0+11.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Hartley Wintney

Hartley Wintney [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Susan Band90254.4+54.4
Liberal Democrats Nicola Dommett43826.4+2.1
BNP Roger Robertson31819.2+19.2
Majority 46428.0
Turnout 1,65844.2+13.9
Independent hold Swing

Hook

Hook [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jonathan Glen1,44873.4+16.9
Liberal Democrats Richard Robinson52626.6−7.6
Majority 92246.7+24.4
Turnout 1,97434.2−3.5
Conservative hold Swing

Long Sutton

Long Sutton [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sarah Wallis45271.2
Liberal Democrats Roger Carter9214.5
Green Lars Mosesson9114.3
Majority 36056.7
Turnout 63536.5
Conservative hold Swing

Yateley North

Yateley North [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Colin Ive94465.5+4.4
Conservative Edward Dawson43630.3−3.6
Labour Mary Jenkins614.2−0.8
Majority 50835.3+8.1
Turnout 1,44138.1+5.0
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

References

  1. "Local elections: Hart". BBC News. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  2. Wilson, Graeme (5 May 2006). "Conservatives Cameron's crusade puts Tories back on victory trail". The Daily Telegraph. p. 4.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Community charge as toppled Tories lose Hart". gethampshire. 9 May 2006. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  4. "Disgraced councillor loses key power post". gethampshire. 28 June 2005. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Election Results for 4 May 2006". Hart District Council. Archived from the original on 26 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 "Coalition takes over at Hart council". gethampshire. 16 May 2006. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  7. "Local elections". The Times. London. 5 May 2006. p. 9.
Preceded by
2004 Hart Council election
Hart local elections Succeeded by
2007 Hart Council election