2006 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election

2006 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election

←  2002 4 May 2006 2010  →
All 60 seats to Waltham Forest London Borough Council 31 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Clyde Loakes Keith Rayner Geoffrey Walker Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative Leader's seat Leytonstone Cann Hall Hatch Lane Last election 29 seats, 34.9% 13 seats, 29.9% 18 seats, 26.4% Seats before 27 15 18 Seats won 26 19 15 Seat change 1 4 3 Percentage 33.8% 32.4% 27.7%
Map of the results of the 2006 Waltham Forest council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow.
Council control before election No Overall Control Council control after election No Overall Control

The 2006 Waltham Forest Council elections, were held on 4 May 2006 in Waltham Forest, England. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election.

Waltham Forest local elections are held every four years, with the next due in 2010.

Following the elections, a coalition agreement was formed between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. ^[1]

Eligibility

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday, 4 May 2006 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, ^[2] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible for individuals, such as university students who have a term-time address and a home address, to register to vote at more than one address. The local Electoral Register Office has the discretion to allow this. However, it is important to note that it is still considered an offense to vote more than once in the same local government election. ^[3]

Composition before election

Elected in 2002			Before election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Labour	29		Labour	27
	Conservative	18		Conservative	18
	Liberal Democrats	13		Liberal Democrats	15

Election result

Waltham Forest local election result 2006 ^[4]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	26	2	5	-3	43.3	33.8	57,959
	Liberal Democrats	19	8	2	+6	31.7	32.4	55,628
	Conservative	15	0	3	-3	24.0	27.7	46,981
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	4.7	8,094
	Respect	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.0	1,775
	BNP	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.3	509
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	270
	Socialist Alternative	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	245
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	178

Results by ward

The ward results listed below are based on the changes from the 2002 elections, not taking into account any mid-term by-elections or party defections.

Cann Hall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Liz Phillips	1,345
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Rayner	1,338
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Sheppard	1,197
	Labour	Shah Ahmed	1,003
	Labour	Victoria Baffour-Awuah	975
	Labour	Richard Devaney	914
	Green	Pat Howie	337
	Conservative	Paul Canal	247
	Conservative	Kathleen Gosling	201
	Conservative	Mary Neilson-Hansen	200
Turnout				34.5%
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold

Cathall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Milton Martin	1,117
	Labour	Shameem Highfield	1,072
	Labour	Terence Wheeler	982
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Hunt	955
	Liberal Democrats	Shahid Majid	940
	Liberal Democrats	Clyde Kitson	933
	Green	Maureen Measure	270
	Conservative	Graham Millington	178
	Conservative	Cajetan Iwunze	159
	Conservative	Pamela Jovcic	147
	Independent	Joan Devine	93
	Independent	Andrew Butler	85
Turnout				34.0%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Chapel End

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Belam	1,653
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Carey	1,537
	Liberal Democrats	John Macklin	1,420
	Labour	David Blunt	663
	Labour	Stephen Terry	632
	Labour	Sabha Akhtar	616
	Conservative	Brian Clarke	459
	Conservative	Josephine Gatward	429
	Green	Richard Burkett	419
	Conservative	John Phelan	373
Turnout				35.7%
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold

Chingford Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Derek Arnold	2,288
	Conservative	Michael Lewis	2,279
	Conservative	Graham Sinclair	2,199
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Wendon	622
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Carder	605
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Paterson	573
	Labour	Farah Beg	359
	Labour	William Bayliss	357
	Labour	Jeffrey Blay	345
Turnout				43.0%
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Endlebury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Herrington	2,227
	Conservative	Mladen Jovcic	2,063
	Conservative	Matthew Davis	2,056
	Labour	Kenneth Kennedy	425
	Green	Joan Allen	398
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Carder	351
	Liberal Democrats	Kathleen Mudie	350
	Liberal Democrats	Violet Wells	345
	Labour	Miles Washbrook	329
	Labour	Frances Manjra	322
Turnout				40.4%
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Forest

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Farooq Qureshi	1,505
	Liberal Democrats	Imran Abrahim	1,490
	Labour	Faiz Yunis	1,289
	Liberal Democrats	Murle Mitchell	1,268
	Labour	Kabal Singh Dhillon	1,159
	Labour	Gerry Lyons	1,029
	Green	Rosalind Bedlow	534
	Conservative	Jean Farmer	508
	Conservative	Sean Phillips	414
	Conservative	Nial Finlayson	399
Turnout				41.5%
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour
	Labour hold

Grove Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Tarsem Singh Bhogal	1,517
	Labour	Chris Robbins	1,430
	Labour	Anna Mbachu	1,356
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Sullivan	1,286
	Liberal Democrats	Neal Chubb	1,173
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Olford	1,171
	Green	William Measure	480
	Conservative	Nicola Devlin	270
	Conservative	Alan Gough	265
	Conservative	Derek Pryor	235
Turnout				38.4%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats

Hale End and Highams Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	John Beanse	1,617
	Liberal Democrats	Noel Penstone	1,462
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Smith-Pryor	1,453
	Conservative	Lesley Finlayson	1,434
	Conservative	Andrew Hemsted	1,363
	Conservative	Julien Foster	1,346
	Labour	Noel Hayes	437
	Labour	Ann Molyneux	404
	Green	Sallie Poppleton	367
	Labour	Martyn Bellamy	327
Turnout				46.6%
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Hatch Lane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Marion Fitzgerald	1,651
	Conservative	Geoffrey Walker	1,548
	Conservative	Laurie Braham	1,478
	Labour	Martin Dore	529
	Labour	Sheila Dore	526
	BNP	John Pearce	509
	Labour	Shaheen Rafique	406
	Liberal Democrats	Marc Jones	404
	Green	Robert Tatam	380
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Dauncey	360
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Morgan	337
Turnout				37.8%
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

High Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Liaquat Ali	1,472
	Liberal Democrats	Johar Khan	1,468
	Liberal Democrats	James O'Rourke	1,453
	Liberal Democrats	Dave Raval	1,372
	Labour	Diana Murray	1,349
	Labour	Narinder Matharoo	1,224
	Green	Denethor House	604
	Conservative	Edward Stacey	309
	Conservative	John Moss	269
	Conservative	Rachel Wedderburn	268
	Socialist Alternative	Claire Buddle	245
Turnout				43.1%
	Labour hold
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour

Higham Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Meiszner	1,303
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Woollcott	1,271
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Smith	1,188
	Labour	Karen Bellamy	1,031
	Labour	Marcia Douet	883
	Labour	Peter Woodrow	859
	Green	Liam Kerr	327
	Conservative	Jemma Hemsted	309
	Conservative	Ayhan Kizil	258
	Conservative	Gerald King	214
Turnout				34.7%
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold

Hoe Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Naz Sarkar	1,351
	Labour	Saima Mahmud	1,314
	Labour	Eric Sizer	1,286
	Green	Stephen Lambert	785
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Tidmarsh	605
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Pond	592
	Conservative	Sophia Khan	530
	Conservative	Tara Draper-Stumm	475
	Conservative	Timothy Croot	469
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Tidmarsh	399
Turnout				34.7%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Larkswood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Buckmaster	1,653
	Conservative	John Walter	1,651
	Conservative	Eric Williams	1,545
	Labour	Carolyn Brown	476
	Labour	Anne Garrett	465
	Labour	John Brown	461
	Liberal Democrats	Cynthia Wenden	358
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Woolnough	345
	Green	Bridget Kerr	294
	Liberal Democrats	Khizar Khan-Lodhi	290
	UKIP	Robert Brock	270
Turnout				34.5%
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Lea Bridge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Masood Ahmad	1,375
	Labour	Elizabeth Davies	1,327
	Labour	Afzal Akram	1,240
	Liberal Democrats	Nasar Malik	517
	Liberal Democrats	Maureen Lake	509
	Liberal Democrats	Frederick Lake	471
	Conservative	Barbara Miller	451
	Green	Elen Miles	429
	Conservative	Mahmood Noman	360
	Conservative	Ilkay Halabi	320
Turnout				27.1%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Leyton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Naheed Qureshi	1,443
	Labour	Miranda Grell	1,427
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Sullivan	1,424
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Smith	1,399
	Labour	Simon Wright	1,245
	Labour	Nicholas Russell	1,242
	Green	Helen Griffith	253
	Conservative	Paul Braham	216
	Conservative	Anne Pryor	176
	Conservative	Colette Gosling	167
Turnout				37.6%
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats
	Liberal Democrats hold

Leytonstone

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Marie Pye	1,431
	Labour	Clyde Loakes	1,352
	Labour	Jenny Gray	1,274
	Liberal Democrats	Nazir Butt	811
	Liberal Democrats	Mahmood Faiz	802
	Liberal Democrats	Marie Valery	710
	Green	Mark Dawes	594
	Conservative	Helen Johnson	389
	Respect	Peter Ashan	387
	Respect	Caroline Coleman	384
	Conservative	Raymond Luker	370
	Conservative	Roderick Milroy	338
Turnout				38.8%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Markhouse

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Margaret Broadley	1,227
	Labour	Asim Mahmood	1,199
	Labour	Mohammad Asghar	1,174
	Liberal Democrats	Javed Azam	740
	Liberal Democrats	Munir Hussain	687
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Blewett	686
	Green	Judith Stubbings	570
	Respect	Mahtab Aziz	533
	Respect	Carole Vincent	471
	Conservative	Roger Hemsted	442
	Conservative	Bilal Mahmood	351
	Conservative	Eylem Kizil	336
Turnout				36.3%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Gover	1,710
	Conservative	Alan Siggers	1,638
	Conservative	Laurance Wedderburn	1,539
	Liberal Democrats	Henry Boyle	608
	Labour	Sivakumar Chelliah	546
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Malik	540
	Labour	Aktar Beg	526
	Liberal Democrats	Shahnaz Rashid	476
	Labour	Crispin St Hill	457
Turnout				37.1%
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

William Morris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Geraldine Reardon	1,421
	Labour	Adam Gladstone	1,409
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Wheatley	1,288
	Labour	Khevyn Limbajee	1,253
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Diwan	1,217
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Jones	1,144
	Green	Alexandra Rowe	496
	Conservative	Emily Garrett	322
	Conservative	Ian Drury	319
	Conservative	Tim James	293
Turnout				40.4%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour

Wood Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Angela Bean	1,471
	Labour	Peter Barnett	1,383
	Labour	Richard Sweden	1,289
	Conservative	Laura McManus-Andrea	999
	Conservative	Halil Halabi	953
	Conservative	Aleksander Mazalon	926
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hatton	671
	Liberal Democrats	Mazhar Iqbal	593
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Khan	558
	Green	Christine Olende	557
Turnout				40.2%
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

References

1. "WALTHAM FOREST: Council leader holds on to power".
2. "The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006, Schedule Part 1". Legislation.gov.uk. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
3. "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
4. "Election Results". London Councils. 8 May 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.^{[ permanent dead link ]}