2007 Ashford Borough Council election

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Map of the results of the 2007 Ashford council election.

Elections to Ashford Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party held on to overall control of the council. [1] [2] [3]

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Election result

Ashford Local Election Result 2007
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 2841+365.151.415,624+3.7%
  Liberal Democrats 830+318.627.18,244+7.4%
  Ashford Ind. 427-59.3133,945-3.9%
  Labour 202-24.76.31,909-6.2%
  Independent 110+12.31.1348-0.2%
  Green 000001.2355-0.4%

2 Conservatives were unopposed.

Ward results

Aylesford Green
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Brian Norris20940.3+20.8
Ashford Ind. Jim Gower19938.4+4.9
Conservative James Holtum11021.2+10.8
Majority101.9
Turnout 51828.2+1.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
Beaver (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Brendan Naughton554
Labour Allen Wells545
Conservative Jenny Wedgbury377
Conservative James Barrow369
Liberal Democrats Jill Norris184
Liberal Democrats Gwendoline Thornton175
Turnout 2,20428.7+4.4
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Biddenden
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Neil Bell61574.0−3.5
Liberal Democrats Paddy Platt21626.0+3.5
Majority39948.0−7.0
Turnout 83142.7+8.5
Conservative hold Swing
Bockhanger
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Claughton39162.1+2.3
Labour Shafi Khan14623.2−17.0
Liberal Democrats Josephine Took9314.8+14.8
Majority24538.9+19.3
Turnout 63035.4+3.2
Conservative hold Swing
Boughton Aluph & Eastwell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Rita Hawes51167.9−3.7
Conservative Michael Lloyd24232.1+3.7
Majority26935.8−7.4
Turnout 75335.5+5.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Bybrook
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Marlon Martin41154.6−8.2
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Adby34245.4+45.4
Majority699.2−16.4
Turnout 75339.7+8.1
Conservative hold Swing
Charing
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gerry Clarkson56473.1+5.7
Liberal Democrats George Whyte20826.9−5.7
Majority35646.2+11.4
Turnout 77240.0+16.6
Conservative hold Swing
Downs North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jane Marriott51159.9−19.2
Green Jan Cormack24028.1+28.1
Liberal Democrats Leonard Micklewight10212.0−8.9
Majority27131.8−26.4
Turnout 85345.4+5.8
Conservative hold Swing
Downs West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Neil Wallace47067.0+10.1
Liberal Democrats John Hawes15221.7−11.7
Labour Chris Twydell7911.3+1.6
Majority31855.3+31.8
Turnout 70138.8+0.6
Conservative hold Swing
Godinton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Feacey798
Conservative Bernard Heyes753
Liberal Democrats Patricia Packham340
Labour Arthur Young201
Liberal Democrats Paul Taig200
Turnout 2,29233.1+4.5
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Great Chart with Singleton North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jessamy Blanford34748.5+12.6
Ashford Ind. Ian McClintock17224.0−32.5
Liberal Democrats Christopher Atkins12317.2+9.6
Labour Katherine Manning7410.3+10.3
Majority17524.5+3.9
Turnout 71633.0−7.4
Conservative gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
Highfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Susan Heaton29040.6+14.1
Conservative Steven Davis27738.7+12.4
Ashford Ind. Ieda Hogarth14820.7−26.5
Majority131.9
Turnout 71536.4+3.7
Liberal Democrats gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
Isle of Oxney
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Burgess72277.7+11.0
Liberal Democrats Bob Rawlings20722.3+1.2
Majority51555.4+9.8
Turnout 92945.5+2.0
Conservative hold Swing
Kennington
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Kempuncontested
Conservative hold Swing
Little Burton Farm
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Norman Ayres53573.5+6.3
Liberal Democrats Anthony Hardwick19326.5+6.9
Majority34247.0−0.6
Turnout 72837.0+4.0
Conservative hold Swing
Norman
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Bradberry22838.6+9.2
Ashford Ind. Melvyn Elliff17930.3−5.4
Conservative Janet Rymer-Jones10918.5+7.0
Independent Abbie Burt7412.5+12.5
Majority498.3+2.0
Turnout 59030.4−1.0
Liberal Democrats gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
North Willesborough (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats George Koowaree897
Liberal Democrats Bob Davidson846
Conservative Alan Hutchinson401
Conservative Josephine Masters367
Ashford Ind. Stephen Horn207
Turnout 2,71838.4+2.0
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Park Farm North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tina Heyes46366.0+40.2
Liberal Democrats Ruth Kirby13419.1+12.0
Labour Harriet Yeo 10515.0+15.0
Majority32946.9
Turnout 70230.2+3.0
Conservative gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
Park Farm South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jim Wedgbury37181.0+19.2
Labour Angharad Yeo4810.5+10.5
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Fawcett398.5+8.5
Majority32370.5+46.9
Turnout 45830.0+2.1
Conservative hold Swing
Rolvenden & Tenterden West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jill Hutchinson76581.6+4.6
Liberal Democrats Terrence Brown17218.4+5.2
Majority59363.2−0.6
Turnout 93748.6−15.2
Conservative hold Swing
Saxon Shore (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Wood1,139
Conservative Richard Honey1,137
Liberal Democrats Stuart Dove506
Liberal Democrats Anne Baxter486
Turnout 3,26841.3−2.3
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Singleton South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Amanda Hodgkinson33547.0+11.6
Liberal Democrats Chris Took20328.5+28.5
Ashford Ind. Carol Brunger9313.0−25.6
Labour Andrew Pharoah8211.5−14.6
Majority13218.5
Turnout 71336.6+9.3
Conservative gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
South Willesborough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent David Smith27443.8+43.8
Liberal Democrats Ian Smith13822.1+0.1
Conservative Miranda Kelly10917.4+8.0
Ashford Ind. Malcolm Eke10416.6−52.0
Majority13621.7
Turnout 62527.2−3.6
Independent gain from Ashford Ind. Swing
St Michaels
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Link54375.0−5.4
Liberal Democrats Patricia Rickwood18125.0+5.4
Majority46250.0−10.8
Turnout 72438.2+3.6
Conservative hold Swing
Stanhope
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ashford Ind. Palma Laughton24568.2+68.2
Conservative Robert Ackfield5715.9+1.8
Liberal Democrats Gill Stone5715.9−11.5
Majority18852.3
Turnout 35920.3+1.7
Ashford Ind. gain from Labour Swing
Stour (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Howard597
Conservative Matthew French573
Labour Les Lawrie413
Labour Chris Clark344
Liberal Democrats Steve Smith340
Liberal Democrats Kevin Rochester278
Turnout 2,63535.8+5.6
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Tenterden North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Clokie52869.1+2.2
Liberal Democrats Barry Wright23630.9−2.2
Majority29238.2+4.4
Turnout 76443.7+5.0
Conservative hold Swing
Tenterden South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Goddard43359.2−6.9
Liberal Democrats John Miller29940.8+20.9
Majority13418.4−27.8
Turnout 73240.1+5.1
Conservative hold Swing
Victoria (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Robert Packham529
Liberal Democrats Robert Cowley522
Conservative Felicitie Sykes218
Conservative Irene Hitchings217
Ashford Ind. Terry Stock215
Ashford Ind. Tony Serretiello158
Labour Preeti Farooki109
Turnout 1,96830.4+4.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Washford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ashford Ind. John Holland26038.6+4.1
Conservative Stephen Bates24536.4+3.0
Labour Perry Calvert9814.5−17.6
Liberal Democrats Shaun Chamberlain7110.5+10.5
Majority152.2+1.1
Turnout 67430.1+2.6
Ashford Ind. hold Swing
Weald Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Taylor950
Conservative Clair Bell891
Ashford Ind. Keith Brannan534
Liberal Democrats Ann Murray371
Liberal Democrats Jon Heuch224
Turnout 2,97042.8+3.1
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Weald East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Bartlettuncontested
Conservative hold Swing
Weald North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hugh Ellison66371.9+13.9
Liberal Democrats Clare Hardwick14415.6−8.6
Green Hilary Jones11512.5+12.5
Majority51956.3+22.5
Turnout 92260.1+10.5
Conservative hold Swing
Weald South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ashford Ind. Peter Davison998
Conservative Aline Hicks991
Conservative Neil Shorter955
Liberal Democrats Rosemary Davies449
Turnout 3,39346.1+0.9
Ashford Ind. hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Wye
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ashford Ind. Jack Woodford58965.1+65.1
Conservative Ian Cooling27630.5−29.8
Liberal Democrats David Berrie404.4−2.9
Majority31334.6
Turnout 90549.9+6.3
Ashford Ind. gain from Conservative Swing

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