2007 Kennet District Council election

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2007 Kennet District Council election
 20033 May 2007 (2007-05-03)

All 43 seats to Kennet District Council
22 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Con
Ind
UKIP
Party Conservative Independent UKIP
Last election26 seats, 40.9%8 seats, 17.8%1 seat, 1.7%
Seats won3352
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 7Decrease2.svg 3Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote11,8903,3653,148
Percentage47.3%13.4%12.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg 6.4%Decrease2.svg 4.4%Increase2.svg 10.8%

 Fourth partyFifth party
 
DG
LD
Party Devizes Guardians Liberal Democrats
Last election3 seats, 7.6%3 seats, 17.0%
Seats won21
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 2
Popular vote1,3913,958
Percentage5.5%15.7%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.1%Decrease2.svg 1.3%

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

Conservative

Elections to Kennet District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election, and the Conservatives comfortably retained control, winning thirty-three of the forty-three seats available. [1]

Contents

This was the last election of district councilors to take place in Kennet. The following year, a government review of local government determined that the four district councils of Wiltshire were to be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority with effect from 1 April 2009, when Kennet would be abolished and its councilors ' term of office would end two years early.

Elections to the new unitary authority, Wiltshire Council, took place in June 2009.

Election result

Kennet District Council elections, 2007 [1]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 3382+676.747.311,890
  Liberal Democrats 102–22.315.73,958
  Independent 514–311.613.43,365
  UKIP 210+14.712.53,148
  Devizes Guardians 201–14.75.51,391
  Labour 001–105.51,388

Ward results

Aldbourne

Aldbourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher Humphries 344 47.9
Independent Michael Andrew Edmonds31143.3
Labour Frank Jefferies638.8
Majority33
Turnout 51.2
Conservative hold Swing

All Cannings

All Cannings
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tony Molland 461 70.0
Liberal Democrats Kate Walling19830.0
Majority263
Turnout 42.8
Conservative hold Swing

Bedwyn

Bedwyn
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stella Marion Zweck 364 57.4
Liberal Democrats David John Walker27042.6
Majority94
Turnout 44.0
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Bishops Cannings

Bishops Cannings
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tony Adamson 270 47.9
Independent Eric Alan Clark20235.8
Liberal Democrats Caroline Waters7012.4
Labour Colin Robert Hopgood223.9
Majority68
Turnout 41.6
Conservative hold Swing

Bromham & Rowde

Bromham & Rowde (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Janet Mary Giles 734
Conservative Philip Alfred Brown 660
Liberal Democrats Ralph Andre Frederick Elia332
Majority328
Turnout 40.2
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Burbage

Burbage
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stuart John Kennedy Wheeler 407 69.5
Liberal Democrats Jacqueline Watson17930.5
Majority228
Turnout 42.8
Conservative hold Swing

Cheverell

Cheverell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Lionel Grundy 412 61.5
UKIP Christine Ann Cotton25838.5
Majority154
Turnout 49.4
Conservative hold Swing

Collingbourne

Collingbourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Charles Howard 332 58.6
Independent James Robinson19935.1
Liberal Democrats Michael Magee366.3
Majority133
Turnout 45.3
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Devizes East

Devizes East (3 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Devizes Guardians Tony Duck 706
Conservative Peter Evans 563
Conservative Julian Beinhorn 508
Labour Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor450
Conservative Alistair Michael John Gagen324
Labour Patricia Baxter282
Labour Noel Woolrych269
Liberal Democrats Bridget Selwyn260
UKIP John Charles Stott148
Majority58
Turnout 34.2
Devizes Guardians hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Devizes North

Devizes North (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paula Mary Winchcombe 351
Conservative Sue Evans 298
Devizes Guardians Nigel Denys Carter 245
Liberal Democrats Don Jones211
Labour Sue Buxton144
Independent Ian Richard Porter Hopkins142
UKIP Ernie Giles136
Labour Tim Price123
UKIP John Maurice Ryan75
Majority53
Turnout 37.3
Conservative gain from Devizes Guardians Swing

Devizes South

Devizes South (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ray Parsons 447
Devizes Guardians Jeff Ody 440
Conservative Charles Stuart Winchcombe429
Labour Ray Taylor325
Liberal Democrats Chris Callow207
Labour Jim Thorpe207
Majority11
Turnout 44.6
Conservative hold Swing
Devizes Guardians hold Swing

Ludgershall

Ludgershall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ken Beard 405
Conservative Chris Williams 385
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Holgate154
UKIP Tony Still143
UKIP Deborah Anne Holmes140
Majority231
Turnout 31.3
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Marlborough East

Marlborough East (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Edwina Jean Fogg 481
Liberal Democrats Peggy Ann Dow 436
Conservative Marian Hannaford-Dobson405
Conservative Paul Gregory Horsnall285
Liberal Democrats John Alexander Kirk Wilson235
UKIP Mike Bird103
Majority31
Turnout 35.5
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Marlborough West

Marlborough West (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Nicholas Fogg 770
Conservative Stewart Dobson 618
Liberal Democrats Bryan Derek Castle364
Conservative Stan Radnedge359
Independent Anthony Richard Adrian Sycamore348
Liberal Democrats Richard John Pitts328
Majority254
Turnout 47.2
Independent hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Milton Lilbourne

Milton Lilbourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative James Leonard Douglas Caldwell 321 56.7
Independent John Baxendale Cooke18833.2
UKIP Leonard Sydney Drew5710.1
Majority133
Conservative hold Swing

Netheravon

Netheravon
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Alan Stephen Wood 385 52.5
Conservative Ian Charles Duke Blair-Pilling34947.5
Majority36
Turnout 49.3
UKIP hold Swing

Ogbourne

Ogbourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Tudor Bryn Hunter 345 61.9
Liberal Democrats Graham Francis21238.1
Majority133
Turnout 41.3
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Pewsey

Pewsey (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Anne Hayhoe unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative Jerry Kunkler unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Pewsey Vale

Pewsey Vale
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Judith Triggs 417 70.2
Liberal Democrats David Leighton17729.8
Majority230
Turnout 42.3
Conservative hold Swing

Potterne

Potterne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Clyde Patrick George Hoddinott 316 65.3
Liberal Democrats Alan Charles Rankin16834.7
Majority148
Turnout 39.2
Independent hold Swing

Ramsbury

Ramsbury (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brian John Twigger 771
Independent Susan Mary Findlay 756
UKIP Frank Baydon Bovingdon201
Majority555
Turnout 41.5
Conservative hold Swing
Independent hold Swing

Roundway

Roundway (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoff Brewer 621
Conservative Laura Evelyn Mayes 589
Liberal Democrats Katherine Callow420
Liberal Democrats Mark Fell343
Labour Christine Jenkins135
Majority169
Turnout 36.6
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

Seend

Seend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Lake 412 79.8
UKIP Bruce Wesley Cotton10420.2
Majority308
Turnout 44.4
Conservative hold Swing

Shalbourne

Shalbourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Newton Veasey 449 62.1
Liberal Democrats Derek Evans16322.5
UKIP Lincoln Vincent Williams11115.4
Majority286
Turnout 47.2
Conservative hold Swing

The Lavingtons

The Lavingtons (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Elliott Gamble 550
Conservative Jerry Willmott 480
UKIP Mike Bridgeman339
UKIP Wendy Watkiss276
Labour Sharon Charity249
Majority141
Turnout 41.0
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Tidworth, Perham Down and Ludgershall South

Tidworth, Perham Down & Ludgershall South (3 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Robert Connolly 761
UKIP Steven Melville Dagger 692
Conservative Stephen John Miles 650
Conservative Dottie Halfon359
Majority291
Turnout 23.0
Conservative hold Swing
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Upavon

Upavon
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dominic Campbell 366 60.3
UKIP Brian Doherty14023.1
Liberal Democrats Phyllida Holgate10116.6
Majority226
Conservative hold Swing

Urchfont

Urchfont
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jonathon Seed 415 55.6
UKIP Steve Hamilton33144.4
Majority84
Turnout 52.4
Conservative hold Swing

West Selkley

West Selkley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gretchen Rawlins unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing

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References

  1. 1 2 Kennet District Council elections, 2007 Archived 5 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine at wiltshire.gov.uk, accessed 12 February 2014