2007 Slough Borough Council election

Elections to the Borough Council in Slough, England, were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election. This was the 122nd Slough general local authority election (including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds) since Slough became a local government unit in 1863.

The 2007 election was to fill fourteen seats for the 2007–2011 term. The remaining twenty-seven Slough Councillors continued in office. The fourteen seats were previously contested in the whole Council election of 2004 following the redrawing of the ward boundaries in the Borough.

In the last election in 2006, the Labour Party gained three seats, the Conservative Party lost two and the Liberal Democrats lost one. This result was slightly unusual compared with the other UK local elections on the same day in which the Conservative Party generally gained seats at the expense of the Labour Party.

The counter cyclical changes continued in the 2007 election. The Labour Party gained another seat from the Conservatives and one from the Liberal Democrats. However the Conservative Party unseated the longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons. Labour finished the count with a net gain of one, which leaves Slough in no overall control. The existing coalition administration (broadly supported by all Councillors not in the Labour group) is likely to continue in office for the next year.

The turnout for the whole borough, as announced at the count on 4 May 2007, was 35.32% of the registered electors.

The result in the Central ward was overturned, on 18 March 2008, at the hearing of an election petition (see the Central ward sub-section below for more details). This was the first time since the nineteenth century that a Slough local election result was overturned by the courts.

Recent political history of Slough

Slough has an unusual balance of political forces. The council has, since 2004, had no party in overall control. A coalition of the Britwellian, Independent, Liberal and Liberal Democrat Group (BILLD) and the Conservative Group form the current administration, with the Labour Group in opposition. There was (in April 2007) one non-Group affiliated member, an Independent Conservative (who was elected in 2004 as an official Conservative and has been nominated for re-election in 2007 as an official candidate).

The BILLD Group is itself a local coalition, containing members from six parties or groups of independents. The organisations represented in the group before the election are the Slough Liberal Democrats, the Slough Liberals, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and a representative or representatives from three groups of independents active in one ward each (the Independent Britwellian Residents in Britwell, Independent Langley Residents in Langley St Mary's and Independents in Wexham Lea wards). The existing members of the Group (excluding UKIP) have an electoral pact for the current election, continuing electoral arrangements which started with the 2001 Slough Council election. The Independent Langley Residents Councillor joined The Slough Party, just before the 2007 election.

A number of Independents and others, not affiliated to BILLD, contested the 2007 election.

During the 2006–2007 term the Conservative Party gained one seat from Independent Langley Residents in a by-election. The Independent Conservative councillor for Upton (Balwinder Singh Dhillon) received the official Conservative nomination for 2007, thus giving the Tories a notional gain. In April 2007, the composition of the 41 member council was:-

• Labour 18
• BILLD 16 (Slough Liberal Democrats 5, Slough Liberals 3, (Wexham Lea) Independents 3, Independent Britwellian Residents 3, Independent Langley Residents 1, United Kingdom Independence Party 1)
• Conservative 7

In the 2007 election 50 candidates were nominated for the 14 seats up for election. One Independent candidate (Dominic Ashford in Wexham Lea) was nominated but withdrew before the poll. The list below is broken down by Party or group of Independents, with a residual category of Others who have no party label or are standing as Independents who are not affiliated to BILLD. The Independent Langley Residents have not nominated an official BILLD candidate in their ward, but their incumbent Councillor has proposed the nominee of The Slough Party in the area who would presumably join the BILLD Group if elected.

• Labour 14
• Conservative 12 (not contesting Foxborough or Wexham Lea wards)
• BILLD 12 (Slough Liberal Democrats 9, Independent 1, Independent Britwellian Residents 1, Slough Liberals 1) (not contesting Colnbrook with Poyle and Langley St Mary's wards)
• The Slough Party (a new local political party) 5
• Others 7 (Independent 4 (including the one who withdrew); no party label 3)

Summary of Council composition 2006–2007

Before the elections held on 3 May 2007, the composition of Slough Borough Council was as follows (the Conservatives made two gains from Others compared with the 2006 election, as a result of the Langley St Mary's by-election of 2006 and the Independent Conservative councillor from Upton being nominated as an official Conservative candidate):

Composition Table (as of April 2007)
Party		Group Leader	Seats 06	% Seats	Change (on 2006)	Seats 07
	Labour	Robert Anderson	18	43.90	0	18
	Other parties	Richard Stokes	13	31.71	-2	11
	Conservative	Dexter Smith	5	12.20	+2	7
	Liberal Democrats	John Edwards	5	12.20	0	5
Total Seats			41

No overall Majority

Note: The Others category in this table includes all non-Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Councillors. Richard Stokes (Liberal-Haymill) is the BILLD Group Leader, which group includes the Liberal Democrats and all but one of the Others category Councillors in 2006. The Independent Conservative councillor was not a member of any group in 2006–07, until he was nominated as an official Conservative for the 2007 election.

List of Councillors whose terms expired in 2007

Ward	Party	Elected	Incumbent	Cand.?	Re-elected?
Baylis & Stoke	Liberal Democrats	2004	Mushtaq Ahmed Hayat *	No	N/A
Britwell	Ind. Britwellian Res.	2002	Patrick Shine *	Yes	Yes
Central	Labour	1999	Lydia Emelda Simmons (a)	Yes	No
Chalvey	Labour	2001	Raja Mohammed Zarait	Yes	Yes
Cippenham Green	Labour	2004	Michael John Holledge	No	N/A
Cippenham Meadows	Labour	2001	Sat Pal Singh Parmar (b)	Yes	Yes
Colnbrook with Poyle	Conservative	1997	Steve Burkmar	Yes	No
Farnham	Labour	2001	Joginder Singh Bal	Yes	Yes
Foxborough	Liberal Democrats	2004	Sonja Anne Jenkins *	Yes	Yes
Haymill	Liberal	1990	David John Munkley *	Yes	Yes
Kedermister	Labour	1988	Mewa Singh Mann	Yes	Yes
Langley St Mary's	Conservative	2006	Diana Victoria Coad	Yes	Yes
Upton	Conservative	2004	Balwinder Singh Dhillon (c)	Yes	Yes
Wexham Lea	Independent	2002	David MacIsaac *	Yes	Yes

• * Member of the BILLD Group
• Notes:
• (a) Simmons previously served as a Councillor 1979–1994.
• (b) Parmar previously served as a Councillor 1995–2000.
• (c) Dhillon was elected as an official Conservative candidate in 2004, but served as an Independent Conservative Councillor from 2004 to 2007. He was re-elected as an official Conservative in 2007.

Election result summary

Slough Borough Council Election Result 2007 (third of total seats)

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	7 (19)	+2	-1	+1	50.00	43.45	12,627	+2.31
	Conservative	3 (7)	+1	-1	0	21.43	28.90	8,398	+1.98
	Liberal Democrats	1 (4)	0	-1	-1	7.14	12.79	3,718	-0.94
	Others	3 (11)	0	0	0	21.43	14.86	4,318	-3.35

• Note: The figures in brackets, in the seats column, are for the overall Councillors after the election.

Ward notes and 2007 results

Slough was first warded in 1930. The town was re-warded 1950, 1983 and 2004.

Britwell and Wexham Court were added to Slough in 1973 (when the two new wards and eleven existing wards were allocated between two and nine seats, instead of the three per ward which had existed previously).

Colnbrook & Poyle was added to Slough in 1995 and became a fourteenth ward, with one member 1995–1996 and two from 1997.

For 2004 Slough Council election the Borough was re-warded. There were still fourteen wards, but only Colnbrook with Poyle (formerly Colnbrook & Poyle) and Haymill had unchanged boundaries.

For brief notes on the individual wards used since 2004, see the individual ward sections below.

The turnout box figures given below include a number of spoilt ballots – see the official results on the Slough Borough Council website for further details.

As the 2004 Slough Council election was for the whole Council, with each ward returning multiple Councillors, no plus or minus percentages are given for individual candidates or majorities nor a swing figure.

Baylis & Stoke

Baylis & Stoke (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the west of Central ward and to the east of Haymill. It broadly combined the former Baylis and Stoke wards. Baylis was named after Baylis House and the estate of Baylis, which from the sixteenth century was a sub-division of the parish of Stoke Poges. Stoke ward was named after the parish, southern parts of which were included in Slough, as part of the 1900 and 1930–1931 extensions of the district boundaries. The Liberal Democrats, (building on the Liberal tradition of the Liberal-Labour marginal Stoke ward) overcame the Labour leanings of the former Baylis ward, to win all three seats in 2004. In 2006 and 2007, with new Liberal Democrat candidates, two of the seats were lost to Labour.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Baylis & Stoke

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Azhar Qureshi	1,189	42.63	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Shakeel Ashraf *	838	30.05	N/A
	Conservative	Surinder Singh Jabble	481	17.25	N/A
	Respect	Ghazi Haider Khan	202	7.24	N/A
	Slough Independents	Nicholas Trevredy Hoath	79	2.83	N/A
Majority			351	12.59	N/A
Turnout			2,805	42.45	-0.87
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	N/A

• Votes and turnout percentage include 16 spoilt ballot papers. The registered electorate, estimated from the above vote totals and turnout announced at the count, is 6,608. The turnout, based on valid votes only, is therefore 42.21%.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Baylis & Stoke

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fiza Ahmed Matloob	1,359	52.15	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Sarfraz Khan *	965	37.03	N/A
	Conservative	Dobson Chaggar	282	10.82	N/A
Majority			394	15.12	N/A
Turnout			2,624	37.83	-3.62
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	N/A

• Votes and percentage turnout include 18 spoilt ballot papers. The registered electorate, estimated from the above vote totals and turnout announced at the count, is 6,936. The turnout, based on valid votes only, is therefore 37.57%.

Britwell

Britwell (born 1973) is a three-member ward in the north-west of the Borough. It includes Britwell parish, although since 1983 some unparished territory was added. Britwell elected some Liberal Councillors in the 1980s but was otherwise safely Labour until 2000. Since then Britwellian and Independent Britwellian Residents Councillors have become increasingly successful. In 1997 Labour won all three seats, but in 2004 the Residents took the three seats. Patl Janik, the incumbent IBR Councillor, stood for re-election in 2006 as a Slough Independents candidate in opposition to a new IBR nominee, who was elected. The IBR councillor up for election in 2007 was re-elected.

The 2007 Borough election is being held at the same time as the vote to fill the thirteen seats on Britwell Parish Council. The Independent Britwellian Residents nominated eleven candidates (including their three Borough Councillors), whereas The Slough Party nominated four (including the Borough Council candidate). Eleven IBR and two TSP parish councillors were elected. The Labour Party, which before the rise of the IBR had dominated the Parish Council, has not nominated any candidates.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Britwell

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Britwellian	John Joseph Finn *	672	41.58	N/A
	Labour	Patricia Anne O'Brien	372	23.02	N/A
	Slough Independents	Paul Janik +	363	22.46	N/A
	Conservative	Timothy Charles Williams	176	10.89	N/A
	Independent	Christopher Gary Sliski	33	2.04	N/A
Majority			300	18.56	N/A
Turnout			1,623	29.55	-1.43
	Britwellian hold		Swing	N/A

• Note: The incumbent Independent Britwellian Residents Councillor was Paul Janik, who stood for re-election as a Slough Independents candidate against a new IBR nominee. The result is categorised as an IBR hold.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Britwell

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Britwellian	Patrick Shine *+	525	34.98	N/A
	Labour	Olly Isernia	426	28.38	N/A
	The Slough Party	Alan Tilbury	340	22.65	N/A
	Conservative	Timothy Charles Williams	210	13.99	N/A
Majority			99	6.60	N/A
Turnout				27.31
	Britwellian hold		Swing	N/A

• 10 spoilt ballots

Central

Central (1930–1950 and 1983–) has had different boundaries during the three of the four Slough redistributions in which it has existed (it was divided between Central North and Central South wards 1950–1983), but it has always been a three-member ward with Wexham to the north, Langley to the east, Upton to the south, Chalvey to the south-west and Baylis & Stoke to the west. It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s. It was a safe Labour ward under the 1983 boundaries, but in 2004 the Conservatives won two of the three seats of the revised ward. In 2006 there was a straight fight between the Conservative incumbent and a Labour challenger, which the Labour candidate won. It is noticeable that he was the only Councillor elected in 2006 with more than 50% of the votes cast in his ward.

In 2007, after a closely contested election, the Conservatives ousted the incumbent Labour councillor. An election petition was subsequently presented. At a hearing of the High Court held in Slough Town Hall on 18 March 2008, the 2007 result was declared void because of bogus electoral registrations and postal votes. ^{[1] [2]}

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shafiq Ahmed Chaudhry	1,656	55.93	N/A
	Conservative	Sumander Khan +	1,305	44.07	N/A
Majority			351	11.85	N/A
Turnout			3,007	44.33	+0.27
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eshaq Khan	1,439	47.51	N/A
	Labour	Lydia Emelda Simmons +	1,319	43.55	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Gary James Griffin *	187	6.17	N/A
	Non Partisan	Sukh Sokhal	51	51	N/A
	The Slough Party	Ida Zaidi	33	33	N/A
Majority			120	3.96	N/A
Turnout				42.43
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	N/A

• 15 spoilt ballots

Chalvey

Chalvey (born 1930), (in the south of the Borough) is a three-member ward. It was part of the ancient parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey and was an original ward of Slough. The ward has existed in some form continuously since the district was first warded in 1930. Before 1970 Chalvey was Conservative but since then it has been safely Labour. The Liberal Democrats came within ten votes of winning the last seat in the ward in 2004. Labour retained the seat with an increased majority in 2006, so they still hold all three seats. In 2007 the Conservatives took over as runners up to Labour.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Chalvey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammed Rasib	943	48.26	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Gulshan Nasreen Ali *	680	34.80	N/A
	Conservative	Carol Ann Stanmore	331	16.94	N/A
Majority			263	13.46	N/A
Turnout			1,971	35.65	+3.41
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Chalvey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Raja Mohammed Zarait +	1,081	50.28	N/A
	Conservative	Mohammed Basharat	805	37.44	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Peter Buchanan *	198	9.21	N/A
	Non Partisan	Suk Dhillon	35	1.63	N/A
	The Slough Party	Doris Julia Grabka	31	1.44	N/A
Majority			276	12.84	N/A
Turnout				37.11
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• 16 spoilt ballot papers

Cippenham Green

Cippenham Green (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the western part of the previous ward, incorporates the old Cippenham village area (now a suburb of Slough). This ward includes the village green, which it is named after. In 2004 it elected 1 Conservative (since defected to UKIP) and 2 Labour Councillors. Labour councillors were re-elected in 2006 and 2007.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Cippenham Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Charles Robert Swindlehurst +	1,089	48.88	N/A
	Conservative	Diana Victoria Dale-Gough	781	35.05	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Nasdeem Anwar Rana *	217	9.74	N/A
	Independent	Dominic James Ashford	122	5.48	N/A
	Slough Independents	Sukhdev Singh Sohal	19	0.85	N/A
Majority			308	13.82	N/A
Turnout			2,236	39.02	+0.26
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Cippenham Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Josephine O'Connor	1,011	51.61	N/A
	Conservative	Maurice Arthur Stanmore	763	38.95	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Wisdom Methodius Da Costa *	185	9.44	N/A
Majority			248	12.66	N/A
Turnout				33.93
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• 8 spoilt ballot papers

Cippenham Meadows

Cippenham Meadows (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporating the Windsor Meadows development. This estate caused the large population growth in the area, since the 1983 redistribution of wards. Presumably these are the Meadows which the ward is named after. The ward elected 3 Labour Councillors in 2004. The Labour incumbents, up for election in 2006 and 2007, were re-elected.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Cippenham Meadows

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nimrit Chohan +	993	45.16	N/A
	Conservative	Adrian Hilton	737	33.52	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Atiq Akbar Sandhu *	469	21.33	N/A
Majority			256	11.64	N/A
Turnout			2,213	34.11	+0.16
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Cippenham Meadows

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sat Pal Singh Parmar +	1,120	55.92	N/A
	Conservative	Kevin Charles Pond	682	34.05	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Nadeem Anwar Rana *	201	10.03	N/A
Majority			438	21.87	N/A
Turnout				30.62
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• 15 spoilt ballot papers

Colnbrook with Poyle

Colnbrook & Poyle (1995–2004), Colnbrook with Poyle (born 2004) is a (since 1997) two-member ward in the furthest east part of the Borough between to the M4 motorway and Greater London. Labour elected some Councillors here, in 1995 and 1997 (1 seat), but by 2004 the ward was safely Conservative. There was no election in this ward in 2006.

In an unexpected result in 2007, the Conservative incumbent was ousted by a Labour candidate.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Colnbrook with Poyle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rakesh Pabbi	650	50.62	N/A
	Conservative	Steve Burkmar +	361	28.12	N/A
	The Slough Party	David Thomas Wood	273	21.26	N/A
Majority			289	22.51	N/A
Turnout				33.23	N/A
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

• 4 spoilt ballot papers

Farnham

Farnham (1930–1950 and 1983–) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough, to the south of Britwell and west of Haymill. It was named after Farnham Royal parish, the southern part of which was incorporated in Slough as part of the 1930–1931 boundary extension. This was an original Slough ward. It was split between Farnham North and Farnham South wards 1950–1983. This was a safe Labour Ward, in 2004 as before. Labour won in 2006, but may be vulnerable to a less fragmented opposition in future elections.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Farnham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sukhjit Kaur Dhaliwal +	935	40.56	N/A
	Ind. Farnham Res.	Amrik Singh Johal	612	26.55	N/A
	Conservative	Maurice Arthur Stanmore	438	19.00	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Abid Maqbool Malik *	320	13.88	N/A
Majority			323	14.01	N/A
Turnout			2,319	38.18	-1.57
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Farnham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joginder Singh Bal +	1,034	51.52	N/A
	Conservative	Sumander Khan	640	31.89	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Josephine Mary Hanney *	333	16.59	N/A
Majority			394	19.63	N/A
Turnout				32.65
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• 6 spoilt ballot papers

Foxborough

Foxborough (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south-east Langley in the eastern part of the Borough. It is named after a 4-acre (16,000 m²) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809. This was the ward where the Liberal Democrats won their first election to Slough Borough Council in 2000 and the party held all three seats after the 2004 election. The Liberal Democrats retained their seats in 2006 and 2007.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Foxborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Clive Plimmer *+	854	43.75	N/A
	Labour	James Lawrence Walsh	715	36.63	N/A
	Conservative	Marion Edith Williams	321	16.44	N/A
	Green	Michelle Little	62	3.18	N/A
Majority			139	7.12	N/A
Turnout			1,957	40.02	+2.12
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Foxborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sonja Anne Jenkins *+	1,056	53.28	N/A
	Labour	James Lawrence Walsh	850	42.89	N/A
	Independent	Luggard Ogbebor	76	3.83	N/A
Majority			206	10.39	N/A
Turnout				38.97%
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	N/A

• 26 spoilt ballot papers

Haymill

Haymill (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough (to the east of Farnham ward and west of Baylis & Stoke), which was left unchanged by the 2004 redistribution. It is a safe Liberal ward having last elected a non-Liberal Councillor in 1984. The Liberal Councillors and activists, for this ward, did not join the Liberal Democrats in 1988. In 2006 and 2007 the Liberal Councillor up for election held their seats, so all three Councillors are still Liberals.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Haymill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Brian Graham Hewitt *+	755	40.22	N/A
	Conservative	Peter Dale-Gough	534	28.45	N/A
	Labour	Patricia Josephine O'Conner	489	26.05	N/A
	Independent	Marcus Roland Charles Kirby	99	5.27	N/A
Majority			221	11.77	N/A
Turnout			1,887	29.74	+1.87
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Haymill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David John Munkley *+	852	45.15	N/A
	Labour	Martin Frank Carter	581	30.79	N/A
	Conservative	Sehar Izzat Ali-Noor	379	20.08	N/A
	Independent	Daniel Wall	75	3.97	N/A
Majority			271	14.36	N/A
Turnout				29.48
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

• 9 spoilt ballot papers

Kedermister

Kedermister(sometimes locally pronounced Keddermeister) (1983–) is a three-member ward in south-west Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. The ward was named after Sir John Kedermister (or Kidderminster), who was Warden of Langley Park and founded some almshouses in Langley in 1617. It is a safe Labour ward and the party held its seats up for election in 2006 and 2007.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Kedermister

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christine Rita Small +	941	47.07	N/A
	Conservative	Peter Cruze	752	37.62	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Peter Buchanan * +	306	15.31	N/A
Majority			189	9.45	N/A
Turnout			2,016	35.23	-6.84
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• Note: Councillor Buchanan was the incumbent in Baylis and Stoke ward

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Kedermister

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mewa Singh Mann +	945	43.87	N/A
	Conservative	Wajinder Singh Chahal	864	40.11	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Thomas Hanney *	312	14.48	N/A
	Non Partisan	Raja Mohammed Attiq Khan	33	1.53	N/A
Majority			81	3.76	N/A
Turnout				36.92
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

• 4 spoilt ballot papers

Langley St Mary's

Langley St Mary's (born 1983) is a three-member ward in north Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. St Mary's is named after the church in Langley. This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward, but in 2004 the Independent Langley Residents won two seats and tied for the third (which the Conservative candidate won on a roll of dice, so he was credited with an additional vote). The Conservative Councillor increased his majority to seven in 2006 (over Labour, with ILR in third place), for the only Tory victory of the 2006 Slough election.

In a 2006 by-election the Conservative Party gained a seat from the Independent Langley Residents (with the Labour candidate in second place). This was the seat contested again in 2007. The Tories again won the seat.

Before the 2007 election the remaining ILR Councillor (Neil Arnold) joined The Slough Party and proposed its candidate for that election

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Langley St Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Ernest Cryer +	742	36.71	N/A
	Labour	Thomas William Dymock Kelly	735	36.37	N/A
	Ind. Langley Res.	Liam Bernard Meehan *	423	20.93	N/A
	Independent	Edward Mansel Jones	121	5.99	N/A
Majority			7	0.35	N/A
Turnout			2,025	38.46	-3.80
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Langley St Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diana Victoria Coad +	915	50.25	N/A
	The Slough Party	Peter Cruze	472	25.92	N/A
	Labour	Joan Jones	434	23.83	N/A
Majority			443	24.33	N/A
Turnout				33.67
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

• 2 spoilt ballot papers

Upton

Upton (born 1930), part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), is a ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930. It is a three-seat ward. In the early nineteenth century Upton was a village about a mile and a half south-west of the hamlet of Slough (see Central ward). This was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive. Labour won the ward for the first time ever in 1990. In 1997 Labour won two seats and the Conservatives one. At the 2004 election the Conservatives won all three seats, although one Councillor has since become an Independent Conservative. Labour gained a seat from the Tories in 2006.

The Independent Conservative Councillor received the official Conservative nomination for the 2007 election and was re-elected.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Upton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Balvinder Singh Bains	846	40.85	N/A
	Conservative	Kevin Charles Pond +	746	36.02	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Linda Edwards *	195	9.42	N/A
	Slough Independents	Balbir Kalsi	187	9.03	N/A
	Green	Alan Diarmid Hatch	97	4.68	N/A
Majority			100	4.83	N/A
Turnout			2,078	37.77	-7.09
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Upton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Balwinder Singh Dhillon +	1,058	48.31	N/A
	Labour	Rani Bains	761	34.75	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Edwards *	281	12.83	N/A
	Independent	Sarah-Ellen Wall	90	4.11	N/A
Majority			297	13.56	N/A
Turnout				39.62
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

• 5 spoilt ballot papers

Wexham Lea

Wexham Lea (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the north-east of Baylis & Stoke and the north of Central ward. It combines Wexham Court parish and an area known as Upton Lea. The ward was formerly safely Labour but is now securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004. The Mayor of Slough for 2005–2006 was re-elected in 2006; as was the 2006–2007 Mayor the following year.

Slough Borough Council elections, 2006: Wexham Lea

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mohammed Latif Khan *+	945	41.56	N/A
	Labour	Joan Jones	716	31.49	N/A
	Independent	Martin Joseph Blake	354	15.57	N/A
	Conservative	Mary Edith Collins	259	11.39	N/A
Majority			229	10.07	N/A
Turnout			2,291	37.22	-3.52
	Independent hold		Swing	N/A

Slough Borough Council elections, 2007: Wexham Lea

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David MacIsaac *+	1,432	57.56	N/A
	Labour	Mohammed Arif	1,056	42.44	N/A
Majority			376	15.11	N/A
Turnout				39.23
	Independent hold		Swing	N/A

• 17 spoilt ballot papers. Dominic James Ashford was nominated as an Independent candidate, but withdrew before the poll, claiming that he had drawn attention to Slough Town Football Club. There has been a local controversy as the ruling coalition has declined to spend public money on assisting the club to find a ground in Slough.
• Symbols: * BILLD Group candidate, + incumbent

Members of Slough Borough Council 2007–2008

Ward	Party	Elected	Term	Councillor
Baylis & Stoke	Liberal Democrats	2004	2008	Rashad Javaid Butt *
Baylis & Stoke	Labour	2007	2011	Fiza Ahmed Matloob
Baylis & Stoke	Labour	2006	2010	Azhar Qureshi
Britwell	Ind. Britwellian Res.	2002	2008	Sean Patrick Wright *
Britwell	Ind. Britwellian Res.	2002	2011	Patrick Shine *
Britwell	Ind. Britwellian Res.	2006	2010	John Joseph Finn *
Central	Conservative	2004	2008	Mohammed Aziz
Central	Conservative	2007	2011	Eshaq Khan
Central	Labour	2006	2010	Shafiq Ahmed Chaudhry
Chalvey	Labour	2002	2008	Pervez Choudhry
Chalvey	Labour	2001	2011	Raja Mohammad Zarait
Chalvey	Labour	2006	2010	Mohammed Rasib
Cippenham Green	UK Independence	1995	2008	William Geoffrey Howard * (a)
Cippenham Green	Labour	2007	2011	Patricia Josephine O'Connor
Cippenham Green	Labour	2002	2010	James Charles Robert Swindlehurst
Cippenham Meadows	Labour	2003	2008	May Dodds
Cippenham Meadows	Labour	2001	2011	Sat Pal Singh Parmar (b)
Cippenham Meadows	Labour	2004	2010	Nimrit Chohan
Colnbrook with Poyle	Conservative	2000	2008	Dexter Jerome Smith
Colnbrook with Poyle	Labour	2007	2011	Rakesh Pabbi
Farnham	Labour	1997	2008	Robert Anderson
Farnham	Labour	2001	2011	Joginder Singh Bal
Farnham	Labour	2002	2010	Sukhjit Kaur Dhaliwal
Foxborough	Liberal Democrats	2000	2008	John William Edwards *
Foxborough	Liberal Democrats	2004	2011	Sonja Anne Jenkins *
Foxborough	Liberal Democrats	2004	2010	Robert Clive Plimmer *
Haymill	Liberal	1987	2008	Richard Stanley Stokes * (c)
Haymill	Liberal	1990	2011	David John Munkley *
Haymill	Liberal	2004	2010	Brian Graham Hewitt *
Kedermister	Labour	2002	2008	Jagjit Singh Grewal
Kedermister	Labour	1988	2011	Mewa Singh Mann
Kedermister	Labour	2002	2010	Christine Rita Small
Langley St Mary's	Ind. Langley Res.	2004	2008	Neil James Arnold *
Langley St Mary's	Conservative	2006	2011	Diana Victoria Coad
Langley St Mary's	Conservative	2000	2010	Derek Ernest Cryer (d)
Upton	Conservative	1999	2008	Julia Thomson Long (e)
Upton	Conservative	2004	2011	Balwinder Singh Dhillon (f)
Upton	Labour	2006	2010	Balvinder Singh Bains (g)
Wexham Lea	Independent	2000	2008	Michael Anthony Haines * (h)
Wexham Lea	Independent	2002	2011	David Ian MacIsaac *
Wexham Lea	Independent	2004	2010	Mohammed Latif Khan * (i)

Notes:-

• * Member of the BILLD Group
• (a) Howard: Formerly Labour 1995–2001 and Conservative 2001–2005
• (b) Parmar: Formerly served 1995–2000
• (c) Stokes: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1983–1986
• (d) Cryer: Formerly served 1967–1974
• (e) Long: Formerly served 1983–1990
• (f) Dhillon: Formerly Conservative 2004 and Independent Conservative 2004–2007.
• (g) Bains: Formerly 2003–2004
• (h) Haines: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1987–1991 and 1992–1998
• (i) Khan: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1999–2002

See also

• Slough
• Slough local elections
• Slough Borough Council
• Slough (UK Parliament constituency)

References

1. "Councillor guilty of voting fraud". BBC. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
2. "Text of the judgment in the case of Simmons v Khan". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

Sources

• The History of Slough, by Miss Maxwell Fraser (Slough Corporation 1973)
• A Short History of Slough, by Kathleen M. Jones (bound typescript volume in Slough Central Library)

External links

• Detailed results
• The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps
• The Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire