2008 Stroud District Council election

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Map of the results of the 2008 Stroud council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Green party in green. Wards in grey were not contested in 2008. Stroud 2008 election map.png
Map of the results of the 2008 Stroud council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Green party in green. Wards in grey were not contested in 2008.

The 2008 Stroud Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council. [1]

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was

Background

Before the election the council had 31 Conservative, 9 Labour, 5 Green, 4 Liberal Democrat and 2 independents. [3] 61 candidates stood for the 17 seats that were being contested, with the Green party contesting every seat for the first time. [3] Councillors standing down at the election included Conservative Sue Fellows and the Labour party's Hilary Fowles and Mattie Ross. [3]

Election result

The results saw the Conservatives stay in control with 31 seats, after both gaining and losing 2 seats, [4] while increasing their vote share to 51%. [5] The Conservatives gained the seats of Dursley and Stonehouse from Labour, after the sitting Labour councillors had stood down, reducing Labour to 7 seats. [6] However the Conservatives also lost Nailsworth by 28 votes to the Greens and Wotton-under-Edge by 25 votes to the Liberal Democrats. [6] This meant the Greens went up to 6 seats and the Liberal Democrats up to 5 seats, while there remained 2 independents who had not defended seats in the election. [6] Turnout in the election varied from a high of 50.03% in Painswick to a low of 33% in Cainscross. [6]

The local Labour Member of Parliament David Drew blamed the defeats for Labour on "general disillusionment with the Government" and the issues of government assistance after the 2007 floods and the abolition of the 10 pence income tax rate. [7]

Stroud local election result 2008 [8] [9]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 1222070.651.213,231+10.8%
  Labour 202-211.817.44,491-5.7%
  Liberal Democrats 210+111.812.23,142-1.3%
  Green 110+15.917.84,595-1.1%
  UKIP 000001.2300-0.5%
  BNP 000000.367+0.3%

Ward results

Amberley and Woodchester [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Glanfield45254.3-1.7
Green Jennifer Whiskerd15118.1+2.6
Labour Jo Smith13115.7+0.8
Liberal Democrats Adrian Walker-Smith9811.8-1.8
Majority30136.2-4.2
Turnout 83249.4
Conservative hold Swing
Berkeley [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Archer86167.2-2.7
Labour Geoffrey Wheeler29523.0-7.1
Green Chris Keppie1269.8+9.8
Majority56644.1+4.4
Turnout 1,28239.0-0.9
Conservative hold Swing
Cainscross [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Williams75742.2-7.1
Conservative Norma Rodman64836.2+1.4
Green Helen Royall19510.9-5.0
Liberal Democrats Sylvia Bridgland19210.7+10.7
Majority1096.1-8.4
Turnout 1,79233.3-3.2
Labour hold Swing
Chalford [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Debbie Young1,21756.2+0.9
Green Carolyn Billingsley63329.2+4.8
Labour Malcolm Perry1959.0-3.4
UKIP Leslie Banstead1215.6-2.2
Majority58427.0-3.9
Turnout 2,16643.2+2.8
Conservative hold Swing
Dursley [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alex Stennett64734.4-0.1
Liberal Democrats Brian Marsh60832.3+0.5
Labour Daryl Matthews53128.2-5.5
Green Gillian Stott975.2+5.2
Majority392.1+1.4
Turnout 1,88339.0-1.9
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Eastington and Standish [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ken Stephens28844.5+3.4
Conservative Ian Robinson27742.8+3.4
Green Gerald Hartley8212.7+2.1
Majority111.7+0.0
Turnout 64745.9
Labour hold Swing
Hardwicke [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Len Tomlins87569.3+0.9
Labour Miranda Williams22718.0+3.4
Green Sally Pickering16012.7+12.7
Majority64851.3-0.1
Turnout 1,26233.8-1.8
Conservative hold Swing
Kingswood [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Hemming30950.3-0.7
Conservative Michael Howard18730.5-12.1
Green Sue Fleming11819.2+19.2
Majority12219.9+11.5
Turnout 61440.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Minchinhampton [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joe Forbes1,11271.2+8.0
Green Marie Gwynn27517.6+6.3
Labour Joan Moore17511.2-1.0
Majority83753.6+3.7
Turnout 1,56244.6-4.5
Conservative hold Swing
Nailsworth [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Fi MacMillan1,02843.1+5.2
Conservative Dorcas Binns1,00041.9+3.5
Labour Sally Thorpe2299.6-3.7
BNP Alan Lomas672.8+2.8
UKIP Maureen Upchurch612.6-2.7
Majority281.2
Turnout 2,38546.4+2.6
Green gain from Conservative Swing
Painswick [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Barbara Tait1,22869.0+1.9
Green Elinor Croxall37120.8-1.5
Labour David Heyes18110.2-0.5
Majority85748.1+3.3
Turnout 1,78050.0-0.3
Conservative hold Swing
Rodborough [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nigel Cooper51632.1+1.7
Liberal Democrats Andrew Fisk46529.0-1.8
Green Phil Blomberg44627.8+1.7
Labour John Appleton17811.1-1.6
Majority513.2
Turnout 1,60546.4+1.7
Conservative hold Swing
Severn [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Norman-Leonard Smith96160.6+3.1
Liberal Democrats John Howe30619.3-7.2
Labour John Greenwood20613.0-1.9
Green Annie Finlay-Trotter1147.2+7.2
Majority65541.3+10.3
Turnout 1,58742.9+0.0
Conservative hold Swing
Stonehouse [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Phil Bevan84342.1+5.1
Labour Gary Powell80640.2-1.1
Green Clare Sheridan23711.8-2.1
UKIP Adrian Blake1185.9-1.8
Majority371.8
Turnout 2,00434.1-1.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
The Stanleys [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ray Apperley71852.3-1.4
Labour Lesley Williams31623.0+3.3
Green Tony Mcnulty19013.8+0.9
Liberal Democrats Gavin Owen15010.9-2.8
Majority40229.3-4.8
Turnout 1,37441.2-1.8
Conservative hold Swing
Upton St Leonards [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Keith Pearson71078.9+0.4
Green Peter Adams11412.7+12.7
Labour Ela Pathak-Sen768.4-13.1
Majority59666.2+9.3
Turnout 90048.9+1.3
Conservative hold Swing
Wotton-Under-Edge [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats June Cordwell1,01445.0-7.2
Conservative John Gowers97943.5+18.4
Green Martin Harvey25811.5-5.5
Majority351.6-25.5
Turnout 2,25145.0-0.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

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