2010 Exeter City Council election

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2010 Exeter City Council election [1] [2] [3]
  2008 9 September 2010 2011  

14 of the 40 seats to Exeter City Council
21 seats needed for a majority
Turnout28.44 %
 First partySecond party
 
Party Labour Conservative
Last election1112
Seats before1312
Seats won74
Seats after1511
Seat changeIncrease2.svg2Decrease2.svg1
Popular vote7,6197,060
Percentage35.3%32.7%

 Third partyFourth party
 
Party Liberal Democrats Liberal
Last election134
Seats before114
Seats won30
Seats after93
Seat changeSteady2.svgDecrease2.svg1
Popular vote4,333348
Percentage20.1%1.6%

Exeter UK local election 2010 map.svg
Map showing the results of the 2010 Exeter City Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats, blue shows the Conservatives and yellow shows the Liberal Democrats. Wards in white had no election.

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

No overall control

The 2010 Exeter City Council election took place on 9 September 2010 to elect members of Exeter City Council in England. One third of seats were up for election. [4] The elections took place later in the year than other local elections. Exeter had previously been granted permission to become a unitary authority, with local elections postponed until 2011. [5] When the Coalition Government won the general election earlier that year, Exeter's permission to form a unitary authority was overturned. Because of this, the High Court ruled that those councillors who had stayed on beyond their four-year term were no longer constitutionally elected, and would need to seek re-election. This resulted in there being an election in every ward in September to renew the mandate for the wards. [6]

Contents

However, no election was needed in Pennsylvania ward, as a by-election had been held on 6 May, the day on which the local elections would ordinarily have taken place, to fill a vacancy for the seat that would have been due for re-election in 2010 in any case. Therefore, the winner of the May by-election was deemed to be elected to represent the ward for a full four-year term. [1] The result of the May by-election is included in the results given.

Background

The previous election in 2008 had left the council under no overall control with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party on 13 seats, followed by the Conservatives on 12, Labour on 11 and the Liberal Party on four. However, the week before the election, two Liberal Democrat councillors defected to Labour in protest against the party's coalition with the Conservatives. [7] This meant that Labour were the largest party going into the election, on 13 seats to the Conservatives' 12 and the Liberal Democrats' 11.

Results summary

2010 Exeter City Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Labour 7Increase2.svg 250.081537.57,74135.9+8.6
  Conservative 4Decrease2.svg 128.671127.57,06032.7-1.9
  Liberal Democrats 3Steady2.svg21.481127.54,36420.2-7.1
  Liberal 0Decrease2.svg 10.0337.53481.6-4.1
  Green 0Steady2.svg0.0000.01,3026.0+3.1
  UKIP 0Steady2.svg0.0000.06963.2+1.1
  BNP 0Steady2.svg0.0000.0530.2-4.1


Ward results

Alphington

Alphington
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Rod Ruffle 719 43.6%
Conservative David Thompson51531.2%
Green Andrew Bell29317.8%
Labour Andrew Dudgeon1227.4%
Majority21412.4
Turnout 1,649
Liberal Democrats hold

Cowick

Cowick
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Heather Morris 691 44.9%
Conservative Connel Boyle46730.4%
Liberal Democrats Cia Browning26917.5%
UKIP Lawrence Harper684.4%
Green Arabella Fraser432.8%
Majority22414.5%
Turnout 1,538
Labour gain from Conservative

Duryard

Duryard
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Lee Mottram 363 42.5%
Liberal Democrats John Earle35141.1%
Labour Jerry Fox819.5%
Green Lizzie Woodman414.8%
UKIP Peter Gove192.2%
Majority121.4%
Turnout 855
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Exwick

Exwick
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Rachel Sutton 909 52.4%
Liberal Democrats Liam Martin36521.0%
Conservative James Moffat29717.1%
UKIP Richard Timmis1126.5%
Green Isaac Price-Sosner533.1%
Majority54431.4%
Turnout 1,736
Labour hold

Heavitree

Heavitree
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Tyna Crow 443 31.6%
Labour Paul Bull43230.8%
Liberal Christopher Gale34824.8%
Green Susan Greenall1087.7%
Liberal Democrats Paddy Elsdon715.1%
Majority110.8%
Turnout 1,402
Conservative gain from Liberal

Mincinglake

Mincinglake & Whipton
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Ian Martin 582 62.2%
Conservative Jeremy White16217.3%
UKIP Keith Crawford869.2%
Liberal Democrats Helen Bray717.6%
Green Ian Elliott343.6%
Majority42044.9%
Turnout 935
Labour hold

Newtown

Newtown
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Roger Spackman 569 49.3%
Conservative Charlotte Markey31126.9%
Green Tom Milburn20017.3%
Liberal Democrats David Lockwood756.5%
Majority25822.4%
Turnout 1,155
Labour hold

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Tim Payne 1,391 45.8%
Conservative David Thompson91330.1%
Labour Bernard Dugdale49116.2%
UKIP David Smith1525.0%
Green Isaac Price-Sosner882.9%
Majority47815.7%
Turnout 3,035
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative

Pinhoe

Pinhoe
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Moira Macdonald 903 44.5%
Conservative Ruth Smith89944.3%
Liberal Democrats David Smith1045.1%
UKIP Christine Fullam743.6%
Green Helen Edwards482.4%
Majority40.2%
Turnout 2,028
Labour gain from Conservative

Polsloe

Polsloe
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Yolonda Henson 589 46.0%
Labour Rachel Lyons47737.3%
Liberal Democrats Rouben Freeman947.3%
Green Christopher Townsend937.3%
UKIP Graham Down272.1%
Majority1128.7%
Turnout 1,280
Labour hold

Priory

Priory
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Lesley Robson 1,029 53.0%
Conservative John Corcoran63432.7%
Liberal Democrats Benjamin Noble1155.9%
Green Keith Hyams643.3%
BNP Chris Stone532.7%
UKIP Dale Woolner462.4%
Majority39520.3%
Turnout 1,941
Labour hold

St Davids

St Davids
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Stella Brock 385 45.0%
Labour Ust Oldfield20123.5%
Conservative Louis Ten-Holter13615.9%
Green Mark Cox9411.0%
UKIP Ralph Gay394.6%
Majority18421.5%
Turnout 855
Liberal Democrats hold

Topsham

Topsham
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Margaret Baldwin 780 54.9%
Labour Eliot Wright27619.4%
Liberal Democrats Sandra Barrett23116.3%
UKIP Mike Amor735.1%
Green Audaye Elesedy614.3%
Majority50435.5%
Turnout 1,421
Labour hold

Whipton & Barton

Whipton & Barton
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Peter Edwards 978 56.4%
Conservative Andrew Leadbetter55131.8%
Liberal Democrats Pamela Thickett1237.1%
Green Jeff Ridley824.7%
Majority42724.6%
Turnout 1,734
Labour hold

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