2014 Bromley London Borough Council election

2014 Bromley London Borough Council election

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All 60 seats to Bromley London Borough Council 31 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Conservative Labour UKIP Last election 53 seats, 49.3% 3 seats, 15.5% 0 seats, 3.7% Seats won 51 7 2 Seat change 2 4 2 Popular vote 41,988 26,295 22,573 Percentage 39.6% 18.3% 19.8% Swing 9.7% 2.8% 16.1%
Map of the results of the 2014 Bromley council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and UKIP in purple.
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

The 2014 Bromley London Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014. All 60 members of Bromley London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs, elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom, and elections to the European Parliament.

In the previous election in 2010, the Conservative Party maintained its control of the council, winning 53 out of the 60 seats with the Liberal Democrats forming the primary opposition with 4 seats, a loss of three. The Labour Party lost a seat, and won the remaining 3 seats.

At this election, The Liberal Democrats lost all four of their seats to Labour in the Cray Valley East, Crystal Palace and Clock House wards. UKIP gained two seats from the Conservative Party in Cray Valley West. ^[1]

Results summary

Bromley local election result 2014 ^[2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	51	1	3	-2	85.0	39.6	41,988	-9.7
	UKIP	2	2	0	2	3.3	19.8	22,573	+16.1
	Labour	7	4	0	+4	11.7	18.3	20,886	+2.8
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	11.6	13,168	+7.6
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	4	-4	0.0	9.1	10,337	-15.5
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.0	1,095	-0.1
	BNP	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.5	604	-0.5
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	131	N/A

Ward results

Bickley

Bickley (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Catherine Rideout	2,667	54.6
	Conservative	Kate Lymer	2,628	53.8
	Conservative	Colin Smith	2,625	53.7
	UKIP	David Woods	889	18.2
	UKIP	John Francis	842	17.2
	UKIP	David Quartermain	825	16.9
	Labour	Kelly Galvin	667	13.6
	Labour	Christopher Clough	646	13.2
	Labour	Robert Evans	631	12.9
	Green	Roisin Robertson	457	9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Barr	370	7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Wye	339	6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Webber	309	6.3
Turnout			4889	41.80
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Biggin Hill

Biggin Hill (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julian Bennington	1,652	51.0
	Conservative	Melanie Stevens	1,282	39.6
	UKIP	Emmett Jenner	1,185	36.6
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Gostt	501	15.5
	Liberal Democrats	Walter Shekyls	428	13.2
	Labour	Colin Savage	314	9.7
	Green	Lara Yates	300	9.3
	Labour	Michael Roberts	103	3.2
Turnout			3241	41.42
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bromley Common and Keston

Bromley Common and Keston (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Carr	2,368	49.0
	Conservative	Alexa Michael	2,350	48.6
	Conservative	Ruth Bennett	2,288	47.4
	UKIP	John Bailey	1279	26.5
	UKIP	Robert Todd	1150	23.8
	Labour	Ufuoma Simon	848	17.6
	Labour	Gareth Abbit	836	17.3
	Green	Pamela Remon	720	14.9
	Labour	Peter Williams	663	13.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Blackburn	350	7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Dawn Berry	275	5.7
Turnout			4831	39.90
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bromley Town

Bromley Town (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nicola Dykes	2,099	43.4
	Conservative	William Harmer	1,993	41.4
	Conservative	Michael Rutherford	1,867	38.8
	Labour	Marcus Oliver	1,126	23.4
	Labour	Richard Cormaish	1,083	22.5
	Labour	Rubina Sutton	934	19.4
	UKIP	Derek Bryan	823	17.1
	UKIP	Peter Thompson	803	16.7
	Green	Mary Ion	716	14.9
	UKIP	Anthony Van Der Elst	677	14.1
	Liberal Democrats	Colin England	558	11.6
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Berridge	541	11.2
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Cooper	515	10.7
Turnout			4818	37.48
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom

Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lydia Buttinger	2,482	46.2
	Conservative	Samaris Huntington-Thresher	2,382	44.3
	Conservative	Keith Onslow	2,312	43.0
	UKIP	Julian Grainger	1,727	32.1
	UKIP	Patrick Greenidge	1,559	29.0
	UKIP	Daniel Slade	1,408	26.2
	Labour	Stephen Richardson	631	11.7
	Green	Daniel Sloan	582	10.8
	Labour	Jeremy Adams	552	10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Gerda Loosemore-Reppen	511	9.5
	Labour	David Barlow	507	9.4
	Liberal Democrats	James Whiteside	481	8.9
	Liberal Democrats	John Webber	379	7.0
Turnout			5376	47.47
Registered electors			11,326
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chislehurst

Chislehurst (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kathleen Boughey	2,766	60.4
	Conservative	Eric Bousshard	2,702	59.0
	Conservative	Ian Payne	2,085	45.6
	UKIP	Janet Carlo	1,061	23.2
	Labour	Yvette Connor	760	16.6
	Labour	Stuart Reid	677	14.8
	Labour	Christian Mole	668	14.6
	Green	Heather Wallace-Brown	594	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond Farnham	347	7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Magrath	303	6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Michelle Pike	256	5.6
Turnout			4576	38.67
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clock House

Clock House (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Vanessa Allen	1,900	39.9	+12.8
	Conservative	Sarah Phillips	1,699	34.0
	Labour	Ian Dunn	1,663	33.3
	Labour	Joshua King	1,633	32.7
	Conservative	Nicholas Milner	1,594	31.9
	Conservative	Paul Wood	1,420	28.4
	Green	Margaret Toomey	922	18.5
	Liberal Democrats	Reginald Adams	818	16.4	−15.2
	UKIP	Owen Brolly	784	15.7
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Nash	598	12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Joseph Henson	491	9.8
Turnout			4992	42.36
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Copers Cope

Copers Cope (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Tickner	2,453	52.7
	Conservative	Stephen Wells	2,380	51.1
	Conservative	Russell Mellor	2,232	47.9
	Labour	Catherine Milton	1,136	24.4
	Labour	John Dempster	1,000	21.5
	Labour	John Courtneidge	971	20.8
	Green	Ruth Fabricant	952	20.4
	UKIP	Robert Bryant	890	19.1
	Liberal Democrats	Elva Sullivan	590	12.7
Turnout			4659	38.64
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cray Valley East

Cray Valley East (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Page	1,214	31.1
	Conservative	Christopher Pierce	1,210	31.0
	Conservative	Tuyet Phung Ball	1,188	30.4
	UKIP	James Greenhough	1,172	30.0
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Curry	869	22.2
	Labour	Nathaniel Arthur	841	21.5
	Liberal Democrats	Grace Goodlad	803	20.6
	Labour	Timothy Fisher	745	19.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sam Webber	736	18.8
	Labour	Marina Ahmad	688	17.6
	BNP	Deborah Kane	284	7.3
	TUSC	Steven Cope	131	3.4
Turnout			3909	35.58
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cray Valley West

Cray Valley West (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	David Livett	1,245	29.6
	UKIP	Terence Nathan	1,202	28.6
	Conservative	Judith Ellis	1,133	26.9
	Conservative	John Ince	1,129	26.8
	Independent	Colin Willetts	1,095	26.0
	UKIP	Daniel Tubb	1,040	24.7
	Labour	Graham Du Plessis	939	22.3
	Conservative	Harry Stranger	914	21.7
	Labour	Christopher Taylor	892	21.2
	Labour	Rebecca Rowland	863	20.5
	Green	Sean Farrell	313	7.4
	Liberal Democrats	Patricia Bignell	244	5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Bignell	223	5.3
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Comrie	211	5.0
	BNP	Roger Tonks	139	3.3
Turnout			4210	34.85
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Wilkins	1,411	45.6
	Labour	Richard Williams	1,151	37.2
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Papworth	838	27.1
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Papworth	768	24.8
	Green	Tom Chance	575	18.6
	UKIP	David Hough	361	11.7
	Conservative	Karen Moran	352	11.4
	Conservative	Robert McIlveen	280	9.0
Turnout			3095	37.06
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Darwin

Darwin (1 seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Scoates	987	50.8
	UKIP	Geoffrey Hayward	661	34.0
	Labour	Frank Evans	135	6.9
	Green	Tamara Galloway	89	4.6
	Liberal Democrats	William Ritchie	65	3.3
Turnout			1943	48.44
	Conservative hold		Swing

Farnborough and Crofton

Farnborough and Crofton (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Evans	3,053	58.2
	Conservative	Charles Joel	3,005	57.3
	Conservative	Timothy Stevens	2,838	54.1
	UKIP	Christine Diamond	1,280	24.4
	UKIP	Kenneth Tracey	1,151	22.0
	Labour	Ceri Hiles	717	13.7
	Labour	Lynn Sellwood	644	12.3
	Green	Brian Miller	638	12.2
	Labour	Christopher Price	594	11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Seran Yusuf	415	7.9
Turnout			5246	44.96
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hayes and Coney Hall

Hayes and Coney Hall (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Arthur	2,965	56.3
	Conservative	Neil Reddin	2,509	47.6
	Conservative	Peter Fortune	2,475	47.0
	UKIP	Gwendoline Tanner	1,349	25.6
	UKIP	Brian Philp	1,259	23.9
	Labour	Katherine Head	878	16.7
	Labour	John Parke	725	13.8
	Green	John Street	725	13.8
	Labour	Bernard Wilson	543	10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Griffiths	503	9.5
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Daniell	374	7.1
Turnout			5269	42.10
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kelsey and Eden Park

Kelsey and Eden Park (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Collins	2,778	54.7
	Conservative	Peter Dean	2,693	53.0
	Conservative	Diane Smith	2,593	51.0
	Labour	Marie Bardsley	1,191	23.4
	UKIP	Tobias Mercer	1,081	21.3
	Labour	Stephen Scott	1,024	20.2
	Labour	Olasupoadekunle Obikoya	904	17.8
	Liberal Democrats	Geraldine Cowan	754	14.8
	Liberal Democrats	Kay Stocker	543	10.7
Turnout			5081	41.66
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mottingham and Chislehurst North

Mottingham and Chislehurst North (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Cartwright	1,045	39.6
	Conservative	Charles Rideout	875	33.2
	UKIP	Karen Thomson	770	29.2
	Labour	Angela Stack	663	25.1
	Labour	Samuel Russell	599	22.7
	Green	Zoe Mercer	278	10.5
	BNP	Philip Dalton	181	6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Coyte	130	4.9
Turnout			2638	36.26
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Orpington

Orpington (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kim Botting	2,519	49.7
	Conservative	Pauline Tunnicliffe	2,471	48.7
	Conservative	William Huntington-Thresher	2,452	48.3
	UKIP	Colin Wilson	1,290	25.4
	UKIP	Jill Wilson	1,229	24.2
	Labour	Alexander Stoten	739	14.6
	Green	Michael Marriott	681	13.4
	Labour	Jennifer Coleman	663	13.1
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Hall	558	11.0
	Labour	Mohammed Bhuiyan	556	11.0
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Ayres	441	8.7
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Rathbone	286	5.6
Turnout			5073	42.51
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• Bromley Council
• 2014 London local elections
• 2014 United Kingdom local elections
• 2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

References

1. Grafton-Green, Patrick (24 May 2014). "UPDATE: Conservatives hold majority on Bromley Council while UKIP gain two seats". Bromley News Shopper online. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
2. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2014 - Bromley". www.andrewteale.me.uk.