2015 Runnymede Borough Council election

Results of the 2015 Runnymede Borough Council election

The 2015 Runnymede Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect one third of members to Runnymede Borough Council in England. The election coincided with other local elections held simultaneously with a General Election and resulted in increased turnout compared to the election four years before. In Addlestone North a by-election added to seats vacant. All currently drawn wards of the United Kingdom in this area are three-member, with the different members' seats contested three years out of four. ^[1]

Results

Conservatives gained a seat, adding to councillors within the group with overall control of the Council. ^{[2] [3]}

Runnymede Borough Council Election, 2015

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	36	1	0	+1	86	52	21860
	RIRG	6	0	0	0	14	7	2886
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0	20	8313
	UKIP	0	0	1	-1	0	17	7490
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	2	909
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	1	220

Ward by ward

Addlestone Bourneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Waddell	1424
	UKIP	Paul Stevens	581
	Labour	June Tilbury	570
	Green	Susie Maguire	245
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Addlestone North (two seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jim Broadhead	1683
	Conservative	Stewart Mackay	1193
	Labour	David Bell	819
	UKIP	Grahame Leon-Smith	746
	Labour	Doug Scott	652
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey Meads

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Cotty	1681
	Labour	Bernie Stacey	667
	UKIP	Chris Butcher	624
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey South and Row Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terry Dicks	1652
	UKIP	Graham Wood	685
	Labour	Martin Philip	612
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey St Ann's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dolsie Clarke	1516
	Labour	Arran Neathey	782
	UKIP	Bill Bruno	709
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Egham Hythe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gill Warner	1498
	Labour	Robert King	820
	UKIP	Luke Smith	627
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Egham Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	John Ashmore	1291
	Conservative	Sam Walker	977
	Labour	Tae Kim	512
Majority
Turnout
	RIRG hold		Swing

Englefield Green East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Japneet Sohi	1087
	Green	Frederick Hoareau	396
	Labour	Benjamin Tozer	382
	UKIP	Adrian Girling	195
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Englefield Green West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nicholas Prescot	1038
	UKIP	David Hunt	477
	Labour	Helen Jewell	421
	Green	Glenn Mealing	268
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Foxhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dannielle Khalique	1612
	UKIP	Christopher Browne	753
	Labour	John Gurney	586
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing

New Haw Foxhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacqui Gracey	1725
	UKIP	Delphine Palmowski	623
	Labour	Anne Emerson	380
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Coulon	220
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thorpe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Linda Gillham	1192
	Conservative	Mark Peace	917
	UKIP	Steve Gynn	615
	Labour	James Hale	295
Majority
Turnout
	RIRG hold		Swing

Virginia Water

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nicholas Wase-Rogers	1880
	RIRG	Brian Clarke	403
	UKIP	Ross Thompson	321
	Labour	Keith Heal	280
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Woodham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gail Kingerley	1977
	Labour	Scott Carmen	535
	UKIP	Val Woodhouse	534
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
2. Davis, Eleanor (8 May 2015) [7 May 2015]. "New councillors ready to serve Runnymede residents after borough council election". Surrey Live. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
3. Borough Elections results - 7 May 2015 ^{[ permanent dead link ]} RBC. Accessed 2015-05-20