2015 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election

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Results of the 2015 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election

The 2015 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all members of the council of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections and coincided with the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

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Election result

The election saw an eight-seat enlargement of local Conservatives' running group, having been the designation of the absolute majority of winning candidates hence governing group since 2007; the results saw four Independent (politician)s one of whom had defected in the previous term overturned, the latter in the same way as two UKIP councillors — and two Liberal Democrats lost to Conservatives. All wards of the United Kingdom in this borough consequently were served by Conservative councillors save for Old Windsor choosing its two delegates to be from Old Windsor Residents Association and three-member Pinkneys Green at the opposite end of the borough which elected one Liberal Democrat, topping the poll by seven votes ahead of two Conservatives it elected and 312 votes ahead of the runner-up. Having run the council from 1995-1997 and 2003-2007, the party's single councillor represented a record low for the party, meaning the resident's association mentioned became the formal opposition. Not elected was Ewan Larcombe who in 2011 founded the National Flood Prevention Party in Horton and Wraysbury and took his position regarding the intense 2013-2014 and dynamic of the River Thames since construction of the Jubilee River, its corollary protecting most of the borough; [2]

Windsor and Maidenhead Local Election Result 2015 [3]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 5480+894.758.9100,175+0.8
  OWRA 20003.52.03,468+1.0
  Liberal Democrats 102-21.818.932,070-6.2
  Labour 00000.010.017,073+0.3
  UKIP 002-20.04.06,777+3.9
  Independent 004-40.03.76,380-1.0
  Green 00000.02.03,468+1.3
 National Flood Prevention Party00000.00.4743New

Ward results

Ascot and Cheapside
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Hilton 2,011
Conservative Lilly Evans 1,985
Liberal Democrats Tamasin Barnbrook420
Green Lucas Ruzo347
Labour Mark Olney305
Liberal Democrats David Imperiali301
Turnout 74.05
Belmont
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Love 2,107
Conservative Marion Mills 1,875
Conservative Lisa Targowska 1,627
Liberal Democrats Helen Craggs914
Liberal Democrats Andrew Hickley694
Liberal Democrats Dave Mackay693
Green John Barron668
Labour Ian Smith665
Labour Nigel Smith620
UKIP Paul De Luca460
Turnout 68.77
Bisham and Cookham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Kellaway 2,255
Conservative Gerry Clark 2,180
Conservative MJ Saunders 1,995
Liberal Democrats Mandy Brar1584
Liberal Democrats Fiona Hewer1044
Liberal Democrats Andrew Nye793
Labour Jane Collisson314
Labour Richard Penston296
Labour Graham Lee256
Turnout 77.7
Boyn Hill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stuart Carroll 1,992
Conservative Claire Stretton 1,903
Conservative Paul Lion 1,901
Liberal Democrats Michael Holness974
Liberal Democrats Norma Herdson867
Liberal Democrats Robert Hill866
Green Rachel Cook683
Labour Louise Raffo652
Labour Mark Wilson495
Turnout
Bray
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Burbage 2,661
Conservative David Coppinger 2,478
Conservative Leo Walters 2,280
UKIP Tina Thomas558
Liberal Democrats Sheila Adams506
Liberal Democrats Mary Stockton424
Labour Andrew Foakes402
Liberal Democrats Rob Acker401
Labour Dudley Targett385
Labour Ashok Sharma375
Turnout
Castle Without
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jack Rankin 1,886
Conservative Wesley Richards 1,856
Conservative Shamsul Shelim 1,561
Liberal Democrats Helen Edwards621
Labour Fiona Dent553
Liberal Democrats Thomas Hinds501
Labour Michelle Boundy494
Liberal Democrats Antony Wood485
Labour Yvonne Olney433
Independent Margery Thorogood287
Independent David Eglise275
Independent Raewyn Porteous228
Turnout 67.89
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
Clewer East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Bowden 1,341
Conservative Eileen Quick 1,141
Liberal Democrats Andrew Clemo591
Liberal Democrats Julian Tisi504
Labour Janet Campbell451
UKIP Simon Lowe422
Turnout 66.13
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
Clewer North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Collins 1,712
Conservative Nicola Pryer 1,546
Conservative Hashim Bhatti 1,464
Independent Wisdom Da Costa1251
Independent Carole Da Costa1205
Independent Kevin Chapman1100
Labour Antony Matthews718
Independent Jennifer Wilby398
Independent Terry Wilby234
Turnout 66.77
Conservative gain from Independent Swing
Clewer South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Airey 1,250
Conservative Edward Wilson 861
UKIP Tom Bursnall454
Labour Mulle Price410
UKIP Donald Sanver296
Liberal Democrats Richard Fagence272
Liberal Democrats John Edwards264
Independent Chris Beale189
Turnout 62.58
Cox Green
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ross McWilliams 2,170
Conservative Clive Bullock 2,133
Conservative Paul Brimacombe 2,085
Liberal Democrats Bruce Adams910
Liberal Democrats Bill Black835
Liberal Democrats Gareth Jones725
UKIP Lance Carter692
Labour Margaret Horner498
Labour Robert Horner455
Labour Elsie Neil364
Turnout 71.38
Datchet
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jesse Grey 1,438
Conservative Gary Muir 1,369
Labour Jennifer Ward523
Liberal Democrats Linda O'Flynn478
Liberal Democrats Timothy O'Flynn420
Turnout 64.38
Eton and Castle
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Malcolm Alexander 503
Liberal Democrats Virginia Fussey460
Turnout 69.14
Eton Wick
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Samantha Rayner 657
Labour Peter Shearman358
Independent Peter Lawless290
Turnout 72.73
Conservative gain from Independent Swing
Furze Platt
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Derek Sharp 1,998
Conservative Hari Sharma 1,845
Conservative Mohammed Ilyas 1,669
Liberal Democrats Terry Payman957
UKIP David Butcher787
Liberal Democrats Humaira Khan783
Labour Chris Harding750
Liberal Democrats Cynthia Pitteway692
Turnout 68.84
Horton and Wraysbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Colin Rayner 1,712
Conservative John Lenton 1,545
National Flood Prevention PartyEwan Larcombe743
Labour Peter Ward404
Liberal Democrats Parvis Jamieson209
Liberal Democrats Peter Wilkinson146
Turnout 66.78
Hurley and Walthams
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Maureen Hunt 2,163
Conservative David Evans 2,143
Conservative Carwyn Cox 1,990
Liberal Democrats John Iles544
Labour Patrick McDonald484
Labour Jessica Bisset453
Liberal Democrats Jenny Werner404
Labour Sara Reeves396
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Zuldt287
Turnout 73.01
Maidenhead Riverside
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Jenner 2,167
Conservative Simon Dudley 2,116
Conservative Adam Smith 1,995
Liberal Democrats Saghir Ahmed685
Liberal Democrats Peter Newbound653
Liberal Democrats Mike Keay604
Labour Robert Barclay562
Labour Colin Fowles529
Green Craig McDermott517
UKIP Nadine Wilkinson499
Turnout 68.33
Oldfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoffrey Hill 2,199
Conservative Derek Wilson 2,153
Conservative Asghar Majeed 1,995
Labour Louise Clarke860
UKIP Edmund Holliday785
Labour Geoffrey Cutting778
Liberal Democrats Adam Bermange731
Liberal Democrats Graham Johnstone649
Liberal Democrats Derek Tyler514
Turnout 59.97
Old Windsor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
OWRA Lynne Jones 1,785
OWRA Malcolm Beer 1,683
Conservative Elizabeth Cudd553
Conservative Hamish Macmillam488
UKIP Lucas Crane216
UKIP Bruno Haine190
Labour Roy Reeves145
Labour Ahamed Mashoor136
Turnout 73.83
Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Natasha Airey 1,549
Conservative Phillip Bicknell 1,331
Liberal Democrats Amarjeet Bhamra383
Labour Laura Binnie380
Liberal Democrats Susan Hinds317
Green Simon Beer290
UKIP Peter Bishop274
UKIP Nicole Fowler206
Independent Jon Davey198
Independent Franco De Luca121
Turnout 73.74
Pinkneys Green
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Simon Werner 1,854
Conservative Charles Hollingsworth 1,847
Conservative Marius Gilmore 1,625
Liberal Democrats Simon Bond1542
Conservative Shez Courtenay-Smith1542
Liberal Democrats Clive Baskerville1535
UKIP John Radley446
Labour Jennifer Cooper382
Labour Hilary Brodie316
Turnout 75.04
Sunningdale
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christine Bateson 2,159
Conservative Sayonara Luxton 1,669
Liberal Democrats Barbara Grant-Adamson327
Liberal Democrats Sonya Lippold308
Labour Anne Brindle277
Turnout 71.66

References

  1. ↑ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. ↑ National Flood Prevention Party, political party PP1713 Electoral Commission. Accessed 11 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Borough Election Results 2015 - By Ward". The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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