2019 Guildford Borough Council election

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2019 Guildford Borough Council election
  2015 2 May 2019 2023  

All 48 seats to Guildford Borough Council
25 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
LeaderCaroline ReevesJoss BigmorePaul Spooner
Party Liberal Democrats R4GV Conservative
Leader's seatFriary & St NicolasChristchurchAsh South & Tongham
Last election9 seats, 22.32%New party35 seats, 46.77%
Seats won17159
Seat changeIncrease2.svg8Increase2.svg15Decrease2.svg26
Popular vote24,78620,48826,047
Percentage28.1%23.2%29.6%
SwingIncrease2.svg5.8New partyDecrease2.svg17.2

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
LeaderSusan ParkerAngela GunningDiana Jones
Party GGG Labour Green
Leader's seatSendStokeTillingbourne
Last election3 seats, 13.02%1 seats, 11.08%0 seats, 2.83%
Seats won421
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Increase2.svg1Increase2.svg1
Popular vote6,9178,7131,229
Percentage7.8%9.9%1.4%
SwingDecrease2.svg5.2Decrease2.svg1.2Decrease2.svg1.4

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Map showing the results of the 2019 Guildford Borough Council elections. Numbers indicate the number of councillors elected by each ward. Yellow showing Liberal Democrats, Magenta showing R4GV, blue showing Conservative, dark green showing Guildford Greenbelt Group, red showing Labour and light green showing Green. Striped wards have mixed representation.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

No Overall Control

The 2019 Guildford Borough Council election were held on 2 May 2019, to elect all 48 seats to the Guildford Borough Council in Surrey, England as part of the 2019 local elections. [1]

Contents

The Liberal Democrats won the most seats (17), the Residents for Guildford and Villages, a new political party formed in early 2019, came second with 15 seats, while the ruling Conservatives lost their majority coming third with 9 seats. Other parties such as the Guildford Greenbelt Group (4), the Labour Party (2) and the Green Party (1) won seats. [2] [3]

Background

Since the 2015 local election, there had been changes to the political make up of the council. Prior to the election Labour had gained one seat from the Conservatives in the Stoke by-election in May 2016, and a total of four councillors had defected from their parties to sit as an Independent Alliance group. Two Conservative councillors, Tony Rooth (a former council leader) and Bob McShee, defected to sit as independents in May 2018 and were joined by Colin Cross from the Liberal Democrats in November 2018. All of them cited dissatisfaction with their group leaderships as reasons for defection, particularly in relation to issues around Guildford's draft Local Plan [4] [5] In February 2019 a further Conservative councillor, Nils Christiansen, defected to the independent group. [6]

In the run up to the election the Independent Alliance councillors were involved in the creation of a new party, Residents for Guildford and Villages (R4GV), to contest the borough elections on a platform of changing the Local Plan. The creation of the new party was supported by individuals who had been active within the Guildford Society and the Guildford Vision Group (a civic society group campaigning for alternative planning policies within Guildford town), and was led by a local investor, Joss Bigmore. [7] [8] Three of the four independent councillors were involved in the creation of R4GV and joined it to stand for re-election under the party label. [9]

The Local Plan proved a controversial topic in the run-up to the election, having already provided an impetus for the creation of the Guildford Greenbelt Group (GGG) party prior to the 2015 election (where it had won three seats).The draft Local Plan set out plans for the building 10,678 new houses by 2034, including three major 'strategic sites' located on green belt land, and became one of the main issues of the 2019 election campaign. A vote on adopting the Local Plan was scheduled by the Conservative administration for 25 April 2019, just one week before the election, attracting criticism from opposition parties who claimed this was a violation of the pre-election "purdah" period. [10] Despite public protests, and attempts by opposition parties to defer the vote until after the local election, the vote went ahead as scheduled with a majority of councillors voting to adopt the Local Plan. [11] [12]

During the election campaign the parties contesting the election set out their positions on a range of issues. The Conservatives, as the incumbent administration, defended the Local Plan and their record of running Guildford Borough Council, especially in the area of arts and culture, arguing that a re-elected Conservative administration would "enhance" the borough's sporting, community and recreational facilities. [13] [14] The Liberal Democrats, as the main opposition group, outlined plans to protect the environment, take action on climate change and build more social housing. [15] [16] R4GV and GGG both campaigned on making changes to the Local Plan and on the basis that they would be an improvement over the presence of national political parties in local government. [17] [18] Labour argued that they were the only party offering real change in Guildford and advocated investment in public services. [19]

At the election R4GV and GGG co-operated, standing candidates together in two wards and not standing against each other in other wards, but only stood a total of 21 candidates between them. The Liberal Democrats stood 32 candidates, not contesting some wards, whilst the Conservatives contested every ward. In the run up to the election there was media speculation and analysis suggesting that R4GV and the Liberal Democrats had been selective in where they had stood candidates in order to maximise the anti-Conservative vote. [20]

Summary

Election result

2019 Guildford Borough Council election
PartyCandidatesSeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Liberal Democrats 321791Increase2.svg 835.428.124,786
  R4GV 1715150Increase2.svg 1531.323.220,488
  Conservative 489026Decrease2.svg 2618.829.626,047
  GGG 6410Increase2.svg 18.37.86,917
  Labour 28210Increase2.svg 14.29.98,713
  Green 2110Increase2.svg 12.11.41,229
  Peace 3000Steady2.svg0.00.5459
  Independent 1000Steady2.svg0.00.1128

Number of councillors per ward is shown in brackets after the ward name.

Wards won solely by the Liberal Democrats – Burpham (2); Friary & St Nicolas (3); Effingham (1); Onslow (3); Stoughton (3); Westborough (3)

Wards won solely by Residents for Guildford and Villages (R4GV) – Christchurch (3); Holy Trinity (3); Lovelace (1); Pilgrims (1); Worplesdon (3)

Wards won solely by the Conservatives – Ash Vale (2); Ash Wharf (2); Pirbright (1); Normandy (1)

Wards won solely by Guildford Greenbelt Group – Send (2)

Wards won solely by Labour – Stoke (2)

Wards electing councillors of more than one party – Ash South & Tongham (3 – 2 Con, 1 R4GV); Clandon & Horsley (3 – 2 R4GV, 1 Guildford Greenbelt); Merrow (3 - 1 R4GV, 2 Lib Dem); Shalford (2 - 1 R4GV, 1 Guildford Greenbelt), Tillingbourne (2 - 1 Con, 1 Green)

The results saw the Conservatives lose control of Guildford Borough Council, falling from 31 seats to 9, making the Liberal Democrats the largest party on 17 seats.

Prior to the election, 3 councillors had defected from the Conservatives and 1 had defected from the Liberal Democrats to form the Independent Alliance on the council. The Independent Alliance registered Residents for Guildford and Villages as a political party to contest the 2019 elections and proceeded to win 15 seats.

The Guildford Greenbelt Group increased their representation to 4 seats whilst Labour maintained a by-election gain from the Conservatives to emerge with 2 seats.

The Green party also won their first seat on Guildford Borough Council in Tillingbourne ward.

Aftermath

Following the election the Green councillor chose to sit on the council as part of the R4GV group.

On 15 May 2019 councillors voted by 23 to 19 to elect the Liberal Democrat group leader, Caroline Reeves, as Leader of Guildford Borough Council over the leader of the R4GV group, Joss Bigmore. On 20 May 2019 Caroline Reeves announced that (including herself) the council's Cabinet would consist of 8 Liberal Democrats, 1 R4GV and 1 GGG councillor with an additional R4GV councillor attending cabinet as a non-voting deputy. [21] However, on 27 August 2019 the GGG member of the Cabinet resigned and was subsequently replaced by an additional R4GV councillor (the formerly non-voting deputy member of the Cabinet). [22] [23]

In May 2020 it was announced that an agreement had been reached between the Liberal Democrats and R4GV to rotate the council leadership between them as part of a coalition arrangement which saw four Liberal Democrat councillors leave the council's Cabinet and be replaced by two R4GV councillors to create an evenly split cabinet of four Liberal Democrat and four R4GV councillors. [24]

Ward by Ward

In each of the wards indicated with an *, one of the R4GV gains is a notional one due to one councillor elected in the ward in 2015 having already defected to R4GV prior to the 2019 election being called. In all wards a 'gain' is defined as a seat gained from the party who won it at the most recent election even if the party who won it in 2015 no longer held it going in to the 2019 election.

Ash South & Tongham (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Graham Eyre 973 51.6
R4GV Paul Abbey 961 51.0
Conservative Paul Spooner 853 45.3
Conservative Nigel Kearse81743.3
Liberal Democrats Philip Buckley51927.5
Liberal Democrats Sinclair Webster48425.7
Turnout 1,88530.45
Conservative hold Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Ash Vale (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nigel Manning 631 57.9
Conservative Marsha Moseley 619 56.8
Liberal Democrats Miranda Hoegen47743.8
Turnout 1,08925.6
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Ash Wharf (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jo Randall 763 58.4
Conservative Andrew Gomm 756 57.9
Green Sam Richards48437.1
Liberal Democrats Roslyn McMillan29422.5
Turnout 1,30628.34
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Burpham (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ted Mayne 972 53.8
Liberal Democrats George Potter 922 51.0
Conservative Christian Holliday61033.7
Conservative Mike Piper56831.4
Labour Sue Hackman24213.4
Labour Poppy Ni Bhroithe-Barnett18010.0
Majority
Turnout 1,80842.67
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Christchurch (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Joss Bigmore 1,042 50.5
R4GV Dennis Booth 845 40.9
Conservative Matt Furniss67332.6
Conservative Nikki Nelson-Smith60829.4
Liberal Democrats Paul Hienkens45021.8
Labour Joan O'Byrne1939.3
Labour Mark Redhead1436.9
Majority
Turnout 2,06547.86
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Clandon & Horsley (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
GGG Catherine-Anne Young 2,907 76.7
R4GV Tim Anderson 2,726 71.9
R4GV Christopher Barrass 2,666 70.3
Conservative Jonathan Rogerson94725.0
Conservative Caroline Heath-Taylor70418.6
Conservative Alex Fiuza53214.0
Majority
Turnout 3,79055
GGG hold Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Effingham (top 1 candidate elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Liz Hogger 529 56.8
GGG Ben Paton24526.3
Conservative Christopher Jay14715.8
Majority28430.5
Turnout 93144.93
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Friary & St Nicolas (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Caroline Reeves 1,371 58.9
Liberal Democrats Angela Goodwin 1,332 52.4
Liberal Democrats Tom Hunt 1,134 44.6
R4GV Fiona Davidson90735.7
Conservative John De Wit40916.1
Conservative Bill Stokoe40515.9
Labour Elizabeth Mpyisi38115.0
Labour Brian Creese33613.2
Conservative Vaibhav Pant33113.0
Labour Matthew Smith31112.2
Majority
Turnout 2,54137.6
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Holy Trinity Ward (top 3 candidates elected) *
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Maddy Redpath 968 37.9
R4GV John Redpath 932 36.5
R4GV John Rigg 911 35.7
Liberal Democrats Ciarán Doran86033.7
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Gale83432.7
Liberal Democrats Stephen Mallet64425.2
Conservative Alexandra Chesterfield61724.2
Conservative Geoff Davis61524.1
Conservative Gerry Lytle55921.9
Labour Gregory Clack2118.3
Labour Chris Pegman1847.2
Labour Alexander Scott1546.0
Majority
Turnout 2,55142.04
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Lovelace (top 1 candidate elected) *
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Colin Cross 789 90.5
Conservative Julie Iles839.5
Majority707
Turnout 88245.56
R4GV gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Merrow (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Deborah Seabrook 1,731 62.9
Liberal Democrats Steven Lee 1,047 38.1
Liberal Democrats Jan Harwood 976 35.5
Conservative Jennifer Jordan85631.1
Conservative Philip Brooker78928.7
Conservative Graham Ellwood65623.9
Labour John Hawthorne34512.5
Labour Michael Hill32711.9
Labour Michael Hassell29410.7
Majority
Turnout 2,75045.9
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Normandy (top 1 candidate elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Bilbé 451 41.7
Liberal Democrats Henry Kay38235.3
GGG Peter Elliott24822.9
Majority
Turnout 109444.4
Conservative hold Swing
Onslow (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Goodwin 891 47.5
Liberal Democrats Jon Askew 819 43.6
Liberal Democrats Will Salmon 815 43.4
R4GV Howard Moss77541.3
Conservative Adrian Chandler41922.3
Conservative Helen Harris39921.3
Labour Jacob Allen33617.9
Labour Richard Mithen30116.0
Conservative Neil Ward18710.0
Majority
Turnout 1,87734.93
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Pilgrims (top 1 candidate elected) *
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Tony Rooth 507 65.0
Conservative Sallie Barker37035.0
Majority
Turnout 89052.46
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
Pirbright (top 1 candidate elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gordon Jackson 392 67.4
Liberal Democrats Russel Sherrard-Smith12721.8
Labour Akanshya Gurung6310.8
Majority
Turnout 58729.31
Conservative hold Swing
Send (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
GGG Patrick Sheard 1,217 75.5
GGG Susan Parker 1,150 71.3
Conservative Julia Osborn35722.1
Conservative Alexander Stewart-Clark23414.5
Labour Rob Woof1398.6
Majority
Turnout 1,61247.56
GGG hold Swing
GGG hold Swing
Shalford (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Chris Blow 825 46.1
GGG Ramsey Nagaty 637 35.6
Conservative Michael Parsons48927.3
Conservative Bob Hughes43124.1
Liberal Democrats Jillian Doran33618.8
Liberal Democrats Vanessa King29416.4
Labour Tim Wolfenden18110.1
Independent Mark Taylor1287.1
Majority
Turnout 1,79142.92
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
GGG gain from Conservative Swing
Stoke (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Angela Gunning 648 52.1
Labour James Walsh 496 39.9
Liberal Democrats Lizzie Griffiths42434.1
Conservative Paul Mackie33827.2
Conservative Tay-Jarl Andessen29523.7
Majority
Turnout 1,24428.11
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Stoughton (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Pauline Searle 1,476 61.1
Liberal Democrats Gillian Harwood 1,431 59.2
Liberal Democrats Masuk Miah 1,317 54.5
Conservative David Quelch57423.7
Conservative Philip Hooper51321.2
Labour Anne Rouse43017.8
Labour Shelley Grainger39916.5
Conservative Malachy Ujam37715.6
Labour Nick Trier33713.9
Majority
Turnout 2,41735.01
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Tillingbourne (top 2 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Billington 825 49.8
Green Diana Jones 745 45.0
Conservative David Wright73444.3
Liberal Democrats Liam O'Keefe67941.0
Majority
Turnout 1,65641.71
Conservative hold Swing
Green gain from Conservative Swing
Westborough (top 3 candidates elected)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Julia McShane 898 47.7
Liberal Democrats Fiona White 801 42.6
Liberal Democrats James Steel 779 41.4
Labour Amanda Creese51927.6
Labour George Dokimakis49326.2
Labour Howard Smith46824.9
Conservative Liz Hooper31116.5
Conservative Sheila Kirkland31116.5
Conservative Alastair Knowles30616.3
Peace John Morris19010.1
Peace Valerie Drummond1538.1
Peace Frances Worpe1166.2
Majority
Turnout 1,88129.91
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Worplesdon (top 3 candidates elected) *
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
R4GV Bob McShee 1,308 54.3
R4GV Elizabeth McShee 1,160 48.2
R4GV Ruth Brothwell 1,003 41.6
Conservative David Elms80333.3
Conservative Keith Witham76231.6
Conservative Dennis Paul67528.0
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Edwards47219.6
Labour Ali Mirmak30712.7
Labour Dominic Stone29512.2
Majority
Turnout 2,40937.99
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing
R4GV gain from Conservative Swing

By-elections

Friary & St Nicolas: 6 May 2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Cait Taylor 1,056 39.2 -19.7
R4GV Dom Frazer66024.5-11.2
Conservative Sallie Barker54820.3+4.2
Labour Jacob Allen43016.0+1.0
Majority
Turnout 2,69439.59
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Pirbright: 6 May 2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Keith Witham 440 60.8 -6.6
Green Claire Whitehouse11916.4N/A
R4GV Gerry Lytle10915.1N/A
Labour Ali Mirmak567.7-3.1
Majority
Turnout 72434.51
Conservative hold Swing
Send: 6 May 2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
GGG Guida Esteves 851 52.4 -23.1
Conservative Justin Offord50030.8+8.7
Green Sam Peters20612.7N/A
Labour Charlotte Smith684.2-4.4
Majority
Turnout 1,62547.88
GGG hold Swing
Tillingbourne: 20 October 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Morris 636 46.5 +5.5
Conservative Justin Offord29321.4-28.4
R4GV Clare Price18513.5N/A
Green Sam Peters16812.3-32.7
Labour John Marsh856.2N/A
Majority
Turnout 1,367
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

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