Addiscombe East | |
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ward for Croydon Council | |
County | Greater London |
Current ward | |
Created | 2018 |
Councillor | Maddie Henson (Labour) |
Councillor | Jeet Bains (Conservative) |
Number of councillors | Two |
Created from | Ashburton |
UK Parliament constituency | Croydon East |
Addiscombe East is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, in London in the United Kingdom. The ward replaced the former Ashburton Ward, which covered the Ashburton area, as well as covering the main retail area of Addiscombe, the Stroud Green, Tollgate and Longheath Garden estates, and large parts of northern Shirley. The population of the former ward at the 2011 Census was 14,721. [1]
The ward currently forms part of the Croydon Central constituency, which is one of the most marginal in the country. In 2015, only 165 votes separated the Conservatives and Labour.
The ward returns two councillors every four years to Croydon Council. At the 2018 London local elections Maddie Henson and Jeet Bains were elected. They were both re-elected at the 2022 London local elections.
Election | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | ||||||||
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2018 | Ward created | |||||||||||
Maddie Henson | Labour | Jeet Bains | Conservative |
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the ward at each Croydon mayoral election.
Year | Mayoral candidate | Party | Winner? | |
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2022 | Val Shawcross | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jeet Bains* | 1,545 | 22.0 | ||
Labour | Maddie Henson* | 1,377 | 19.6 | ||
Conservative | Kyle Knight | 1,347 | 19.2 | ||
Labour | Tom Bowell | 1,184 | 16.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Bennett | 434 | 6.2 | ||
Green | Bernice Golberg | 425 | 6.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Rachel Howard | 400 | 5.7 | ||
Green | Nicholas Burman-Vince | 308 | 4.4 | ||
Turnout | 3,817 | 43.04 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maddie Henson | 1,903 | 23.1 | ||
Conservative | Jeet Bains | 1,754 | 21.3 | ||
Labour | Caragh Louise Skipper | 1746 | 21.2 | ||
Conservative | Joseph Lee | 1709 | 20.8 | ||
Green | Tim Eveleigh | 273 | 3.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Bennett | 207 | 2.5% | ||
Green | Bernice Clare Goldberg | 197 | 2.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Valerie Barbara Astles | 197 | 2.4 | ||
Majority | 8 | 0.10 | |||
Turnout | 4111 | 46.77 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
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