Bracknell Forest Borough Council election, 2015

The 2015 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all the members of Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England to coincide with other local elections, an election which was held simultaneously with the 2015 General Election, resulting in higher turnout than the previous election. ^[1]

Results

Conservative party candidates won 41 of the 42 seats. A Labour Party councillor held one of seats of the Labour party group. The election saw a one-seat loss by Labour compared to the previous election. ^[2] As compared to the last election, the result marks a gain of one councillor by Conservatives. The result can alternatively be considered a gain of five Conservative councillors, counting three by-elections and a defection from the Conservative party grouping during the 2011-2015 council, bringing the Majority Group total before the election to 36. ^{[3] [4]}

Bracknell Forest Council Election, 2015

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	41	1	0	+1	98	59	71287
	Labour	1	0	1	-1	2	23	28313
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	8	9966
	Liberal Democrat	0	0	0	0	0	4	5120
	Greens	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	2558
	Hanworth & Birch Hill Residents	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	1680
	Binfield Independent Conservatives	0	0	0	0	0	1.05	1280
	Independent (candidates)	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1259
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0	0.18	218

Ward by ward

Ascot

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dorothy Hayes	1916
	Conservative	Tony Virgo	1607
	Labour	Bob Draper	420
	Green	Sarah Cottle	385
	Labour	Tony House	319
	Liberal Democrat	David Lindop	298
	Liberal Democrat	Tristan Pithers	223
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Binfield with Warfield (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Harrison	2995
	Conservative	Sarah Peacey	2917
	Conservative	Ian Leake	2813
	Binfield Independent Conservatives	Nigel Rennie	1280
	Labour	David Fawcett	1028
	Labour	Timothy Hanson	906
	Labour	Dennis Good	759
Majority
Turnout				70
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bullbrook (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bob Angell	1547
	Conservative	Kirsten Miller	1365
	Labour	Caroline Egglestone	884
	Labour	Graham Firth	775
	Liberal Democrat	Kim Lyons	422
Majority
Turnout				63
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central Sandhurst (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Brossard	1717
	Conservative	Phillip King	1585
	Labour	Anne Brunton	552
	Liberal Democrat	Dale William Clark	456
	Labour	Alan Harold Round	321
Majority
Turnout				69
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

College Town (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Nick Allen	1765
	Conservative	Pauline McKenzie	1563
	Labour	Narendra Angdembe	544
	Labour	Keith Roberts	419
	Liberal Democrat	Darren Bridgman	342
Majority
Turnout				66
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crown Wood (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Colin Dudley	1809
	Conservative	Marc Brunel-Walker	1723
	Conservative	Suki Hayes	1491
	Labour	Wilf Holness	988
	UK Independence (UKIP)	David Jones	904
	Labour	John Wright	856
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Olivio Barreto	811
	Labour	Matthew White	808
Majority
Turnout				63
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crowthorne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Jim Finnie	1774
	Conservative	Bob Wade	1567
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Pope	611
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Freeman	534
	Labour	Vera Shambrook	400
	Labour	Nazeer Mohammed	346
Majority
Turnout				72
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Hollands North (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Mary Temperton	1823
	Conservative	Peter Hill	1348
	Conservative	Michael Gbadebo	1321
	Labour	Naheed Ejaz	829
	Green	Mark Brown	390
	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	Neil Adams	88
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Great Hollands South (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Jan Angell	1087
	Conservative	Jennie McCracken	1083
	Labour	Clive Temperton	839
	Labour	Peter Frewer	601
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Jeff Newbold	479
	Green	Derek Florey	306
	Liberal Democrat	Thomas MacMahon	245
Majority
Turnout				67
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hanworth (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Gill Birch	1689
	Conservative	Sandra Ingham	1531
	Conservative	Malcolm Tullett	1530
	Labour	Adam Smith	854
	Labour	James Quinton	797
	UK Independence (UKIP)	William Davison	780
	Hanworth & Birch Hill Residents	Charles Baily	778
	Labour	Stephen Young	701
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Charles Wade	667
	Hanworth & Birch Hill Residents	David Elford	480
	Hanworth & Birch Hill Residents	Philip Pitt	422
	Liberal Democrat	David Droar	379
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harmans Water (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Isabel Mattick	2037
	Conservative	Christopher Turrell	1973
	Conservative	Ash Merry	1953
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Shelagh Pile	951
	Labour	Nicola Strudley	847
	Labour	Keith MacDonald	841
	Labour	Diane Thomas	820
	UK Independence (UKIP)	John Stringer	711
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Robert Warren	640
	Green	Susan Rayment	419
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Little Sandhurst and Wellington (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dale Birch	1578
	Conservative	Paul Bettison	1570
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Vandersluis	568
	Labour	Val Goodwin-Higson	506
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Paul Connell	495
	Labour	John Piasecki	331
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

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Old Bracknell (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Heydon	1191
	Conservative	Iain McCracken	1087
	Labour	Roy Bailey	819
	Labour	Kathleen Nugent	797
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Roger Inions	461
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Amira Sagher	406
	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	Terry Pearce	68
	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	Val Pearce	62
Majority
Turnout				62
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Owlsmoor (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Porter	1390
	Conservative	David Worrall	1261
	UK Independence (UKIP)	John Blewitt	542
	Liberal Democrat	Ray Earwicker	468
	Labour	Brian Wilson	340
	Liberal Democrat	Larraine De Laune	284
	Labour	Leo Anniballi	277
Majority
Turnout				70
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Priestwood and Garth (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Alvin Edwin Finch	1561
	Conservative	Graham Birch	1296
	Conservative	Tina McKenzie-Boyle	1281
	Labour	Tricia Brown	1038
	Labour	Paul Bidwell	1033
	Labour	Diane Allum-Wilson	902
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Terry Dilliway	842
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Carolynn Tilbury	634
Majority
Turnout				61
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Warfield Harvest Ride (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Gareth Barnard	3081
	Conservative	Robert McLean	2380
	Conservative	Cliff Thompson	2164
	Green	Adrian Haffegee	710
	Labour	Maggie Gibbons	588
	Labour	Anne Shillcock	512
	Independent	Jason Kilmartin	449
	Independent	Martyn Towle	403
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wildridings & Central (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dee Hamilton	1092
	Conservative	Michael Skinner	988
	Labour	Andrew Jackson	694
	Labour	Guy Gillbe	660
	Liberal Democrat	Patrick Smith	290
	Independent	Lee Cooper	219
	Independent	Justin Bellhouse	188
Majority
Turnout				64
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

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Winkfield & Cranbourne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Moira Gaw	1864
	Conservative	Susie Phillips	1797
	UK Independence (UKIP)	Ken La Garde	643
	Green	Derek Wall	348
	Labour	Carol Draper	291
	Labour	Lesley Hunter	248
Majority
Turnout				73
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015. 
2. 2015 Results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-19.
3. 2011 results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-20
4. Borough Elections ^{[ permanent dead link ]} Bracknell News. Alanna Harmsworth. 8 May 2015. Accessed 20 May 2015.