Colin Noble | |
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Leader of Suffolk County Council | |
In office 21 May 2015 –24 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Mark Bee |
Succeeded by | Matthew Hicks |
Cabinet Member for Finances and Resources at Suffolk County Council | |
In office Jun 2013 –May 2014 | |
Cabinet Member for Adult & Community Services at Suffolk County Council | |
In office Jul 2009 –May 2013 | |
District Councillor for Lakenheath ward at Forest Heath District Council | |
In office 5 May 2011 –2 May 2019 | |
Chairman of Audit Scrutiny Committee at Forest Heath District Council | |
In office May 2012 –May 2016 | |
Suffolk County Councillor for Row Heath | |
Assumed office 8 June 2006 | |
Preceded by | Matthew Edwards |
Personal details | |
Born | Newmarket, England | 10 June 1965
Political party | Conservative |
Website | askcolinnoble |
Colin Lawrence Noble (born 10 June 1965) is a British politician of the Conservative Party. He served as leader of the Suffolk Conservatives group [1] and Leader of Suffolk County Council from May 2015 to May 2018. [2] [3]
He was first elected as a County Councillor at a by-election for the county electoral division of Row Heath in the constituency of West Suffolk on 8 June 2006. [4]
Colin was elected to Forest Heath District Council at the 2011 United Kingdom local elections as one of the two District Councillors for Lakenheath ward. [5]
From 2011 to 2014, he was the Norfolk and Suffolk Area Chairman for the Conservative Party. In September 2017 Colin became the Deputy Chairman (Political) for the Eastern Region Conservatives.
He became Leader of the Conservative group on Suffolk County Council on 7 April 2015. At the annual general meeting of Suffolk County Council on 21 May 2015 he was duly elected Leader of Suffolk County Council. [6] At the Suffolk County Council Conservative leadership election held on 11 May 2018 Colin was defeated by County Councillor Matthew Hicks and left office as Leader of Suffolk County Council on 24 May 2018 at its Annual General Meeting. [7] [8]
Colin was elected to the Conservative Councillors Association board in January 2019 and served on it as the county representative till January 2020. [9]
In March 2019 he became a board member and Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise, an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Transport. [10] [11]
Colin Noble was born in Newmarket, West Suffolk [ citation needed ]. His father, Lawrence Noble, died in a road accident in Suffolk in May 2016. [12]
He attended school at King's Ely in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He lives in the village of Lakenheath in north-west Suffolk. [13]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Colin Noble | 1,222 | 61.5 | +20.7 | |
UKIP | Ian Smith | 297 | 14.9 | +5.6 | |
Labour | David Bowman | 219 | 11.0 | -11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Huggan | 118 | 5.9 | -7.1 | |
Independent | David Chandler | 110 | 5.5 | -9.3 | |
Independent | David Hitchman | 22 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 925 | 46.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,988 | 27.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Colin Noble | 1,466 | 52.5 | ||
UKIP | Ian Smith | 842 | 30.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Minshall | 307 | 11 | ||
Labour | Thomas Caple | 178 | 6.4 | ||
Majority | 624 | ||||
Turnout | 2824 | 39 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Noble | 1,104 | 43.43 | -9.1 | |
UKIP | Ian Smith | 881 | 34.66 | ||
Independent | David Gathercole | 284 | 11.17 | ||
Labour | Pamela Brown | 197 | 7.75 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Minshall | 76 | 2.99 | ||
Majority | 223 | 8.8 | -13.6 | ||
Turnout | 2542 | 32.85 | -9.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Noble | 1,362 | 52.4 | +9.1 | |
Independent | David Gathercole | 383 | 14.7 | +3.5 | |
Independent | John Smith | 379 | 14.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Jack Fawbert | 313 | 12.0 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ralph Brownie | 164 | 6.3 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 979 | 37.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,601 | 32.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
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