Four Lanes (electoral division)

Four Lanes
Former ward Cornwall Council
Boundary of Four Lanes in from 2013-2021.
County	Cornwall
2013 (2013)–2021 (2021)
Number of councillors	One
Replaced by	Four Lanes, Beacon and Troon Pool and Tehidy
Created from	Carn Brea South

Four Lanes (Cornish: Peder Bownder) ^[1] was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council between 2013 and 2021. It was abolished at the 2021 local elections, being succeeded by Four Lanes, Beacon and Troon and Pool and Tehidy.

Councillors

Election	Member		Party
2013		Derek Elliot	UKIP
2017		Robert Hendry	Independent
2021	Seat abolished

Extent

Four Lanes covered the villages of Piece, Carnkie and Four Lanes and the hamlets of Tolskithy, Penhallick and Treskillard. The village of Illogan Highway was shared with the Pool and Tehidy division, the settlement of Blowinghouse was shared with the Redruth North division, the village of Brea was shared with the Camborne Treslothan division and parts of Carn Brea Village were covered by Redruth South division. The division covered 922 hectares in total. ^[2]

Election results

2017 election

2017 election: Four Lanes ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Robert Hendry	509	42.7
	Liberal Democrats	Florence Macdonald	280	23.5
	Conservative	Peter Sheppard	233	19.5
	Mebyon Kernow	Christopher Lawrence	82	6.9
	Liberal	Paul Holmes	77	6.5
Majority			229	19.2
Rejected ballots			12	1.0
Turnout			1193	34.2
	Independent gain from UKIP		Swing

2013 election

2013 election: Four Lanes ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Derek Elliot	239	28.5
	Conservative	Peter Sheppard	173	20.6
	Labour	Metthew Brown	169	20.1
	Liberal	Paul Holmes	143	17.0
	Mebyon Kernow	Christopher Lawrence	115	13.7
Majority			66	7.9
Rejected ballots			0	0.0
Turnout			839	24.5
	UKIP win (new seat)

References

• Cornwall portal

1. "Henwyn Tyller A-Z". Akademi Kernewek . Retrieved 19 April 2021.
2. "E05 Electoral Ward/Division Four Lanes". Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 19 April 2021.
3. "Election results for Four Lanes Cornwall Council elections - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Cornwall Council . Retrieved 19 April 2021.
4. "Election results for Four Lanes Cornwall Council elections - Thursday, 2nd May, 2013". Cornwall Council . Retrieved 19 April 2021.