Truro Tregolls (electoral division)

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Truro Tregolls
ward
Cornwall Council.
Truro Tregolls electoral division map 2021.svg
Boundary of Truro Tregolls in Cornwall from 2021.
County Cornwall
Population6,555
Electorate 4,802
Current ward
Created 2021  ( 2021 )
CouncillorLoic Rich (Independent)
Number of councillorsOne
Created fromTruro Tregolls
UK Parliament constituency Truro and Falmouth

Truro Tregolls (Cornish: Truru Tregollas) is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on Cornwall Council. The current Councillor is Loic Rich, an Independent. [1]

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Background

The division covers the east of Truro including Penair and Truro schools. [2] [3] The ward is home to 6,555 residents, and an electorate of 4,784.

Within the ward, 907 people (13.8% of the residents) specified a Cornish only identity and 79 (1.2%) Cornish in combination with British - this is consistent with the rest of Cornwall (14% and 1.6% respectively). [4]

Councillors

ElectionMemberParty
2009 Doris Ansari Liberal Democrat
2013 Loic Rich Independent
2017
2021 [note 1]

Election results

2021 election

2021 election: Truro Tregolls
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Loic Rich* 1,423 74.1 -1.2
Conservative Richard Ambler29115.1-2.0
Green Martha Green1065.5New
Labour Dianne Seale1015.3New
Turnout 1,92140-0.9
Independent hold
Majority
1,13258.9-0.9

2017 election

2017 election: Truro Tregolls [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Loic Rich 1,116 75.3 +34.5
Conservative Karlene Stokes25317.1+1.0
Liberal Democrats Scott Bennett1097.3-11.9
Majority86358.2+36.6
Rejected ballots50.3
Turnout 148340.9+9.7
Independent hold Swing +36.6

2013 election

2013 election: Truro Tregolls [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Loic Rich 461 40.8
Liberal Democrats Ros Cox21719.2
Conservative Judy Cresswell18216.1
UKIP James Minahan16914.9
Labour Margaret George686.0
Green Godfrey Allen292.6
Majority24421.6
Rejected ballots50.4
Turnout 113131.2
Independent gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

2009 election

2009 election: Truro Tregolls [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Doris Ansari 531 41.2
Conservative Jacqui Butler34827.0
Mebyon Kernow Loic Rich29322.7
Green Lindsay Southcombe1088.4
Majority18314.2
Majority100.8
Turnout 129033.2
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Notes

  1. Election contested under new ward boundaries

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