The 2016 Winchester City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections.
Every seat was contested following boundary changes which saw the number of seats reduce from 57 to 45. The count for this election was conducted on 7 May 2016. [2]
Before the election, the composition of Winchester City Council was:
The result of the election was:
The table below only tallies the votes of the highest polling candidate for each party within each ward. This is known as the top candidate method and is often used for multi-member plurality elections.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 25 | 25 | 0 |  | 55.56 | 40.6 | 16,917 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | 20 | 20 | 0 | | 44.44 | 34.2 | 14,252 | ||
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 |  | 11.7 | 4,888 | |||
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 3.4 | 1,430 | |||
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 4.4 | 1,830 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lisa Griffiths | 1720 | |||
| Conservative | Kim Gottlieb | 1686 | |||
| Conservative | Ernie Jeffs | 1658 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Margot Power | 1425 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Keith Divall | 1180 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Russell Gordon-Smith | 1162 | |||
| Labour | Ian Wight | 245 | |||
| Labour | Lee Hayes | 197 | |||
| Labour | James Leppard | 150 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | Eleanor Bell | 1485 | |||
| Conservative | Jan Warwick | 1386 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Brian Laming | 1350 | |||
| Conservative | Rob Ducker | 1305 | |||
| Conservative | Gavin Dick | 1231 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | John Romero | 1198 | |||
| UKIP | Chris Bardon-Briddon | 318 | |||
| Labour | Peter Rees | 207 | |||
| Labour | Alun Glyn Rees | 203 | |||
| Labour | Jonathan Tettmar | 161 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Rob Humby | 1169 | |||
| Conservative | David McLean | 1165 | |||
| Conservative | Stephen Miller | 1146 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Thomas Houghton | 393 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Benjamin Stoneham | 378 | |||
| Labour | Steve Haines | 353 | |||
| UKIP | Vivienne Young | 347 | |||
| Labour | Laurie Clough | 313 | |||
| Labour | Steven Jakubowski | 274 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Sudhakar Achwal | 230 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frank Pearson | 1576 | |||
| Conservative | Vicki Weston | 1529 | |||
| Conservative | Linda Gemmell | 1473 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Sheila Campbell | 678 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Margret Scriven | 533 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Anne Stoneham | 454 | |||
| UKIP | Leslie Mitchell | 453 | |||
| Labour | Stan Evans | 273 | |||
| Labour | Alexander Graft | 253 | |||
| Labour | Nicola Wardrop | 252 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | Richard Izard | 1094 | |||
| Conservative | Sue Cook | 782 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Robert Johnston | 573 | |||
| Conservative | Maureen Rees | 554 | |||
| Green | Julia Hallman | 146 | |||
| Labour | Paul Brown | 128 | |||
| Labour | Sonia Critcher | 122 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mike Read | 1429 | |||
| Conservative | Patricia Stallard | 1400 | |||
| Conservative | Caroline Brook | 1188 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Negus | 433 | |||
| Labour | Claire Sorensen | 387 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Simon Wernick | 278 | |||
| Labour | Jacqueline Carroll | 219 | |||
| Labour | Steve Della Mora | 184 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Liberal Democrat | Angela Clear | 1002 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Therese Evans | 890 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Neil Cutler | 826 | |||
| Conservative | Mags Brown | 384 | |||
| Conservative | Leon Dabbs | 352 | |||
| Conservative | Neil Lander-Brinkley | 279 | |||
| UKIP | Ian Norgate | 229 | |||
| Labour | Gary Gray | 99 | |||
| Labour | Paul Sony | 83 | |||
| Labour | Paul Harris | 80 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | Kelsie Learney | 1406 | |||
| Conservative | Eileen Berry | 1395 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Anne Weir | 1378 | |||
| Conservative | Paul Twelftree | 1317 | |||
| Conservative | Angie Wilkinson | 1112 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Cameron Johnson | 1089 | |||
| Winchester Independent | Kezia Hoffman | 661 | |||
| Labour | Hannah Field | 307 | |||
| Labour | Adrian Field | 293 | |||
| Labour | Tessa Valentine | 274 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | Dominic Hiscock | 926 | |||
| Conservative | Rose Burns | 832 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Nicki Elks | 737 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Williams | 667 | |||
| Conservative | Sue Falconer | 563 | |||
| Green | Lucy Clement | 517 | |||
| Labour | Clive Gosling | 474 | |||
| Conservative | David Crudgington | 466 | |||
| Independent | Michael Coker-Davies | 461 | |||
| Labour | Kathleen East | 441 | |||
| Green | Michael Wilks | 426 | |||
| Labour | Lawrence Mason | 340 | |||
| Green | Rhian Harrison | 327 | |||
| UKIP | Bob Barnes | 271 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Liberal Democrat | Jamie Scott | 732 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Derek Green | 590 | |||
| Labour | Patrick Davies | 247 | |||
| Labour | Andrew Adams | 157 | |||
| Conservative | Harry Sampson | 145 | |||
| Conservative | George Marshall-James | 117 | |||
| Winchester Independents | Tomos James | 102 | |||
| Green | Kia Pope | 76 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Conservative | Fiona Mather | 1129 | |||
| Conservative | Guy Ashton | 1054 | |||
| Conservative | Ian Tait | 1041 | |||
| Labour | Janet Berry | 680 | |||
| Winchester Independents | Judith Martin | 624 | |||
| Labour | Sharon Montgomery | 514 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | John Higgins | 474 | |||
| Labour | Nicola Tettmar | 457 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Elks | 439 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | David Banks | 357 | |||
| Green | Dinah Barton | 352 | |||
| Green | Robert Parker | 293 | |||
| Green | Tasha Harrison | 248 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Liberal Democrat | Liz Hutchinson | 1174 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Martin Tod | 1055 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Lucille Thompson | 1008 | |||
| Conservative | George Beard | 724 | |||
| Conservative | Kerry Halfpenny | 702 | |||
| Conservative | Steve Russell | 616 | |||
| Labour | Karen Barratt | 496 | |||
| Labour | Nigel Fox | 419 | |||
| Winchester Independents | TC Dunlop | 385 | |||
| Labour | Jonathan Morris | 320 | |||
| Green | Lee Ingram | 265 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Liberal Democrat | Jackie Porter | 1257 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Jane Rutter | 1150 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Malcolm Prince | 1049 | |||
| Conservative | Matt Palmer | 642 | |||
| Conservative | Stan Howell | 607 | |||
| Conservative | Tom Crofts | 557 | |||
| Labour | Kimberley Torkington | 218 | |||
| Labour | Catherine Hutchinson | 170 | |||
| Labour | Richard Carthew | 159 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Conservative | Amber Thacker | 1134 | |||
| Conservative | Laurence Ruffell | 1010 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Chris Day | 319 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Lewis North | 286 | |||
| Labour | Peter O'Sullivan | 268 | |||
| Labour | Joe Tugwell | 198 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Liberal Democrat | Vivian Achwal | 801 | |||
| Conservative | Roger Huxstep | 751 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Roger Bentote | 747 | |||
| Conservative | Andy Baker | 710 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Fern | 677 | |||
| Conservative | Cynthia Town | 628 | |||
| UKIP | David Walbridge | 212 | |||
| Green | Anne Coleman | 150 | |||
| Labour | David Picton-Jones | 113 | |||
| Independent | Malcolm Butler | 110 | |||
| Labour | Anne West | 109 | |||
| Labour | John Staples | 83 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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| Conservative | Stephen Godfrey | 1719 | |||
| Conservative | Caroline Horrill | 1612 | |||
| Conservative | James Byrnes | 1552 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Katy Toms | 653 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Ian Gordon | 592 | |||
| Labour | Melanie Middleton | 393 | |||
| Labour | Richard James | 314 | |||
| Labour | Antony De Peyer | 278 | |||
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