Woking Borough Council election, 2010

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Map of the results of the 2010 Woking council election. Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue. Wards in grey were not contested in 2010. Woking UK local election 2010 map.svg
Map of the results of the 2010 Woking council election. Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue. Wards in grey were not contested in 2010.

The 2010 Woking Council election took place on 1 May 2010, on the same day as the 2010 general election, to elect members of Woking Borough Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

Borough status in the United Kingdom is granted by royal charter to local government districts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The status is purely honorary, and does not give any additional powers to the council or inhabitants of the district. In Scotland, similarly chartered communities were known as royal burghs, although the status is no longer granted.

Surrey County of England

Surrey is a subdivision of the English region of South East England in the United Kingdom. A historic and ceremonial county, Surrey is also one of the home counties. The county borders Kent to the east, East Sussex and West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the northwest, and Greater London to the northeast.

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After the election, the composition of the council was

Conservative Party (UK) Political party in the United Kingdom

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it is the largest in the House of Commons, with 313 Members of Parliament, and also has 249 members of the House of Lords, 18 members of the European Parliament, 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 8,916 local councillors.

Liberal Democrats (UK) Political party in the United Kingdom

The Liberal Democrats are a centrist, liberal political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Vince Cable. It has 11 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 96 members of the House of Lords, one member of the European Parliament, five Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Assembly and London Assembly. At the height of its influence, the party served as junior partners in a coalition government with the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2015.

Background

After the last election in 2008 the Conservatives held a majority on the council with 19 seats, compared to 17 for the Liberal Democrats. [3] However, in July 2009 the Conservatives lost their majority after councillor Peter Ankers resigned from the Conservatives to sit as an independent. [4]

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

13 of the 36 seats on the council were contested in the election with the leader of the council, Conservative John Kingsbury, among the councillors who were defending seats. [5] Byfleet ward saw 2 seats being contested after Conservative councillor Simon Hutton resigned from the council earlier in the year. [6]

Byfleet inland island village forming a suburb of Woking in Surrey, England

Byfleet is a village in Surrey, England. It is located in the far east of the borough of Woking, around 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of West Byfleet, from which it is separated by the M25 motorway and the Wey Navigation.

Election result

The results saw no party win a majority, with the Conservatives the largest party on 18 seats, the Liberal Democrats on 17 and 1 Independent. [7] The Conservatives gained 1 seat in Mount Hermon East after Carl Thomson defeated Liberal Democrat councillor Norman Johns. However, the Liberal Democrats took another seat back after winning one of the two seats contested in Byfleet ward. [6] Among the Conservatives to hold their seats was Mohammed Iqbal in Maybury and Sheerwater ward, who was therefore able to become the first Asian mayor of Woking. [6] Overall turnout in the election was 69.73%. [8]

Sheerwater a town in Surrey, United Kindom

Sheerwater is a residential neighbourhood or small suburb of the Borough of Woking in Surrey, England, occasionally described as a village, between West Byfleet and Horsell. Its border is defined to the north by a gently winding part of the Basingstoke Canal and to the south by the South Western Main Line which passes from cutting level to that of an embankment. The neighbourhood has a business park and light industry at its south-western end. The whole area is linear, includes diverse green spaces to north and south, and covers 0.92 square kilometres (0.36 sq mi) or 92 hectares.

Asian people or Asiatic people are people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

The election also saw Jonathan Lord win the Woking parliamentary constituency with 26,551 votes, beating Liberal Democrat Rosie Sharpley into second place. [9] The seat had previously been held by Humfrey Malins, who announced his intention to stand down in 2009. [10]

Jonathan Lord British politician

Jonathan George Caladine Lord is a British Conservative Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Woking at the 2010 and has since been re-elected at the 2015 and 2017 general elections. He succeeded Humfrey Malins, his Conservative predecessor who stood down at that election.

Woking (UK Parliament constituency) UK Parliament constituency in South East England

Woking is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. To date it has elected at each election the Conservative Party candidate.

Humfrey Jonathon Malins CBE is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon North West and later Woking.

Woking Local Election Result 2010 [8] [2]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Liberal Democrat 711053.842.618,287-1.5%
  Conservative 611046.244.118,940-2.6%
  Labour 000007.83,338+3.2%
  UKIP 000005.52,361+0.9%

Ward results

Map of the results of the 2010 Woking council election showing ward names. Coloured by party which finished top in each ward. Woking 2010 election map.png
Map of the results of the 2010 Woking council election showing ward names. Coloured by party which finished top in each ward.
Byfleet (2) [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Dorothy Farrant1,657
Liberal Democrat Barnabas Shelbourne1,655
Conservative Irene Watson Green1,609
Liberal Democrat Richard Stennett1,469
UKIP Richard Squire364
Labour Celia Wand310
Labour Michael Wood289
Turnout 7,35369.5+25.4
Conservative hold Swing
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative Swing
Goldsworth East [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Bryan Cross1,86150.4-8.0
Conservative Hilary Addison1,26734.3+4.0
Labour Tom Crisp37310.1+4.5
UKIP Marcia Taylor1895.1-0.7
Majority59416.1-12.0
Turnout 3,69066.3+26.3
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Goldsworth West [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Denzil Coulson1,27151.6-3.7
Conservative Anthony Casey85034.5+3.6
Labour Paul Brown2208.9-0.8
UKIP Leo Dix1214.9+0.7
Majority42117.1-7.3
Turnout 2,46264.5+33.2
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Hermitage and Knaphill South [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Kenneth Howard1,35250.3-13.9
Conservative Valerian Hopkins89633.3+11.6
UKIP Duncan Clarke2489.2+2.1
Labour Chancal Kapoor1927.1+0.1
Majority45617.0-25.5
Turnout 2,68867.2+30.9
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Horsell West [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Ann-Marie Barker1,85245.0+0.7
Conservative Simon Ashall1,80543.8-4.2
UKIP Timothy Shaw2455.9+1.4
Labour Colin Bright2175.3+2.1
Majority471.1
Turnout 4,11976.7+27.4
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Knaphill [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Richard Sharp2,12842.9-6.9
Conservative Alexander Callaby2,10742.5-2.9
Labour Richard Ford3947.9+7.9
UKIP Matthew Davies3326.7+2.0
Majority210.4-4.0
Turnout 4,96169.5+30.0
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Maybury and Sheerwater [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Iqbal Mohammed2,03443.0+8.0
Liberal Democrat Jamil Shabbana1,87139.5-9.6
Labour Stephen Tudhope52511.1-0.4
UKIP Pamela Wellstead3056.4+2.0
Majority1633.4
Turnout 4,73566.4+17.8
Conservative hold Swing
Mayford and Sutton Green [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Simon Bellord84054.5-16.5
Liberal Democrat William Forster-Warner60639.4+19.3
UKIP David Roe493.2-1.5
Labour Linda Kendall452.9-1.3
Majority23415.2-35.7
Turnout 1,54081.2+30.8
Conservative hold Swing
Mount Hermon East [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Carl Thomson1,29148.1-6.2
Liberal Democrat Norman Johns1,17543.8+1.4
Labour Sabir Hussain1495.6+5.6
UKIP Judith Squire672.5-0.7
Majority1164.3-7.6
Turnout 2,68270.8+23.4
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat Swing
Mount Hermon West [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Liam Lyons1,40948.7-12.3
Conservative Alexander Celesius1,11438.5+2.6
Labour Elizabeth Evans2548.8+8.8
UKIP Mary Kingston1184.1+1.1
Majority29510.2-14.9
Turnout 2,89564.7+26.8
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
St Johns and Hook Heath [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative John Kingsbury1,59060.0-12.6
Liberal Democrat Diana Landon74328.0+5.3
UKIP Marion Free1596.0+1.3
Labour John Scott-Morgan1586.0+6.0
Majority84732.0-17.9
Turnout 2,65074.6+33.4
Conservative hold Swing
West Byfleet [8] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Gary Elson1,88059.7-13.7
Liberal Democrat Toby Matthews89528.4+6.7
Labour Audrey Worgan2126.7+6.7
UKIP Robin Milner1645.2+0.4
Majority98531.3-20.4
Turnout 3,15174.2+35.0
Conservative hold Swing

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