2006 Crawley Borough Council election

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2006 Crawley Borough Council election [1]
  2004 4 May 2006 2007  

12 of the 37 seats to Crawley Borough Council
19 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Seats before16192
Seats won831
Seats after19162
Seat changeIncrease2.svg3Decrease2.svg3Steady2.svg
Popular vote10,0226,1413,244
Percentage46.7%28.6%15.1%

Crawley UK local election 2006 map.svg
Map showing the results of the 2006 Crawley Borough Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats, blue shows the Conservatives and yellow shows the Liberal Democrats. Wards in grey had no election.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Conservative

The 2006 Crawley Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex, England. One third of the council was up for election. The Conservative gained overall control of the council from the Labour Party, albeit with a majority of just one seat. [2]

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Ward results

Bewbush

Bewbush [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Christopher Redmayne 634 43.2%
Conservative Kevan McCarthy44230.1%
Liberal Democrats Michael Scott21114.4%
Independent Robin Burnham1268.6%
Justice PartyArshad Khan563.8%
Majority19213.1%
Turnout 1,469
Labour hold

Broadfield North

Broadfield North [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Adam Brown 500 42.2%
Labour Thakordas Patel50042.2%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Richardson18615.7%
Majority00.0%
Turnout 1,186
Conservative gain from Labour

Broadfield South

Broadfield South [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Alan Quirk 549 47.0%
Labour Jayne Skudder43737.4%
Liberal Democrats James Cotter988.4%
Green Darrin Green847.2%
Majority1129.6%
Turnout 1,168
Conservative hold

Furnace Green

Furnace Green [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Michael Weatherley 1,004 46.5%
Labour Eugene Sully45721.2%
Liberal Democrats Roger McMurray33215.4%
BNP Vernon Atkinson29813.8%
Independent Oliver Coxhead693.2%
Majority54725.3%
Turnout 2,160
Conservative hold

Ifield

Ifield [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative John Denman 883 34.9%
Labour John Stanley86234.1%
BNP George Baldwin44717.7%
Liberal Democrats Barry Hamilton2429.6%
Independent Richard Symonds943.7%
Majority210.8%
Turnout 2,528
Conservative gain from Labour

Langley Green

Langley Green [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour James Smith 888 52.8%
Conservative Charles Skinner48228.7%
Liberal Democrats Kevin Osborne31218.5%
Majority40624.1%
Turnout 1,682
Labour hold

Maidenbower

Maidenbower [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Lucy Brockwell 1,418 74.7%
Liberal Democrats Robert Huston28615.1%
Labour Ansar Khan19410.2%
Majority1,13259.6%
Turnout 1,898
Conservative hold

Northgate

Northgate [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Linda Seekings 625 46.0%
Labour William Ward34925.7%
Conservative Robert Burgess33524.7%
Socialist Labour Christine Townsend493.6%
Majority27620.3%
Turnout 1,358
Liberal Democrats hold

Pound Hill North

Pound Hill North [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Richard Burrett 1,560 76.4%
Labour Andrew Skudder28013.7%
Liberal Democrats Victoria Seekings2019.8%
Majority1,28062.7%
Turnout 2,041
Conservative hold

Pound Hill South and Worth

Pound Hill South and Worth [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Lee Burke 1,549 70.1%
Liberal Democrats Edward Reay33915.3%
Labour Rajesh Sharma32114.5%
Majority1,21054.8%
Turnout 2,209
Conservative hold

Southgate

Southgate [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Howard Bloom 936 38.7%
Labour Robbie Sharma73830.5%
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Bonner27111.2%
BNP Richard Trower26310.9%
Green Malcolm Liles2128.8%
Majority1988.2%
Turnout 2,420
Conservative gain from Labour

West Green

West Green [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Robert Hull 481 36.0%
Conservative Jarnail Singh36427.3%
BNP Kevin Watt21015.7%
Liberal Democrats Andrew Beckett14110.6%
Independent Rebecca O'Gorman13910.4%
Majority1178.7%
Turnout 1,335
Labour hold

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  2. "Local elections: Crawley". BBC News Online . Retrieved 12 June 2019.