2016 Woking Borough Council election

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2016 Woking Borough Council election
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  2015 5 May 2016 2018  

All 30 seats to Woking Borough Council
16 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Seats won1773
Seat change–7–2+1
Popular vote34,98020,7077,647
Percentage47.51%28.13%10.39%
Swing

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
Party Independent UKIP Green
Seats won300
Seat change+2
Popular vote3,9823,9562,351
Percentage5.41%5.37%3.19%
Swing

The 2016 Woking Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Woking Borough Council in England. [1] This was on the same day as other elections across the UK and the Police and Crime Commissioner election for Surrey Police.

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Boundary changes had included a shrinking of the council from 36 councillors to 30 councillors, and all 30 council seats in the 10 new wards were up for election. In each ward, 3 candidates were elected, with the leading candidate in each ward being elected for 4 years, the second-placed candidate being elected for 3 years and the third-placed candidate being elected for 2 years. As a result, there will be no borough elections in 2017, but a third of the council will be due for re-election in each of 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Summary

Prior to this all-out election on new ward boundaries, the Conservatives had a strong majority on the council, with 24 seats compared to 9 for the Liberal Democrats, 2 Labour councillors, and one Independent.

Despite remaining the largest party by a clear margin of 10 seats over their nearest rivals, the result was considered slightly disappointing for the Conservatives, who saw their council majority over all other parties reduced to four seats.

Independent candidates won all three seats in Byfleet, defeating sitting LibDem councillor and former Mayor Anne Roberts and the Conservative councillors Gary Elson and Richard Wilson. The Liberal Democrats won all three seats in the new Hoe Valley ward and shared the spoils with the Conservatives in Goldsworth Park, Mount Hermon and St Johns. Labour took all three seats in the Canalside Ward (where the Conservative council was taking forward a controversial redevelopment and regeneration scheme in the Sheerwater area). However, the Conservatives did rack up four extremely convincing wins (with majorities in each ward of c.1,000 votes) in the wards of Heathlands, Horsell, Knaphill and Pyrford.

There were very close battles, resulting in three ‘split wards’, in Goldsworth Park, Mount Hermon and St Johns, but, arguably, no results were closer than those in the Mount Hermon ward, where Conservative councillor Carl Thomson and Liberal Democrat councillor Liam Lyons both lost their seats, and where only 64 votes separated the second and fifth placed candidates, and just 22 votes separated those who placed second and fourth.

In the election, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats were the only two parties to field a full slate of thirty candidates. UKIP stood one candidate in each of the ten wards, and two in Canalside, for a total of eleven candidates in all. Labour nominated sixteen candidates in total, but stood them across just seven out of the ten wards. The Greens fielded one candidate in each of seven wards, for a total of seven nominations. The best result for the Greens was in Knaphill, where their candidate James Brierley was the runner-up to the three successful Conservative candidates.

After the election, long-standing council leader Councillor John Kingsbury continued in office with the support of the Conservative group. [2] Councillor Kingsbury later announced his retirement as council leader in 2017, and stood down as a councillor at the 2018 local elections. [3]

Woking Borough Council election, 2016
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 17N/AN/A–756.66%47.51%34,980
  Liberal Democrats 7N/AN/A–223.33%28.13%20,707
  Labour 3N/AN/A+110%10.39%7,647
  Independent 3N/AN/A+210%5.41%3,982
  UKIP 0N/AN/A005.37%3,956
  Green 0N/AN/A003.19%2,351
Totals30N/AN/A–6100%100%73,623

Ward by ward

Byfleet and West Byfleet

Byfleet and West Byfleet (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent John Edwin Bond (elected for 4 years)1,474
Independent Amanda Jayne Boote (elected for 3 years)1,385
Independent Mary Ann Bridgeman (elected for 2 years)1,123
Conservative Richard Arthur Gillard Wilson1,011
Conservative Gary William Elson929
Conservative Pauline Mary Hedges922
Liberal Democrats Anne Elizabeth Roberts724
Liberal Democrats Andrew Nigel Grimshaw582
Liberal Democrats Karon Jane Read534
UKIP Neil James Willetts295
Registered electors 8,316
Turnout 334140.18%
Independent win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)

Canalside

Canalside (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Tahir Aziz (elected for 4 years)1,106
Labour Mohammad Ali (elected for 3 years)1,071
Labour Mohammad Ilyas Raja (elected for 2 years)1,060
Conservative Paula Jane Marcus868
Conservative Matthew Howard Provost829
Conservative Colin Patrick Scott807
UKIP David Simon Roe383
UKIP Judith Diana332
Liberal Democrats Rebecca Elisabeth Whale300
Green Christopher David Calvin Dykes281
Liberal Democrats Gareth Davies279
Liberal Democrats Norman Grenville Johns230
Registered electors 7,517
Turnout 286238.07%
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Goldsworth Park

Goldsworth Park (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Ann-Marie Barker (elected for 4 years)894
Liberal Democrats Ian Eastwood (elected for 3 years)885
Conservative Chitra Rana (elected for 2 years)858
Conservative Laura Ashall847
Liberal Democrats James Richard Sanderson806
Conservative Rizwan Shah707
Labour John Scott-Morgan366
UKIP Troy de Leon356
Labour William Eric Owen327
Labour Robina Shaheen327
Green Eve Catherine Carnall219
Registered electors 7,036
Turnout 251035.67%
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Heathlands

Heathlands (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Kevin Mark Davis (elected for 4 years)1,519
Conservative Ayesha Azad (elected for 3 years)1,462
Conservative Robert John Kingsbury (elected for 2 years)1,375
Liberal Democrats Margaret Marion Hill586
Liberal Democrats Henry David Kay555
Liberal Democrats Alison Jane Sanderson482
Green Anna Katharine Wright380
UKIP Richard Peter Farr Squire336
Labour John Martin316
Registered electors 7,014
Turnout 271138.65%
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Hoe Valley

Hoe Valley (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Will Forster (elected for 4 years)1,126
Liberal Democrats Louise Mary Nell Morales (elected for 3 years)1,022
Liberal Democrats Deborah Elizabeth Hughes (elected for 2 years)967
Conservative Nathalie Bourne614
Conservative John Frederick Lawrence567
Conservative Daryl Martin Smith506
UKIP Jim Gore322
Labour Nigel Peter Jackson276
Labour Frances Louise Carpenter275
Labour Christopher David Martin249
Registered electors 6,292
Turnout 235237.38%
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Horsell

Horsell (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Beryl Ann Hunwicks (elected for 4 years)1,744
Conservative Colin Sidney Kemp (elected for 3 years)1,651
Conservative Anne Elizabeth Murray (elected for 2 years)1,569
Liberal Democrats Anthony Laurence Kremer871
Liberal Democrats Rosemary Peta Johnson758
Liberal Democrats Samuel David Watts519
UKIP Stephen Anthony Herbert366
Labour Elizabeth Anne Evans348
Green Lucy Rhodes Dykes310
Labour Colin Robert Bright285
Labour Thomas George Willis244
Registered electors 7,177
Turnout 313443.67%
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Knaphill

Knaphill (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Sajjad Hussain (elected for 4 years)1,587
Conservative Melanie Anne Whitehand (elected for 3 years)1,333
Conservative Deborah Harlow (elected for 2 years)1,293
Green James William Brierley407
Liberal Democrats Vanessa Ellicott399
Liberal Democrats David Geoffrey Barker394
Labour Richard Peter Ford384
UKIP Terence John Knight372
Liberal Democrats Syed Waqar Haider Jaffri223
Registered electors 7,506
Turnout 259134.52%
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Mount Hermon

Mount Hermon (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative David John Bittleston (elected for 4 years)1,289
Liberal Democrats Ian Johnson (elected for 3 years)1,168
Conservative Mark Russell John Pengelly (elected for 2 years)1,159
Conservative Carl William Thomson1,146
Liberal Democrats Liam Stuart Lyons1,104
Liberal Democrats Sinclair Aubrey Webster980
Green John Robert George Parkin379
UKIP Lynda Mary Sage229
Registered electors 7,389
Turnout 278237.65%
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Pyrford

Pyrford (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Graham Gray Chrystie (elected for 4 years)1,892
Conservative Ashley Christian Lawrence Bowes
(elected for 3 years)
1,853
Conservative Rashid Mohammed (elected for 2 years)1,433
Liberal Democrats Ian Michael Lachowicz579
UKIP Robin Deller Millner523
Labour Misbah Zahid521
Labour David Williams492
Liberal Democrats Richard Peter John Sanderson497
Liberal Democrats Guy Tuson Cosnahan373
Registered electors 7,346
Turnout 317243.18%
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

St Johns

St Johns (3 seats) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Graham Stephen Cundy (elected for 4 years)1,174
Conservative Hilary Jane Addison (elected for 3 years)1,098
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Howard (elected for 2 years)1,052
Liberal Democrats Christina Judith Liddington1,043
Conservative Paul Graham Smith938
Liberal Democrats Christopher James Took775
UKIP Timothy Martin Read442
Green Joel Benjamin Street375
Registered electors 7,264
Turnout 265036.48%
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

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