2007 Herefordshire Council election

Elections to Herefordshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, along with the other local elections in England and Scotland. The entire council was up for election, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2011. The Conservative Party gained a majority on the council, after seven years of the council being under no overall control.

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

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21	17	13	4	1
Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Independent	Labour	NL

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Ward Results

Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. All results are listed below:

Aylestone

Aylestone (2 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nicholas Louis Vaughan	736	23.47	+10.04
	Conservative	Denis Brian Wilcox*	658	20.98	+1.88
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Lloyd Williams*	514	16.39	−2.71
	Independent	Benjamin Timothy Francis Mason	481	15.34	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Christopher Howell	341	10.87	−6.93
	Green	Terry Hugh Oliver	209	6.67	+1.25
	Green	Rebecca Roseff	197	6.28	2.28
Majority			144	4.59
Turnout			3,136	36.29	−17.76
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Backbury

Backbury (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Josephine Elizabeth Pemberton*	638	57.37	+8.48
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Clifford	275	24.73	−12.72
	Green	Anthony Edward Winch	199	17.90	N/A
Majority			363	32.64
Turnout			1,112	46.43	−14.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

Belmont

Belmont (3 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Philip James Edwards*	845	18.13	−0.13
	Independent	Glenda Ann Powell*	512	10.99	−1.98
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Davies	464	9.96	−4.95
	Liberal Democrats	David Samuel George Hughes	384	8.24	−3.36
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Cecchetto	341	7.32	−3.24
	BNP	Elizabeth Ann Morris	311	7.10	N/A
	Conservative	Allan Bright Lloyd	278	5.97	−0.15
	Independent	Craig Rumball	270	5.79	N/A
	Conservative	Richard John Croot	241	5.17	+2.06
	Green	Celia Roberta Blackwell	234	5.02	N/A
	Labour	James Harding	212	4.55	−0.17
	Green	Aubrey Paget Baillie	209	4.48	N/A
	Labour	Neil David Barrington	198	4.25	−0.21
	Labour	Barbara Ann Evans	141	3.03	−0.36
Majority			80	1.72
Turnout			4,660	27.91	−19.83
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bircher

Bircher (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	William Luis Sebastian Bowen	904	70.85	+5.05
	Conservative	Michael Colin Dowding	372	29.15	−5.08
Majority			532	41.70
Turnout			1,276	57.07	−15.44
	Independent hold		Swing

Bringsty

Bringsty (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas William Hunt	465	45.54	+2.18
	Independent	Christopher John Grover	419	41.04	N/A
	Green	Kevin Abraham	137	13.42	N/A
Majority			46	4.50
Turnout			1,021	44.93	−19.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bromyard

Bromyard (2 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alan Seldon	649	23.27	N/A
	Independent	Bernard Hunt*	604	21.66	−0.08
	Conservative	Caroline Audrey Donnelly	550	19.72	+0.08
	Conservative	Justin Guy McBarnet	466	16.71	+4.08
	Green	Barbara Konig	368	13.19	N/A
		William Albert Gibbard	152	5.45	N/A
Majority			54	1.94
Turnout			2,789	36.45
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Burghill, Holmer & Lyde

Burghill, Holmer & Lyde (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Sally Jane Robertson*	969	90.90	+32.36
	Green	Julia Parker-Harris	97	9.10	N/A
Majority			872	81.80
Turnout			1,066	41.60	+5.58
	Independent hold		Swing

Castle

Castle (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John William Hope*	924	66.00	+6.58
	Independent	Roger Dudley Prout	293	20.93	N/A
	Green	Leslie Earl Hardy	183	13.07	N/A
Majority			631	45.07
Turnout			1,400	57.42	−12.38
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central

Central (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mark Arthur Fortescue Hubbard	413	63.83	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	David John Fleet*	234	36.17	−1.20
Majority			179	27.66
Turnout			647	33.07	−20.67
	Independent gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Credenhill

Credenhill (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Robert Ivor Matthews	424	42.53	−12.87
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Ida Short	254	25.48	−5.58
	Conservative	Elizabeth Barbara Newman	245	24.57	+11.03
	Green	Brian Ralph Lunt	74	7.42	N/A
Majority			170	17.05
Turnout			997	40.46	−21.32
	Independent hold		Swing

Frome

Frome (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patricia Mary Morgan	842	56.36	+9.69
	Green	Guy Harry Morgan Woodford	604	40.43	−4.77
	Independent	Robert Peter Wilson Nock	48	3.21	N/A
Majority			238	15.93
Turnout			1,494	58.16	−12.30
	Conservative hold		Swing

Golden Cross with Weobley

Golden Cross with Weobley (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Hutcheson Ruell Goodwin*	621	48.82	−1.87
	Independent	Martin Christopher Woodhouse Peacock	297	23.35	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Ann Hurds	241	18.95	−20.65
	Green	Jan Hardy	113	8.88	N/A
Majority			324	25.47
Turnout			1,272	54.07	−14.71
	Conservative hold		Swing

Golden Valley North

Golden Valley North (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip David Price	568	47.18	+10.85
	Independent	Brendan Charles Treanor	370	30.73	−1.52
	Green	Edwina Jane Hamilton	135	11.21	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Ernest Douglas Lawson	131	10.88	−20.54
Majority			198	16.45
Turnout			1,204	50.44	−15.54
	Conservative hold		Swing

Golden Valley South

Golden Valley South (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Berisford Williams*	422	33.76	−8.02
	Liberal Democrats	Ann-Maria Impey	408	32.64	−0.89
	Conservative	Richard Nicholas Gildart Jackson	333	26.64	+1.95
	Green	Anita Louisa Sancha	87	6.96	N/A
Majority			14	1.12
Turnout			1,250	52.85	−14.95
	Independent hold		Swing

Hagley

Hagley (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David William Greenow	426	37.08	+2.49
	Independent	Robert Michael Wilson*	399	34.72	−7.03
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Russell Wyness	324	28.20	+4.54
Majority			27	2.36
Turnout			1,149	41.82	−16.49
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Hampton Court

Hampton Court (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Gordon Grumbley	803	74.77	+28.29
	Green	Christine Ann Oxley	96	8.94	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Roland Charles Summers	94	8.75	−25.40
	Independent	Karen Marie Harmer	81	7.54	N/A
Majority			707	65.83
Turnout			1,074	49.25	−18.73
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hollington

Hollington (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Gerald Dawe	223	27.10	N/A
	Independent	Gillian Emily Thomas	204	24.79	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	William John Thomas*	203	24.66	−10.62
	Conservative	Barry Alan Durkin	193	23.45	+9.58
Majority			19	2.31
Turnout			823	51.49	−16.28
	Green gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Cllr Dawe previously stood as an Independent candidate in 2003.

Hope End

Hope End (2 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roy Vincent Stockton*	1,030	31.44	+0.73
	Conservative	Rees Mills	944	28.81	−0.22
	Green	Michael Leigh Abbott	487	14.87	+1.41
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Leonard Kimberley White	480	14.65	−0.87
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Joseph Vincent Geraghty	335	10.23	N/A
Majority			457	13.94
Turnout			3,276	43.28	−21.19
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kerne Bridge

Kerne Bridge (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Gilchrist Jarvis	507	41.46	+6.25
	Independent	Simon Wood Cole	485	39.66	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mars Jason Thomas	127	10.38	N/A
	Green	Adrian James Worgan	104	8.50	N/A
Majority			22	1.80
Turnout			1,223	48.66	−6.94
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Kington Town

Kington Town (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Morgan James	578	48.09	+9.99
	Independent	Allan William Lloyd	373	31.03	−5.34
	Conservative	Robert Noel David Pritchard	251	20.88	−4.65
Majority			205	17.06
Turnout			1,202	50.38	−16.81
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Ledbury

Ledbury (3 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Kay Swinburne	1,393	18.52	−0.33
	Conservative	Peter John Watts	1,331	17.69	5.00
	Conservative	Mary Edna Cooper	1,255	16.68	+7.49
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Frank Ashton*	976	12.98	−3.02
	Independent	Phillip Leslie Bettington	820	10.90	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Turi Benjamin Munthe	799	10.62	N/A
	Green	Stephen Edwin Betts	693	9.22	N/A
		Anthony Roland Bradford	255	3.39	N/A
Majority			279	3.70
Turnout			7,522	39.61	−17.93
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Leominster North

Leominster North (2 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Jones*	666	28.93	+2.30
	Conservative	June Patricia French*	607	26.37	−0.28
	Green	Felicity Mary Norman	438	19.03	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	David Anthony Hurds	216	9.38	N/A
	Labour	Edward Henry Clark	197	8.56	−5.54
	Independent	David Athelstan Romilly Martin	178	7.73	−2.30
Majority			169	7.34
Turnout			2,302	30.39	−18.90
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Leominster South

Leominster South (2 Seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roger Charles Hunt	827	32.97	+16.99
	Conservative	Dick Burke*	634	25.28	−0.41
	Green	Joan Thwaites	393	15.67	+8.76
	Independent	Aubrey Basil Greene	387	15.43	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Craig Forbes	267	10.65	+3.43
Majority			241	9.61
Turnout			2,508	32.82	−20.91
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Llangarron

Llangarron (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jennifer Ann Hyde*	699	61.32	+9.99
	Independent	Bryan John Stockley	248	21.75	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Hazel Rebecca Roberts	193	16.93	−1.42
Majority			451	39.57
Turnout			1,140	44.30	−16.53
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mortimer

The single seat in this ward was uncontested. The incumbent Conservative Party candidate Lillian Olwyn Barnett remained as the councillor for this ward.

Old Gore

Old Gore (1 Seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Theresa Margaret Ruth McLean	545	45.95	6.10
	Independent	John William Edwards*	448	37.78	−22.37
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Rachel Roberts	193	16.27	N/A
Majority			97	8.17
Turnout			1,186	49.81	−14.37
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing