2007 Salisbury District Council election

Elections to Salisbury District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election, and the Conservatives lost overall control, but were still the largest party winning twenty-two of the fifty-five seats available.

2007 Salisbury District Council election

3 May 2007 (2007-05-03)
All 54 seats to Salisbury District Council 28 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Con LD Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Last election 31 seats, 40.9% 9 seats, 29.4% Seats won 22 19 Seat change 9 10 Popular vote 15,861 11,723 Percentage 39.0% 28.8% Swing 1.9% 0.6%   Third party Fourth party   Lab Ind Party Labour Independent Last election 11 seats, 16.7% 4 seats, 9.0% Seats won 10 4 Seat change 1 Popular vote 4,430 4,031 Percentage 10.9% 9.9% Swing 5.8% 0.9%
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election No overall control

This was the last election of district councillors to take place in Salisbury. The following year, a government review of local government determined that the four district councils of Wiltshire were to be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority with effect from 1 April 2009, when Salisbury would be abolished and its councillors' term of office would end two years early.

Elections to the new unitary authority, Wiltshire Council, took place in June 2009.

Election result

Salisbury District Council elections, 2007

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	22	2	11	–9	40.7	39.0	15,861
	Liberal Democrats	19	10	0	+10	35.2	28.8	11,723
	Labour	10	0	1	–1	18.5	10.9	4,430
	Independent	4	1	1	0	7.4	9.9	4,031
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	6.9	2,801
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	4.6	1,854

Electoral division results

Alderbury and Whiteparish

Alderbury and Whiteparish (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leo Randall	1,198
	Conservative	Richard Clewer	1,097
	Conservative	Richard Britton	1,067
	Green	Barbara Bayfield	626
	UKIP	Judith Wykeham	532
	UKIP	Neville Bush	528
	UKIP	Michael Wykeham	468
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Amesbury East

Amesbury East (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dennis Brown	909
	Conservative	John Noeken	849
	Conservative	Ian Mitchell	836
	Liberal Democrats	Jan Swindlehurst	642
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Muirhead	574
	Liberal Democrats	Nathan Muirhead	533
	UKIP	Margaret Strange of Balcaskie	377
	Green	Jayne Downton	290
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Amesbury West

Amesbury West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Westmoreland	381	67.0
	Green	Christine Bell	188	33.0
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bemerton

Bemerton (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Iris Evans	782
	Labour	Clive Vincent	713
	Labour	Michael Osment	653
	Conservative	Pete Kell	437
	Conservative	Tony Morland	424
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Bishopdown

Bishopdown (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John English	698
	Conservative	Kevin Cardy	561
	Conservative	Penny Brown	538
	Labour	Richard Rogers	421
Majority
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bulford

Bulford (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Smale	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	James Spencer	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chalke Valley

Chalke Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ted Draper	589	87.4
	Green	Maggie Shepherd	85	12.6
Majority			504
	Independent hold		Swing

Donhead

Donhead

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John-Anthony Cole-Morgan	579	71.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Edgley	234	28.8
Majority			345
	Conservative hold		Swing

Downton and Redlynch

Downton and Redlynch (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Launchbury	1,108
	Conservative	David Luther	961
	Conservative	Caroline Morrison	924
	Liberal Democrats	Pamela Edge	507
	Liberal Democrats	Vincent Reilly	410
	Green	Adam Gent	396
	Green	Stephanie Jalland	359
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Durrington

Durrington (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Broom	802
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Wright	787
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Lee	740
	Conservative	Mark Baker	673
	Conservative	John Rodell	646
	Conservative	Cathy Hollis	589
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Ebble

Ebble

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bryan Rycroft	360	50.3
	Independent	Hedley Farris	237	33.3
	Green	Jan Bradford	60	8.4
	UKIP	Pauline Pratt	58	8.1
Majority			123
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fisherton and Bemerton Village

Fisherton and Bemerton Village (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Walsh	560
	Labour	Andrew Roberts	518
	Liberal Democrats	Gregor Condliffe	484
	Liberal Democrats	Russell Morley	464
	Conservative	Ben Frost	313
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Fonthill and Nadder

Fonthill and Nadder

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Parker	419	51.6
	Conservative	Tony Deane	393	48.4
Majority			26
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Harnham East

Harnham East (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Helena McKeown	817
	Liberal Democrats	Cheryl Hill	778
	Conservative	Donald Culver	551
	Conservative	Williams Snow	544
Majority
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Harnham West

Harnham West (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Murial Tomlinson	813
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Dalton	803
	Conservative	Josa Snow	335
	Conservative	Anthony von Roretz	321
	UKIP	Frances Howard	117
	Independent	Colin Duller	97
	UKIP	Tony Gatling	88
	Labour	Malcolm Simmons	76
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Knoyle

Knoyle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Fowler	660	84.7
	UKIP	Elaine Cadogan	119	15.3
Majority			541
	Conservative hold		Swing

Laverstock

Laverstock (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian McLennan	728
	Conservative	John King	626
	UKIP	Patrick Houston	378
	Green	Alexander Langlands	363
	UKIP	Frederick Dickenson	217
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lower Wylye and Woodford Valley

Lower Wylye and Woodford Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Dennis	393	53.3
	Conservative	John Brady	344	46.7
Majority			49
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

St Edmund and Milford

St Edmund and Milford (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Bobbie Chettleburgh	1,171
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Sample	1,128
	Green	Sue Wright	302
	Conservative	David Robinson	284
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

St Mark and Stratford

St Mark and Stratford (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	James Robertson	1,379
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Thorpe	1,370
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Curr	1,364
	Conservative	Patrick Paisey	898
	Conservative	Jeremy Nettle	881
	Conservative	Derek Brown	855
Majority
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

St Martin and Milford

St Martin and Milford (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Tomes	716
	Labour	Simon Howarth	684
	Conservative	Chris Cochrane	489
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Phelps	485
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Steel	464
	Conservative	Tom Griffiths	451
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Paul

St Paul (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Steven Fear	703
	Labour	Paul Clegg	652
	Conservative	John Lindley	310
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Till Valley and Wylye

Till Valley and Wylye (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian West	1,113
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Mills	1,074
	Conservative	Nicholas Gallop	543
	UKIP	Jennifer MacDougall	273
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Tisbury and Fovant

Tisbury and Fovant (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Josephine Green	946
	Conservative	Richard Beattie	800
	Liberal Democrats	Felicity Corp	466
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Lennard	362
Majority
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Upper Bourne, Idmiston and Winterbourne

Upper Bourne, Idmiston and Winterbourne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kevin Wren	850
	Conservative	Mike Hewitt	802
	Independent	Paul Fisher	732
	Green	Hilary Munro	491
	Labour	Virginia McLennan	207
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Western and Mere

Western and Mere (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	George Jeans	1,011
	Conservative	Catherine Spencer	1,011
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Payne	300
Majority
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wilton

Wilton (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Edge	820
	Liberal Democrats	John Holt	665
	Conservative	Anthony Brown-Hovelt	471
	Conservative	Jim Rhind-Tutt	393
	Labour	Dave Roberts	137
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Winterslow

Winterslow (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Moss	777
	Conservative	Christopher Devine	700
	Liberal Democrats	Bridget Salisbury	599
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Baxter	529
	Labour	Mark Riches	100
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• Salisbury District Council elections