2011 South Oxfordshire District Council election

The 2011 South Oxfordshire District Council election was held on 5 May 2011 to elect members of South Oxfordshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.^[1]

Elections were held for all 48 seats on the council. The Conservative Party won 33 seats. The Liberal Democrats won seven seats and Henley Residents Group won two. The Labour Party won one seat and two independent candidates each won a seat. The Conservative Party kept overall control of the council, with its majority reduced to 27.

Summary of results

South Oxfordshire District Council elections result 2011^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	33	+3	-8	-5	68,75	46.1	24,253	-
Liberal Democrats	4	+1	-3	-2	8.33	16.7	8,807	-
Labour	4	3	0	+3	8.33	14.6	7,567	+
Independent	5	3	0	+3	10.42	13.8	7,253	+
Henley Residents	2	1	0	+1	4.17	3.5	1,849	+
Green	0	0	0	0	0	4.8	2,522
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	242

The Conservative Party's share of votes fell from 50.9% in the 2007 South Oxfordshire District Council election^[3] to 46.1% in 2011.^[2] In 2011 Conservative candidates won three seats from Liberal Democrats. However, Conservative candidates also lost three seats to independent candidates, three to Labour, one to the Henley Residents Group and one to a Liberal Democrat. The Conservatives had won 38 seats in 2007^[3] but were reduced to 33 in 2011. However, this was still almost 69% of the 48 seats on the council, and gave the Conservative group an overall majority of 15.

The Liberal Democrats' share of votes fell from 28.6%^[3] in 2007 to 16.7% in 2011.^[2] The net result of their gaining seats from and losing seats to the Conservatives reduced their number of members on the council to four. However, the Liberal Democrats retained the second largest share of total votes in the district.

The Labour Party increased its share of votes from 7.3% in 2007^[3] to 14.6% in 2011.^[2] Gaining three seats from the Conservatives increased its number of members on the council to four.

In 2007 two independent candidates were elected to the district council.^[3] In 2011 both of these independent councillors were re-elected and three gained seats from Conservatives, increasing the number of independent councillors to five.^[2]

In 2007 one Henley Residents Group councillor was elected.^[3] In 2011 HRG held that seat and won a second, increasing its number of members on the council to two.^[2] HRG won an average of 37.2% of votes in the two wards that it contested.

In 2007 there were Green Party candidates in eight of the district's 29 wards.^[3] In 2011 there were only four Green Party candidates in four wards. They won an average of 16.64% of votes in the wards that they contested, and 3.43% of total votes cast in South Oxfordshire District, but no seats.^[2]

There was one UK Independence Party candidate, who contested a ward in Didcot. He won 8.6% of the votes in that ward, and was not elected.^[2]

Ward results

Aston Rowant

Aston Rowant 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dorothy Brown	793	78.2
	Liberal Democrats	David Stanley Mancey	221	21.8
Turnout
Majority			572
	Conservative hold		Swing

Benson

Benson 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Felix Bloomfield	1,053
	Conservative	Rachel Elizabeth Ruth Wallis	857
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Cooper	795
	Liberal Democrats	George Francis Daniel Levy	336
	Green	Andrea Jane Powell	275
	Labour	Adam Wood	266
Turnout
Majority			62

Berinsfield

Berinsfield 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Phil Cross	954
	Independent	Marc Geoffrey Hiles	790
	Conservative	Richard James Huntley	786
	Green	Mark Christopher Stevenson	729
Turnout
Majority			4

Brightwell

Brightwell 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Celia Jane Collett	681	64.1
	Conservative	Mark Hanson	300	28.2
	Labour	Liz Neighbour	81	7.6
Turnout
Majority			381
	Independent hold		Swing

Chalgrove

Chalgrove 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	David Graham Turner	729	61.6
	Conservative	Carol Fowler	375	31.7
	Labour	Paul David Collins	80	6.8
Turnout
Majority			354
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chiltern Woods

Chiltern Woods 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Judith Mary Nimmo-Smith	715	73.9
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Stephen Davies	141	14.6
	Labour	Veronica Treacher	112	11.6
Turnout
Majority			574
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chinnor

Chinnor 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Christopher Allen Hood	1,054
	Conservative	Geoff Andrews	1,026
	Independent	Pat Haywood	740
	Independent	Martin George Wright	737
	Labour	Simon Stone	327
Turnout
Majority			286
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cholsey and Wallingford South

Cholsey and Wallingford South 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Mark Stuart Gray	1,229
	Conservative	Pat Dawe	883
	Conservative	Felicity Ann Aska	838
	Labour	Mandy Winters	459
	Labour	John Charles Moody	229
Turnout
Majority			391
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crowmarsh

Crowmarsh 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kristina Elizabeth Crabbe	510	55.4
	Liberal Democrats	John Howard Griffin	403	44.6
Turnout
Majority			98
	Conservative hold		Swing

Didcot All Saints

Didcot All Saints 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Terry Joslin	647
	Conservative	Margaret Ann Turner	642
	Conservative	Jane Murphy	635
	Labour	Nick Hards	597
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Peter Jones	226
	Liberal Democrats	James Robert Loder	185
Turnout
Majority			45

Didcot Ladygrove

Didcot Ladygrove 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Tony Richard John Harbour	1,106
	Conservative	Bill Service	1,060
	Independent	Neville Frank Harris	948
	Conservative	Roger Mark Hawlor	903
	Labour	Bill Atkinson	529
	Labour	Nicola Jane Williams	506
	Labour	Robert Allen Bulman	408
	UKIP	Paul John Williams	242
Turnout
Majority			45

Didcot Northbourne

Didcot Northbourne 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Bernard Douglas Cooper	504
	Conservative	Steve Connell	458
	Labour	Scott Robert Wilgrove	442
	Liberal Democrats	David Rouane	429
	Conservative	Phil Hayward	428
	Independent	Sue Such	348
Turnout
Majority			16

Didcot Park

Didcot Park 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Margaret Lesley Davies	769
	Labour	Eleanor Hards	730
	Conservative	Christopher Edwin Harrison	668
	Conservative	Alan Roy Thompson	640
	Liberal Democrats	Jen Parry	253
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Worgan	180
Turnout
Majority			62
	Labour hold		Swing

Forest Hill and Holton

Forest Hill and Holton 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Purse	621	61.5
	Conservative	Ginette Camps-Walsh	389	38.5
Turnout
Majority			232
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Garsington

Garsington 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Gillespie	639	65.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Jackson	331	34.1
Turnout
Majority			308
	Conservative hold		Swing

Goring

Goring 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Ann Ducker	1,447
	Conservative	Pearl Slatter	1,199
	Green	Peter Hugh Dragonetti	866
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Shirley Wardle	551
	Labour	Fran Barefield	394
Turnout
Majority			333
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Milton

Great Milton 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stephen Harrod	641	60.3
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Court	422	39.7
Turnout
Majority			219
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Hagbourne

Hagbourne 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Leo Docherty	831	73.7
	Labour	Alison Lane	296	26.3
Turnout
Majority			535
	Conservative hold		Swing

Henley North

Henley North 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Henley Residents	Elizabeth Hodgkin	923
	Conservative	Joan Bland	801
	Conservative	Lorraine Hillier	789
	Henley Residents	Martin Sydney Akehurst	696
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Philip Allison	139
	Liberal Democrats	Neill James Robert Hendry	123
	Labour	Paul Holland	116
Turnout
Majority			93

Henley South

Henley South 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Henley Residents	Jennifer Wood	926
	Conservative	William Arthur Henry Hall	723
	Independent	Ken Arlett	710
	Conservative	David Michael Silvester	670
	Liberal Democrats	Asbjorg Dunker	274
	Liberal Democrats	Barry George Wood	253
	Labour	Margaret Goodwin	208
Turnout
Majority			13

Sandford

Sandford 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Anthony Cotton	424	47.7
	Independent	John Ernest Stimson	248	27.9
	Labour	Will Atkinson	216	24.3
Turnout
Majority			176
	Conservative hold		Swing

Shiplake

Shiplake 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Malcolm Leonard	1,371
	Conservative	Rob Simister	1,176
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Wardle	345
	Labour	Janet Matthews	321
Turnout
Majority			2,202
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sonning Common

Sonning Common 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Paul Harrison	1,461
	Conservative	Alan Geoffrey Rooke	1,259
	Green	Aidan Lawrence Carlisle	652
	Labour	David Winchester	486
Turnout
Majority			607
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thame North

Thame North 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Mike Welply	1,075
	Liberal Democrats	David William Bretherton	898
	Liberal Democrats	Jeanette Ann Matelot Green	800
Turnout
Majority			277

Thame South

Thame South 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	David William Dodds	1,065
	Independent	Ann Midwinter	916
	Labour	Mary Honora Stiles	892
	Liberal Democrats	David Arthur Laver	422
	Liberal Democrats	Pete Barker	313
Turnout
Majority			24

Wallingford North

Wallingford North 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Marcus David Harris	854
	Conservative	Imran Lokhon	810
	Independent	Charles Brinley Ledlie	643
	Labour	George William Kneeshaw	493
	Labour	Graham Ruecroft	406
Turnout
Majority			167
	Conservative hold		Swing

Watlington

Watlington 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Anna Fairbairn Badcock	1,351
	Conservative	Angie Paterson	1,328
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Hancock	536
	Labour	James Herbert Merritt	366
Turnout
Majority			792
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wheatley

Wheatley 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Janet Maureen Carr	976
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Thomas Bell	786
	Conservative	John Patrick Walsh	724
	Liberal Democrats	Helena Tess Harris	694
Turnout
Majority			42

Woodcote

Woodcote 2011^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher John Quinton	703	63.8
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Heys Pierce	304	27.6
	Labour	Amanda Holland	95	8.6
Turnout
Majority			399
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

References

^ "England council elections". BBC Online. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Teale, Andrew. "South Oxfordshire". Local Election Results 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Teale, Andrew. "South Oxfordshire". Local Election Results 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
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[1] "England council elections". BBC Online. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2018.

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