The 2015 Aylesbury Vale District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Aylesbury Vale District Council in Buckinghamshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2011.[1] The Conservative Party remained in overall control of the council.[2]
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Election result
editOverall turnout at the election was 68%.[3]
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 43 | +7 | 72.9 | 44.0 | 76,413 | -5.0% | |||
Liberal Democrats | 9 | -8 | 15.3 | 15.5 | 26,920 | -9.8% | |||
UKIP | 4 | +1 | 6.8 | 21.8 | 37,886 | +7.1% | |||
Labour | 2 | +1 | 3.4 | 7.2 | 12,454 | -0.1% | |||
Independent | 1 | -1 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 3,724 | -1.0% | |||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.4 | 16,282 | +9.0% |
Ward results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Collins | 2,701 | |||
Conservative | William Chapple | 2,664 | |||
Conservative | Carole Paternoster | 2,591 | |||
UKIP | Philip Yerby | 1,853 | |||
UKIP | Geoffrey Baile | 1,532 | |||
UKIP | Lesley Baile | 1,429 | |||
Labour | Martin Abel | 770 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Neil Stuart | 766 | |||
Green | Huseyin Caglayan | 710 | |||
Green | Cameron Kaye | 604 | |||
Turnout | 15,620 | 76 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tom Hunter-Watts | 1,638 | |||
Conservative | Mark Winn | 1,568 | |||
UKIP | Angelicka Bignell | 746 | |||
UKIP | Daneil Lewis | 662 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Glenda Reynolds | 598 | |||
Independent | Philip Gomm | 579 | |||
Labour | Lyn Griffiths | 546 | |||
Green | Matthew Edwards | 288 | |||
Green | Alexander Attridge | 199 | |||
Turnout | 6,824 | 77 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Simon Cole | 1,358 | |||
Conservative | Timothy Mills | 1,259 | |||
Labour | Ruth Newell | 803 | |||
UKIP | Nicholas Shipp | 595 | |||
Labour | Christine Strain-Clark | 590 | |||
Green | Dinah Barton | 413 | |||
Turnout | 5,018 | 60 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robin Stuchbury | 1,478 | |||
Conservative | Howard Mordue | 1,307 | |||
Conservative | Florence Hunter | 962 | |||
Labour | Jon Harvey | 873 | |||
UKIP | Nicola Adams | 315 | |||
UKIP | Louise Howitt | 290 | |||
Turnout | 5,225 | 65 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Barbara Russel | 1,075 | |||
Conservative | Edward Sims | 944 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Mary Baldwin | 752 | |||
Labour | Michael Padmore | 625 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Marcus Rogers | 570 | |||
UKIP | Gavin Richardson | 567 | |||
UKIP | Joshua Richardson | 481 | |||
Labour | Grzegorz Popek | 427 | |||
Green | Christian Kaye | 280 | |||
Green | Colin Bloxham | 211 | |||
Turnout | 5,932 | 66 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Steven Lambert | 1,781 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Michael Smith | 1,280 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Cole | 1,260 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Stuart Jarvis | 1,226 | |||
Conservative | Zulifqar Ahmed | 1,128 | |||
Conservative | Paul Hughes | 1,068 | |||
UKIP | Deborah Huntley | 958 | |||
UKIP | Roger Huntley | 860 | |||
UKIP | Brian Wright | 751 | |||
Labour | Zard Khan | 571 | |||
Green | Jerdrzej Kulig | 305 | |||
Green | Stephen Brown | 259 | |||
Green | Alice Haylock | 221 | |||
Turnout | 11,668 | 66 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Poll | unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Raj Khan | 729 | |||
UKIP | Andrew Hetherington | 666 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Niknam Hussain | 652 | |||
Labour | David Caldwell | 632 | |||
Conservative | Ammer Raheel | 604 | |||
UKIP | Janet Reynolds | 567 | |||
Labour | Gary Paxton | 516 | |||
Conservative | Kevin Rogers | 496 | |||
Green | Suzannah McCarthy | 220 | |||
Green | Zachary-Rhys Nuttall | 131 | |||
Turnout | 5,213 | 59 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Anders Christensen | 1,047 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Tuffail Hussain | 993 | |||
Conservative | Paul Moore | 959 | |||
UKIP | Philip Hayes | 932 | |||
Conservative | Elizabeth Lumley | 882 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Samantha Pullen | 879 | |||
UKIP | Dorren Merridan | 792 | |||
Conservative | Mark Roberts | 784 | |||
Labour | Lucio Tangi | 774 | |||
UKIP | Frederick Merridan | 770 | |||
Green | Deborah King | 345 | |||
Green | Matthias Fiest | 273 | |||
Turnout | 9,430 | 56 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Neil Blake | 2,099 | |||
Conservative | Benjamin Everitt | 1,986 | |||
UKIP | Deborah Howard | 727 | |||
Green | Timothy Welch | 683 | |||
Turnout | 5,495 | 73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beville Stanier | 1,323 | 71.4 | ||
Green | Alexandra Stubbings | 529 | 28.6 | ||
Majority | 794 | 42.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,852 | 73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Cartwright | 1,068 | 54.7 | ||
UKIP | James McBeth | 427 | 21.9 | ||
Green | Nicholas Jones | 246 | 12.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Gareth Davies | 213 | 10.9 | ||
Majority | 641 | 32.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,954 | 73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Judith Brandis | 2,677 | |||
Conservative | Brian Foster | 2,075 | |||
Conservative | Michael Edmonds | 1,681 | |||
Green | David Lyons | 1,063 | |||
Independent | Mark Bale | 1,037 | |||
UKIP | Thomas Newton | 1,031 | |||
UKIP | Jonathan Evred | 931 | |||
Independent | Kenneth Brown | 848 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Melling | 771 | |||
Green | Gregory Smith | 673 | |||
UKIP | Kevin Wise | 600 | |||
Green | Jonathan Green | 575 | |||
Turnout | 13,962 | 72 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mike Hawkett | 1,083 | 58.7 | ||
Green | Michael Le Brun | 265 | 14.4 | ||
UKIP | Colin Evered | 257 | 13.9 | ||
Labour | Margaret Liggett | 240 | 13.0 | ||
Majority | 818 | 44.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,845 | 72 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Warren Whyte | 952 | 63.9 | ||
Green | Nicola Smith | 330 | 22.1 | ||
UKIP | Evangeline Wise | 208 | 14.0 | ||
Majority | 622 | 41.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,490 | 68 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Susanne Chapple | 1,955 | |||
Conservative | Jennifer Bloom | 1,784 | |||
Conservative | Roger King | 1,683 | |||
UKIP | Heather Adams | 1,047 | |||
UKIP | Kim Birchinall | 980 | |||
UKIP | Amiee Gibson | 895 | |||
Labour | Philip Jacques | 798 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Richard Lloyd | 644 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Alan Sherwell | 582 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Peter Vernon | 506 | |||
Green | Coral Simpson | 416 | |||
Green | Gregory Smith | 405 | |||
Green | Haidee Harrison | 376 | |||
Turnout | 12,071 | 66 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Angela Macpherson | 1,026 | 56.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ian Metherell | 413 | 22.6 | ||
UKIP | Andrew Good | 389 | 21.3 | ||
Majority | 613 | 33.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,828 | 71 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Julie Ward | 1,221 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Alison Harrison | 1,093 | |||
Conservative | Mary Stamp | 1,059 | |||
Conservative | Peter Gwilliams | 1,031 | |||
Conservative | Denise Summers | 1,019 | |||
UKIP | Sheila Cotton | 1,004 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Mark Willis | 929 | |||
UKIP | Martin Norris | 771 | |||
UKIP | Ann Day | 758 | |||
Labour | Robert McNickle | 676 | |||
Green | Joanne Hodge | 420 | |||
Turnout | 9,981 | 69 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Rand | 1,280 | 78.4 | ||
UKIP | William Bate | 353 | 21.6 | ||
Majority | 927 | 56.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,633 | 75 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sandra Jenkins | 2,035 | |||
Conservative | Derek Town | 1,810 | |||
Green | Johanna Wheeler | 839 | |||
Liberal Democrats | David Evershed | 715 | |||
UKIP | Robyn Adams | 679 | |||
Green | Mary Hodgkiss | 456 | |||
Turnout | 6,534 | 72 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kevin Hewson | 1,023 | 54.6 | ||
Independent | Robert Hunter | 432 | 23.1 | ||
UKIP | James Styles | 418 | 22.3 | ||
Majority | 591 | 31.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,873 | 76 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Christopher Adams | 1,142 | |||
Conservative | Nicholas Lewis | 988 | |||
UKIP | Andrew Huxley | 918 | |||
Conservative | Samantha North | 895 | |||
UKIP | Graham Cadle | 828 | |||
Conservative | Nadeem Gulraiz | 716 | |||
Labour | Josephine Caldwell | 566 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Shoshana Willetts | 495 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Martin Farrow | 486 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Mohammed Azam | 471 | |||
Turnout | 7,505 | 57 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Peter Agoro | 772 | |||
Labour | Mark Bateman | 604 | |||
Conservative | Akhmad Hussain | 586 | |||
UKIP | Roy Black | 560 | |||
Conservative | Sarah Sproat | 547 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Sally-Anne Jarvis | 522 | |||
UKIP | Brett Steptowe | 432 | |||
Labour | Tanya Warshaw | 398 | |||
Green | Clare Butler | 152 | |||
Green | Richard Eckersely | 93 | |||
Turnout | 4,666 | 57 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Chilver | 933 | 56.0 | ||
UKIP | Frank Mahon | 449 | 27.0 | ||
Green | Emma Simpson | 284 | 17.0 | ||
Majority | 484 | 29.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,666 | 69 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Janet Blake | 1,221 | 63.4 | ||
Green | Hannah Lett | 422 | 21.9 | ||
UKIP | Amethyst Sharman | 284 | 14.7 | ||
Majority | 799 | 41.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,927 | 74 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Patrick Fealey | 1,154 | 65.0 | ||
UKIP | Simon Strutt | 340 | 19.1 | ||
Green | Rory Hodgson | 282 | 15.9 | ||
Majority | 814 | 45.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,776 | 69 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Irwin | 799 | 50.2 | ||
UKIP | Gary Good | 402 | 25.2 | ||
Liberal Democrats | David Vick | 392 | 24.6 | ||
Majority | 397 | 25.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,593 | 70 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Brian Adams | 805 | |||
Conservative | Gary Powell | 714 | |||
Conservative | Sophie Vaughan-Evans | 702 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Ranula Takodra | 659 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Steven Kennell | 648 | |||
Labour | Luke Warshaw | 567 | |||
UKIP | Jason Wise | 538 | |||
Turnout | 4,633 | 60 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ashley Bond | 825 | 49.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Lisa Smith | 494 | 29.5 | ||
UKIP | Heather Elliott | 354 | 21.2 | ||
Majority | 331 | 19.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,673 | 72 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Stephen Bowles | 2,374 | |||
Conservative | Peter Strachan | 2,168 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Southam | 1,820 | |||
UKIP | Susan Hetherington | 1,392 | |||
UKIP | Desmond Anning | 1,359 | |||
UKIP | Marc Ruggles | 1,124 | |||
Green | Tom Hodge | 1,057 | |||
Green | Christopher Peeler | 974 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Lloyd Harris | 828 | |||
Green | William Spencer | 504 | |||
Turnout | 13,600 | 73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Dorothea Glover | 1,210 | 75.5 | ||
UKIP | Barry Walton | 392 | 24.5 | ||
Majority | 818 | 51.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,602 | 70 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Peter Cooper | 828 | 46.8 | ||
Conservative | Richard Withey | 540 | 30.5 | ||
UKIP | Nicholas Griffin | 208 | 11.8 | ||
Green | Mark Wheeler | 194 | 11.0 | ||
Majority | 288 | 16.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,770 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Llewellyn Monger | 1,545 | |||
Conservative | Susan Renshell | 1,351 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Patricia Cawte | 1,248 | |||
Conservative | Brian Speed | 973 | |||
UKIP | Amy Howitt | 394 | |||
UKIP | Margaret Price | 324 | |||
Green | Frazer Payne | 309 | |||
Green | Mary Hunt | 276 | |||
Turnout | 6,420 |
Changes between 2015 and 2019
editBy-elections
editGrendon Underwood and Brill
editA by-election was held in Grendon Underwood and Brill on 23 December 2015 after the death of Conservative councillor and former leader of the council John Cartwright.[4] The seat was held for the Conservatives by Cameron Branston with a majority of 51 votes over Liberal Democrat Julian Newman.[4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Anthony Cameron Branston | 326 | 43.5 | −11.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Julian Newman | 275 | 36.7 | +25.8 | |
UKIP | Gary Good | 148 | 19.8 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 51 | 6.8 | −26.0 | ||
Turnout | 749 | 28.8 | −44 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elmhurst
editA by-election was held in Elmhurst on 6 April 2017 after the resignation of UK Independence Party councillor Andy Hetherington.[6][7] The seat was won for the Liberal Democrats by Susan Morgan with a majority of 634 seats over Labour's Gary Andrew Paxton.[8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Susan Morgan | 785 | 63.5 | +37.9 | |
Labour | Gary Andrew Paxton | 151 | 12.2 | −10.0 | |
Conservative | Ammer Raheel | 147 | 11.9 | −9.3 | |
UKIP | Philip Peter Gomm | 111 | 9.0 | −14.4 | |
Green | Nigel Antony Foster | 43 | 3.5 | −4.2 | |
Majority | 634 | 51.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,244 | 27 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from UKIP | Swing |
Wendover and Halton
editA by-election was held in Wendover and Halton on 4 May 2017 after the resignation of Conservative councillor Andrew Southam.[10] This was held alongside the Buckinghamshire County Council election on the same date. The seat was won for the Conservatives by Richard Allan Newcombe with a majority of 823 seats over Labour's Cath Collier.[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Allan Newcombe | 1,240 | 51 | ||
Labour | Cath Collier | 417 | 17 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ashley Richard Morgan | 298 | 12 | ||
UKIP | Des Anning | 273 | 11 | ||
Green | Tom Peter Hodge | 227 | 9 | ||
Turnout | 2,455 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Central & Walton
editA by-election was held in Central & Walton on 22 March 2018 following the resignation in February of Conservative councillor Edward Sims.[12] The Liberal Democrats' Waheed Raja gained the seat.[13]
Quainton
editA by-election is expected in Quainton following the death of Kevin Hewson (Conservative) in February 2018.[14]
Changes in affiliation
editTom Hunter-Watts left the Conservative Party and on 5 May 2017 joined the Lib Dems.[15]
On 9 May 2017, all three of UKIP's remaining councillors left the party.[15]
References
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- ^ a b "Local election results: Hertfordshire". itv.com. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "District Election - Thursday 7th May 2015". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ a b c Shefferd, Neil (29 December 2015). "By-election result: Conservatives retain seat previously held by John Cartwright". Buckingham and Winslow Advertiser. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Election results for Grendon Underwood And Brill". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "District Councillor resignation". Aylesbury Vale District Council. 22 December 2016. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Elmhurst District Ward By-election". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Election results for Elmhurst, 6 April 2017". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- ^ "Election results for Elmhurst, 6 April 2017". aylesburyvale.moderngov.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017.
- ^ "District councillor resignation". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ "Election results for Wendover and Halton, 4 May 2017". Aylesbury Vale District Council. Retrieved 5 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Previews: 22 Mar 2018". Britain Elects. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ "Britain Elects on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ "Popular Councillor Kevin Hewson passes away, aged 62". Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Recent changes". Open Council Data UK. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.