2015 Woking Borough Council election

2015 UK local government election April 2015 April 2015 thumb|Results of the 2015 Woking Borough Council election The 2015 Woking Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect one third of members to Woking Borough Council in England coinciding with other local elections held simultaneously with a General Election which resulted in increased turnout compared to the election four years before. Elections in each ward are held in three years out of four.http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections-and-referendums Upcoming elections & referendums 12 April 2015 The Electoral Commission https://web.archive.org/web/20150315102043/http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections-and-referendums 15 March 2015 live Results The Conservatives were starting from a high ‘baseline’, having performed very well in the previous equivalent local election in Woking in 2011 (which coincided with the AV Referendum). The Conservatives secured 49% of the vote, gaining two seats from the Liberal Democrats and losing one to Labour. Of the 12 wards up for election, the Conservatives won 10 and the LibDems and Labour won 1 each. This was the best Conservative local Borough election result in Woking, and the worst result for the LibDems, for many years, although the Conservative 49% share of the vote failed to match the 56% share of the vote achieved on the same day by their Parliamentary candidate Jonathan Lord as he secured re-election as Woking’s MP with a landslide majority of 20,810 votes (over the second-placed Labour Party candidate). The result added one councillor (net) to the Conservative group that had enjoyed overall control of the Council since 2011 and that had been in power locally since 2007 (if one includes a short period of minority administration).Woking Results Get Surrey, website of Surrey Advertiser/Herald/Guardian Group of newspapers. Accessed 2015-05-20.Borough composition, showing 24, 9, 2, 1 split of councillors https://web.archive.org/web/20150522111005/http://www.woking.gov.uk/council/councillors2/political/ward 22 May 2015 WBC. Accessed 2015-05-20 Woking Borough Council Election, 2015 Conservative Party (UK) 24 2 1 1 83.33 49 19091 Liberal Democrats (UK) 9 0 2 2 8.33 17 6808 Labour Party (UK) 2 1 0 1 8.33 15 5901 Independent politician 1 0 0 0 3 1350 UK Independence Party 0 0 0 0 11 4390 Green Party of England and Wales 0 0 0 0 4 1377 Patriotic Socialist 0 0 0 0 0 0.02 9 Ward by ward Byfleet Conservative Party (UK) Harry Briggs 1445 Independent politician Amanda Boote 1050 Liberal Democrats (UK) Andy Grimshaw 558 UK Independence Party Richard Squire 449 Labour Party (UK) Michael Wood 316 Conservative Party (UK) Goldsworth East Conservative Party (UK) Hilary Addison 1592 Liberal Democrats (UK) James Sanderson 859 Labour Party (UK) Jay Butcher 766 UK Independence Party Tim Read 377 Conservative Party (UK) Hermitage and Knaphill South Conservative Party (UK) Paul Smith 1129 Liberal Democrats (UK) Tina Liddington 710 UK Independence Party Troy De Leon 401 Labour Party (UK) Colin Bright 302 Green Party of England and Wales Vanessa King 118 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Horsell East and Woodham Conservative Party (UK) Anne Murray 1849 Liberal Democrats (UK) Rosemary Johnson 361 UK Independence Party Terry Knight 264 Labour Party (UK) Elizabeth Evans 241 Green Party of England and Wales Topher Dykes 140 Conservative Party (UK) Horsell West Conservative Party (UK) Beryl Hunwicks 2117 Liberal Democrats (UK) Anne-Marie Barker 987 UK Independence Party Stephen Herbert 385 Labour Party (UK) John Scott-Morgan 376 Green Party of England and Wales Joanna Kelly 198 Patriotic Socialist #960018 Leo Dix 9 Conservative Party (UK) Kingfield and Westfield Liberal Democrats (UK) Will Forster 971 Conservative Party (UK) Natalie Bourne 922 Labour Party (UK) Nigel Jackson 440 UK Independence Party Robert Shatwell 396 Liberal Democrats (UK) Knaphill Conservative Party (UK) Melanie Whitehand 2645 Labour Party (UK) Richard Ford 659 UK Independence Party Bradley Hough 617 Liberal Democrats (UK) Syed Jaffri 595 Green Party of England and Wales James Brierley 304 Conservative Party (UK) Maybury and Sheerwater Labour Party (UK) Tahiz Aziz 1913 Conservative Party (UK) Colin Scott 1002 UK Independence Party Judith Squire 416 Independent politician Ian Vousden 300 Green Party of England and Wales Will Hemmings 248 Liberal Democrats (UK) Norman Johns 214 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Old Woking Conservative Party (UK) John Lawrence 486 Liberal Democrats (UK) Louise Morales 467 UK Independence Party Jim Gore 240 Labour Party (UK) Barney Pimentel 176 Green Party of England and Wales John Parkin 75 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Pyrford Conservative Party (UK) Graham Chrystie 2076 Liberal Democrats (UK) Gareth Davies 366 UK Independence Party Robin Milner 331 Labour Party (UK) Mohammed Khalid 154 Green Party of England and Wales Joel Street 140 Conservative Party (UK) St Johns and Hook Heath Conservative Party (UK) Graham Cundy 1744 Liberal Democrats (UK) Rebecca Whale 320 Labour Party (UK) Tom Willis 216 UK Independence Party Marcia Taylor 197 Green Party of England and Wales Hilary Griffiths 154 Conservative Party (UK) West Byfleet Conservative Party (UK) Richard Wilson 2084 Liberal Democrats (UK) William Wolfe 400 Labour Party (UK) Katherine Kearey 342 UK Independence Party Neil Willetts 317 Conservative Party (UK) References Woking Category:May 2015 in the United Kingdom 2015 Category:2010s in Surrey