1999 Guildford Borough Council election

1999 UK local government election May 2015 May 2015 The eighth full elections for Guildford Borough Council took place on 6 May 1999.Results were published in the Surrey Advertiser 13 May 1999 edition. The Liberal Democrats had won control of the council in May 1995 with a majority of 1. However the first half of 1997 had seen the Liberal Democrats lose their majority as a result of three councillors (2 Stoughton councillors and 1 from Tongham) resigning from the party and a by election defeat in Merrow & Burpham ward.For the loss of the Liberal Democrat majority on Guildford Borough Council during 1997 see a) 2 Liberal Democrat councillors for Stoughton quit the party to be Independent Liberals in February 1997 reducing the number of LD councillors from 23 to 21: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/80053_leading_lib_dem_couple_quit_party b) Liberal Democrats lose Merrow & Burpham by-election to Conservatives in May 1997 reducing number of LD councillors from 21 to 20. Fuller details of this by-election are listed at [Guildford local elections]; and c) 1 Liberal Democrat councillor for Tongham quit the party to join the Put Ash Vale First Group (which was then renamed the Independent Group) in May 1997 reducing the number of LD councillors from 20 to 19. See: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/80321_borough_chaos_as_councillor_defects . At the time 23 seats were needed for a majority. Going into the election there were 19 Liberal Democrats, 14 Conservatives, 6 Labour and 6 independents. These 6 independents formed three distinct groups. There were 3 councillors for Ash and Tongham wards (two of whom were former Liberal Democrat councillors, one having resigned from the party in the 1991-95 session and one during the 1995-1999 session) who classed themselves as the "Independent Group". Two former Liberal Democrat councillors representing Stoughton ward classed themselves as Liberals. The councillor for Tillingbourne classed himself as an independent councillor. The May 1999 election saw 20 Liberal Democrats, 17 Conservatives, 6 Labour and 2 Independents elected. The council remained hung. The Liberal Democrats gained 1 net seat (3 losses and 4 gains) on the position they held going into the election. The Liberal Democrats lost 3 seats to the west of the borough, 2 in Ash ward and 1 in Normandy. The Liberal Democrats retook the Merrow & Burpham seat which they had lost to the Conservatives in a by election in May 1997, plus they retook the 2 Stoughton seats which they had lost to resignations in February 1997. The Liberal Democrats also gained Effingham ward from the Conservatives. The Conservatives made 3 net gains (2 losses and 5 gains) on the position which they held going into the election. The Conservatives lost the Merrow & Burpham seat which they had taken in the May 1997 by election. The Conservative also lost Effingham to the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives gained 2 Ash Vale seats from the Independent Group, plus they gained from the Liberal Democrats 3 of the other seats in the west of the borough, 2 in Ash and 1 in Normandy. The Independent Group did not contest its 2 seats in Ash Vale. These were gained by the Conservatives. The one member of the Independent Group who did contest his seat held on to it in Tongham. Neither councillor belonging to the Liberal Group sought reelection in Stoughton and the Liberal Democrats regained these two seats. Relative to 1995, the changes were not as dramatic as they were relative to the position going into the election. Overall there was a shift to the Conservatives in the Ash and Normandy region to the west of the borough, but much less change between the parties elsewhere in the borough. The Liberal Democrats lost all their remaining seats in the Ash, Tongham and Normandy region, having won all 7 of the seats there as recently as 1991. After the election the Ash, Tongham and Normandy area had 1 independent and 6 Conservative councillors. Elsewhere in the borough the only seat to change hands relative to 1995 was Effingham, where a Conservative marginal, was captured by the Liberal Democrats. Ward results Ash (top 3 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) John Ades 1325 Conservative Party (UK) John Cassar 1100 Conservative Party (UK) Nick Sutcliffe 1009 Liberal Democrats (UK) Alan Hilliar 901 Liberal Democrats (UK) Christine Frampton 790 Liberal Democrats (UK) Peter Morgan 725 Labour Party (UK) Kevin Jenkinson 267 Labour Party (UK) Kazimierz Jaskinski 237 Labour Party (UK) Donald Hirsch 212 108 30.47 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Ash Vale (top 2 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) Chris Lawson 752 Conservative Party (UK) Marsha Moseley 729 Liberal Democrats (UK) Denise Smith 665 Liberal Democrats (UK) Geraldine Pettitt 624 Labour Party (UK) Alex MacDonald 124 Labour Party (UK) Brian Stace 113 64 32 Conservative Party (UK) Independent (politician) Conservative Party (UK) Independent (politician) Christchurch (top 2 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) Andrew Hodges 1102 Liberal Democrats (UK) Vivienne Johnson 945 Conservative Party (UK) David Hunter 912 Liberal Democrats (UK) Tom Sharp 792 Labour Party (UK) Vijay Luthra 126 Labour Party (UK) Carole Barber 119 33 52.56 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Clandon & Horsley (top 3 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) Jennifer Powell 1705The Surrey Advertiser 14 May 1999 lists Jennifer Powell's vote as "705". As Jennifer Powell topped the poll in 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections in Clandon & Horsley, clearly beating her Conservative co candidates in the process, it is highly unlikely that in the 1999 election she polled less than half the votes of her Conservative co candidates. It therefore has been assumed that a "1" was mistakenly omitted from the front of this number when published in the newspaper and the correct figure is actually 1705. Conservative Party (UK) Andrew French 1604 Conservative Party (UK) Jennifer Wicks 1568 Liberal Democrats (UK) Margaret Burnham 404 Liberal Democrats (UK) Clive Wicks 384 Liberal Democrats (UK) Philip Palmer 340 Labour Party (UK) Meriel Beynon 305 Labour Party (UK) Carolyn Fiddes 274 Labour Party (UK) Julie Roxburgh 253 1164 36.49 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Effingham (only 1 candidate elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Elizabeth Hogger 573 Conservative Party (UK) Valerie Chapman 459 Labour Party (UK) Carol Hayton 25 114 53.47 Liberal Democrats (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Friary & St. Nicolas (top 3 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Richard Marks 1226 Liberal Democrats (UK) Robert Blundell 1224 Liberal Democrats (UK) David Goodwin 1152 Conservative Party (UK) Mark Hoban 454 Conservative Party (UK) Philip Hooper 449 Conservative Party (UK) John Fairley 442 Labour Party (UK) Tristan Brown 320 Labour Party (UK) Helen Ayscough 302 Labour Party (UK) Alexander Ayscough 278 698 31.60 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Holy Trinity (top 2 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Tamsy Baker 842 Liberal Democrats (UK) Gordon Bridger 792 Conservative Party (UK) Sarah Creedy 758 Conservative Party (UK) Peter Le Cheminant 710 Labour Party (UK) Racheal Chesterton 106 Labour Party (UK) Barry Hall 105 34 36.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Lovelace (only 1 candidate elected) Conservative Party (UK) Margaret Fenston 558 Labour Party (UK) David Hide 146 Liberal Democrats (UK) John Telfer 104 412 44.06 Conservative Party (UK) Merrow & Burpham (top 3 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Charles Shepperd 2134 Liberal Democrats (UK) Andrew Allan 2050 Liberal Democrats (UK) Anne Lee 1960 Conservative Party (UK) Jennifer Jordan 1628 Conservative Party (UK) Nicholas Brougham 1600 Conservative Party (UK) Sheridan Westlake 1576 Labour Party (UK) Malcolm Hill 413 Labour Party (UK) William Scott 367 Labour Party (UK) Mary Wu 359 332 41.52 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Normandy (only 1 candidate elected) Conservative Party (UK) Diana Lockyer-Nibbs 498 Liberal Democrats (UK) Robert Rendell 454 Labour Party (UK) Peter Newmark 61 44 43.09 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Onslow (top 3 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Lynda Strudwick 1046 Liberal Democrats (UK) Tony Phillips 1003 Liberal Democrats (UK) Steven Freeman 895 Conservative Party (UK) Bernard Parke 847 Conservative Party (UK) Adrian Chandler 746 Conservative Party (UK) Simon Anglim 705 Labour Party (UK) Florence Flynn 382 Labour Party (UK) Carmel Rogers 358 Labour Party (UK) Raymond Rogers 346 48 33.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Pilgrims (top 2 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) Robert Rolfe 700 Conservative Party (UK) Alan Dewhurst 671 Liberal Democrats (UK) Marliyn Merryweather 234 Liberal Democrats (UK) Peter Dyer 222 Labour Party (UK) Elizabeth Bullock 115 Labour Party (UK) Kathleen Parfitt 100 437 34.93 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Pirbright (only 1 candidate elected) Conservative Party (UK) Michael Nevins 440 Liberal Democrats (UK) Mary Laker 285 Labour Party (UK) Caroline Lloyd 30 155 41.96 Conservative Party (UK) Send (top 2 candidates elected) Conservative Party (UK) Keith Taylor 694 Conservative Party (UK) Jason Dobson 611 Liberal Democrats (UK) Dee Appardurai 349 Liberal Democrats (UK) Rupert Sheard 334 Labour Party (UK) Benedict Marlow 142 Labour Party (UK) Shelia Bean 141 262 38.23 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Shalford (only 1 candidate elected) Conservative Party (UK) Vasilis Kapsalis 634 Liberal Democrats (UK) David Thomson 501 Labour Party (UK) Michael Jeram 169 133 43.52 Conservative Party (UK) Stoke (top 3 candidates elected) Labour Party (UK) Sallie Thornberry 1091 Labour Party (UK) Keith Chesterton 1057 Labour Party (UK) Angela Gunning 1015 Liberal Democrats (UK) Alan Lawrence 297 Liberal Democrats (UK) Stephen Wright 294 Liberal Democrats (UK) William Plaskett 267 Conservative Party (UK) Michael Dale 258 Conservative Party (UK) David Quelch 239 Conservative Party (UK) Paul Newman 235 718 30.56 Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Stoughton (top 3 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Pauline Searle 973 Liberal Democrats (UK) Jayne Marks 965 Liberal Democrats (UK) Fiona White 846 Labour Party (UK) Gary Hills 540 Labour Party (UK) Stella Payne 445 Labour Party (UK) Susan Pickering 439 Conservative Party (UK) Roger Majoribanks 358 Conservative Party (UK) Paul Johnson 355 Conservative Party (UK) Caroline Newman 338 306 27.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Independent (politician) Liberal Democrats (UK) Independent (politician) Tillingbourne (top 2 candidates elected) Independent (politician) Keith Childs 1144 Liberal Democrats (UK) Patricia Gumbrell 904 Conservative Party (UK) John Foster 848 Labour Party (UK) Edward Williams 169 Labour Party (UK) James Farrell 86 56 45.48 Independent (politician) Liberal Democrats (UK) Tongham (only 1 candidate elected) Tongham Independent Michael Pooley 208 Conservative Party (UK) George Grundy 182 Liberal Democrats (UK) Patricia Hughes 123 Labour Party (UK) Frank Gunning 62 26 33.21 Independent (politician) Westborough (top 3 candidates elected) Labour Party (UK) John Woodhatch 954 Labour Party (UK) Peter Jennings 826 Labour Party (UK) Joan O'Byrne 822 Liberal Democrats (UK) Kenneth Briggs 367 Liberal Democrats (UK) Andrew Bevan 328 Liberal Democrats (UK) Joanna Hazelwood 323 Conservative Party (UK) Mary Johns 216 Conservative Party (UK) Barbara Dale 213 Conservative Party (UK) Pamela Parke 208 455 25.46 Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Worplesdon (top 3 candidates elected) Liberal Democrats (UK) Terry King 1256 Liberal Democrats (UK) Auriol Earle 1207 Liberal Democrats (UK) Nigel Sutcliffe 1192 Conservative Party (UK) Ken Johns 739 Conservative Party (UK) Jonny Scriven 713 Conservative Party (UK) Bev Thomas 674 Farmer Bob, Burpham Court Farm Conservationist Bob Dearnley 379 Labour Party (UK) Alan Ritchie 224 Labour Party (UK) Ron Medlow 189 Labour Party (UK) Saiful Islam 158 453 38.2 Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) References 1999 Category:1999 English local elections Category:1990s in Surrey