Pages

Council by elections 4th August

Link to >>> Council election results May 2016 - April 2017

Collated by Maxque

Beaver - Ashford BC - Jill Britcher (Labour) resigned due to her moving outside the district to be closer to her family, after a surgery earlier this year. She also, at the same time, resigned from the Labour Party, in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn (because he is abysmal) and to the Labour group leader in Ashford, Brendan Chilton (because he was secretary general of Labour Leave). She was first elected at the 2013 by-election.

2015: Lab 817/645, UKIP 812, Con 715/423, Grn 195/135, Ind 126
Feb 13 by: Lab 296, Con 158, UKIP 155, Ash Ind 85, LD 79, Ind 34, Grn 19
Nov 11 by: Lab 336, Con 249, LD 173, Ash Ind 111, Grn 26
2011: Lab 481/479, Con 452/335, Ash Ind 308/261
2007: Lab 554/545, Con 377/369, LD 184/175
2003: Lab 636/619, Con 261/259

Jo Gideon (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Caroline Harris (Labour Party)
Ryan Macpherson (UK Independence Party)
Elizabeth Wright (Green Party)

East Brighton – Brighton and Hove UA - Maggie Barradell (Labour) resigned due to moving to Suffolk to support her mother. She was a councillor since 2015.

2015: Lab 3229/3225/2918, Con 1563/1510/1436, Grn 1357/1021/855, LD 546, TUSC 255
Oct 12 by: Lab 1596, Con 531, Grn 456, UKIP 148, LD 59, TUSC 55
2011: Lab 2059/1862/1616, Grn 955/815/627, Con 940/826/803, LD 323/218, TUSC 142
2007: Lab 1539/1401/1262, Con 1000/997/931, Grn 621/467/445, LD 401/400/377, Ind 257, SocLab 109
2003: Lab 1545/1451/1223, Con 1062/1017/976, LD 770/682/553, Grn 623/475/396, SocLab 176

Mitch Alexander (Green Party)
Andrew England (Liberal Democrats)
Leigh Farrow (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) 
David Plant (Conservative Party Candidate)
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour and Co-operative Party)
Ramon Sammut (Independent)

South West Holderness - East Riding of Yorkshire UA - Arthur Hodgson (Conservative) resigned for undisclosed reasons. He was first elected in 2011.

2015: Con 2406/2400/2313, UKIP 2043, Lab 1783/1591/1531, Ind 660
May 12 by: Con 1187, Lab 1011, Ind 971
2011: Con 1791/1534/1482, Ind 1281/560/543/465/255, Lab 951/920/892, LD 569
2007: Con 2086/1869/1612, Ind 1313, LD 975/703/622, Lab 627/591/537
2003: Con 1591/1452/1272, Lab 938/745/689, LD 914/834/668, Ind 778

Dave Edwards (Independent)
David Tucker (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Andrew Weaver (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Patrick Wilkinson (Labour Party)
Helen Wright (Liberal Democrats)

Alston Moor - Eden DC - David Hymers (Conservative) resigned after Private Eye published an article about the liquidation of the company of which he was managing director (in debt of 2.5 millions of pounds, including 400k to HMRC). He was the Cabinet member for Economic Development. He was a councillor since 2015.

2015: Ind 710/446, Con 487
2011: Ind 436/177/161, Con 390, Lab 242
2007: Ind Turner 533, Ind Metz 498, Ind Haldon 235
2003: Inds Metz and Turner unopposed

Stephen Harrison (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Thomas Sheriff (Liberal Democrats)

Silverdale and Parksite – Newcastle-under-Lyme BC – Eileen Braithwaite (Newcastle Independent Group, elected as UKIP) died. She was first elected for the Caring Party in 2003, joined UKIP, before losing in 2011. She returned to Council in 2014, before leaving UKIP (with the former leader of the Caring Party and another councillor) in 2015 over alleged inference by the national party into the local party and selection of a London-based PPC, eight months after the local party sacked them as officers.
2014-2018 term

2015: Lab 888, Ind 435, Con 416, Grn 100, TUSC 62
2014: UKIP 477, Lab 385, Con 122, Grn 36, TUSC 21
Jul 13 by: Lab 387, UKIP 254, Con 58, TUSC 14
2011: Lab 471, UKIP 431, Con 112
2010: Lab 612, UKIP 457, Con 320, LD 254
2007: UKIP 537, Lab 282, Con 107, LD 76
2006: Lab 389, UKIP 296, Con 125, LD 119
2003: Caring Party 323, Lab 311, LD 83, Con 75
2002: Lab 480/369, Caring Party 110/100, LD 105/101, Con 100/82

The 2015 Independent is the husband of the late councillor.

Lynn Dean (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Gareth Snell (Labour and Co-operative Party)
James Vernon (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Gary White (Independent)

Bingham - Nottinghamshire CC - Martin Suthers (Conservative) died. He was a county councillor since a by-election in 2000 and district councillor in Rushcliffe since 2015. He was deputy leader of the Conservative group at the County. He was also a Nottingham councillor for Abbey ward from 1976 to 1995 and Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1988-1989.
Made of Bingham West and Bingham East wards and parts of the Cranmer and Thoroton wards. Ward will be split in Bingham West and Bingham East at next election (each covering some rural hinterland)

2013: Con 1522, Lab 738, LD 725, UKIP 656
2009: Con 2020, LD 1207, Ind 510, Lab 410
2005: Con 2709, LD 1915, Lab 1478, Ind 146

Tracey Kerry (Independent)
Francis Purdue-Horan (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Alan Walker (Labour Party)

Cranmer - Rushcliffe BC - Martin Suthers (Conservative) died.

2015: Con 995, Lab 410

Chris Grocock (Labour Party)
Tracey Kerry (Independent)
Maureen Stockwood (The Conservative Party Candidate)