1997_Wiltshire_County_Council_election

1997 Wiltshire County Council election
All 47 seats to Wiltshire County Council; 24 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; Liberal Democrats;	Council control after election ; No overall control;

1997 Wiltshire County Council election

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Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 1 May 1997. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Conservatives as the largest party.

Quick Facts All 47 seats to Wiltshire County Council 24 seats needed for a majority, First party ...

As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the 1997 United Kingdom general election.

Results by divisions

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	22			+4	46.81	43.4	107,867	+46,488
Liberal Democrats	20			-13	42.55	35.2	87,367	+23,260
Labour	4			-13	8.51	18.3	45,365	+6,920
Independent	1	1	0	+1	2.13	1.6	3,978	+426
Green	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	3,481	+2,402
Liberal	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	257	-1,992
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	0.09	230	+230

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Christopher Paul Humphries	2,571
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Francis	2,213
	Labour	Brian McLintock	660
Majority			358
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Temple Blackwood	2,668
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Hardy	1,114
	Labour	Ann Oliver	599
Majority			757
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Allan Godfrey Peach	2,283
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Allen	1,389
	Labour	Ross Pelling	722
	Green	Peter Matthews	157
Majority			894
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Dennis James Willmott	2,207
	Liberal Democrats	John Thompson	1,582
	Labour	Terrence O'Sullivan	1,118
	UKIP	Alan Wood	108
Majority			625
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Mary Scott	2,735
	Conservative	Arthur Bromwich	2,380
	Labour	Michael Maude	884
Majority			355
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Kevin Christopher Wren	2,718
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Frost	1,705
	Labour	Mark Riches	920
Majority			1,013
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Christine Scott Landell Mills	2,710
	Conservative	Robert George Ian Elliott	1,533
	Labour	Angela Womersley	934
	Green	David Gilbert	385
	UKIP	John Douglas Sankey	122
Majority			1,177
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Christine Crisp	2,854
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Webb	2,277
	Labour	David Songhurst	868
Majority			577
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Nancy Suzanne Bryant	1,854
	Liberal Democrats	Jeanette Greer	1,692
	Labour	Maureen Songhurst	1,354
Majority			162
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Charles Bourne Coleman	2,746
	Conservative	Mary Norton	1,661
	Labour	Stephen Wheeler	863
Majority			1,085
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	June Margaret Wood	1,994
	Conservative	Donald Ellis	1,392
	Labour	Maureen Lloyd	1,357
Majority			552
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Philip George Allnatt	2,709
	Conservative	Richard Purdon	1,967
	Labour	Tim Hayhoe	712
Majority			742
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Connolly	1,613
	Conservative	Peter Colling	1,489
	Labour	Eric Dalkin	722
	Independent	Anthony Still	489
Majority			122
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Roy Davis	1,893
	Conservative	Hywel Jones	1,438
	Labour	Chris Reid	799
Majority			455
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Devizes
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor	1,918
	Conservative	Maurice Came	1,496
	Liberal Democrats	Bryan Castle	893
Majority			422
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Salisbury Bemerton
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Richard Terance Rogers	2,040
	Conservative	Pamela Roche	997
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Heaney	883
Majority			1,043
	Labour hold		Swing

Salisbury St Martin
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Paul William Leslie Sample	2,261
	Conservative	Kevin Robbin	1,511
	Labour	Susan Mallory	772
	Green	Indira Nath	209
Majority			750
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Edward Atfield	2,570
	Conservative	Peter Smith	1,862
	Labour	Brian Bayton	773
Majority			708
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Patricia Rugg	2,932
	Labour	James Thorpe	1,647
	Liberal Democrats	Henry Jordan	1,636
Majority			1,285
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Julian Paul Johnson	2,814
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Ford	1,617
	Labour	Hamish Ross	1,047
	Green	Marion Reed	310
Majority			1,197
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Linda Patricia Morris	1,731
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Greville	1,636
	Labour	Tamsen Jacobs	812
	Green	Mark Pafford	105
Majority			95
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Terrence Peter (Terry) Chivers	2,792
	Conservative	Carolyn Joy Walker	2,142
	Labour	Gregory Anthony Coombes	537
	Liberal	George Frederick James Hawkins	256
	Green	John Richard Pearce	230
Majority			650
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jane Antoinette Scott	3,002
	Liberal Democrats	Doreen Darby	2,926
	Labour	Peter Mellett	732
Majority			76
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Derek Bernard William Jarvis	2,663
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Thomson	1,534
	Labour	David Wearn	1,158
Majority			1,129
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Lesley Clare Stockman Bennett	2,490
	Conservative	Andrew Watson	2,369
	Labour	Daphne Jones	837
Majority			121
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Boulton	1,816
	Conservative	Josephine Goodfellow	1,772
	Labour	Alec Light	782
Majority			44
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Mary Salisbury	1,567
	Liberal Democrats	Angela Betty Barker	1,354
	Conservative	Kenneth Williams	768
Majority			213
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

1997_Wiltshire_County_Council_election

Results

Results by divisions

Aldbourne and Ramsbury

Alderbury

Amesbury

Avon and Cannings

Bedwyn and Pewsey

Bourne Valley

Bradford on Avon

Bremhill and Calne

Calne

Chippenham Park

Chippenham Sheldon

Chippenham Town

Collingbourne

Corsham

Cricklade and Purton

Devizes

Devizes South and Bromham

Downton

Durrington

Holt

Kington

Lavington

Malmesbury

Marlborough

Melksham

Melksham Without

Mere

Minety

Pickwick with Box

Salisbury Bemerton

Salisbury Harnham

Salisbury St Mark

Salisbury St Martin

Salisbury St Paul

Southwick

Tisbury

Trowbridge East

Trowbridge South

Trowbridge West

Upper Wylye Valley

Warminster East

Warminster West

Westbury

Whorwellsdown Hundred

Wilton and Wylye

Wootton Bassett North

Wootton Bassett South

By-elections between 1997 and 2001

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Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	John Barrie Wesley	2,524
	Conservative	Anthony Molland	2,193
	Labour	John Adcock	1,663
Majority			187
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert George Catton	2,131
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Houghton-Brown	1,346
	Labour	Graham Parish	604
Majority			785
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Carole Alethea Soden	3,418
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Davis	1,925
	Labour	John Battersby	457
Majority			1,493
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Judith Helen Seager	1,984
	Liberal Democrats	Dianne McGee	1,701
	Labour	Christopher Lynch	1,375
Majority			283
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Iris Throp	1,852
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Dalton	1,261
	Labour	Gary Buckley	665
	Green	Rosemary Perry	186
Majority			591
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Peter Frederick Chalke	2,399
	Liberal Democrats	John Cherry	1,239
	Labour	Kelvin Dawson	731
	Green	Susan Wright	132
Majority			1,160
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Beryl Mary Jay	2,503
	Conservative	Timothy Nolan	1,102
	Liberal Democrats	Rachel Smith	840
Majority			1,401
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	John Napier Beatson Irving	1,687
	Independent	Anthony Guy Phillips	1,500
	Labour	Brian Michael Staines	571
	Green	David John Howells	316
Majority			187
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert John Baddeley	2,420
	Liberal Democrats	Felicity Corp	1,571
	Labour	Paul Whiteside	567
Majority			849
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Raymond James	1,754
	Conservative	Joan Barbara Savage	1,484
	Labour	Jeffrey Bryan Osborn	1,244
	Green	Antoinette (Toni) Beizsley	150
Majority			270
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing