2015_Central_Bedfordshire_Council_election

2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election
All 59 seats to Central Bedfordshire Council; 30 seats needed for a majority
	Winner of each seat at the 2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election
Council control before election; ; Conservative	Council control after election ; ; Conservative

2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election

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Elections to Central Bedfordshire Council were held on 7 May 2015, along with the 2015 United Kingdom general election and other local elections. The whole council was up for election, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2019.

Quick Facts All 59 seats to Central Bedfordshire Council 30 seats needed for a majority, First party ...

The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council, winning 53 of the 59 seats on the council. Of the remaining 6 seats, 3 were won by Independents, 2 by the Labour Party and 1 by the Liberal Democrats.

Ward Results

Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2011, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis. All results are listed below:

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	53	5	1	+4	89.83	53.78	138,953	+0.17%
Independent	3	1	2	-1	5.08	10.38	26,814	+2.33%
Labour	2	2	1	+1	3.39	16.84	43,512	-5.39%
Liberal Democrats	1	0	4	-4	1.70	5.12	13,232	-9.24%
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	8.22	21,253	+7.50%
Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	5.66	14,625	+4.63%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mike Blair*	3,921	24.27	+1.42
	Conservative	Paul Alan Duckett*	3,753	23.23	-2.19
	Conservative	Paul Raymond Downing	2,899	19.95	-2.22
	Independent	Mark Andrew Smith*	2,378	14.72	-8.18
	Green	Susan Heather Clinch	1,739	10.76
	Labour	Peter Joyce	1,465	9.07	+0.41
Majority			521	3.23
Turnout			16,155	73.00	+24.90
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Dalgarno*	3,977	22.08	+0.18
	Conservative	David Shelvey	3,677	20.42	-2.67
	Conservative	Richard David Wenham*	3,321	18.44	-2.49
	UKIP	Thomas Heeney	1,939	10.77
	Labour	David Charles Devereux	1,914	10.63	-1.28
	Labour	Douglas Alexander Landman	1,649	9.15	-1.94
	Independent	Robert David McGregor	1,532	8.51
Majority			1,382	7.67
Turnout			18,009	69.00	+28.00
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Budge Wells	2,012	73.24	-2.08
	Green	Robin Alexander Harewood-Lee	735	26.76
Majority			1,277	46.48
Turnout			2,747	74.00	+27.40
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ian Leslie Shingler*	1,518	51.13	+19.22
	Conservative	Gareth Mackey	759	25.56	+4.49
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Ann Nunn	417	14.05	-9.61
	Labour	Lesley Ann Lodge	275	9.26	+2.15
Majority			759	25.57
Turnout			2,969	74.00	+25.20
	Independent hold		Swing

2015_Central_Bedfordshire_Council_election

2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election

Result

Council Composition

Ward Results

Ampthill

Arlesey

Aspley and Woburn

Barton-Le-Clay

Biggleswade North

Biggleswade South

Caddington

Cranfield & Marston Moretaine

Dunstable Central

Dunstable Icknield

Dunstable Manshead

Dunstable Northfields

Dunstable Watling

Eaton Bray

Flitwick

Heath & Reach

Houghton Conquest & Haynes

Houghton Hall

Leighton Buzzard North

Leighton Buzzard South

Linslade

Northill

Parkside

Potton

Sandy

Shefford

Silsoe & Shillington

Stotfold & Langford

Tithe Farm

Toddington

Westoning, Flitton & Greenfield

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maurice Richard Jones*	1,594	25.27	-1.57
	Conservative	Jane Gay Wimberley Lawrence*	1,472	23.33	-3.75
	Labour	Pete Biernis	977	15.49	-6.60
	UKIP	Frank Foster	925	14.66
	Labour	Bernard Victor Briars	910	14.43	-9.56
	Green	Amy-Jane Peabody	430	6.82
Majority			495	7.84
Turnout			6,308	63.00	+24.80
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Lawrence*	2,575	28.27	-2.19
	Conservative	Tim Woodward	1,982	21.76	-7.85
	Conservative	David William Frank Albone	1,246	13.68
	UKIP	Duncan Anthony Strachan	1,209	13.27
	Independent	Bernard John Rix	779	8.55
	Labour	Satinderjit Singh Dhaliwal	672	7.38	-13.32
	Green	Andrew Richard Peabody	646	7.09
Majority			736	8.08
Turnout			9,109	67.00	+25.30
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kevin Mark Collins	2,888	29.48	-6.83
	Conservative	Richard Charles Stay*	2,740	27.97	-7.01
	Labour	Ian Guy Lowery	733	7.48	-4.17
	Labour	Shirley Jean Smith	666	6.80	-0.15
	Independent	Patrick Brian Smith	615	6.28
	Independent	Chrystna Yvonne Smith	495	5.05
	Green	Matt Ogier-Russell	478	4.88
Majority			1,559	15.91
Turnout			9,796	72.00	+24.80
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Clark*	3,381	22.00	+4.12
	Conservative	Ken Matthews*	2,977	19.37	+2.56
	Conservative	Robert William Morris	2,765	17.99	+0.73
	UKIP	Roger Baker	1,958	12.74
	Labour	Elizabeth Margaret Rooney	1,208	7.86	+0.15
	Labour	Alan Joseph Morris	1,156	7.52	-0.12
	Labour	Andrew Shaw	1,093	7.11	-0.21
	Green	Alison Heather Parker	831	5.41
Majority			807	5.25
Turnout			15,369	67.00	+27.80
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carole Hegley*	1,162	52.70	-11.94
	Labour	Theresa Moira Miller	674	30.57	+7.53
	Independent	Ian Phillip Bunker	369	16.73
Majority			488	22.13
Turnout			2,205	63.00	+24.00
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John McVicar*	2,062	31.61	+7.84
	Conservative	John Anthony Chatterley	1,975	30.28	+9.64
	Labour	Catherine Theresa Howes	980	15.02	-0.41
	Labour	Michael Aneurin Stokes	874	13.40	-1.45
	Independent	Christine Ann Reynolds	632	9.69
Majority			995	15.26
Turnout			6,523	63.00	+28.60
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eugene Patrick Ghent	879	39.05	-3.42
	Independent	Neal Reynolds	697	30.96
	Labour	Roger Barry Pepworth	675	29.99	-12.99
Majority			182	8.09
Turnout			2,251	59.00	+21.80
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeannette Freeman	1,806	23.21	+4.96
	Conservative	Nigel Austin Warren	1,436	18.45	+0.11
	Independent	Julian David Murray*	1,063	13.66	-7.59
	Labour	Michael Andrew Rogers	1,027	13.20	-1.78
	Independent	Bev Coleman	933	11.99
	Labour	Robert Leslie Shelley	773	9.93	-4.46
	Green	Peter John Burrows	409	5.26
	Green	Catherine Joyce Aganoglu	335	4.30
Majority			373	4.79
Turnout			7,782	59.00	+22.40
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Nugent Hollick*	3,135	32.88	-1.47
	Conservative	Nigel Young	3,097	32.48	-1.01
	Labour	Michael Rolfe Ingham	994	10.42	-1.55
	Labour	Sheila Morgan	966	10.13	-1.68
	Independent	Beryl Mary Meakins	750	7.86
	Independent	Alan Gerard Corkhill	594	6.23
Majority			38	0.40
Turnout			9,536	69.00	+27.20
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ken Janes	1,225	50.83	-24.17
	Independent	Ruth Archer	943	39.13
	Labour	Isaac Chikwakwanyi Sibiya	242	10.04	-9.16
Majority			282	11.70
Turnout			2,410	72.00	+26.00
	Conservative hold		Swing

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49	5	4	1
Conservative	LD	I	L

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53	3	2	1
Conservative	I	L	LD

Flitwick (3 seats)^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fiona Chapman	3,511	20.80	+6.12
	Conservative	Andrew Michael Turner*	3,274	19.40	+1.94
	Conservative	Charles Christopher Gomm*	2,762	16.36	+1.86
	Labour	David William Austine Short	1,585	9.39	+1.90
	UKIP	Adam Glen Larkins	1,522	9.02
	Labour	Sheila Gardner	1,514	8.97	+2.18
	UKIP	Russell Edward Shaw	1,368	8.10
	Green	David Christian Parrock	1,344	7.96	+3.16
Majority			1,177	6.97
Turnout			16,880	70.00	34.40
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Houghton Conquest & Haynes (1 seat) ^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Barker*	1,137	67.56
	Labour	Paul Michael Forster	299	17.76
	Independent	Richard James	247	14.68
Majority			838	49.80
Turnout			1,683	77.00	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Anthony Gaius Versallion*
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Robert Kane	1,336	24.44	+7.69
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Anne Goodchild*	1,250	22.87	-2.25
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Jane Mary Ellaway	874	15.99	-4.52
	Labour	Chris Slough	806	14.74	+2.15
	Labour	Syed Qaiser Abbas	700	12.81	+0.84
	Green	Steve Finan	500	9.15
Majority			376	6.88
Turnout			5,466	56.00	+23.90
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ken Ferguson	3,663	19.56	+2.08
	Conservative	Brian John Spurr*	3,640	19.44	+0.88
	Conservative	Roy William Johnstone*	3,509	18.74	-0.56
	Labour	Michael John Bishop	1,614	8.62	-0.92
	Labour	Daniel Scott	1,438	7.68	-0.52
	Labour	Ian Michael Purvis	1,331	7.11	-2.42
	Green	Jonathan Adrian Hull	737	3.94
	Liberal Democrats	Rosalind Mennie	734	3.92	-1.24
	Green	Simon James Wilson	713	3.81
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Roger White	674	3.60	-2.80
	Green	Gary Woodwards	671	3.58
Majority			1,895	10.12
Turnout			18,724	63.00	+26.10
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amanda Louise Dodwell*	2,999	18.29	-1.20
	Conservative	Dave Bowater*	2,862	17.46	-2.07
	Conservative	Ray Berry*	2,823	17.22	-2.47
	Labour	John Stephen Bone	1,302	7.94	-3.26
	UKIP	Garry Lelliott	1,163	7.09
	Labour	Adrian Peter Heffernan	1,046	6.38
	Labour	Christopher Phillip Earnshaw Northedge	929	5.67	-3.92
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Elizabeth Gray	559	3.41	-3.66
	Green	Nichola Lynne Cheesewright	543	3.31
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Jennifer Guess	481	2.93	-3.89
	Green	Emily Anne Lawrence	474	2.89
	Liberal Democrats	Celia Mary Snelling	452	2.76	-3.91
	Independent	Paul Leslie Adams	401	2.45
	Green	Kenton Roger Charles Sumner	361	2.20
Majority			137	0.83
Turnout			16,395	64.00	+28.00
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gordon Perham	2,935	16.14	-1.16
	Conservative	Gary David Tubb	2,814	15.48	+2.56
	Conservative	Benjamin Mark Ian Walker	2,418	13.30	+1.18
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Snelling	1,333	7.33	-4.65
	Labour	Peter William Palfrey	1,068	5.87	-1.00
	Liberal Democrats	Russ Goodchild	1,027	5.65	-4.02
	Labour	Rebekah Price	972	5.35	-0.48
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Kenneth Carnell	958	5.27	-6.31
	UKIP	Ian Thomas Reynolds	930	5.11
	Labour	Gerald Alfred Sandison	914	5.03	-0.37
	Green	Ken Barry	834	4.59	-1.24
	UKIP	Mike Woodhouse	770	4.24
	Green	Parisa Francesca Rosina Darling	667	3.67
	Green	Tony Mabbott	541	2.97
Majority			121	0.66
Turnout			18,181	71.00	+25.00
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frank Wray Firth	932	61.39	-6.92
	UKIP	Paul Goodchild	331	21.81
	Labour	Peter Heyes	255	16.80	+0.23
Majority			601	39.58
Turnout			1,518	43.00	-7.90
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Antonia Petra Ryan	510	26.87	+5.92
	Independent	Alan David Winter	486	25.61
	UKIP	Stephen John North	387	20.39
	Conservative	Adam Fahn	384	20.23
	Independent	Jimmy Carroll	131	6.90
Majority			24	1.26
Turnout			1,898	53.00	+22.90
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Adam Zerny*	3,059	47.35	+10.93
	Conservative	Doreen Beatrice Gurney*	1,384	21.42	-2.62
	Conservative	Allan Mathieson Drew	1,223	18.93	-3.35
	Labour	Adam John Dutton	795	12.30	+3.07
Majority			161	2.49
Turnout			6,461	73.00	+22.60
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Caroline Mauldin*	2,798	16.43	-0.41
	Conservative	Tracey Deborah Stock	2,332	13.69	-2.62
	Conservative	Peter Lindsay Smith	2,294	13.47	+1.40
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Aldis	1,378	8.09	-4.73
	UKIP	Christopher Butterfield	1,286	7.55
	UKIP	George Konstantinidis	1,087	6.38	+0.17
	UKIP	Peter Edwin Day	1,081	6.35
	Labour	Cheryl Ann McDonald	1,055	6.20	-0.20
	Independent	Ken Lynch	1,018	5.98
	Labour	Tom Noakes	849	4.99	-1.48
	Liberal Democrats	Jafor Ali	723	4.25	-4.50
	Independent	Stephen Robert Laurie Allen	572	3.36	-3.10
	Liberal Democrats	Gee Leach	555	3.26	-4.41
Majority			916	5.38
Turnout			17,028	64.00	+26.50
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lewis Birt*	2,734	32.14	+1.57
	Conservative	Tony Brown*	2,630	30.92	+1.55
	Labour	Nigel Ian Rushby	1,176	13.83	+2.29
	UKIP	Jonathan Shilton	1,030	12.11	+3.39
	UKIP	Roger Martin Smith	936	11.00
Majority			1,454	17.09
Turnout			8,506	69.00	+27.50
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alison Mary Wainman Graham	1,394	45.98
	Conservative	Ian Jeremy Knighton	1,276	42.08	-4.14
	Labour	Keith Richard Whitwell	362	11.94	+5.57
Majority			118	3.90
Turnout			3,032	75.00	+23.50
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brian Saunders	3,750	21.25	+3.11
	Conservative	John Alfred George Saunders*	3,261	18.48	+0.87
	Conservative	Steven Ian Graham Dixon	3,205	18.16	+1.35
	UKIP	Roy Mitchell	1,667	9.44
	Labour	Lucy Kelly	1,570	8.90	+2.71
	Independent	Alan Reginald Cooper	1,539	8.72
	Independent	Larry Stoter	1,484	8.41
	Green	Craig Thomas	1,172	6.64
Majority			1,538	8.72
Turnout			17,648	69.00	+22.90
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Swain	522	30.58	-14.80
	Conservative	Tony Morris	485	28.41
	Independent	David Abbott	288	16.87
	Liberal Democrats	Marion Frances Rolfe	230	13.48	-41.14
	Independent	Tracey Karen McMahon	182	10.66
Majority			37	2.17
Turnout			1,707	55.00	+22.90
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Norman Bryan Costin*	2,391	25.82	+0.54
	Conservative	Thomas Nicols*	1,616	17.45	-9.58
	UKIP	Richard Roe	1,154	12.46
	Liberal Democrats	Brian James Golby	982	10.61	-5.38
	Labour	Rachel Joy Elizabeth Garnham	977	10.55	-0.31
	Independent	Mary Elizabeth Walsh	822	8.88
	Independent	Michael Stonnell	712	7.69
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Anne Jack	605	6.54	-4.43
Majority			462	4.99
Turnout			9,259	71.00	+26.70
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Gerard Jamieson*	1,859	65.60	5.76
	UKIP	Steven David Wildman	510	17.99
	Green	James Malcolm Chalmers	465	16.41	-3.56
Majority			1,349	47.61
Turnout			2,834	74.00	+25.90
	Conservative hold		Swing