2015_Forest_of_Dean_District_Council_election

2015 Forest of Dean District Council election
All 48 seats to Forest of Dean District Council; 25 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; No Overall Control;	Council control after election ; No Overall Control;

2015 Forest of Dean District Council election

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Elections for all seats on Forest of Dean District Council were held on 7 May 2015 as part of the 2015 United Kingdom local elections. No party gained overall control.

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The Conservatives remained the largest party on the council, having increased their number of Councillors, but failing to gain an overall majority. This election saw the Green Party gain their first seats on the council, while the Liberal Democrats lost their only Councillor.^[1]

2015 local election results in the Forest of Dean

Ward results

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"Forest of Dean election results". Forest of Dean District Council. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frankie Evans	747	44.02	-5.70
	UKIP	Jim Simpson	659	20.70	+20.70
	Conservative	Marion Murdoch Winship	654
	Labour	Hazel Joan Brookshaw	599	18.82	-2.46
	Green	Alan David Olney	405	12.72	+12.72
	Independent	Claude Ronald Mickleson	119	3.74	+3.74
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gareth Rhys Hughes	353	37.12	-13.31
	Green	Andy Blake	341	35.86	-13.71
	UKIP	Roger Ashley Jean Wilkinson	257	27.02	+27.02
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tim Gwilliam	459	51.00	-4.15
	Conservative	Nigel John Bluett	319	35.44	-9.40
	Green	Tony Clapp	122	13.56	+13.56
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Dave East	551	47.91	-14.24
	Conservative	Kate Elisabeth Robinson	260	22.61	-7.06
	Labour	Jan Royall	142	12.35	+4.17
	UKIP	Ian Mitchell Aitken	137	11.91	+11.91
	Green	Nicky Packer	60	5.22	+5.22
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul John Hiett	597	36.23	-12.38
	UKIP	Richard Nicholas Leppington	528	30.45	+30.45
	Labour	Bill Evans	513
	Conservative	Brian Joseph Edwards	464	26.31	-13.44
	UKIP	Averil Elizabeth Sumners	405
	Conservative	Julia Ann Lawton	342
	Green	Paul Tyrone Lounds	215	7.02	+7.02
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

2015_Forest_of_Dean_District_Council_election

2015 Forest of Dean District Council election

Ward results

Alvington, Aylburton & West Lydney

Awre

Berry Hill

Blaisdon and Longhope

Bream

Bromsberrow & Dymock

Christchurch and English Bicknor

Churcham and Huntley

Cinderford East

Cinderford West

Coleford Central

Coleford East

Hartpury

Hewelsfield and Woolaston

Littledean & Ruspidge

Lydbrook & Ruardean

Lydney East

Lydney North

Mitcheldean & Drybrook

Newent Central

Newland and St Briavels

Newnham & Westbury

Oxenhall and Newent North East

Pillowell

Redmarley

Tibberton

Tidenham

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roger Yeates	686	57.89	+4.64
	UKIP	Simon Roberts	309	26.08	+26.08
	Green	Sue Clarke	190	16.03	+16.3
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marrilyn Jane Smart	413	42.23	-57.77
	Labour	Jamie Elsmore	253	25.87	+25.87
	UKIP	Ralph Lawrence Wintle	150	15.34	+15.34
	Independent	Eileen Marie Dyer	87	8.90	+8.90
	Green	Geraint Slingsby Williams	75	7.67	+7.67
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brian Anthony Jones	413	37.51	-5.90
	Independent	Alan Stephen Wood	272	24.70	-17.28
	UKIP	Sandy Sparks	232	21.07	+21.07
	Labour	Shaun Brown	115	10.45	-4.16
	Green	Alan Rupert Clarke	69	6.27	+6.27
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Max Coborn	749	54.80	-16.42
	Labour	Di Martin	689
	Conservative	Grace Bensted	355	25.19	-3.59
	UKIP	Aodha Daithi Conall O'Carroll	336	12.80	+12.80
	Conservative	Donald Leonard Ogilvie Horne	306
	Green	Kate De Selincourt	189	7.20	+7.20
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Leslie Morgan	1,064	45.62	-17.12
	Labour	Lynn Iris Sterry	831
	Labour	Roger Anthony Sterry	712
	UKIP	Roy Bardo	672	21.44	+21.44
	UKIP	Ann Guyton	553
	Conservative	Diana Katherine Bensted	534	25.90	+2.64
	Conservative	Charles William Wray Smart	476
	Conservative	Jonathan Burns	470
	Green	Jill Raymond	402	7.04	+7.04
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carole Ann Allaway Martin	583	33.22	-7.98
	Independent	Clive Terence Elsmore	487	17.84	-3.63
	Labour	Gray Grindle	439	31.21	-6.11
	Labour	Kate Williams	413
	Conservative	Nicholas Gordan Wright	324
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Margaret Lusty	272	9.96	+9.96
	Green	Andrew Peter Clarke	212	7.77	+7.77
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger John James	951	41.41	+4.39
	UKIP	Martin Robert Hill	914	15.14	+15.14
	Conservative	David William Easton	866	27.04	-11.76
	Labour	Yazmine Zora Alimi	860
	Conservative	Denis Riley	766
	Labour	Malcolm Thomas Sadley	688
	Independent	Maria Ann Edey	447	7.41	-7.40
	Green	Elliot Dean Clarke	436	7.22	+7.22
	Independent	Danny Faux	107	1.77	+1.77
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Philip Howard Joseph Burford	601	55.75	-0.94
	Conservative	Ben Stone	378	35.6	-8.24
	Green	Caroline Vieira	99	9.18	+9.18
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Christopher John Molyneux	605	53.54	-9.69
	Green	Robin Charles Larkham	192	16.99	-19.78
	UKIP	Sandra Hazel Leppington	167	14.78	+14.78
	Labour	Jane Johnson	166	14.69	+14.69
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Hawthorne	736	31.06	-6.41
	Labour	Bernie O'Neill	566	25.96	-9.33
	Conservative	Dawn Lucas	513
	Labour	Rowland David Pritchard	478
	Green	Sid Phelps	469	21.39	+21.39
	UKIP	David O'Carroll	448	21.59	+21.59
	UKIP	Anthony Reeve	420
	Green	Bob Rhodes	391
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Lydbrook & Ruardean (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Andrew Edward Gardiner	927	13.02	-10.79
	Labour	Bruce Alan Hogan	865	31.7	-6.41
	UKIP	Colin Firth Guyton	817	21.36	+7.97
	Labour	Karen Leigh Brown	813
	UKIP	Jimmy Jewell	704
	Conservative	Joanna Carolyn Markham	636	25.83	+0.51
	Conservative	Sarah Cuthbert	631
	Green	Eddie Parsons	621	8.72	+8.72
	Conservative	Helen Mary Victoria McMillan	572
	Labour	David Stewart Thomson	534
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Lydney East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Arthur Bevan	955	35.06	-1.24
	UKIP	Carol Elizabeth Harris	861	26.34	+26.34
	Labour	Bill Osborne	818	26.20	-0.64
	Labour	Val Hobman	787
	UKIP	Claire Elizabeth Vaughan	753
	Conservative	David Cooksley	665
	Conservative	Steph Lord	528
	Green	Steve Stockham	484	7.90	-4.02
	Independent	Brian Pearman	276	4.50	+4.50
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Lydney North (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Alan Preest	414	36.64	+36.61
	Conservative	Judy Davis	348	30.80	-4.50
	Labour	Dave Clarke	261	23.10	-7.27
	Green	Destiny Rose Blake	107	9.47	+9.47
Turnout
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Mitcheldean & Drybrook (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jackie Fraser	788	31.14	-7.99
	Labour	Douglas Martin Scott	689
	Conservative	Brian Richard Robinson	682	26.42	+1.68
	Conservative	Zoe Clare Boyles	622
	UKIP	Malcolm Albert Berry	592	18.27	+18.27
	UKIP	Steve Beaumont	540
	Independent	Ian Richard Whitburn	517	8.35	-7.35
	Labour	Andrew James Knight	542
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Henchley	417	11.44	-8.99
	Conservative	Syed Babar Abbas Zaidi	333
	Green	Nigel Duncan Salter	271	4.37	+4.37
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Dalziel	165
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Gault	127
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Julia Denise Gooch	815	24.65	-7.75
	Conservative	Len Lawton	768	40.50	+1.92
	Conservative	Eli Heathfield	571
	Labour	Justin Kneen	418	12.64	-3.15
	Green	Ken Power	302	9.13	+9.13
	Liberal Democrats	Gill Moseley	261	7.89	+7.89
	Independent	Nick Winter	171	5.17	+5.17
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terry Hale	791	38.47	+0.18
	Green	Chris McFarling	633	18.20	+18.20
	Independent	Arthur James Thomas	586	16.85	-4.85
	Conservative	Alan Roy John Bensted	547
	Labour	Anna Victoria Parry-Hearn	487	14.00	-5.61
	Independent	David Andrew John Wheeler	434	12.48	+12.48
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Green gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Henry Boyles	679	36.22	+1.90
	Independent	Simon Charles Phelps	609	20.91	+20.91
	Green	Tom Marshall-Andrews	444	15.24	+1.63
	Conservative	Michaela Dawn Lucas	376
	UKIP	John Hector Cumper	293	10.06	+10.06
	Labour	Glyn Ford	277	17.58	-0.69
	Labour	Alessandro Aled Ford	235
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Craig Lawton	398	38.34	-39.43
	Independent	Martyn Raymond Thomas Vick	280	26.97	+26.97
	Independent	Mary Duncan	163	15.70	+15.70
	Labour	Gillian Hickling	119	11.46	-10.76
	Green	Johnny Back	78	7.51	+7.51
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diana Mary Edwards	686	31.51	-5.98
	UKIP	Alan Philip Grant	659	29.73	+29.73
	Conservative	John Alan Clissold	573
	Labour	Andy Hewlett	569	27.70	+0.43
	Labour	Chris Witham	538
	UKIP	John Duncan William McOwan	529
	Green	Andy Moore	442	11.06	-7.81
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clayton Dean Williams	730	62.66	-17.31
	UKIP	Alec Robert Tritton	184	15.79	15.79
	Labour	Carolyn Hewlett	127	10.90	-9.13
	Green	Brian James Greenwood	124	10.64	+10.64
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Henson Horne	748	66.31	-10.68
	Green	David Richard Humphreys	169	14.98	+14.98
	Labour	Russell Hickling	138	12.23	-10.78
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Iredale King	73	6.47	+6.47
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gethyn Joffre Davies	1,060	50.60	-6.01
	Conservative	Maria Jane Edwards	897
	Conservative	Helen Mary Molyneux	894
	Labour	David John Pearce	823	11.33	+11.33
	Liberal Democrats	Roy William Birch	776	10.69	-11.22
	UKIP	Simon Paul Williams	680	9.37	9.37
	Independent	Gabriella Kirkpatrick	674	9.28	-12.20
	Green	Fiona Bowie	634	8.73	8.73
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing