2007 Kennet District Council election
← 2003 3 May 2007 (2007-05-03)
All 43 seats to Kennet District Council
22 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Con
Ind
UKIP
Party Conservative Independent UKIP
Last election 26 seats, 40.9% 8 seats, 17.8% 1 seat, 1.7%
Seats won 33 5 2
Seat change Increase 7 Decrease 3 Increase 1
Popular vote 11,890 3,365 3,148
Percentage 47.3% 13.4% 12.5%
Swing Increase 6.4% Decrease 4.4% Increase 10.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
DG
LD
Party Devizes Guardians Liberal Democrats
Last election 3 seats, 7.6% 3 seats, 17.0%
Seats won 2 1
Seat change Decrease 1 Decrease 2
Popular vote 1,391 3,958
Percentage 5.5% 15.7%
Swing Decrease 2.1% Decrease 1.3%
Council control before election

Conservative

 Council control after election

Conservative

Elections to Kennet District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election, and the Conservatives comfortably retained control, winning thirty-three of the forty-three seats available.[1]

This was the last election of district councilors to take place in Kennet. The following year, a government review of local government determined that the four district councils of Wiltshire were to be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority with effect from 1 April 2009, when Kennet would be abolished and its councilors ' term of office would end two years early.

Elections to the new unitary authority, Wiltshire Council, took place in June 2009.

Election result

Kennet District Council elections, 2007[1]
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 33 8 2 +6 76.7 47.3 11,890
  Liberal Democrats 1 0 2 –2 2.3 15.7 3,958
  Independent 5 1 4 –3 11.6 13.4 3,365
  UKIP 2 1 0 +1 4.7 12.5 3,148
  Devizes Guardians 2 0 1 –1 4.7 5.5 1,391
  Labour 0 0 1 –1 0 5.5 1,388

Ward results

Aldbourne

Aldbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Humphries 344 47.9
Independent Michael Andrew Edmonds 311 43.3
Labour Frank Jefferies 63 8.8
Majority 33
Turnout 51.2
Conservative hold Swing

All Cannings

All Cannings
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony Molland 461 70.0
Liberal Democrats Kate Walling 198 30.0
Majority 263
Turnout 42.8
Conservative hold Swing

Bedwyn

Bedwyn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stella Marion Zweck 364 57.4
Liberal Democrats David John Walker 270 42.6
Majority 94
Turnout 44.0
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Bishops Cannings

Bishops Cannings
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony Adamson 270 47.9
Independent Eric Alan Clark 202 35.8
Liberal Democrats Caroline Waters 70 12.4
Labour Colin Robert Hopgood 22 3.9
Majority 68
Turnout 41.6
Conservative hold Swing

Bromham & Rowde

Bromham & Rowde (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Janet Mary Giles 734
Conservative Philip Alfred Brown 660
Liberal Democrats Ralph Andre Frederick Elia 332
Majority 328
Turnout 40.2
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Burbage

Burbage
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stuart John Kennedy Wheeler 407 69.5
Liberal Democrats Jacqueline Watson 179 30.5
Majority 228
Turnout 42.8
Conservative hold Swing

Cheverell

Cheverell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lionel Grundy 412 61.5
UKIP Christine Ann Cotton 258 38.5
Majority 154
Turnout 49.4
Conservative hold Swing

Collingbourne

Collingbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles Howard 332 58.6
Independent James Robinson 199 35.1
Liberal Democrats Michael Magee 36 6.3
Majority 133
Turnout 45.3
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Devizes East

Devizes East (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Devizes Guardians Tony Duck 706
Conservative Peter Evans 563
Conservative Julian Beinhorn 508
Labour Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor 450
Conservative Alistair Michael John Gagen 324
Labour Patricia Baxter 282
Labour Noel Woolrych 269
Liberal Democrats Bridget Selwyn 260
UKIP John Charles Stott 148
Majority 58
Turnout 34.2
Devizes Guardians hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Devizes North

Devizes North (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paula Mary Winchcombe 351
Conservative Sue Evans 298
Devizes Guardians Nigel Denys Carter 245
Liberal Democrats Don Jones 211
Labour Sue Buxton 144
Independent Ian Richard Porter Hopkins 142
UKIP Ernie Giles 136
Labour Tim Price 123
UKIP John Maurice Ryan 75
Majority 53
Turnout 37.3
Conservative gain from Devizes Guardians Swing

Devizes South

Devizes South (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ray Parsons 447
Devizes Guardians Jeff Ody 440
Conservative Charles Stuart Winchcombe 429
Labour Ray Taylor 325
Liberal Democrats Chris Callow 207
Labour Jim Thorpe 207
Majority 11
Turnout 44.6
Conservative hold Swing
Devizes Guardians hold Swing

Ludgershall

Ludgershall (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ken Beard 405
Conservative Chris Williams 385
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Holgate 154
UKIP Tony Still 143
UKIP Deborah Anne Holmes 140
Majority 231
Turnout 31.3
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Marlborough East

Marlborough East (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Edwina Jean Fogg 481
Liberal Democrats Peggy Ann Dow 436
Conservative Marian Hannaford-Dobson 405
Conservative Paul Gregory Horsnall 285
Liberal Democrats John Alexander Kirk Wilson 235
UKIP Mike Bird 103
Majority 31
Turnout 35.5
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Marlborough West

Marlborough West (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Nicholas Fogg 770
Conservative Stewart Dobson 618
Liberal Democrats Bryan Derek Castle 364
Conservative Stan Radnedge 359
Independent Anthony Richard Adrian Sycamore 348
Liberal Democrats Richard John Pitts 328
Majority 254
Turnout 47.2
Independent hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Milton Lilbourne

Milton Lilbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Leonard Douglas Caldwell 321 56.7
Independent John Baxendale Cooke 188 33.2
UKIP Leonard Sydney Drew 57 10.1
Majority 133
Conservative hold Swing

Netheravon

Netheravon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UKIP Alan Stephen Wood 385 52.5
Conservative Ian Charles Duke Blair-Pilling 349 47.5
Majority 36
Turnout 49.3
UKIP hold Swing

Ogbourne

Ogbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Tudor Bryn Hunter 345 61.9
Liberal Democrats Graham Francis 212 38.1
Majority 133
Turnout 41.3
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Pewsey

Pewsey (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Anne Hayhoe unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative Jerry Kunkler unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Pewsey Vale

Pewsey Vale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Judith Triggs 417 70.2
Liberal Democrats David Leighton 177 29.8
Majority 230
Turnout 42.3
Conservative hold Swing

Potterne

Potterne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Clyde Patrick George Hoddinott 316 65.3
Liberal Democrats Alan Charles Rankin 168 34.7
Majority 148
Turnout 39.2
Independent hold Swing

Ramsbury

Ramsbury (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brian John Twigger 771
Independent Susan Mary Findlay 756
UKIP Frank Baydon Bovingdon 201
Majority 555
Turnout 41.5
Conservative hold Swing
Independent hold Swing

Roundway

Roundway (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Geoff Brewer 621
Conservative Laura Evelyn Mayes 589
Liberal Democrats Katherine Callow 420
Liberal Democrats Mark Fell 343
Labour Christine Jenkins 135
Majority 169
Turnout 36.6
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

Seend

Seend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Lake 412 79.8
UKIP Bruce Wesley Cotton 104 20.2
Majority 308
Turnout 44.4
Conservative hold Swing

Shalbourne

Shalbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Newton Veasey 449 62.1
Liberal Democrats Derek Evans 163 22.5
UKIP Lincoln Vincent Williams 111 15.4
Majority 286
Turnout 47.2
Conservative hold Swing

The Lavingtons

The Lavingtons (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Elliott Gamble 550
Conservative Jerry Willmott 480
UKIP Mike Bridgeman 339
UKIP Wendy Watkiss 276
Labour Sharon Charity 249
Majority 141
Turnout 41.0
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Tidworth, Perham Down and Ludgershall South

Tidworth, Perham Down & Ludgershall South (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Robert Connolly 761
UKIP Steven Melville Dagger 692
Conservative Stephen John Miles 650
Conservative Dottie Halfon 359
Majority 291
Turnout 23.0
Conservative hold Swing
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Upavon

Upavon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Dominic Campbell 366 60.3
UKIP Brian Doherty 140 23.1
Liberal Democrats Phyllida Holgate 101 16.6
Majority 226
Conservative hold Swing

Urchfont

Urchfont
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jonathon Seed 415 55.6
UKIP Steve Hamilton 331 44.4
Majority 84
Turnout 52.4
Conservative hold Swing

West Selkley

West Selkley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gretchen Rawlins unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Kennet District Council elections, 2007 Archived 5 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine at wiltshire.gov.uk, accessed 12 February 2014
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