2015 Spelthorne Borough Council election

The 2015 Spelthorne Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all members of Spelthorne Borough Council in England as one of the 2015 local elections, held simultaneously with the General Election.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Results

Counting three intermittent by-elections (resulting in a Conservative gain and hold and a Liberal Democrat hold) and five defections from the governing party group in the 2011-2015 period (Cllrs Budd, D. Grant, Forsbrey, Rough and Sexton) the results saw these net changes:^[3]

Spelthorne Borough Council Election, 2015
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	35	6	1	+5	90	48	60048
Liberal Democrats	3	0	1	-1	8	10	12599
Labour	1	1	0	+1	2	18	22392
UKIP	0	0	1	-1	0	15	19041
Green	0	0	0	0	0	3	3264
Spelthorne Independent Party	0	0	4	-4	0	6	8125	N/A
TUSC	0	0	0	0	0	0.4%	475	N/A

Ward by ward

Ashford Common (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Kavanagh	1825
	Conservative	Howard Thomson	1820
	Conservative	Howard Williams	1444
	UKIP	Bob Bromley	1437
	Labour	Marjorie Martin	891
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Frank Ayres	832
	Labour	Cidi Greenaway	830
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Marion Bushnell	738
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Denise Grant	661
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ashford East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rose Chandler	1765
	Conservative	Anthony Mitchell	1644
	Conservative	Chris Frazer	1481
	UKIP	Dean Botterill	1296
	UKIP	Paul Humphreys	1057
	Labour	Harold Trace	764
	Labour	Sarah Wrightson	737
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Ann Ayers	517
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Juliet Griffin	398
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Kim Philips	394
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ashford North and Stanwell South (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Sinead Mooney	1361
	Conservative	Anne-Marie Neale	1266
	Conservative	Joanne Sexton	1183
	UKIP	Peter Appleford	1159
	Labour	John Doran	1017
	UKIP	Marian Rough	922
	Labour	Pamela Osborn	915
	Labour	Iain Raymond	792
	Green	Gordon Douglas	394
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Simon Bhadye	262
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Teresa Flurry	244
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Alan Mockford	244
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from independent (politician)		Swing
	Conservative gain from independent (politician)		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ashford Town (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Nick Gething	1926
	Conservative	Olivia Rybinski	1451
	Conservative	Naz Islam	1329
	UKIP	Susan Mason	1242
	Labour	John May	952
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Gerry Forsbrey	739
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Sam Budd	716
	Labour	Yazdi Merchant	710
	Green	Rupert Jackson	683
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Halliford and Sunbury West (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Timothy Evans	1376
	Conservative	Anthony Jones	1274
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Sandra Dunn	1141
	Conservative	Denise Turner-Stewart	1002
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Christine Fisher	956
	UKIP	Teresa Darby	928
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Tony Rawlison	839
	Labour	Sean Beatty	581
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Laleham and Shepperton Green (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Maureen Attewell	1922
	Conservative	Richard Smith-Ainsley	1586
	Conservative	Mary Madams	1529
	UKIP	Brian Catt	1321
	Spelthorne Independent Party	David Furst	966
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Karen Howkins	959
	Labour	Malcolm Aw	675
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Jon Edwards	640
	Labour	Pierre Cooper	581
	Labour	Arthur Gee	249
	TUSC	Helen Couchman	100
	TUSC	Andrew Pattinson	95
	TUSC	Paul Couchman	68
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Riverside and Laleham (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Tony Harman	2203
	Conservative	Denise Saliagopoulos	2184
	Conservative	Quentin Edgington	1730
	UKIP	Linda Thatcher	881
	Labour	John Burrel	597
	Labour	Emma Yates	570
	Labour	Imtiaz Khan	403
	Green	Elizabeth Mansfield	402
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	John Thesiger	342
	Green	Steve Trafford	331
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Elizabeth Scholefield	284
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Shepperton Town (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robin Sider	2502
	Conservative	Vivienne Leighton	2121
	Conservative	Robert Watts	2029
	UKIP	Jim Maxwell	823
	UKIP	Gerry Ring	656
	Labour	Stephen Bentley	612
	Labour	Jonathan Button	554
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Tony Clench	532
	Labour	Jolyon Green	524
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Staines (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Colin Davis	1642
	Conservative	Jean Pinkerton	1610
	Conservative	Mark Francis	1593
	Labour	David Arnold	1144
	Green	Jenny Vinson	1045
	UKIP	Rod Price	905
	Spelthorne Independent Party	Alan Patterson	699
	Labour	Leonard Evans	673
	TUSC	Leanne Robertson	212
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Staines South (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Steven Burkmar	1283
	Conservative	Sabine Lohmann	1263
	Conservative	Penny Forbes-Forsyth	1225
	UKIP	Christopher Beresford	989
	Labour	Amy Burrell	865
	UKIP	Gerald Gravett	854
	Labour	Mark Appleyard	829
	Labour	John Johnston	765
	UKIP	Dale Harris	745
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Susan Vincent	336
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Terry Lewis	306
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Robert Johnson	249
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stanwell North (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Kevin Flurry	1183
	Conservative	Richard Barratt	1177
	Labour	Susan Doran	1149
	UKIP	Gillian Sanderson	1040
	UKIP	Reg Thorne	1031
	Conservative	Joshua Jogo	1026
	Labour	Andrew McLuskey	985
	Labour	John Went	804
	Green	Paul Jacobs	409
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sunbury Common (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Ian Beardsmore	1297
	Conservative	Alison Griffiths	1025
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Bernie Spoor	1002
	Conservative	Colin Barnard	992
	Conservative	Brian Stobbs	969
	UKIP	Mark Jenkins	966
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Chris Bateson	931
	Labour	Khalid Mustafa	601
	Labour	John Norcross	585
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Sunbury East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Alfred Friday	1885
	Conservative	Ian Harvey	1683
	Conservative	Daxa Patel	1539
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Kathy Grant	1220
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	David Gardner	1176
	Liberal Democrats (UK)	Richard Dunn	1104
	UKIP	Mark Harrison	789
	Labour	Doreen Went	545
	Labour	Ian Jenkins	493
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
^ 2011 results Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine SBC. Accessed 2015-05-21
^ ^a ^b Intervening (by-)election results Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine SBC. Accessed 2015-05-21
^ Spelthorne Local election results Get Surrey, website of the Surrey Advertiser/Guardian/Herald group. Accessed 2015-05-21

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.

[2] 2011 results Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine SBC. Accessed 2015-05-21

[interv-3] Intervening (by-)election results Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine SBC. Accessed 2015-05-21

[4] Spelthorne Local election results Get Surrey, website of the Surrey Advertiser/Guardian/Herald group. Accessed 2015-05-21

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