Shrewsbury Town Council

Shrewsbury Town Council is the town council of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, established in April 2009 as part of structural changes to local government in England that abolished Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council and created in its place the unitary Shropshire Council.^[1] Shrewsbury was previously unparished, with the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Atcham acting as the town's mayor. With a population of over 76,000, Shrewsbury is the fourth-most populous parish in England.

The town council provides horticultural services and is responsible for parks, sports pitches, recreation grounds, allotments and highway verges. The council also manages provision of the town market, community facilities, bus shelters, street lighting and public toilets.^[2]

The town is subdivided into 17 wards, each of which returns one councillor to sit on the town council. Elections are held every four years, alongside Shropshire Council elections, using first-past-the-post. The wards are mostly coterminous with the Shropshire Council divisions created in 2009.^{[note 1]}

Mayor of Shrewsbury

Prior to 2009, the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council acted as Mayor of Shrewsbury.^[3] The Mayor is elected annually for a one-year term alongside the Deputy Mayor. By convention the Deputy Mayor becomes Mayor the following year.

Term	Mayor	Ward	Party
2009-10	Alan Townsend	Belle Vue	Labour
2010-11	Kathleen Owen	Meole	Conservative
2011-12	Tony Durnell	Monkmoor	Conservative
2012-13	Keith Roberts	Radbrook	Conservative
2013-14	Jon Tandy	Sutton and Reabrook	Labour
2014-15	Beverley Baker	Bagley	Liberal Democrat
2015-16	Miles Kenny	Underdale	Liberal Democrat
2016-17	Ioan Jones	Harlescott	Labour

Elections

Shrewsbury Town Council
Year	Lab	Con	Lib	Green
2009	3	12	2	0
2010*	4	11	2	0
2012*	4	10	3	0
2013	7	5	5	0
2017	7	6	3	1
2021	7	2	6	2
The changing political make-up of the town council. * = by-election

Shrewsbury Town Council election, 2017

The third elections to Shrewsbury Town Council were held on 4 May 2017, coinciding with elections to Shropshire Council.^[4]

The Conservatives gained Bagley from the Liberal Democrats while the Greens gained Porthill, its first seat on Shrewsbury Town Council, also from the Liberal Democrats. That left Labour with 7 seats, the Conservatives with 6, the Liberal Democrats with 3 and the Green Party with 1.

Summary

Shrewsbury Town Council election, 2017
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes
Labour	7			-	6,264
Conservative	6			+1	7,553
Liberal Democrats	3			-2	3,919
Green	1	1	0	+1	1,603
UKIP	0			-	387
Total					19,726

All wards are single seat.

Abbey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Fraser	814	57.2
	Conservative	Georgina Alison Boulger	324	22.8
	Labour	Maurice McGrath	222	15.6
	UKIP	John Kinsey Price	63	4.4
Majority			490
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bagley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alexander George Phillips	498	38.9
	Liberal Democrats	Beverley Baker	417	32.6
	Labour	Victoria Tranter	364	28.5
Majority			81
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Battlefield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rebecca Wall	462	56.3
	Labour	Gianluca Cerritelli	288	35.1
	Green	Chris Davenport	71	8.7
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Belle Vue
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Harry Taylor	640	42.9
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Adam Clark	430	28.8
	Conservative	Simon James Wray	344	23.0
	Green	Valerie Jones	79	5.3
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Bowbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Adams	723	72.4
	Green	Peter John Gilbert	276	27.6
Majority			447
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Castlefields and Ditherington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alan Mosley	906	78.7
	Conservative	Robert Osborne	184	16.0
	UKIP	Sylvia Loosley	61	5.3
Majority			722
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Column
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jane Mackenzie	566	51.2
	Conservative	Janine Hayter	465	42.1
	UKIP	Frank James Henry Burgess	74	6.7
Majority			101
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Copthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Nutting	768	62.6
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Lea	293	23.9
	Green	Gareth Stephen Egarr	165	13.5
Majority			475
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harlescott
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ioan Jones	561	57.7
	Conservative	Martin Richard Croll	319	32.8
	UKIP	Marino Bernardo Pacini	92	9.5
Majority			242
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Meole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Laurens	692	54.2
	Labour	Rod Turner	340	26.6
	Liberal Democrats	Slawomir Adam Fejfer	152	11.9
	Green	Thomas Hayek	59	4.6
	UKIP	Edward Arthur Higginbottom	35	2.7
Majority			352
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Monkmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Pam Moseley	703	72.3
	Conservative	Valerie Lingen-Jones	269	27.7
Majority			434
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Porthill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Julian Dean	701	44.3
	Conservative	Judith McCoy	473	29.9
	Liberal Democrats	David Craddock	408	25.8
Majority			228
Turnout
	Green gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Quarry and Coton Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Nat Green	730	66.7
	Conservative	Arlinda Ballcaj	364	33.3
Majority			366
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Radbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Keith Roberts	787	57.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Edward Cartwright	342	24.8
	Green	John Patrick Newnham	190	13.8
	UKIP	Ray Graham	62	4.5
Majority			445
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sundorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kevin Pardy	628	76.0
	Conservative	Bunty Cross	198	24.0
Majority			530
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Sutton and Reabrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Philip Gillam	789	64.5
	Conservative	Garry David Burchett	426	35.1
Majority			363
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Underdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	David Vasmer	360	39.1
	Labour	Peter Liebich	257	27.9
	Conservative	Ken Vine	257	27.9
	Green	Charlie Bell	62	6.7
Majority			103
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Shrewsbury Town Council election, 2013

The second elections to Shrewsbury Town Council were held on 3 May 2013, coinciding with elections to Shropshire Council.

Labour gained Column, Monkmoor and Sundorne from the Conservatives while the Liberal Democrats gained Bagley and Quarry and Coton Hill. The composition of the town council was subsequently 7 for Labour, 5 for the Conservatives and 5 for the Liberal Democrats. With the Conservatives losing overall control, Labour and the Liberal Democrats took control of the control.^[5]

Abbey^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Fraser	744	58.1
	Conservative	Maria Felton	283	22.1
	Labour	Bill Morris	158	12.3
	Green	Sheila Brown	96	7.5
Majority			461
Turnout			1,298	42.87
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bagley^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Beverley Baker	374
	Conservative	Dean Carroll	347
	Labour Co-op	Ashley Vaughan-Evans	347
Majority			27
Turnout			1,084	30.29
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Battlefield^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Malcolm Price	385
	Labour Co-op	Connor Jones	230
Majority			155
Turnout			624	21.44
	Conservative hold		Swing

Belle Vue^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alan Townsend	928
	Conservative	Valerie Jones	284
Majority			644
Turnout			1,226	35.77
	Labour hold		Swing

Bowbrook^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Adams	608
	Labour	Rebecca Wall	316
Majority			492
Turnout			937	31.45
	Conservative hold		Swing

Castlefields and Ditherington^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alan Mosley	928
	Conservative	Jennifer Hodges	110
	Liberal Democrats	Janine Clarke	43
Majority			818
Turnout			1,089	31.09
	Labour hold		Swing

Column^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jane Mackenzie	600
	Conservative	Jacqueline Brennand	540
Majority			60
Turnout			1,177	42.17
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Copthorne^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Nutting	697
	Labour	Mark Jones	283
	Liberal Democrats	Trudy Paula Smith	142
Majority			414
Turnout			1,139	36.26
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harlescott^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ioan Jones	550
	Conservative	Philip Sandford	306
Majority			246
Turnout			880	25.59
	Labour hold		Swing

Meole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kathleen Owen	688
	Labour Co-op	David French	467
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Hamer	95
Majority			221
Turnout			1,269	39.69
	Conservative hold		Swing

Monkmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Pam Moseley	660
	Conservative	Tony Durnell	319
	Liberal Democrats	David Grant Pennington	78
Majority			341
Turnout			1,063	31.30
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Porthill^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Chebsey	529
	Conservative	Saiful Chowdhury	385
	Labour	Amy Liebich	197
	Green	James Alan Whittaker	134
Majority			144
Turnout			1,262	37.35
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Quarry and Coton Hill^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Bannerman	475
	Conservative	Ashley Davies	286
	Labour Co-op	John Olaf Lewis	191
Majority			199
Turnout			963	30.61
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Radbrook^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Keith Roberts	735
	Labour	Jeanette Petherbridge	505
Majority			230
Turnout			1,283	37.95
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sundorne^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kevin Pardy	585
	Conservative	Karen Burgoyne	227
Majority			348
Turnout			828	26.14
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Sutton and Reabrook^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jon Tandy	899
	Conservative	Timothy Milsom	267
Majority			632
Turnout			1,180	40.77
	Labour hold		Swing

Underdale^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Miles Kenny	703
	Labour Co-op	Susan Batchelor	159
	Conservative	Robert Osborne	83
	Green	Ivor Yeomans	78
Majority			544
Turnout			1,034	32.41
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Shrewsbury Town Council election, 2009

The first elections to Shrewsbury Town Council were held on 4 June 2009, coinciding with elections to Shropshire Council and the European Parliament.^[21]

The Conservatives won 12 seats (4 of which were uncontested), Labour won 3 and the Liberal Democrats won 2.

Abbey
Party		Votes
	Conservative	797
	Labour	445
Majority		352
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bagley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative
	Conservative win (new seat)

Battlefield
Party		Votes
	Conservative	601
	Labour	229
Majority		372
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)

Belle Vue
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Alan Townsend	929
	Conservative		678
Majority			249
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)

Bowbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Adams	861
	Labour	Charles Wilson	268
Majority			593
Turnout				50.96
	Conservative win (new seat)

Castlefields and Ditherington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alan Mosley	857
	Conservative	Deborah Scollan	367
Majority			490
Turnout				41.42
	Labour win (new seat)

Column
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Brennand	850
	Labour	Liz Parsons	523
Majority			327
Turnout				62.74
	Conservative win (new seat)

Copthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Nutting
	Conservative win (new seat)

Meole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kath Owen
	Conservative win (new seat)

Harlescott
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Susan Taggart	557	52.3
	Labour	Ioan Jones	509	47.7
Majority			48	4.5
Turnout				33.82
	Conservative win (new seat)

Monkmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tony Durnell	571
	Labour	Pam Moseley	570
Majority			1
Turnout				35.54
	Labour win (new seat)

Porthill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Chebsey	868
	Conservative	Judith Williams	655
Majority			213
Turnout				48.27
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Quarry and Coton Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Andrew Wagner	590
	Albion Party	James Grimshaw Gollins	288
Majority			302
Turnout				37.77
	Conservative win (new seat)

Radbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Roberts
	Conservative win (new seat)

Sundorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dean Carroll	538
	Labour	Daniel Moore	392
Majority			146
Turnout				32.72
	Conservative win (new seat)

Sutton and Reabrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jon Tandy	897
	Conservative	Mark Jones	454
Majority			443
Turnout				49.87
	Labour win (new seat)

Underdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Miles Kenny	973
	Conservative	David John Morgan	140
	Labour	Robert Allum	135
Majority			833
Turnout				42.93
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

By-elections

Abbey, 1 March 2012^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Fraser	546	45.0
	Conservative	Peter John Wright	544	44.8	−19.4
	Green	John Robert Brown	124	10.2
Majority			2	0.2
Turnout			1,233	41.3
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Harlescott, 24 June 2010^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ioan Jones	431	47.1	−0.6
	Conservative	Philip Sandford	322	35.2	−17.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sharon Carrington	95	10.4
	BNP	Karl Foulkes	57	6.2
	Socialist Alternative	Jake Moore	11	1.2
Majority			109	11.9
Turnout			919	26.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	8.9

Notes

^ 15 of the town council wards are coterminous with county electoral divisions; the exception is Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton division which comprises the ward of Column, the ward of Sutton and Reabrook, and the separate parish of Bayston Hill.

References

^ "Case study on the experience of newly established local (parish and town) councils : SHREWSBURY TOWN COUNCIL (SHROPSHIRE)". Nalc.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^ "History - Shrewsbury Town Council". Shrewsburytowncouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ "The Mayor of Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Town Council". Shrewsburytowncouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ "Town and Parish results - May 4 2017 – Shropshire Council". Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^ "Labour and Lib Dems pledge partnership to run Shrewsbury Town Council". Shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
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[1] "Case study on the experience of newly established local (parish and town) councils : SHREWSBURY TOWN COUNCIL (SHROPSHIRE)". Nalc.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2017.

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[5] "Town and Parish results - May 4 2017 – Shropshire Council". Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.

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[24] "Information on the town council by-elections held during 2010" (PDF). New.shropshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2017.

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