2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election

2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election

7 May 2015 (2015-05-07)
All 59 seats to Central Bedfordshire Council 30 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Conservative Independent Last election 49 seats, 53.6% 4 seats, 8.1% Seats won 53 3 Seat change 4 1 Popular vote 138,953 26,814 Percentage 53.8% 10.4% Swing 0.2% 2.3%   Third party Fourth party   Party Labour Liberal Democrats Last election 1 seat, 22.2% 5 seats, 14.3% Seats won 2 1 Seat change 1 4 Popular vote 43,512 13,232 Percentage 16.8% 5.1% Swing 5.4% 9.2%
Winner of each seat at the 2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

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.

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.

Result

Central Bedfordshire Council Election Result 2015

Party		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%

The overall turnout was 66.37% with a total of 258,389 valid votes cast. A total of 1,085 ballots were rejected in the 25 wards in which the number of rejected votes was reported.

Council Composition

Following the 2011 election, the composition of the council was:

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49	5	4	1
Conservative	LD	I	L

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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53	3	2	1
Conservative	I	L	LD

I - Independent
L - Labour
LD - 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:

Ampthill

Ampthill (3 seats)

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

A total of 123 ballots were rejected.

Arlesey

Arlesey

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

A total of 84 ballots were rejected.

Aspley and Woburn

Aspley and Woburn (1 seat)

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

A total of 33 ballots were rejected.

Barton-Le-Clay

Barton-Le-Clay (1 seat)

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

A total of 13 ballots were rejected.

Biggleswade North

Biggleswade North (2 seats)

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

A total of 36 ballots were rejected.

Biggleswade South

Biggleswade South (2 seats)

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

A total of 25 ballots were rejected.

Caddington

Caddington (2 seats)

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

A total of 46 ballots were rejected.

Cranfield & Marston Moretaine

Cranfield & Marston Moretaine (3 seats)

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

A total of 24 ballots were rejected.

Dunstable Central

Dunstable Central (1 seat)

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

The number of ballots rejected was not reported by the council.

Dunstable Icknield

Dunstable Icknield (2 seats)

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

The number of ballots rejected was not reported by the council.

Dunstable Manshead

Dunstable Manshead (1 seat)

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

A total of 41 ballots were rejected.

Dunstable Northfields

Dunstable Northfields (2 seats)

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

The number of ballots rejected was not reported by the council.

Dunstable Watling

Dunstable Watling (2 seats)

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

The number of ballots rejected was not reported by the council.

Eaton Bray

Eaton Bray (1 seat)

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

A total of 21 ballots were rejected.

Flitwick

Flitwick (3 seats)

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

A total of 57 ballots were rejected.

Heath & Reach

Heath & Reach (1 seat)

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

Mark Versallion was re-elected unopposed.

Houghton Conquest & Haynes

Houghton Conquest & Haynes (1 seat)

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

A total of 22 ballots were rejected.

Houghton Hall

Houghton Hall (2 seats)

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

A total of 65 ballots were rejected.

Leighton Buzzard North

Leighton Buzzard North (3 seats)

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

A total of 102 ballots were rejected.

Leighton Buzzard South

Leighton Buzzard South (3 seats)

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

A total of 73 ballots were rejected.

Linslade

Linslade (3 seats)

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

A total of 71 ballots were rejected.

Northill

Northill (1 seat)

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

A total of 14 ballots were rejected.

Parkside

Parkside (1 seat)

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

A total of 13 ballots were rejected.

Potton

Potton (2 seats)

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

A total of 33 ballots were rejected.

Sandy

Sandy (3 seats)

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

A total of 37 ballots were rejected.

Shefford

Shefford (2 seats)

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

A total of 31 ballots were rejected.

Silsoe & Shillington

Silsoe & Shillington (1 seat)

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

A total of 23 ballots were rejected.

Stotfold & Langford

Stotfold & Langford (3 seats)

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

A total of 38 ballots were rejected.

Tithe Farm

Tithe Farm (1 seat)

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

A total of 34 ballots were rejected.

Toddington

Toddington (2 seats)

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

A total of 25 ballots were rejected.

Westoning, Flitton & Greenfield

Westoning, Flitton & Greenfield (1 seat)

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

The number of ballots rejected was not reported by the council.