Christchurch Borough Council election, 2015

Map of the results of the 2015 Christchurch Borough Council election. Conservatives in blue, independents in grey and UK Independence Party in purple.

The 2015 Christchurch Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Christchurch Borough Council in Dorset, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.^[1]

Background

After the last election in 2011 the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 21 seats, while independents had two seats and there was one Liberal Democrat.^[2] However the only Liberal Democrat councillor, Peter Hall of Town Cente ward, defected to the Conservatives in June 2011.^[3]

69 candidates stood in 2015 for the 24 seats on the council, including a full slate of 24 from the Conservatives.^[4] Labour had 20 candidates and the UK Independence Party 16, up from 11 and 6 respectively in 2011.^[5] Other candidates were six from the Green party and three independents, including the two sitting councillors in Jumpers ward, Colin Bungey and Fred Neale.^[5] After the Liberal Democrats stood 11 candidates in 2011 they had no candidates in 2015, with the party's candidate for the Christchurch parliamentary constituency saying that the local party "wanted to concentrate on the general election campaign".^[4]

Three Conservative councillors, Mike Duckworth, Gillian Geary and Myra Mawbey, stood down at the election.^[5] Meanwhile, the election in North Highcliffe and Walkford ward was delayed until June 2015 after the death of one of the candidates.^[6]

Election result

The Conservatives remained in control of the council after winning 19 of the 22 seats contested in May.^[1] They lost one seat to the UK Independence Party, but retained all of the other seats they had been defending, including both seats in Town Centre ward where Peter Hall held his seat as a Conservative after his defection from the Liberal Democrats in 2011.^[7] The UK Independence Party gain came in Grange ward where Janet Abbott was elected and the party got an increased vote share across the council.^[7] Meanwhile, the only other seats not won by the Conservatives came in Jumpers where the two independent councillors, Colin Bungey and Fred Neale, held their seats.^[7]

The Conservatives also won both seats at the June delayed election in North Highcliffe and Walkford ward.^[8]

Christchurch local election result 2015^[1]^[8]^[9]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	21	0	1	-1	87.5	57.7	28,859	-5.6%
	Independent	2	0	0	0	8.3	4.7	2,331	-2.4%
	UKIP	1	1	0	+1	4.2	20.5	10,242	+14.0%
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0	13.8	6,899	+4.6%
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	1,672	+3.3%

The above totals include the delayed election in North Highcliffe and Walkford.

Ward results

Burton and Wickton (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Flagg	1,190
	Conservative	Colin Jamieson	1,164
	UKIP	Dan Mills	564
	UKIP	Cindy McGrail	562
	Independent	Brian Taylor	335
	Labour	James Kennedy	300
	Labour	Jacqueline Milton	299
Turnout			4,414	71.0	+20.5
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Grange (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Denise Jones	645
	UKIP	Janet Abbott	635
	Conservative	Paul Hilliard	584
	UKIP	Carl Williams	547
	Labour	Antoinette Pearce	377
	Labour	David Munnik	371
	Green	Graham Kendrick	225
Turnout			3,384	55.1	+20.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Highcliffe (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Vicki Hallam	1,283
	Conservative	John Lofts	1,221
	UKIP	Robin Ede	618
	UKIP	Jean Bell	541
	Labour	Carol Wilcox	250
	Labour	Vera Hill	242
Turnout			4,155	74.8	+17.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Jumpers (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Colin Bungey	1,014
	Independent	Fred Neale	982
	Conservative	Norma Fox	678
	Conservative	Will Edwards	652
	Labour	Robin Thorpe	270
	Green	Robert Staite	214
	Labour	Howard Wortley	211
	Green	Nigel Ware	174
Turnout			4,195	70.5	+24.2
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Mudeford and Friars Cliff (3 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Claire Bath	1,900
	Conservative	Andy Barfield	1,897
	Conservative	Trevor Watts	1,437
	UKIP	Robert Clifford	945
	Labour	Lindsay Turner	558
	Labour	Robert Brannan	515
Turnout			7,252	74.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Portfield (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Travis Fox	1,081
	Conservative	Lisle Smith	868
	UKIP	Jane Brown	676
	Labour	Julie Keeble	507
	Labour	Bob McNair	416
Turnout			3,548	66.8	+27.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Purewell and Stanpit (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bernie Davis	1,066
	Conservative	Ray Nottage	966
	UKIP	Diane Rollinson	657
	UKIP	Terry Spooner	561
	Labour	Clare Martens	432
	Green	Anthony Sanders	421
Turnout			4,103	70.4	+22.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Catherine's and Hurn (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sue Spittle	1,603
	Conservative	Margaret Phipps	1,494
	UKIP	Inez Baxter	599
	Labour	Alan Matthews	308
	Labour	Valerie Matthews	298
Turnout			4,302	76.5	+20.5
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Town Centre (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Peter Hall	1,045
	Conservative	Wendy Grace	993
	UKIP	Liz Faherty	585
	UKIP	Olga Turner	476
	Labour	George Gregory	365
	Green	Joanne Dyton	349
	Green	Steven Thomas	289
Turnout			4,102	70.2	+21.0
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Highcliffe (3 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Trish Jamieson	1,945
	Conservative	Lesley Dedman	1,834
	Conservative	David Jones	1,745
	UKIP	Philip Glover	922
	UKIP	Douglas Oakley	751
	Labour	Robert Maskell	534
	Labour	Abdul Qureshi	371
Turnout			8,091	74.3	+21.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Highcliffe and Walkford delayed election

The election in North Highcliffe and Walkford ward take place on 18 June 2015, delayed from 7 May when the rest of the council voted, after the death of Labour candidate Richard Walls.^[6] The two seats were won by Conservatives Sally Derham Wilkes and Nick Geary.^[8]

North Highcliffe and Walkford (2 seats)^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sally Derham Wilkes	793
	Conservative	Nick Geary	775
	UKIP	Robin Grey	315
	UKIP	Janet Hatton	288
	Labour	Donald Barr	143
	Labour	Gareth Walls	132
Turnout			2,446	41.0	-12.1
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1 2 3 "Local election results 2015 in full". The Guardian. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
↑ "England council elections". BBC News Online. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
↑ Clark, Katie (22 June 2011). "Lib-Dem councillor quitting to join Tories". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
1 2 "Christchurch Borough Council elections: No Lib Dem candidates". BBC News Online. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
1 2 3 Clark, Katie (11 April 2015). "No Lib Dem candidates to stand in Christchurch". Bournemouth Daily Echo. NewsBank. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 "Election delayed after candidate's death". Bournemouth Daily Echo. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
1 2 3 Frampton, Will (9 May 2015). "Vote 2015: Tories maintain their dominance in Christchurch". Bournemouth Daily Echo. NewsBank. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 3 4 "Elections for the North Highcliffe & Walkford ward". dorsetforyou.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Results of the election to Christchurch Borough Council". dorsetforyou.com. Retrieved 24 May 2015.

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