Swindon Borough Council election, 2015

The 2015 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Swindon Borough Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party increased their majority after gaining two seats. Of the 19 seats up for election, four seats changed hands to leave the Conservatives (32) with a majority of seven seats over Labour (23) and the Lib Dems (2).

Ward Elections

The results of the election are:^[2]

Blunsdon & Highworth Ward

Blunsdon & Highworth Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alan John Bishop	3502
	Labour	Pam Adams	1523
	UKIP	Ross Shugar	838
	Green	Andrew Donald Day	466
Turnout			6329	71.3

Central Ward

Central Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Julie Wright	2567
	Liberal Democrat	Antonio Banjamino Lopes	1176
	Conservative	Dave Bell	1187
	UKIP	Bob Sheppard	499
	Independent	Karsten Evans	48
	Green	Adam Grizzly Wilkinson-Moore	218
Turnout			5695	58.9

Chiseldon & Lawn Ward

Chiseldon & Lawn Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Fionuala Foley	2056
	UKIP	Jennifer Mary Jefferies	445
	Labour	Dave Cox	648
	Green	Paul Sunners	301
	Liberal Democrat	Clive James Hooper	194
Majority
Turnout			3644	77.4

Covingham & Dorcan Ward

Covingham & Dorcan Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dale James Heenan	2952
	Labour	Steve Wakefield	1634
	UKIP	Brian James Osbourn	1052
	Green	Lucy Rebecca Wilkinson-Moore	214
	Liberal Democrat	Gerry Taylor	201
Majority
Turnout			6083	68.4

Eastcott Ward

Eastcott Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrat	Toby Robson	1247
	Labour	Paul Dixon	1692
	UKIP	Graham Hyde	420
	Conservative	Niki Bartoszewka	1072
	Green	Graham Peter Mattingley	396
Majority
Turnout			4827

References

↑ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
↑ "Election Results". Swindon Borough Council. Retrieved 20 June 2016.

Council elections in Wiltshire

Wiltshire Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

Swindon Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Kennet District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

North Wiltshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

Salisbury District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

West Wiltshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

See also: Wards Boundary changes

(2014 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2015 (→ 2016)

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham St Helens Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York

District councils	Allerdale Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Carlisle Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Colchester Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Dover East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Northampton Norwich Oadby and Wigston Pendle Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Scarborough Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest

Mayoral elections	Bedford Copeland Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay

See also: United Kingdom general election, 2015

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