2007 West Wiltshire District Council election

2007 West Wiltshire District Council election
All 44 seats to West Wiltshire District Council; 23 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; No overall control;	Council control after election ; Conservative;

Elections to West Wiltshire District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the Conservatives took control.

Most wards had boundary changes or were new.^[1] One ward, Shearwater, was uncontested.

Of the 44 new members, 21 were not members of the outgoing council.

The district councillors were elected on 3 May 2007 for a four-year term of office, but a review of local government determined in 2008 that the four district councils of Wiltshire should be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority for Wiltshire with effect from 1 April 2009, when the district councillors' term of office would end. The county council was treated as a "continuing authority", and elections to the new Wiltshire Council unitary council took place in June 2009.

Results

Result of West Wiltshire District Council elections, 2007
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	26			+9	59.1	49.5	32,397	+ 8.0 %
Liberal Democrats	14			-4	31.8	36.5	23,895	- 1.4 %
Independent	4			-2	9.1	7.7	5,020	- 1.3 %
Labour	0	0	3	-3	0	4.6	2,988	- 1.0 %
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	1.8	1,197	+ 1.8 %
Green	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	- 5.9 %

Ward results

Atworth, Whitley and South Wraxall

Atworth, Whitley and South Wraxall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Terry Chivers	616	55.6
	Conservative	Colin Henry Callow	386	34.9
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hayes	105	9.5
Majority			430	38.8
Turnout			1,107	46.9
	Independent gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Avonside

Avonside (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ernie Clark	1,514
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor William Carbin	1,129
	Conservative	David James Binding	902
	Conservative	Marion Mortimer	871
	Liberal Democrats	Ian James Crook	837
	Liberal Democrats	Fran Lewis	677
	Conservative	Bob Munden	555
Majority			31
Turnout				42.5
	Independent win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bradford-on-Avon North

Bradford-on-Avon North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	David John Bolwell	1,137
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Lindsay Repton	1,119
	Conservative	Sheila Allen	892
	Conservative	Neil Cocking	792
Majority			245
Turnout				48.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bradford-on-Avon South

Bradford-on-Avon South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Isabel Catherine Martindale	998
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Brown	997
	Conservative	Gwen Allison	966
	Conservative	Mike Roberts	950
Majority			31
Turnout				46.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Dilton

Dilton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Linda Conley	476	48.3
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Mary Irving	371	37.7
	Independent	Francis Morland	77	7.8
	UKIP	Keith Malcolm Green	61	6.2
Majority			105	10.7
Turnout			985	43.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

Ethandune

Ethandune
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Julie Swabey	855	76.3
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Rigg	265	23.7
Majority			590	52.7
Turnout			1120	44.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Manor Vale

Manor Vale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Carolyn Joy Walker	676	63.3
	Liberal Democrats	Richard George Crofts	392	36.7
Majority			284	26.6
Turnout			1068	43.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Melksham East

Melksham East (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Alford	533
	Conservative	Mark Griffiths	520
	Liberal Democrats	Terri Welch	476
	Labour	Vic Oakman	411
	Labour	Tony Palmer	319
Majority			44
Turnout				29.0
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Melksham Spa

Melksham Spa (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Carr	689
	Conservative	Brian Mudge	642
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Petty	536
	Labour	Louise Anne Smith	402
	Labour	Gordon Cox	365
Majority			106
Turnout				32.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Melksham Without

Melksham Without (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Wiltshire	861
	Conservative	Roy Sidney While	813
	Conservative	Rod Eaton	773
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Hubbard	345
	Labour	Margaret White	322
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Content	310
	Labour	Jim McGee	276
	Liberal Democrats	John Landell Mills	247
	UKIP	Paul Robert Carter	253
	UKIP	David Gordon Sedgewick	222
Majority			432
Turnout				30.0
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative win (new seat)

Mid Wylye Valley

Mid Wylye Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Christopher Newbury	591	50.3
	Conservative	Steve Welling	464	39.5
	UKIP	Charlotte Kirsten Mozley	121	10.3
Majority			127	10.8
Turnout			1,176	52.8
	Independent hold		Swing

Shearwater

Shearwater
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Mounde	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing

Summerham

Summerham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Virginia Fortescue	686	75.7
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Gregory Littledale	420	24.3
Majority			266	29.4
Turnout			906	48.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Trowbridge and North Bradley

Trowbridge and North Bradley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Graham David Payne	589	66.6
	Liberal Democrats	Marcus Alexander Francis	295	33.4
Majority			294	33.2
Turnout			884	38.4
	Conservative win (new seat)

Trowbridge and Southwick

Trowbridge and Southwick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tony Phillips	453	59.4
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Brice	310	40.6
Majority			143	18.8
Turnout			884	38.4
	Conservative win (new seat)

Trowbridge Central

Trowbridge Central (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Thomas Hedley	548
	Liberal Democrats	Terry Couchman	525
	Conservative	George Chamulewicz	448
	Conservative	Geoffrey Kenneth Whiffen	433
	Independent	Sarah Jane Beatrice Newbury	344
	Independent	Tony Durrant	333
Majority			77
Turnout				29.7
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Trowbridge East

Trowbridge East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Fuller	812
	Conservative	Derek Coop	798
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew James Bryant	786
	Conservative	Trace Senior	749
	Liberal Democrats	Paul William Scrimgeour	677
	Liberal Democrats	Rollie Cleere	672
Majority			37
Turnout				31.0
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Trowbridge North East

Trowbridge North East (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Blakemore	672
	Liberal Democrats	Tom James	667
	Conservative	Richard Arthur Ing	621
	Conservative	Stephen Nash	606
Majority			46
Turnout				32.6
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Trowbridge North West

Trowbridge North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Kevin Seager	320	43.5
	Independent	John Knight	287	39.0
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Beaver	129	17.6
Majority			33	4.5
Turnout				32.6
	Conservative win (new seat)

Trowbridge South West

Trowbridge South West (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Jeff Osborn	989
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Bridget Osborn	948
	Conservative	Adam John Berrisford	384
	Conservative	Gerald Clive Burnan	383
Majority			564
Turnout				32.0
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Warminster East

Warminster East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Andrew Davis	1,510
	Conservative	Chris March	1,426
	Conservative	Bill Parks	1,346
	Liberal Democrats	May Joan Law	521
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Rowland Fisher	431
	Liberal Democrats	Neil Alan Pocock	423
Majority			825
Turnout				34.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Warminster West

Warminster West (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Pip Ridout	1,027
	Conservative	Keith Maurice Humphries	957
	Conservative	Veronica Dorothy Anne Burden	930
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Batchelor	867
	Liberal Democrats	David John Lovell	691
	Liberal Democrats	Roger John Coveney	603
	Independent	Michael John Turner	535
Majority			63
Turnout				33.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Westbury Ham

Westbury Ham (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Ian King	749
	Liberal Democrats	David Jenkins	738
	Independent	Russell Mark Jonathan Hawker	723
	Conservative	Michael Barry Hawkins	640
	Conservative	Ian Taylor	573
	Conservative	Bill Braid	501
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Jonathon Rosier	393
	Labour	Peter John Ezra	234
Majority			83
Turnout				29.6
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Independent win (new seat)

Westbury Laverton

Westbury Laverton (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Georgie Denison-Pender	703
	Conservative	Sue Ezra	676
	Labour	Christine Linda Mitchell	215
	Labour	Dot Large	211
Majority			461
Turnout				25.1
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

External links

West Wiltshire District Council election results - 3 May 2007 at wiltshire.gov.uk (ward by ward)
2007 West Wiltshire election result at bbc.co.uk (general result)

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