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Election results May 2007

Below are the results from the local elections held on 3 May 2007. Overall turnout was 41.8% (this is up from May 2003 when the turnout was 35.6%)

Results by party

Conservative: 8 seats
Green: 2 seats
Labour: 18 seats
Liberal Democrat: 19 seats
Others: 0 seats

There are a total of 47 seats (councillors).

Results by ward

Acomb

David Anthony Horton (Labour) and Tracey Louise Simpson-Laing (Labour) are elected

  • DAWSON, IAN GEOFFREY (BNP) = 520 votes
  • DYSON, WILL (GREEN) = 297 votes
  • HORTON, DAVID ANTHONY (LABOUR) = 1303 votes
  • LEWIS-STRODDER, RACHEL JOHANNE (LIBERAL DEM) = 448 votes
  • MAYNE, REUBAN ALEXANDER (LIBERAL DEM) = 399 votes
  • SIMPSON-LAING, TRACEY LOUISE (LABOUR) = 1301 votes
  • THOMPSON, DAVID (CONSERVATIVE) = 426 votes
  • TUCKER, MICHAEL (CONSERVATIVE) = 529 votes

Turnout: 44.6%

Bishopthorpe

John Christopher Galvin (Conservative) is elected

  • GALVIN, JOHN CHRISTOPHER (CONSERVATIVE) = 851 votes
  • LIVESLEY, DAVID GEOFFREY (LIBERAL DEM) = 540 votes
  • SMITH, FIONA KATHLEEN (LABOUR) = 217 votes
  • THURLEY, RICHARD MICHAEL (GREEN) = 122 votes

Turnout: 54.3% 

Clifton

Lorraine Helen Douglas (Labour), Kenneth William King (Labour) and David Lee Scott (Labour) are elected

  • BLAIR, OLIVER JAMES (CONSERVATIVE) = 580 votes
  • DOUGLAS, LORRAINE HELEN (LABOUR) = 1367 votes votes
  • HOLLINRAKE, KEVIN PAUL (CONSERVATIVE) = 576 votes
  • KING, KENNETH WILLIAM (LABOUR) = 1438 votes
  • KIRK, KAROLINE MARY ELIZABETH (LIBERAL DEM) = 551 votes
  • LEEMING, RICH (BNP) = 251 votes
  • MARSH, LES (RESPECT) = 421 votes
  • MCCONNELL, THOMAS (CONSERVATIVE) = 304 votes
  • REID, MATTHEW JONATHAN (LIBERAL DEM) = 545 votes
  • SCOTT, DAVID LEE (LABOUR) = 1242 votes
  • SHAW, GINNIE (GREEN) = 746 votes
  • WAUDBY, DEREK (LIBERAL DEM) = 494 votes

Turnout: 33.5% 

Derwent

Jenny Brookes (Conservative) is elected

  • BROOKS, JENNY (CONSERVATIVE) = 841 votes
  • COSSHAM, GILLIAN MARY (GREEN) = 53 votes
  • MAGGS, ROSALIND ANNE (LIBERAL DEM) = 514 votes
  • MARTIN, DENNIS ALBERT (LABOUR) = 174 votes

Turnout: 53.5% 

Dringhouses and Woodthorpe

Thomas Paul Holvey (Liberal Democrat), Ann Lorraine Reid (Liberal Democrat) and Susan Sunderland (Liberal Democrat) are elected

  • BEACON, GEOFFREY ROY (LABOUR) = 865 votes
  • GRAY, JOHN DAVID (GREEN) = 504 votes
  • HODGSON, GERARD PAUL (LABOUR) = 830 votes
  • HOLVEY, THOMAS PAUL (LIBERAL DEM) = 1445 votes
  • LITTEN, MATTHEW (CONSERVATIVE) = 1155 votes
  • REID, ANN LORRAINE (LIBERAL DEM) = 1611 votes
  • SUNDERLAND, SUSAN (LIBERAL DEM) = 1503 votes
  • VERNON, PAUL STEWART (CONSERVATIVE) = 1064 votes
  • VERNON, BARBARA JEAN (CONSERVATIVE) = 1112 votes
  • WRIGHT, THOMAS FARNSWORTH (LABOUR) = 934 votes

Turnout: 45.2%

Fishergate

Andy D'Agorne (Green) and Dave Taylor (Green) are elected

  • D'AGORNE, ANDY (GREEN) = 1308 votes
  • DICKINSON, ERNEST PETER (LABOUR) = 706 votes
  • DICKSON, ROBIN  NICHOLAS (CONSERVATIVE) = 649 votes
  • GIBSON, THOMAS (LABOUR) = 576 votes
  • HUDSON, NICHOLAS FREDERICK JAMES (LIBERAL DEM) = 146 votes
  • NUNN, SUSAN JACQUELINE (LIBERAL DEM) = 157 votes
  • PHILLIPS, STEPHEN MARK (BNP) = 111 votes
  • RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL JAMES (CONSERVATIVE) = 495 votes
  • TAYLOR, DAVE (GREEN) = 1086 votes

Turnout: 44.9%

Fulford

Keith Richard James Aspden (Liberal Democrat) is elected

  • ASPDEN, KEITH RICHARD JAMES (LIBERAL DEM) = 503 votes
  • CRAGHILL, DENISE (GREEN) = 212 votes
  • SMITH, ALAN MICHAEL (LABOUR) = 266 votes
  • SUDDONS, SAMANTHA LAURA (CONSERVATIVE) = 153 votes

Turnout:  51.6%

Guildhall

Janet Mary Looker (Labour) and Brian Walter Joseph Edward Watson (Labour) are elected

  • HINKLES, ANDREW THOMAS (LIBERAL) = 158 votes
  • KILBURN, MATTHEW JAMES (CONSERVATIVE) = 413 votes
  • LOOKER, JANET MARY (LABOUR) = 785 votes
  • MEEHAN, JONATHAN  FRANCIS (CONSERVATIVE) = 343 votes
  • NORRIS, JOHN (GREEN) = 302 votes
  • REID, PETER LAURENCE BENEDICT (LIBERAL DEM)  = 175 votes
  • SPILLARD, CANDY (GREEN)  = 248 votes
  • TALBOT, JACQUELINE SANDRA (LIBERAL DEM) = 180 votes
  • WATSON, BRIAN WALTER JOSEPH EDWARD (LABOUR) = 654 votes

Turnout:  31.2%

Haxby and Wigginton

Paul Firth (Liberal Democrat), Christopher McDonald Hogg (Liberal Democrat) and Richard Watson (Liberal Democrat) are elected

  • CARR, GEOFF (BNP) = 620 votes
  • COLBECK, GERALD  PATRICK (LABOUR) = 590 votes
  • FIRTH, PAUL (LIBERAL DEM) = 1740 votes
  • HOGG, CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD (LIBERAL DEM) = 1887 votes
  • PHILLIPS, ROBERT JOHN (CONSERVATIVE) = 1533 votes
  • RICHARDSON, TONY (CONSERVATIVE) = 1579 votes
  • ROBERTSHAW, ALAN PHILIP (GREEN) = 595 votes
  • SMYTH, RICHARD HUGH (LABOUR) = 533 votes
  • TIDMARSH, JOE (CONSERVATIVE) = 1435 votes
  • WATSON, RICHARD (LIBERAL DEM) = 1649 votes

Turnout: 44.3%

Heslington

Ceredig Ieuan Saville Jamieson-Ball (Liberal Democrat) is elected

  • FLETCHER-HALL, ALEXANDRA GRACE (LABOUR) = 251 votes
  • HENNIKER-HEATON, JULIA (CONSERVATIVE) = 182 votes
  • JAMIESON-BALL, CEREDIG IEUAN SAVILLE (LIBERAL DEM) = 436 votes 
  • SANDERSON, PETER (GREEN) = 266 votes

Turnout: 37.2%

Heworth

Paul William Ronald Blanchard (Labour), Christina Mary Funnell (Labour) and Ruth Elizabeth Potter (Labour) are elected

  • AITKEN, JENNIFER JANE (GREEN) = 716 votes
  • BLACKBURN, SAM (LIBERAL DEM) = 487 votes
  • BLANCHARD, PAUL WILLIAM RONALD (LABOUR) = 1470 votes
  • DYSON, CHARLIE (CONSERVATIVE) = 828 votes
  • FUNNELL, CHRISTINA MARY (LABOUR) = 1380 votes
  • HAZZARD-GALLAGHER, ROBIN ALEC JOSEPH (LIBERAL DEM) = 432 votes
  • KELLY, JEFF (BNP) = 507 votes
  • PACKINGTON, IAN ERNEST (LIBERAL DEM) = 382 votes
  • POTTER, RUTH ELIZABETH (LABOUR) = 1456 votes
  • SCHOFIELD, JAMES  (CONSERVATIVE) = 830 votes
  • WELLS, ANDREW MASON  (CONSERVATIVE) = 577 votes

Turnout: 37.5%

Heworth Without

Bill Bennett (Conservative) is elected

  • AYRE, NIGEL JOHN (LIBERAL DEM) = 605 votes
  • BENNETT, BILL (CONSERVATIVE) = 640 votes
  • BLITZ, NICK (LIBERAL) = 89 votes
  • BUCHANAN, BAZ (GREEN) = 75 votes
  • GARBUTT, ANDREW DAVID (LABOUR) = 288 votes

Turnout: 55.1%

Holgate

James Martin Alexander (Labour), Denise Wendy Bowgett (Labour) and Sonja Crisp (Labour) are elected

  • ALEXANDER, JAMES MARTIN (LABOUR) = 1413 votes
  • BARTLETT, MARTIN RICHARD (LIBERAL DEM) = 1204 votes
  • BOWGETT, DENISE WENDY (LABOUR) = 1490 votes
  • CRISP, SONJA (LABOUR) = 1303 votes
  • HEINEMEYER,ANDREAS (GREEN) = 691 votes
  • KAY, ANDREW (CONSERAVTIVE) = 604 votes
  • KNIGHT, MICHAELA SUSAN (BNP) = 463 votes
  • MCGOWAN, JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERT (CONSERVATIVE) = 645 votes
  • MERRY, THOMAS (CONSERVATIVE) = 465 votes
  • NIMMO, GILBERTANDERSON (LIBERAL DEM) = 1116 votes
  • STOTT, JONATHAN PETER (LIBERAL DEM) = 1286 votes

Turnout: 43.2%

Hull Road 

Richard Thomas Cregan (Labour) and Roger Martin Pierce (Labour) are elected

  • BROWN, TREVOR DAVID (BNP) = 259 votes
  • COLLINGWOOD, ANDREW JOHN (GREEN) = 327 votes
  • COSSHAM, JOHN SCOBELL (GREEN) = 341 votes
  • CREGAN, RICHARD THOMAS (LABOUR) = 819 votes
  • CROCKETT, THOMAS WILLIAM BASIL (CONSERVATIVE) = 643 votes
  • JOHNS-PERRING, MICHAELJAMES (LIBERAL DEM) = 335 votes
  • PIERCE, ROGER MARTIN (LABOUR) = 803 votes
  • WILLIAMS, RACHEL JANE (LIBERAL DEM) = 414 votes
  • YONGE, ALAN RICHARD COLBORNE (CONSERVATIVE) = 544 votes

Turnout: 35.8%

Huntington and New Earswick

Keith Ian Hyman (Liberal Democrat), Keith Orrell (Liberal Democrat) and Carol Elizabeth Runciman (Liberal Democrat) are elected

  • BURTON, STEPHEN ANDREW (LABOUR) = 672 votes
  • FLINDERS, JAMES  ALEXANDER (LABOUR) = 629 votes
  • GREENWAY, SYLVIA ANN (CONSERVATIVE) = 896 votes
  • HOLMES, ROGER (CONSERVATIVE) = 707 votes
  • HYMAN, KEITH IAN, (LIBERAL DEM) = 1802 votes
  • ORRELL, KEITH (LIBERAL DEM) = 1794 votes
  • RUNCIMAN, CAROL ELIZABETH (LIBERAL DEM) = 1695 votes
  • TUMMAN, PAUL (CONSERVATIVE) = 795 votes
  • WOOLLEY, CLIVE BARKER (GREEN)  = 660 votes

Turnout: 37.2%

Micklegate

Sandy Fraser (Labour), Julie Christine Gunnell (Labour) and David Martin Merrett (Labour) are elected

  • CHASE, ANDREW DAVID (GREEN) = 1414 votes
  • DARBY, SIMON JOHN (CONSERVATIVE) = 642 votes
  • DAVY, WALTER LOUIS (CONSERVATIVE) = 696 votes
  • EVERETT, CHARLES DIXON (GREEN) = 1097 votes
  • FRASER, SANDY (LABOUR) = 1497 votes
  • GREEN, CAROLE ANN (LIBERAL DEM) = 383 votes
  • GUNNELL, JULIE CHRISTINE (LABOUR) = 1478 votes
  • MERRETT, DAVID MARTIN (LABOUR) = 1514 votes
  • SWAIN, ALAN PETER (GREEN) = 1266 votes
  • THOMPSON, GILLIAN EDWINA FLORENCE (LIBERAL DEM) = 299 votes
  • TULL, JOHN (LIBERAL DEM) = 268 votes
  • WILSON, JOHN (CONSERVATIVE) = 576  votes

Turnout: 42.8%

Osbaldwick

Jonathan Peter Morley (Liberal Democrat) is elected

  • MORLEY, JONATHAN  PETER (LIBERAL DEM) = 459 votes
  • SMITH, TERRY ROY (CONSERVATIVE) = 319 votes
  • WILLIAMS, DAVID (GREEN) = 128 votes
  • WILLIAMS, THOMAS (LABOUR) = 222 votes

Turnout: 42.5%

Rural West York 

John Ian Gillies (Conservative), Paul Stratford Healey (Conservative) and Ben Hudson (Conservative) are elected

  • BRADLEY, GLEN ANTHONY (LIBERAL DEM) = 1644 votes
  • GILLIES, JOHN IAN (CONSERVATIVE) = 1993 votes
  • HEALEY, PAUL STRATFORD (CONSERVATIVE) = 1738 votes
  • HUDSON, BEN (CONSERVATIVE) = 1672 votes
  • LOVEDALE, MARTIN (GREEN) = 579 votes
  • MACDONALD, QUENTIN JOHN ANGUS (LIBERAL DEM) = 1539 votes
  • SMITH, KARL DAVID (LABOUR) = 575 votes
  • STONES, MARJORIE PATRICIA (LIBERAL DEM) = 1442 votes
  • WATSON, SUSAN ELIZABETH (LABOUR) = 532 votes

Turnout: 50.6%

Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without

Richard Stanley Moore (Liberal Democrat), Joe Watt (Conservative) and Irene Mary Waudby (Liberal Democrat) are elected

  • CAMPBELL, MAL (BNP) = 444 votes
  • GAMBOLD, JENNIE (CONSERVATIVE) = 1243 votes
  • GREENWAY, MATTHEW DAVID (LABOUR) = 811 votes
  • MCCLOUD, ANDREW (CONSERVATIVE) = 882 votes
  • MOORE, RICHARD STANLEY (LIBERAL DEM) = 1288 votes
  • SIMPSON-LAING, IAIN ALEXANDER (LABOUR) = 708 votes
  • THOMAS, PHILL (LIBERAL DEM) = 1140 votes
  • THORNTON, ROSEMARY GLORIA (LABOUR) = 735 votes
  • WATT, JOE (CONSERVATIVE) = 1340 votes
  • WAUDBY, IRENE MARY (LIBERAL DEM) = 1404 votes
  • WHITTINGHAM, NICHOLAS (EUGENE GREEN) = 530 votes

Turnout: 38.9% 

Strensall

Madeleine Anne Kirk (Liberal Democrat) and Beatrice Sian Wiseman (Conservative) are elected

  • BOREHAM, CAROLINE LEONORA (GREEN) = 269 votes
  • CUTHBERTSON, IAN MICHAEL (LIBERAL DEM) = 984 votes
  • DIXON, ANDREW JAMES (LABOUR) = 257 votes
  • HANBURY, WILLIAM EDMUND (CONSERVATIVE) = 770 votes
  • KIRK, MADELEINE ANNE (LIBERAL DEM) = 1200 votes
  • WISEMAN, BEATRICE SIAN (CONSERVATIVE) = 999 votes

Turnout: 38.9%

Westfield

Stephen Fred Galloway (Liberal Democrat), Susan Galloway (Liberal Democrat) and Andrew Michael Waller  (Liberal Democrat) are elected

  • BEAVAN, KENNETH JOHN (CONSERVATIVE) = 457 votes
  • BROOKS, CHARLES ANDREW GILCHRIST (CONSERVATIVE) = 455 votes
  • CAHILL, THOMAS CORNELIS (CONSERVATIVE) = 358 votes
  • CRISP, REBECCA EILEEN (LABOUR) = 869 votes
  • FORRESTER, JOHN ROBERT (GREEN) = 437 votes
  • GALLOWAY, STEPHEN FRED (LIBERAL DEM) = 1511  votes
  • GALLOWAY, SUSAN (LIBERAL DEM) = 1512 votes
  • INGHAM, ANNE LISA (LABOUR) = 887 votes
  • SCRASE, ROBERT (LABOUR) = 758 votes
  • VEE, EDDIE (OFFICAL MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY) = 161 votes
  • WALLER, ANDREW MICHAEL (LIBERAL DEM) = 1432 votes
  • WILES, GRAEME PATRICK (BNP) = 407 votes

Turnout: 35%

Wheldrake

Christian Vassie (Liberal Democrat) is elected

  • MARTIN, MARGARET RUTH (LABOUR) = 148 votes
  • MAUGHAN, JONATHAN MARK (CONSERVATIVE) = 638 votes
  • SHIPPEY, TRACY LYNN (GREEN) = 68 votes
  • VASSIE, CHRISTIAN (LIBERAL DEM) = 784 votes

Turnout: 51.1%