East Riding of Yorkshire Council election, 2015

7 May 2015

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party


Leader	Stephen Parnaby OBE	Pat O’Neil	Barbara Jefferson
Party	Conservative	Labour	Independent
Leader since	1995	2007	2003
Leader's seat	Beverley Rural	Goole South	North Holderness
Last election	48	6	4
Seats before	47	6	4
Seats won	51	6	5
Seat change	4	0	1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Malcolm Milns	Phil Davison
Party	UKIP	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	2014	2011
Leader's seat	Bridlington Central and Old Town	Hessle
Last election	0	3
Seats before	1	3
Seats won	3	2
Seat change	2	1

Leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council before election

Stephen Parnaby OBE
Conservative

Subsequent Leader

Stephen Parnaby
Conservative

The 2015 East Riding of Yorkshire Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of East Riding of Yorkshire Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

The whole of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party retained control of the council.^[2]

Ward results

Beverley Rural (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Parnaby	4,012
	Conservative	Phyllis Pollard	3,738
	Conservative	Bradley Birmingham	3,438
	UKIP	Gary Shores	1,615
	Labour	Wendy Cross	1,591
	Labour	Jan Davis	1,446
	Liberal Democrat	Alison Elizabeth Healy	1,305
	Green	Phil Grimes	1,234
	Labour	Cherry Walton	1,192
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bridlington Central and Old Town (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Burton	1,925
	UKIP	Malcolm Andrew Milns	1,653
	Labour	Peter Astell	1,355
	Labour	John Morton	920
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Heslop-Mullens	733
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Bridlington North (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Harrap	3,115
	Conservative	Chris Matthews	2,505
	UKIP	Thelma Milns	2,185
	Conservative	John Clive Wilkinson	1,904
	Labour	Ronnie Morrison	1,796
	Independent	Terry Dixon	1,533
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Bridlington South (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	David Ernest Robson	1,891
	Labour	Shelagh Theresa Finlay	1,836
	Conservative	Margaret Chadwick	1,775
	Conservative	Chad Chadwick	1,713
	Conservative	John Copsey	1,713
	Labour	Colin George Croft	1,537
	Labour	Jackie Heffer	1,259
	Independent	Timothy Robert Ord Norman	498
	Liberal Democrat	Geoffrey Richard Ormerod	1,192
Total votes
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cottingham North (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Rosamund Alexandra Jump	1,710
	Independent	Geraldine Mathieson	1,397
	Conservative	Eric Herbert Roustoby	1,253
	Conservative	Angus James West	1,163
	Labour	Daniel Marten	976
	Labour	Lynne Petersen	851
	UKIP	Colin Shores	614
	Liberal Democrat	Phillip James Redshaw	274
	Liberal Democrat	Patricia Mary Ellis	254
Total votes
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Cottingham South (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Helen Elizabeth Green	2,077
	Conservative	Mike Medini	1,675
	Labour	Alexander Paul Duke	1,518
	Labour	Julia Marten	1,490
	Liberal Democrat	Win Knight	853
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Arthur Weighill	582
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Dale (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Galbraith	4,609
	Conservative	Pat Smith	3,904
	Conservative	Richard Meredith	3,786
	Independent	Coleen Gill	2,952
	Labour	Richard Newlove	1,719
	UKIP	Howard Floyd	1,709
	Labour	Ian Hardy	1,388
	Liberal Democrat	Jack Brown	1,145
	Labour	Simon Bruce Pickering	1,088
	Liberal Democrat	Frank Beill	832
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Driffield and Rural (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Symon Hugh Fraser	2,977
	Conservative	Barbara Joan Hall	2,965
	Conservative	Felicity Temple	2,568
	Labour	Joyce Fletcher	1,615
	Labour	David Credland	1,473
	Labour	Paul Rounding	1,447
	UKIP	Neil Thomas Tate	1,434
	Independent	Stephen Poessl	989
	Independent	Matt Rogers	816
	Liberal Democrat	Marcus John Ramshaw	687
	Independent	Kevin Anthony Stack	385
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

East Wolds and Coastal (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Evison	4,185
	Conservative	Jonathan Owen	3,788
	Conservative	Margaret Chapman	3,366
	UKIP	Peter James Watts	2,080
	Labour	Douglas James Hope	1,527
	Green	Mike Jackson	1,393
	Labour	Felicity Jane Walmsley	1,334
	Liberal Democrat	Moira Ormerod	1,040
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Goole North (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Keith Moore	1,994
	Independent	Josie Head	1,771
	UKIP	David Jeffreys	1,654
	Labour	Gillian Boatman	1,615
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Goole South (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mally Boatman	1,317
	Labour	Pat O’Neil	1,182
	UKIP	Barbara Jeffreys	1,006
	UKIP	Mark Green	914
	Conservative	Liz Sargeantson	672
	Conservative	Robert Lingard	589
	Independent	Kevin Flynn	314
Total votes
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hessle (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Phil Davison	2,337
	Labour	Paul Hogan	2,260
	Labour	Iain Michael Billinger	2,194
	Labour	Renee Clare Sheehan	2,028
	Liberal Democrat	David Paul Nolan	1,990
	Liberal Democrat	Margot Sutton	1,958
	Conservative	Edward Liddell	1,282
	Conservative	Richard Lamb	1,186
	Conservative	Richard McConnell	1,084
	UKIP	Jim Chapman	1,053
	UKIP	Mark Alan Fox	906
	UKIP	Ben Fuller	871
	Independent	Phil Withers	187
Total votes
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Howden (1)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charlie Bayram	1,644
	Labour	Bernard Michael Singleton	639
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Luckraft	463
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing

Howdenshire (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victoria Aitken	UNCONTESTED
	Conservative	Linda Bayram	UNCONTESTED
	Conservative	Nigel Wilkinson	UNCONTESTED
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mid Holderness (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Holtby	3,516
	Conservative	Peter Albert Turner	3,019
	Conservative	Brain Skow	2,628
	UKIP	Andy Weaver	2,170
	Labour	Mary Elizabeth Carrick	1,936
	Labour	Nidge Thornton	1,865
	Labour	Dave Beech	1,823
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Minster and Woodmansey (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Elvidge	3,050
	Conservative	Kerri Harold	2,947
	Conservative	Dominic Peacock	2,469
	Labour	Alan Ablett	2,341
	Labour	Ann Willis	2,256
	Labour	George McManus	2,042
	UKIP	Brian Render	1,579
	Beverley Party	Howard Tomlinson	1,306
	Beverley Party	Derek Peter Schultz	1,021
	Liberal Democrat	Judy Jones	613
	Liberal Democrat	Brain Stewart Willie	480
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Holderness (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Barbara Yvonne Jefferson	2,283
	Independent	John Whittle	1,487
	Conservative	Guy Brinley Miller	1,205
	UKIP	Sean Gaughan	1,083
	Conservative	David Thorne	950
	Labour	Mike Smallwood	869
	Labour	John Youle	631
	Yorkshire First	Lee Walton	554
Total votes
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Pocklington Provincial (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kay West	4,542
	Conservative	Stephen Arthur Lane	4,426
	Conservative	Claude Gorge William Mole	4,118
	Labour	Fiona Bruce	2,054
	Labour	Tony Williams	2,040
	UKIP	Sue Woodcock	2,001
	Labour	Cynthia Jane Collier	1,997
	Liberal Democrat	Sue Taylor	1,684
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Snaith, Airmyn and Rawcliffe and Marshland (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stephen Barrett	2,848
	Conservative	Caroline Anne Fox	2,740
	Labour	Ian Frederick Blackburn	1,245
	UKIP	Ron Thornton	1,133
	Labour	Terence Smith	1,004
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

South East Holderness (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Hodgson	2,406
	Conservative	Lyn Healing	2,400
	Conservative	Jackie Cracknell	2,313
	UKIP	Paddy Fisher	2,043
	Labour	Pat Beech	1,783
	Labour	Jed Lee	1,591
	Labour	Matthew Lloyd	1,531
	Independent	Dave Edwards	660
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

South Hunsley (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julie Abraham	4,281
	Conservative	Vanessa Jane Walker	3,185
	Labour	Chay Nicholas Bell	989
	Labour	Helen Elizabeth Wise	852
	Liberal Democrat	Tom Nolan	711
	Liberal Democrat	Emma Sarah Dolman	579
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

South West Holderness (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Dennis	3,062
	Conservative	Mike Bryan	2,704
	Conservative	Sue Steel	2,368
	Labour	Neil Black	2,190
	UKIP	Terry West	2,108
	Labour	Steve Gallant	1,987
	Labour	Brian Stockdale	1,815
	Independent	Sarah Rommell	775
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

St Mary’s (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elaine Aird	3,069
	Conservative	Bryan Pearson	2,721
	Conservative	Irene Charis	2,456
	Labour	Ben Cooper	1,910
	Labour	Paul McGrath	1,669
	Labour	David Sweet	1,560
	UKIP	Walter Sweeney	1,399
	Liberal Democrat	Denis Gerard Healy	1,215
	Beverley Party	Christine Susan Harrod	1,179
	Liberal Democrat	Neil Bant	1,124
	Liberal Democrat	David Horsley	1,039
	Beverley Party	Beate Elisabeth Willar	998
	Beverley Party	Robert Caton Begnett	978
	Green	Peter Dack	917
	Independent	Alistair Crompton	660
	Independent	Neil Simon Harris	393
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tranby (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Mary-Rose Hardy	2,114
	Conservative	Mary Kingston	1,773
	Liberal Democrat	Patrick Gradwell	1,607
	Conservative	Yvonne Hetherington	1,424
	Labour	Daniel Palmer	1,267
	Labour	Dermot Rathbone	1,058
Total votes
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Willerby and Kirk Ella (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Shaun Horton	3,815
	Conservative	Gary McMaster	3,003
	Conservative	Dee Sharpe	2,902
	UKIP	Mick Burchill	1,744
	UKIP	Michael Stephen Whitehead	1,588
	UKIP	Stephen Walter Kersey	1,473
	Labour	Roger Coates	1,499
	Labour	Judy Dickinson	1,156
	Labour	Lee Andrew Wise	1,064
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Gardiner	1,060
	Liberal Democrat	Lilian Mary McCobb	929
	Liberal Democrat	Tony McCobb	908
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wolds Weighton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Norman Rudd	4,148
	Conservative	Andy Burton	3,778
	Conservative	Mike Stathers	3,344
	UKIP	Andy Strangeway	1,915
	Labour	Andrew Boothroyd	1,485
	Independent	Peter Hemmerman	1,467
	Labour	Joy E M Thompson	1,388
	Labour	William Thompson	1, 108
	Liberal Democrat	Dale Needham	1,247
Total votes
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
↑ "Yorkshire’s council election results in full: Success for Labour and Tories". Yorkshire Post. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.

"Council constitution, political control and councillor information". East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Retrieved 20 April 2016.

Council elections in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

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Humberside County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 Abolished

Boothferry Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

East Yorkshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

Holderness Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

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