Guildford Borough Council election, 1987
The fifth full elections for Guildford Borough Council took place on 1 May 1987.[1] The Conservatives retained control of the council winning 30 of the 45 seats on the council. This represented one net loss for the Conservatives, relative to the 1983 council elections. Labour retained its 6 councillors. The SDP-Liberal Alliance won 9 seats, a net gain of two seats on the 1983 council elections. No independents were elected to the council, one had been elected in 1983.
Three wards partly or wholly changed hands in the 1987 council elections relative to the 1983 council elections. The SDP-Liberal Alliance gained one councillor from the Conservatives in Stoughton and gained a further councillor from the Conservatives in Normandy.
The Conservatives gained one councillor in Tillingbourne from an independent.
In 1982, the Local Government Boundary Commission recommended the transfer of the southern part of Send parish to West Clandon parish.[2] This measure was implemented by Statutory Instrument 1984 No 411 known as the Guildford Parishes Order, which adjusted the ward boundaries at the same time. That Order also produced a number of minor changes to other Guildford parish boundaries the most significant of which, other than the Send-Clandon boundary change, was the transfer of the easterly part of Shalford parish to St Martha's parish in Tillingbourne ward.
Results
Ash[3] (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Ades | 1699 | |||
Conservative | Rosemary Hall | 1524 | |||
Conservative | Michael Cole | 1518 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Alan Hillier | 1459 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | George Dowdell | 1318 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Angela Pink | 1228 | |||
Labour | Kevin Jenkinson | 281 | |||
Labour | Peter Green | 279 | |||
Labour | Geoffery Smith | 276 | |||
Majority | 59 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Ash Vale (top 2 candidates elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Joan Golding | 1166 | |||
Conservative | Kary Lloyd-Jones | 1114 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Janet Dallison | 981 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | George Walsh | 980 | |||
Labour | Brian Mountain | 175 | |||
Labour | Bryan Rogers | 133 | |||
Majority | 133 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Christchurch (top 2 candidates elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Andrew Hodges | 1444 | |||
Conservative | Rodger Marjoribanks | 1384 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Gordon Hall | 531 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Kate Mercer | 529 | |||
Labour | Peter Waterhouse | 88 | |||
Labour | Mary Wu | 81 | |||
Majority | 853 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Clandon & Horsley (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Jennifer Powell | 2474 | |||
Conservative | Douglas May | 2453 | |||
Conservative | Gillian Drakeford | 2349 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Peter Webb | 789 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Alan Ridler | 750 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Roland Boissevain | 701 | |||
Labour | Meriel Beynon | 190 | |||
Labour | Joan Haimes | 176 | |||
Labour | Keith Parfitt | 140 | |||
Majority | 1560 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Effingham (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Antony Page | 673 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Frank Oxford | 205 | |||
Labour | John Rowley | 55 | |||
Majority | 468 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Friary & St. Nicolas (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Richard Marks | 1788 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Robert Blundell | 1773 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Jay Mercer | 1645 | |||
Conservative | Leonard Boxall | 972 | |||
Conservative | Philip Hooper | 957 | |||
Conservative | Lewis Short | 933 | |||
Labour | Sheila Barbour | 311 | |||
Labour | Angela Gunning | 305 | |||
Labour | Brenda Ecclestone | 301 | |||
Majority | 673 | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
Holy Trinity (top 2 candidates elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Elizabeth Cobbett | 1196 | |||
Conservative | Tony Allenby | 1147 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Gordon Bridger | 1079 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Graham Maynard | 965 | |||
Labour | Martin Ecclestone | 115 | |||
Labour | Diane O'Keefe | 112 | |||
Majority | 68 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Lovelace (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Jon Catten | 521 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | John Hartley | 426 | |||
Labour | June Shepperd | 65 | |||
Majority | 95 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Merrow & Burpham (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Paul Johnson | 2409 | |||
Conservative | Timothy Hargrave | 2379 | |||
Conservative | Jennifer Jordan | 2345 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Paul Green | 1535 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Margaret Fricker | 1504 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Julie Schoefield | 1433 | |||
Labour | Michael Hornsby-Smith | 437 | |||
Labour | Malcolm Hill | 413 | |||
Labour | Margaret Rogers | 367 | |||
Majority | 810 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Normandy (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Wendy Gardiner | 630 | |||
Conservative | John Lockyer-Nibbs | 618 | |||
Labour | Phelim Brady | 59 | |||
Majority | 12 | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Onslow (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Lynda Strudwick | 1356 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Tony Philips | 1295 | |||
Conservative | Bernard Parke | 1151 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Braith Harris | 1113 | |||
Conservative | Kenneth Johns | 954 | |||
Conservative | Mary Johns | 896 | |||
Labour | Carmel Rodgers | 410 | |||
Labour | Joseph Bullock | 385 | |||
Labour | Florence Flynn | 377 | |||
Majority | 38 | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Pilgrims (top 2 candidate elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Derek Pinks | 1031 | |||
Conservative | Malcolm Williamson | 1006 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Nicolette Clark | 373 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Evelyn Mellor | 341 | |||
Labour | Estelle Margereson | 104 | |||
Labour | Richard Rogers | 95 | |||
Majority | 633 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Pirbright (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Catherine Cobley | 520 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Mary Laker | 362 | |||
Labour | Cecilia Brindle | 21 | |||
Majority | 158 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Send (top 2 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Keith Taylor | 910 | |||
Conservative | Geoffrey Smith | 888 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Gloria Henson | 499 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Anne Lambe | 483 | |||
Labour | Alan Barnes | 110 | |||
Labour | Barbara Dinnage | 87 | |||
Majority | 389 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Shalford (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sarah Stewart | 922 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Leonard Grugeon | 712 | |||
Majority | 210 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Stoke (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Bill Bellerby | 2039 | |||
Labour | Sallie Thornberry | 1471 | |||
Labour | Heather Tipton | 1320 | |||
Conservative | Robert Gregory | 555 | |||
Conservative | Paul Fleming | 476 | |||
Conservative | Amelia Harris | 470 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | David Hopkins | 359 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Brian Johnston | 317 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | John Hutt | 289 | |||
Majority | 765 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Stoughton (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Christopher Fox | 1552 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Sue Fox | 1401 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Jayne Holder | 1386 | |||
Conservative | Ralph Jordan | 1086 | |||
Conservative | Shelia Knight | 943 | |||
Conservative | Rosemary Safford | 901 | |||
Labour | Michael Belford | 373 | |||
Labour | Michael Gunn | 366 | |||
Labour | William Saunders | 352 | |||
Majority | 300 | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
SDP–Liberal Alliance gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Tillingbourne (top 2 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Barbara Pattman | 1498 | |||
Conservative | Nicholas Brougham | 1295 | |||
Labour | Prosper Dowden | 516 | |||
Majority | 779 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Tongham (only 1 candidate elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Percy Davies | 316 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Gilbert Molkenthin | 237 | |||
Labour | Elizabeth Bullock | 64 | |||
Majority | 79 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Westborough (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Doreen Bellerby | 1491 | |||
Labour | Jack Patrick | 1344 | |||
Labour | John Woodhatch | 1202 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Peter Anderson | 586 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Norman Needham | 580 | |||
Conservative | Michael Fisher | 565 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Horne | 562 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Helen Beckett | 538 | |||
Majority | 616 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Worplesdon (top 3 candidates elected) | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Clare Griffin | 1862 | |||
Conservative | Shirley Lloyd | 1730 | |||
Conservative | Roy Price | 1723 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Arthur Crocker | 1562 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Margaret Scott | 1557 | |||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Trevor Stables | 1327 | |||
Independent | Bill Williams | 606 | |||
Labour | Jeffrey Brindle | 162 | |||
Labour | Harold Richards | 128 | |||
Labour | Thomas Walder | 127 | |||
Majority | 161 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ Results were published in the Surrey Advertiser 8 May 1987 edition.
- ↑ See p22 Local Government Commission for England Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Guildford in Surrey, September 1998
- ↑ Gains and losses are shown here relative to the 1983 election. Alan Hillier, the SDP-Liberal Alliance candidate, held one of these Ash seats going into the election following an earlier by election victory. If gains and losses were displayed relative to the position entering the election this seat would show a gain for the Conservative , plus 2 Conservative holds, rather than the 3 Conservative holds shown here. Ash is the only ward, in the 1987 elections, where the gain, loss and hold figures differ depending on whether you measure them from the previous full council election in 1983 or from the parties position going into the election.
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