Harlow District Council election, 2015

Harlow District occupies a fairly small, elevated proportion of the west of Essex, bordering the large north-eastern projection of Hertfordshire to the north. From top left, clockwise the similarly shaped approximately rectangular wards are: Little Parndon & Hare Street, Netteswell, Mark Hall, (all electing Labour members this time) Old Harlow, Church Langley, (both electing Conservatives) Harlow Common, Staple Tye, (electing Labour), Sumners & Kingsmoor, Great Parndon, (electing Conservative this time) Toddbrook and finally Bushfair (electing Labour). The map shows these 11 wards, the last two of which are landlocked forming part of the centre of the mixed urban and suburban town forming the district characterized by long, linear green spaces, sloped fields in Old Harlow ward and a southern wood known as Parndon Wood in Sumners & Kingsmoor ward.

Map of the results of the 2015 Harlow District Council election. Labour in red and Conservatives in blue.

The 2015 Harlow District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and Labour party councillors increased their control of the council as the governing group, gaining one councillor and suffering no losses.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was

Background

After the last election in 2014 Labour remained in control of the council with 17 councillors, while the Conservatives had 11 seats and the UK Independence Party had 5 seats.^[3] However Labour gained a seat from the UK Independence Party at a by-election for Mark Hall ward in February 2015.^[4]

A UKIP councillor for Great Parndon ward, Terry Spooner, resigned in March to retire to Dorset so two of its three seats were contested at the 2015 election,^[5] leading to 12 seats up for election, which were contested by 43 candidates: 12 each affiliated to Labour, the Conservatives and UKIP and seven Liberal Democrats.^[6]

Election result

Labour remained in control of the council with 19 councillors after winning 7 of the 12 seats contested.^[1] Both they and the Conservatives gained a seat at the expense of the UK Independence Party,^[2] taking the Conservatives to 12 seats on the council, while the UK Independence Party was left with two councillors.^[1] Overall turnout at the election was 62.68%.^[7]

Harlow local election result 2015^[7]^[8]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	7	1	0	+1	58.3	35.3	14,777	+1.9%
	Conservative	5	1	0	+1	41.7	41.4	17,313	+13.9%
	UKIP	0	0	2	-2	0	20.7	8,644	-13.6%
	Liberal Democrat	0	0	0	0	0	2.6	1,098	-0.4%

Ward results

Bush Fair^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Beckett	1,380	39.4	+3.7
	Conservative	Malik Ash	1,124	32.1	+15.3
	UKIP	Patsy Long	838	23.9	-14.3
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Robins	164	4.7	-0.5
Majority			256	7.3
Turnout			3,506
	Labour hold		Swing

Church Langley^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Johnson	2,572	59.3	+13.8
	Labour	Ken Lawrie	857	19.8	+0.1
	UKIP	Robert Patterson	797	18.4	-16.5
	Liberal Democrat	Kuzna Jackson	112	2.6	+2.6
Majority			1,715	39.5	+28.9
Turnout			4,338
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Parndon (2 seats)^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Carter	1,696
	Conservative	Shona Johnson	1,432
	Labour	Stefan Mullard	1,018
	Labour	Daniella Pritchard	973
	UKIP	Chris Staunton	652
	UKIP	Sam Stopplecamp	604
Turnout			6,375
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing

Harlow Common^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Wilkinson	1,332	37.0	+0.4
	Conservative	Emily Cross	1,316	36.5	+14.7
	UKIP	Mike Carr	841	23.3	-12.0
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Jackson	115	3.2	+0.5
Majority			16	0.4	-1.0
Turnout			3,604
	Labour hold		Swing

Little Parndon and Hare Street^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Clark	1,800	48.1	+4.2
	Conservative	Peter Lamb	1,232	32.9	+10.8
	UKIP	Richie Richardson	711	19.0	-15.0
Majority			568	15.2	+5.3
Turnout			3,743
	Labour hold		Swing

Mark Hall^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bob Davis	1,296	39.7
	Conservative	Jane Steer	1,060	32.5
	UKIP	Janet Doyle	731	22.4
	Liberal Democrat	Lesley Rideout	175	5.4
Majority			236	7.2
Turnout			3,262
	Labour gain from UKIP		Swing

Netteswell^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edna Stevens	1,455	43.7	+2.1
	Conservative	John Steer	1,104	33.1	+10.5
	UKIP	Christopher Ward	612	18.4	-12.5
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Thurston	162	4.9	+0.0
Majority			351	10.5	-0.3
Turnout			3,333
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Harlow^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Livings	2,177	53.8	+11.7
	Labour	Efua Koi-Larbi	902	22.3	-5.3
	UKIP	Alan Leverett	739	18.3	-7.3
	Liberal Democrat	Mary Wiltshire	225	5.6	+0.9
Majority			1,275	31.5	+17.0
Turnout			4,043
	Conservative hold		Swing

Staple Tye^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Strachan	1,129	38.0	+6.6
	Conservative	Stevie Souter	1,042	35.1	+12.6
	UKIP	Pete Buss	655	22.0	-13.5
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Millington	145	4.9	-0.6
Majority			87	2.9
Turnout			2,971
	Labour hold		Swing

Sumners and Kingsmoor^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Souter	1,448	43.5	+6.8
	Labour	Dennis Palmer	1,115	33.5	+3.9
	UKIP	Alex Addison	765	23.0	-10.6
Majority			333	10.0	+6.9
Turnout			3,328
	Conservative hold		Swing

Toddbrook^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Karen Clempner	1,520	45.7	+7.2
	Conservative	Michael Hardware	1,110	33.3	+8.7
	UKIP	Pat Long	699	21.0	-15.9
Majority			410	12.3	+10.8
Turnout			3,329
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1 2 3 "Local elections: Labour retains control of Harlow Council". Harlow Star. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
1 2 "Essex councils... election results". Essex Chronicle (NewsBank). 13 May 2015. p. 18. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "Harlow". BBC News Online. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
↑ "Labour win Mark Hall by election". Harlow Star. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
↑ "Second Harlow Ukip councillor to resign after less than a year". Harlow Star. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
↑ "Candidates for Harlow Council elections announced". Harlow Star. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "District Election results". Harlow Council. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
↑ "Local election results 2015 in full". The Guardian. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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