Islington London Borough Council election, 2006

Islington Council election, 2006

4 May 2006

All council seats

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Steve Hitchins	Catherine West	Katie Dawson
Party	Liberal Democrat	Labour	Green
Leader since	1997	2004	4 May 2006
Leader's seat	St. Peter's (defeated)	Tollington	Highbury West
Last election	38 seats, 45.8%	10 seats, 35.7%	0 seat, 10.8%
Seats won	24	23	1
Seat change	13	12	1
Popular vote	39,238	41,404	19,736
Percentage	33.1%	34.9%	16.6%
Swing	12.7%	0.8%	5.8%

	Fourth party

Leader	David Barnes
Party	Conservative
Leader's seat	Highbury East (defeated)
Last election	0 seats, 4.2%
Seats won	0
Seat change
Popular vote	14,121
Percentage	11.9%
Swing	7.7%

Leader of Largest Party before election

Steve Hitchins
Liberal Democrat

Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

James Kempton
Liberal Democrat

Map of the results of the 2006 Islington council election. Liberal Democrats in yellow, Labour in red and Green Party in green.

The 2006 Islington Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.^[1]

Election result

The results saw the Liberal Democrats lose their majority on the council, after the Labour party made a gain of 12 seats,^[2] meaning the Liberal Democrats would require the casting vote of the mayor to continue running the council.^[3] The Green Party meanwhile gained a seat on the council.^[4]

Islington Council Election Result 2006^[5]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrat	24	1	13	-12	50.0	33.1	39,238	-12.7%
	Labour	23	13	1	+12	47.9	34.9	41,404	-0.8%
	Green	1	1	0	+1	2.1	16.6	19,736	+5.8%
	Conservative	0	0	1	-1	0	11.9	14,121	+7.7%
	Independent Working Class	0	0	0	0	0	2.6	3,142	+1.6%
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	658	-1.0%
	Christian Peoples	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	289	+0.0%
	Liberal	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	44	+0.0%

Ward results

* - Existing Councillor seeking re-election.

Barnsbury (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Murray	1,072
	Labour	Jilani Chowdhury	986
	Labour	Mouna Hamitouche	973
	Liberal Democrat	Bridget Fox *	888
	Liberal Democrat	Emma Gowers	789
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Middleton	744
	Conservative	Martin Koder	445
	Conservative	Katherine Bereza	437
	Green	Nicola Baird	432
	Conservative	Lloyd Sampson	426
	Green	Elaine Londesborough	394
	Green	Jan Hallett	391
Turnout			7,977	35.9	+7.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Bunhill (3)^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Donna Boffa	777
	Liberal Democrat	Ruth Polling	719
	Liberal Democrat	Jyoti Vaja *	708
	Labour	Simon Charles	644
	Labour	Troy Gallagher	643
	Independent Working Class	Ben Mackmurdie	566
	Labour	Samuel McBratney	563
	Independent Working Class	Gary O'Shea	544
	Independent Working Class	Andy Taylor	504
	Conservative	Guy Black	316
	Conservative	Nicholas Sheffield	300
	Conservative	Eve Gannon	291
	Green	Damien O'Farrell	247
	Green	Lyn Bliss	202
	Green	Angela Thomson	164
Turnout			7,188	29.4	+8.7
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Caledonian (3)^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Convery	1,025
	Labour	Ian Perry	1,022
	Labour	Lisa Spall	937
	Liberal Democrat	Dominic Curran	907
	Liberal Democrat	Carol Powell *	878
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Hall	808
	Conservative	Stuart Cottis	310
	Conservative	Duncan Webster	305
	Conservative	Jacqueline Fage	299
	Green	Mark Chilver	288
	Green	Alexander Gordon	286
	Green	Sheena Etches	270
Turnout			7,335	34.2	+6.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Canonbury (3)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Lucy Watt *	994
	Liberal Democrat	Paula Belford	973
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Smith *	959
	Labour	Melanie Rawlingson	740
	Labour	Timothy McLoughlin	682
	Labour	Christopher Roche	632
	Green	Christopher Hayles	400
	Conservative	Christopher Williams	357
	Conservative	Nckinsey Kerr	354
	Green	Jules Le Bihan	347
	Conservative	Nicholas Canty	346
	Green	Saif Osmani	279
Turnout			7,063	31.7	+4.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Clerkenwell (3)^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	George Allan *	753
	Liberal Democrat	Kelly Peasnell	662
	Liberal Democrat	Merisha Ray *	647
	Independent Working Class	Sharon Hayward	542
	Independent Working Class	Sarah Nash	525
	Labour	Timothy Clark	505
	Independent Working Class	Lorna Reid	461
	Labour	Lydia Florence	457
	Labour	Daniel Neidle	436
	Conservative	Christopher Cameron-Doe	424
	Conservative	Simon Toms	369
	Conservative	David Vaiani	350
	Green	Michael Coffey	334
	Green	Pamela Nowicka	269
	Green	Gordon Ross	239
Turnout			6,973	31.3	+6.3
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Finsbury Park (3)^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Kelly	938
	Labour	Michael O'Sullivan *	890
	Labour	Barbara Sidnell *	880
	Liberal Democrat	Andrea O'Halloran	769
	Liberal Democrat	Euan Cameron	726
	Liberal Democrat	Shahbaz Husain	708
	Green	Jane Hutchings	358
	Green	Deborah Maby	300
	Green	Charlotte Woodworth	295
	Conservative	Michael Heeneman	241
	Conservative	Smita Bhat	217
	Conservative	Oriel Clohessy	211
	Christian Peoples	Samantha Dixon	119
	Christian Peoples	Maria Aguiar	87
	Christian Peoples	Fernando Aguiar	83
Turnout			6,822	30.6	+10.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Highbury East (3)^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Laura Willoughby *	976
	Liberal Democrat	Terry Stacy *	870
	Liberal Democrat	John Gilbert	836
	Labour	Stephen Molyneaux	726
	Labour	Leo Schulz	726
	Labour	Michael Gilgunn	696
	Green	Emma Dixon	637
	Conservative	David Barnes *	540
	Conservative	Martine Oborne	493
	Green	Andrew Myer	491
	Green	James Humphreys	479
	Conservative	Tim Newark	450
Turnout			7,920	36.5	+3.2
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Highbury West (3)^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Theresa Debono *	1,178
	Green	Katie Dawson	1,135
	Labour	Richard Greening *	1,119
	Green	Jon Nott	1,014
	Labour	Adrian Pulham *	944
	Green	Robin Latimer	935
	Conservative	Neil Lindsay	338
	Conservative	Anna-Lisa Ivin	309
	Liberal Democrat	Alison Marshall	307
	Conservative	Marie Philipsz	290
	Liberal Democrat	Nicky Bason	286
	Liberal Democrat	Philip Middleton	275
	Liberal	Paul Josling	44
Turnout			8,174	34.8	+8.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hillrise (3)^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Fiona Dunlop *	1,126
	Liberal Democrat	Greg Foxsmith	977
	Liberal Democrat	Julia Williams	958
	Labour	Marian Spall	920
	Labour	David Poyser	912
	Labour	Claudia Webbe	871
	Green	Michael Holloway	463
	Green	James North	373
	Green	Stephen Horne	329
	Conservative	Maureen Campbell	250
	Conservative	Paul Newman	190
Turnout			7,369	34.1	+3.7
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Holloway (3)^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Natasha Chatterjee	934
	Labour	Barry Edwards	921
	Labour	Paul Smith	911
	Liberal Democrat	Michelle Allison	842
	Liberal Democrat	Margot Dunn *	820
	Liberal Democrat	Iarla Kilbane-Dawe	732
	Green	Jennifer Chan	402
	Green	Claire Poyner	367
	Green	Pelham Davey	357
	Conservative	Andrew Austin	264
	Conservative	Paul Seligman	248
	Conservative	David Cheape	236
Turnout			7,034	32.2	+5.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Junction (3)^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Ursula Woolley	1,015
	Liberal Democrat	Stefan Kasprzyk *	1,014
	Labour	Janet Burgess	936
	Liberal Democrat	Zubin Masani	873
	Labour	Patricia Clarke	870
	Labour	John Wyman	772
	Green	Rosemary House	386
	Green	Donald Lowe	320
	Green	Anthony Cooper	291
	Independent	Katharine Buffery	263
	Conservative	Mark Bennett	228
	Independent	Charles Ware	212
	Conservative	Francine Schwartz	200
	Conservative	Christopher Skidmore	188
Turnout			7,568	35.4	+4.8
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Mildmay (3)^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Anna Berent *	958
	Liberal Democrat	Rhodri Jamieson-Ball	818
	Liberal Democrat	Meral Ece *	814
	Labour	Beverley Bruce	793
	Labour	Conor McGinn	722
	Labour	Stuart Edwards	719
	Green	Ilana Morrissey	466
	Green	Christopher Ashby	441
	Green	Matthew Morrissey	365
Turnout			6,096	27.5	+2.6
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

St George's (3)^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Tracy Ismail	1,179
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Cornwell	1,080
	Labour	Walter Burgess *	1,075
	Labour	Gary Heather	975
	Labour	Jacqueline Williams	938
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer Smith	921
	Green	Kathryn Tansley	477
	Green	Judith Kleinman	474
	Green	Malcolm Powell	393
	Conservative	Patricia Napier	213
	Conservative	Hannah Hockey	212
	Conservative	John Wilkin	197
Turnout			8,134	36.1	+4.2
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Mary's (3)^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Coupland *	836
	Liberal Democrat	Emily Fieran-Reed	830
	Liberal Democrat	James Kempton *	809
	Liberal Democrat	Timothy Gordon	775
	Labour	John Greenshields	758
	Labour	Ian McLaughlin	718
	Conservative	Kim Anderson	447
	Conservative	Christopher Greenwood	403
	Conservative	Douglas Lloyd	403
	Green	Jonathan Hathaway	371
	Green	Eleanor Wood	371
	Green	Rosalind Sharpe	324
	Independent	Christopher Graham	95
	Independent	Richard Rosser	88
Turnout			7,228	33.6	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

St. Peter's (3)^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gary Doolan	849
	Labour	Michelle Coupland	823
	Labour	Martin Klute	817
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Coventry	798
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Hitchins *	791
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Washington	775
	Conservative	Victoria Chamberlin	496
	Conservative	Christopher Priestley	485
	Green	Agnes Buisson-Laing	480
	Conservative	David Shimwell	412
	Green	Susan Wilkinson	399
	Green	Richard Wood	333
Turnout			7,458	33.1	+7.2
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Tollington (3)^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine West *	1,338
	Labour	Richard Watts	1,312
	Labour	Daniel Hulls	1,270
	Liberal Democrat	Khalid Oumar	827
	Liberal Democrat	Harriet Richmond	790
	Liberal Democrat	David Tibbs	757
	Green	Alison Boater	531
	Green	Peter Jones	429
	Green	Christine Muirhead	408
	Conservative	Duncan Connors	226
	Conservative	Fraser Crwaford	222
	Conservative	Maria Psatha	183
Turnout			8,293	34.0	+8.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ "Local elections: Islington". BBC News Online. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
↑ "Lib Dems play down mixed results". BBC News Online. 5 May 2006. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Local elections: The winners and the losers". Daily Mail. 5 May 2006. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Greens celebrate seats increase". BBC News Online. 5 May 2006. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Local elections 2006" (PDF). House of Commons Library. 10 May 2006. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Barnsbury ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
↑ "Bunhill ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
↑ "Caledonian ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Canonbury ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Clerkenwell ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Finsbury Park ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Highbury East ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Highbury West ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Hillrise ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Holloway ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Junction ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Mildmay ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "St George's ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "St. Mary's ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "St. Peter's ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Tollington ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Retrieved 7 August 2011.

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