Plymouth City Council election, 2010

  Conservative Party: 36
  Labour Party: 20
  Independents: 1

The 2010 Plymouth City Council elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2010, for 19 seats, that being one third of the total number of councillors. The Conservatives, who were the incumbent administration in 2008, decreased their majority to seven seats, as Labour gained two.

Plymouth City Council hold elections for a third of their councillors every year, except on the fourth year, when prior to local government reforms in the 1990s that created a unitary authority, elections to Devon County Council occurred.[1] This means the last election to Plymouth City Council was in 2008, although a by-election occurred in 2009 for Ham, which resulted in a Labour hold.[2]

Results

The party standings following the election:

Party 2008/09 Cllrs Net Gain/Loss 2010 Cllrs
Conservative 37 -1 36
Independent 2 -1 1
Labour 18 +2 20
Total 57 - 57

Current political situation

The Conservatives were defending 12 seats, the Labour Party 6 and the former Labour candidate, Andy Kerswell, was defending his seat in Efford and Lipson as an independent.

If the Labour Party was to regain the majority they held on the council until 2006, they needed to gain 11 seats, which they failed to do, although made two gains (one against a Conservative and the other against Andy Kerswell) despite a national swing against them.

Seats up for election in 2010

Gains are shown by highlighting in the winning party's colours, comparing them to when these coundillors were last up for election in 2006.

Ward Previous Councillor (2006)[3] Previous Party (2006)[3] Winning Councillor[4] Winning Party[4]
Budshead Grant Monahan Conservative Grant Monahan Conservative
Compton Ted Fry Conservative Ted Fry Conservative
Devonport William Stevens Labour Co-operative William Stevens Labour Co-operative
Drake Steven Ricketts Conservative Steven Ricketts Conservative
Efford and Lipson Andy Kerswell Labour Co-operative (later independent) David Haydon and Pauline Murphy Labour
Eggbuckland Ian Bowyer Conservative Ian Bowyer Conservative
Ham Ian Gordon Labour Ian Gordon Labour
Honicknowle Pauline Purnell Labour Nicky Williams Labour
Moor View Michael Foster Conservative Mike Wright Labour
Peverell Martin Leaves Conservative Martin Leaves Conservative
Plympton Chaddlewood Glenn Jordan Conservative Glenn Jordan Conservative
Plympton St Mary David James Conservative David James Conservative
Plymstock Dunstone VivienPengelly Conservative VivienPengelly Conservative
Plymstock Radford Wendy Foster Conservative Wendy Foster Conservative
St Budeaux Sally Letcher Labour Sally Bowie (née Letcher) Labour
St Peter and The Waterfront Sue McDonald Labour Sue McDonald Labour
Southway James Kirk Labour Co-operative Tom Browne Conservative
Stoke Jill Dolan Conservative Jill Dolan Conservative
Sutton and Mount Gould Mary Aspinall Labour Co-operative Mary Aspinall Labour Co-operative

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Council and democracy". Plymouth City Council. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Ham by-election". Plymouth City Council. 2009-09-03. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Plymouth City Council election results 2006". Plymouth City Council. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  4. 1 2 "Plymouth City Council election results 2010". Plymouth City Council. 2010-05-06. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
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