Tilgate & Furnace Green (electoral division)

Coordinates: 51°06′08″N 0°10′32″W / 51.10223°N 0.17544°W / 51.10223; -0.17544

Tilgate & Furnace Green
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Crawley
UK Parliament Constituency:	Crawley
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	8759
County Councillor
Duncan Crow (Con)

Tilgate & Furnace Green is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the neighbourhoods of Furnace Green and Tilgate, which form part of the urban area of the town of Crawley.

It falls entirely within the un-parished area of Crawley Borough and comprises the following borough wards: Furnace Green Ward and Tilgate Ward.

Election Results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

Tilgate & Furnace Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Duncan Crow	1,461	44.3	-1.7
	Labour	Colin Moffatt	1,054	31.9	+6.9
	UKIP	Graham Harper	544	16.5	N/A
	Green	Derek Hardman	124	3.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	John Lovell	62	1.9	-15.9
	Independent	Richard Symonds	56	1.7	N/A
Majority			407	12.4	-8.6
Turnout			3,301	37.3	-2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4.3%

2009 Election

Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:

Tilgate & Furnace Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Duncan Crow	1,600	46.0	+5.4
	Labour	Ian Irvine	871	25.0	-12.5
	Liberal Democrat	Darren Wise	607	17.4	+0.4
	BNP	Vernon Atkinson	401	11.5	N/A
Majority			729	21.0	+17.9
Turnout			3,479	39.7	-23.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

2005 Election

Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:

Tilgate & Furnace Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mr D G Crow	2,302	40.6
	Labour	Mr W A Ward	2,127	37.5
	Liberal Democrat	Mr R J McMurray	963	17.0
	Green	Ms V Dore	283	5.0
Majority			175	3.1
Turnout			5,675	63.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

Election Results - West Sussex County Council

Electoral Divisions in West Sussex

Conservative	Angmering and Findon Arundel and Wick Billingshurst Bognor Regis West & Aldwick Bramber Castle Broadwater Burgess Hill East Burgess Hill Town Chichester North Chichester South Chichester West Cissbury Chichester East Cuckfield and Lucastes East Grinstead Meridian East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood East Preston and Ferring Fernhurst Fontwell Goring Hassocks and Victoria Haywards Heath East Haywards Heath Town Henfield Holbrook Hurstpierpoint & Bolney Imberdown Kingston Buci Lindfield and High Weald Maidenbower Petworth Pound Hill and Worth Pulborough Roffey Rustington Shoreham Southwater and Nuthurst Southwick Storrington The Witterings Tilgate and Furnace Green Warnham and Rusper Worth Forest Worthing East Worthing Pier Worthing West

UKIP	Bersted Bourne Durrington and Salvington Felpham Lancing Middleton Nyetimber Saltings Selsey Sompting and North Lancing

Liberal Democrats	Bognor Regis East Horsham Hurst Horsham Riverside Horsham Tanbridge & Broadbridge Heath Littlehampton East Littlehampton Town Northbrook Tarring

Labour	Bewbush and Ifield West Broadfield Gossops Green and Ifield East Langley Green and West Green Northgate and Three Bridges Southgate and Crawley Central

Independent	Midhurst

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