Wiltshire County Council election, 1993
Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 6 May 1993. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party. This resulted in a no-party-control shared administration for the first year of the Council, with the three main party groups being briefed on a coequal basis. Following a by-election gain by the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives, giving the Liberal Democrats exactly half the seats on the Council, a Liberal Democrat administration was formed, but with a convention that committee chairpersons would not use their casting vote to force through policies.
When Swindon Borough Council was established as a new unitary authority on 1 April 1997, the members who had been elected to the county council from Haydon Wick, Highworth, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough, and Wroughton ceased to hold office. The size of the council fell from 68 to 47, and in the remaining month of the council's term of office the Liberal Democrats briefly took control, but they lost it at the Wiltshire Council election, 1997.
Results
Wiltshire Local Election Result 1993 | ||||||||||
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | ||
Conservative | 18 | -17 | 26.47 | 36 | 61,379 | -13,697 | ||||
Liberal Democrat | 33 | 48.53 | 37.5 | 64,107 | +18,163 | |||||
Labour | 17 | 1 | -1 | 25.00 | 22.5 | 38,445 | -2,013 | |||
Liberal | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 1.3 | 2,249 | -463 | ||
Independent | 0 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 | 1.9 | 3,522 | -631 | ||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.63 | 1,079 | -1138 |
Results by divisions
Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Aldbourne and Ramsbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Graham Francis | 1,882 | |||
Conservative | M. D. Abell | 1,219 | |||
Majority | 663 | ||||
Alderbury
Alderbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Charles Temple Blackwood | 1,197 | |||
Liberal Democrat | R. J. Hardy | 1,114 | |||
Labour | A. C. Oliver | 300 | |||
Majority | 83 | ||||
Amesbury
Amesbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Kelsey Edgley | 1,324 | |||
Conservative | J. C. Turner | 1,098 | |||
Labour | P. Whiteside | 186 | |||
Majority | 226 | ||||
Avon and Cannings
Avon and Cannings | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Dennis James Willmott | 1,134 | |||
Liberal Democrat | K. M. Ben Rabha | 977 | |||
Labour | T. J. Williams | 371 | |||
Majority | 157 | ||||
Bedwyn and Pewsey
Bedwyn and Pewsey | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Jennifer Mary Scott | 1,878 | |||
Conservative | M. Carson | 1,509 | |||
Majority | 369 | ||||
Bourne Valley
Bourne Valley | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Geraldine Lesley Hibberd | 1,336 | |||
Liberal Democrat | O. V. Tanner | 962 | |||
Labour | I. Horton | 252 | |||
Majority | 374 | ||||
Bradford on Avon
Bradford on Avon | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Victoria Christine Scott Landell Mills | 2,121 | |||
Conservative | William Campbell Viles | 885 | |||
Labour | E. F. Short | 398 | |||
Majority | 1,236 | ||||
Bremhill and Calne
Bremhill and Calne Without | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Andrew Raymond Syms | 1,343 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Lesley Bennett | 1,232 | |||
Labour | Susan Elizabeth Griffin | 244 | |||
Majority | 111 | ||||
Calne
Calne | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Jeanette Frances Greer | 922 | |||
Conservative | Alfred Roman Ilersic | 689 | |||
Labour | Tim David Chapman | 370 | |||
Majority | 233 | ||||
Chippenham Park
Chippenham Park | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Patrick Charles Bourne Coleman | 1,888 | |||
Conservative | Davi Keith Poole | 1,058 | |||
Labour | Pauline Frances Kathleen Bowden | 254 | |||
Majority | 830 | ||||
Chippenham Sheldon
Chippenham Sheldon | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | June Margaret Wood | 1,569 | |||
Conservative | Mary Frances Elizabeth Norton | 718 | |||
Labour | Clive Trevor Grace | 389 | |||
Majority | 851 | ||||
Chippenham Town
Chippenham Town | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Raymond Leonard Anscombe | 1,609 | |||
Conservative | Richard Henry Patrick Purdon | 647 | |||
Labour | Christopher John Phillips | 210 | |||
Majority | 962 | ||||
Collingbourne
Collingbourne | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Mark Connolly | 939 | |||
Conservative | B. Davie | 794 | |||
Majority | 145 | ||||
Corsham
Corsham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Graeme Roger Potter | 1,288 | |||
Conservative | Eric John Porter | 886 | |||
Labour | Christine Reid | 451 | |||
Majority | 402 | ||||
Cricklade and Purton
Cricklade and Purton | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Brian Edward Atfield | 1,596 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Francis Elwood Wall | 964 | |||
Labour | Elizabeth Clemency Saunders | 180 | |||
Majority | 632 | ||||
Devizes
Devizes | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Maurice Stanley Came | 901 | |||
Labour | C. R. Hopgood | 597 | |||
Liberal Democrat | R. M. J. Cleal | 521 | |||
Majority | 304 | ||||
Devizes South and Bromham
Devizes South and Bromham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patricia Rugg | 1,561 | |||
Liberal Democrat | J. Allan | 1,020 | |||
Labour | P. E. Twaites | 381 | |||
Majority | 541 | ||||
Downton
Downton | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Julian Paul Johnson | 1,447 | |||
Labour | P. J. Leo | 874 | |||
Green | S. M. Elcock | 417 | |||
Majority | 573 | ||||
Durrington
Durrington | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | C. E. Robinson | 1,004 | |||
Labour | A. F. C. Greville | 744 | |||
Majority | 260 | ||||
Haydon Wick
Haydon Wick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | J. W. H. Archer | 1,375 | |||
Conservative | C. I. Butcher | 743 | |||
Liberal Democrat | T. F. Hudson | 202 | |||
Majority | 632 | ||||
Highworth
Highworth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Lynn Vardy | 1,530 | |||
Conservative | D. F. Morley | 1,135 | |||
Liberal Democrat | J. A. Shorten | 393 | |||
Majority | 395 | ||||
Holt
Holt | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Terrence Peter (Terry) Chivers | 1,997 | |||
Conservative | Robert George Ian Elliott | 1,369 | |||
Liberal | George Frederick James Hawkins | 163 | |||
Labour | T. A. Maslen | 157 | |||
Majority | 628 | ||||
Kington
Kington | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Doreen Darby | 1,467 | |||
Conservative | Peter Gordon Green | 1,430 | |||
Labour | Peter Ernest Mellett | 145 | |||
Majority | 37 | ||||
Lavington
Lavington | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Derek Bernard William Jarvis | 1,503 | |||
Liberal Democrat | M. G. Pearce | 780 | |||
Labour | W. M. Barnett | 373 | |||
Liberal | R. W. Clarke | 203 | |||
Majority | 723 | ||||
Malmesbury
Malmesbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Caroline Pym | 1,945 | |||
Conservative | Patricia Winifred Sears | 1,048 | |||
Labour | Daphne Joy Jones | 184 | |||
Majority | 897 | ||||
Marlborough
Marlborough | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Fiona Gillian Webb | 1,192 | |||
Conservative | J. M. A. Goodfellow | 968 | |||
Independent | J. R. Ripley | 144 | |||
Majority | 224 | ||||
Melksham
Melksham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Angela Betty Barker | 1,154 | |||
Labour | Davina M. Griffin | 1,022 | |||
Conservative | C. E. B. V. Deadman | 473 | |||
Majority | 132 | ||||
Melksham Without
Melksham Without | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Barrie Wesley | 2,252 | |||
Conservative | E. P. Joyce | 977 | |||
Labour | P. J. Creese | 459 | |||
Majority | 1,275 | ||||
Mere
Mere | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert George Catton | 1,179 | |||
Liberal Democrat | U. A. McGrail | 575 | |||
Independent | M. W. Taylor | 324 | |||
Labour | M. J. Foote | 212 | |||
Majority | 604 | ||||
Minety
Minety | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Carole Alethea Soden | 2,070 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Anthony James Doody | 1,064 | |||
Labour | Jane Mellett | 181 | |||
Majority | 1,006 | ||||
Pickwick with Box
Pickwick with Box | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Judith Helen Seager | 971 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Roger Hubbard | 873 | |||
Labour | Stephen Charles Wheeler | 638 | |||
Majority | 98 | ||||
Salisbury Bemerton
Salisbury Bemerton | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Richard Terance Rogers | 1,231 | |||
Conservative | J. G. S. Guthrie | 477 | |||
Independent | J. Heaney | 281 | |||
Majority | 754 | ||||
Salisbury Harnham
Salisbury Harnham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan Alfred Joel | 1,172 | |||
Conservative | B. M. E. Rycroft | 992 | |||
Labour | C. Bryder | 181 | |||
Majority | 180 | ||||
Salisbury St Mark
Salisbury St Mark | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Peter Frederick Chalke | 1,371 | |||
Liberal Democrat | D. M. Jones | 1,011 | |||
Labour | M. Riches | 270 | |||
Majority | 360 | ||||
Salisbury St Martin
Salisbury St Martin | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul William Leslie Sample | 1,904 | |||
Conservative | P. V. H. Paisey | 886 | |||
Labour | C. Davies | 285 | |||
Green | I. Nath | 97 | |||
Majority | 1,018 | ||||
Salisbury St Paul
Salisbury St Paul | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Beryl Mary Jay | 1,659 | |||
Independent | T. C. Cowie | 794 | |||
Majority | 865 | ||||
Southwick
Southwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Napier Beatson Irving | 1,330 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Guy Phillips | 951 | |||
Labour | D. Atherton | 182 | |||
Majority | 379 | ||||
Stratton St Margaret, Coleview and Nythe
Stratton St Margaret, Coleview and Nythe | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Brian Victor Cockbill | 967 | |||
Conservative | A. Albinson | 596 | |||
Liberal Democrat | A. D. Richards | 312 | |||
Majority | 371 | ||||
Stratton St Margaret, St Margaret
Stratton St Margaret, St Margaret | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Foley | 771 | |||
Conservative | C. A. Day | 454 | |||
Liberal Democrat | M. W. Hopes | 204 | |||
Majority | 317 | ||||
Stratton St Margaret, St Philip
Stratton St Margaret, St Philip | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Percival Lawrence Jefferies | 1,549 | |||
Conservative | G. B. J. Baldwin | 355 | |||
Green | M. Collins | 117 | |||
Majority | 1,194 | ||||
Swindon Central
Swindon Central | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Edwards | 945 | |||
Liberal Democrat | A. Baxter | 317 | |||
Conservative | K. M. Alam | 243 | |||
Green | S. W. Smith | 69 | |||
Majority | 628 | ||||
Swindon Covingham
Swindon Covingham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | David Alan Oakensen | 917 | |||
Conservative | P. Stoddart | 367 | |||
Liberal Democrat | -. Allen | 343 | |||
Majority | 550 | ||||
Swindon Dorcan South
Swindon Dorcan South | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Robert Kenneth Brooks | 1,152 | |||
Conservative | M. M. Norton | 1,142 | |||
Majority | 10 | ||||
Swindon Eastcott
Swindon Eastcott | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Stanley James Pajak | 1,566 | |||
Labour | C. Matthews | 967 | |||
Conservative | V. A. Butt | 295 | |||
Green | C. Smith | 76 | |||
Majority | 599 | ||||
Swindon Freshbrook
Swindon Freshbrook | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Jean Melville | 957 | |||
Labour | R. J. Cretchley | 677 | |||
Conservative | N. C. Bristow | 645 | |||
Majority | 280 | ||||
Swindon Gorse Hill
Swindon Gorse Hill | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | H. S. Barnett | 1,630 | |||
Conservative | A. F. A. Crowhurst | 308 | |||
Liberal Democrat | J. Kurton | 206 | |||
Majority | 1,322 | ||||
Swindon Lawns
Swindon Lawns | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Joan Barbara Prouse Savage | 1,709 | |||
Labour | E. Edge | 748 | |||
Liberal Democrat | S. A. Bowley-Bennett | 637 | |||
Green | J. V. Hughes | 138 | |||
Majority | 961 | ||||
Swindon Moredon
Swindon Moredon | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Arthur James Masters | 1,215 | |||
Conservative | M. J. Harper | 281 | |||
Liberal Democrat | C. R. Minns | 243 | |||
Independent | B. L. Wilmot | 228 | |||
Majority | 934 | ||||
Swindon Parks
Swindon Parks | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jean Norris | 1,455 | |||
Liberal Democrat | E. Aylett | 196 | |||
Conservative | W. R. Whitfield | 189 | |||
Majority | 1,259 | ||||
Swindon Roughmoor
Swindon Roughmoor | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Alan James Winmill | 632 | |||
Liberal Democrat | A. R. Timpson | 336 | |||
Labour | D. R. Camburn | 320 | |||
Majority | 296 | ||||
Swindon Toothill
Swindon Toothill | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Arthur Harry Goring | 1,000 | |||
Conservative | P. Mallinson | 738 | |||
Green | M. Harrison | 165 | |||
Majority | 262 | ||||
Swindon Walcot
Swindon Walcot | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Noel Robert Tostevin | 1,168 | |||
Conservative | J. R. Stevens | 535 | |||
Liberal Democrat | K. M. McCarthy | 246 | |||
Majority | 633 | ||||
Swindon Western
Swindon Western | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kevin David Small | 1,752 | |||
Conservative | G. Clark | 358 | |||
Liberal Democrat | K. Bracey | 259 | |||
Majority | 1,394 | ||||
Swindon Whitworth
Swindon Whitworth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | David Ernest Glaholm | 1,156 | |||
Liberal Democrat | A. D. Jacobs | 815 | |||
Conservative | D. H. Day | 103 | |||
Majority | 341 | ||||
Tisbury
Tisbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert John Baddeley | 1,339 | |||
Independent | David O. Parker | 946 | |||
Labour | C. M. Whiteside | 323 | |||
Majority | 393 | ||||
Trowbridge East
Trowbridge East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Ann Virginia Lye | 1,362 | |||
Conservative | S. J. Kirk | 677 | |||
Labour | W. Stallard | 430 | |||
Majority | 685 | ||||
Trowbridge South
Trowbridge South | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Grace Hill | 1,517 | |||
Conservative | Peter Fuller | 590 | |||
Labour | J. E. Baddeley | 372 | |||
Majority | 927 | ||||
Trowbridge West
Trowbridge West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Nicholas Shawne Edney Westbrook | 993 | |||
Conservative | Rosemary A. Webber | 443 | |||
Labour | D. A. Machin | 227 | |||
Liberal | M. A. Phillips | 171 | |||
Majority | 550 | ||||
Upper Wylye Valley
Upper Wylye Valley | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John William Finlay Robins | 1,128 | |||
Liberal | S. J. Dancey | 806 | |||
Labour | A. Knight | 264 | |||
Majority | 322 | ||||
Wanborough
Wanborough | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Jane Lindsay Mactaggart | 1,500 | |||
Conservative | J. W. J. Legge | 1,184 | |||
Labour | R. J. Smith | 300 | |||
Majority | 316 | ||||
Warminster East
Warminster East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Dorothea Joan Main | 897 | |||
Liberal Democrat | V. A. Rayner | 555 | |||
Liberal | Paul I. MacDonald | 368 | |||
Labour | J. P. Knight | 362 | |||
Majority | 342 | ||||
Warminster West
Warminster West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Edward Syme | 963 | |||
Conservative | M. Ultan Ryan | 801 | |||
Labour | R. Keddie | 365 | |||
Liberal | M. J. Barker | 270 | |||
Majority | 162 | ||||
Westbury
Westbury | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Gordon Ian King | 1,228 | |||
Conservative | M. Clegg | 900 | |||
Labour | Candy Atherton | 728 | |||
Liberal | F. J. Creese | 171 | |||
Majority | 328 | ||||
Whorwellsdown
Whorwellsdown | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Douglas Malcolm Firmager | 1,775 | |||
Conservative | Gareth Roberts | 1,106 | |||
Labour | Michael Sutton | 120 | |||
Liberal | J. F. Hardingham | 97 | |||
Majority | 669 | ||||
Wilton and Wylye
Wilton and Wylye | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Ian Clive West | 1,866 | |||
Conservative | S. F. Ryan | 973 | |||
Independent | Marjorie Whitworth | 553 | |||
Independent | Timothy Ingle Abbott | 252 | |||
Labour | R. H. Pelling | 105 | |||
Majority | 893 | ||||
Wootton Bassett North
Wootton Bassett North | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Eric Henry Hodges | 1,019 | |||
Conservative | Christine Crisp | 827 | |||
Labour | Brian John Bayton | 100 | |||
Majority | 192 | ||||
Wootton Bassett South
Wootton Bassett South | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Daphne Joyce Matthews | 1,220 | |||
Conservative | Roy Elderkin | 1,079 | |||
Labour | Paula Ann Whitehead | 228 | |||
Majority | 141 | ||||
Wroughton
Wroughton | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Aliette Cayley Phipps | 1,328 | |||
Conservative | W. Morton | 618 | |||
Labour | D. G. Carver | 292 | |||
Majority | 710 | ||||
References
- Wiltshire County Council Diary 1993/4 (Trowbridge: Wiltshire County Council, 1993)
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