Wiltshire County Council election, 1997
Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 1 May 1997. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Conservatives as the largest party.
As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election, 1997.
Results
| Wiltshire Local Election Result 1997 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | ||
| Conservative | 22 | +4 | 46.81 | 43.4 | 107,867 | +46,488 | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | 20 | -13 | 42.55 | 35.2 | 87,367 | +23,260 | ||||
| Labour | 4 | -13 | 8.51 | 18.3 | 45,365 | +6,920 | ||||
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.13 | 1.6 | 3,978 | +426 | ||
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 3,481 | +2,402 | ||
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.14 | 257 | -1,992 | ||
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 230 | +230 | ||
Results by divisions
Aldbourne and Ramsbury
| Aldbourne and Ramsbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Christopher Paul Humphries | 2,571 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Graham Francis | 2,213 | |||
| Labour | Brian McLintock | 660 | |||
| Majority | 358 | ||||
Alderbury
| Alderbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Charles Temple Blackwood | 2,668 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Roger Hardy | 1,114 | |||
| Labour | Ann Oliver | 599 | |||
| Majority | 757 | ||||
Amesbury
| Amesbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Allan Godfrey Peach | 2,283 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Allen | 1,389 | |||
| Labour | Ross Pelling | 722 | |||
| Green | Peter Matthews | 157 | |||
| Majority | 894 | ||||
Avon and Cannings
| Avon and Cannings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dennis James Willmott | 2,207 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | John Thompson | 1,582 | |||
| Labour | Terrence O'Sullivan | 1,118 | |||
| UKIP | Alan Wood | 108 | |||
| Majority | 625 | ||||
Bedwyn and Pewsey
| Bedwyn and Pewsey | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jennifer Mary Scott | 2,735 | |||
| Conservative | Arthur Bromwich | 2,380 | |||
| Labour | Michael Maude | 884 | |||
| Majority | 355 | ||||
Bourne Valley
| Bourne Valley | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Kevin Christopher Wren | 2,718 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Simon Frost | 1,705 | |||
| Labour | Mark Riches | 920 | |||
| Majority | 1,013 | ||||
Bradford on Avon
| Bradford on Avon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Victoria Christine Scott Landell Mills | 2,710 | |||
| Conservative | Robert George Ian Elliott | 1,533 | |||
| Labour | Angela Womersley | 934 | |||
| Green | David Gilbert | 385 | |||
| UKIP | John Douglas Sankey | 122 | |||
| Majority | 1,177 | ||||
Bremhill and Calne
| Bremhill and Calne | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Christine Crisp | 2,854 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Sandra Webb | 2,277 | |||
| Labour | David Songhurst | 868 | |||
| Majority | 577 | ||||
Calne
| Calne | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Nancy Suzanne Bryant | 1,854 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Jeanette Greer | 1,692 | |||
| Labour | Maureen Songhurst | 1,354 | |||
| Majority | 162 | ||||
Chippenham Park
| Chippenham Park | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Patrick Charles Bourne Coleman | 2,746 | |||
| Conservative | Mary Norton | 1,661 | |||
| Labour | Stephen Wheeler | 863 | |||
| Majority | 1,085 | ||||
Chippenham Sheldon
| Chippenham Sheldon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | June Margaret Wood | 1,994 | |||
| Conservative | Donald Ellis | 1,392 | |||
| Labour | Maureen Lloyd | 1,357 | |||
| Majority | 552 | ||||
Chippenham Town
| Chippenham Town | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Philip George Allnatt | 2,709 | |||
| Conservative | Richard Purdon | 1,967 | |||
| Labour | Tim Hayhoe | 712 | |||
| Majority | 742 | ||||
Collingbourne
| Collingbourne | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mark Connolly | 1,613 | |||
| Conservative | Peter Colling | 1,489 | |||
| Labour | Eric Dalkin | 722 | |||
| Independent | Anthony Still | 489 | |||
| Majority | 122 | ||||
Corsham
| Corsham | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Roy Davis | 1,893 | |||
| Conservative | Hywel Jones | 1,438 | |||
| Labour | Chris Reid | 799 | |||
| Majority | 455 | ||||
Cricklade and Purton
| Cricklade and Purton | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Brian Edward Atfield | 2,570 | |||
| Conservative | Peter Smith | 1,862 | |||
| Labour | Brian Bayton | 773 | |||
| Majority | 708 | ||||
Devizes
| Devizes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor | 1,918 | |||
| Conservative | Maurice Came | 1,496 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Bryan Castle | 893 | |||
| Majority | 422 | ||||
Devizes South and Bromham
| Devizes South and Bromham | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Patricia Rugg | 2,932 | |||
| Labour | James Thorpe | 1,647 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Henry Jordan | 1,636 | |||
| Majority | 1,285 | ||||
Downton
| Downton | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Julian Paul Johnson | 2,814 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Roger Ford | 1,617 | |||
| Labour | Hamish Ross | 1,047 | |||
| Green | Marion Reed | 310 | |||
| Majority | 1,197 | ||||
Durrington
| Durrington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Linda Patricia Morris | 1,731 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Judith Greville | 1,636 | |||
| Labour | Tamsen Jacobs | 812 | |||
| Green | Mark Pafford | 105 | |||
| Majority | 95 | ||||
Holt
| Holt | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Terrence Peter (Terry) Chivers | 2,792 | |||
| Conservative | Carolyn Joy Walker | 2,142 | |||
| Labour | Gregory Anthony Coombes | 537 | |||
| Liberal | George Frederick James Hawkins | 256 | |||
| Green | John Richard Pearce | 230 | |||
| Majority | 650 | ||||
Kington
| Kington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Jane Antoinette Scott | 3,002 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Doreen Darby | 2,926 | |||
| Labour | Peter Mellett | 732 | |||
| Majority | 76 | ||||
Lavington
| Lavington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Derek Bernard William Jarvis | 2,663 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Ann Thomson | 1,534 | |||
| Labour | David Wearn | 1,158 | |||
| Majority | 1,129 | ||||
Malmesbury
| Malmesbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Lesley Clare Stockman Bennett | 2,490 | |||
| Conservative | Andrew Watson | 2,369 | |||
| Labour | Daphne Jones | 837 | |||
| Majority | 121 | ||||
Marlborough
| Marlborough | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Margaret Boulton | 1,816 | |||
| Conservative | Josephine Goodfellow | 1,772 | |||
| Labour | Alec Light | 782 | |||
| Majority | 44 | ||||
Melksham
| Melksham | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Mary Salisbury | 1,567 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Angela Betty Barker | 1,354 | |||
| Conservative | Kenneth Williams | 768 | |||
| Majority | 213 | ||||
Melksham Without
| Melksham Without | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | John Barrie Wesley | 2,524 | |||
| Conservative | Anthony Molland | 2,193 | |||
| Labour | John Adcock | 1,663 | |||
| Majority | 187 | ||||
Mere
| Mere | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert George Catton | 2,131 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Mark Houghton-Brown | 1,346 | |||
| Labour | Graham Parish | 604 | |||
| Majority | 785 | ||||
Minety
| Minety | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Carole Alethea Soden | 3,418 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Anne Davis | 1,925 | |||
| Labour | John Battersby | 457 | |||
| Majority | 1,493 | ||||
Pickwick with Box
| Pickwick with Box | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Judith Helen Seager | 1,984 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Dianne McGee | 1,701 | |||
| Labour | Christopher Lynch | 1,375 | |||
| Majority | 283 | ||||
Salisbury Bemerton
| Salisbury Bemerton | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Richard Terance Rogers | 2,040 | |||
| Conservative | Pamela Roche | 997 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Jo Heaney | 883 | |||
| Majority | 1,043 | ||||
Salisbury Harnham
| Salisbury Harnham | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Iris Throp | 1,852 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Brian Dalton | 1,261 | |||
| Labour | Gary Buckley | 665 | |||
| Green | Rosemary Perry | 186 | |||
| Majority | 591 | ||||
Salisbury St Mark
| Salisbury St Mark | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Peter Frederick Chalke | 2,399 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | John Cherry | 1,239 | |||
| Labour | Kelvin Dawson | 731 | |||
| Green | Susan Wright | 132 | |||
| Majority | 1,160 | ||||
Salisbury St Martin
| Salisbury St Martin | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Paul William Leslie Sample | 2,261 | |||
| Conservative | Kevin Robbin | 1,511 | |||
| Labour | Susan Mallory | 772 | |||
| Green | Indira Nath | 209 | |||
| Majority | 750 | ||||
Salisbury St Paul
| Salisbury St Paul | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Beryl Mary Jay | 2,503 | |||
| Conservative | Timothy Nolan | 1,102 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Rachel Smith | 840 | |||
| Majority | 1,401 | ||||
Southwick
| Southwick | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | John Napier Beatson Irving | 1,687 | |||
| Independent | Anthony Guy Phillips | 1,500 | |||
| Labour | Brian Michael Staines | 571 | |||
| Green | David John Howells | 316 | |||
| Majority | 187 | ||||
Tisbury
| Tisbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert John Baddeley | 2,420 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Felicity Corp | 1,571 | |||
| Labour | Paul Whiteside | 567 | |||
| Majority | 849 | ||||
Trowbridge East
| Trowbridge East | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Thomas Raymond James | 1,754 | |||
| Conservative | Joan Barbara Savage | 1,484 | |||
| Labour | Jeffrey Bryan Osborn | 1,244 | |||
| Green | Antoinette (Toni) Beizsley | 150 | |||
| Majority | 270 | ||||
Trowbridge South
| Trowbridge South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Grace Hill | 2,363 | |||
| Labour | Jefferey David Morris | 1,628 | |||
| Conservative | Patrick Andrew Sturges | 1,473 | |||
| Majority | 735 | ||||
Trowbridge West
| Trowbridge West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Nicholas Shawne Edney Westbrook | 1,482 | |||
| Conservative | Anthony Ivan Moore | 1,041 | |||
| Labour | Helen Bridget Osborn | 929 | |||
| Green | Carolyn Susan (Lyn) Davis | 120 | |||
| Majority | 441 | ||||
Upper Wylye Valley
| Upper Wylye Valley | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mary Fleur de Rhé-Philipe | 2,076 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | John Denby-Gardner | 1,167 | |||
| Labour | Ernest Martin McCleave | 501 | |||
| Green | Kevan James Corcoran | 220 | |||
| Majority | 909 | ||||
Warminster East
| Warminster East | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dorothea Joan Main | 1,716 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Catherine Jane Day | 1,187 | |||
| Labour | Robert Alan Smith | 706 | |||
| Green | Jonathan William Daniels | 224 | |||
| Majority | 529 | ||||
Warminster West
| Warminster West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | John Edward Syme | 2,599 | |||
| Conservative | Helen Kathleen Margaret Muriel Rowley | 1,623 | |||
| Green | Elsa-Marie Kitching | 483 | |||
| Majority | 976 | ||||
Westbury
| Westbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Christopher Newbury | 1,686 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Gordon Ian King | 1,650 | |||
| Conservative | John Aidan Booth | 1,324 | |||
| Labour | Michael Sutton | 974 | |||
| Green | James Oliver Toyne | 102 | |||
| Majority | 36 | ||||
Whorwellsdown Hundred
| Whorwellsdown Hundred | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Douglas Malcolm Firmager | 2,348 | |||
| Conservative | Geoffrey Richards | 1,910 | |||
| Labour | John William Hawkes | 718 | |||
| Majority | 438 | ||||
Wilton and Wylye
| Wilton and Wylye | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ian Clive West | 2,293 | |||
| Conservative | Anthony Brown-Hovelt | 1,987 | |||
| Labour | Michael Thomas | 725 | |||
| Independent | Timothy Ingle Abbott | 303 | |||
| Green | Sarah Green | 152 | |||
| Majority | 306 | ||||
Wootton Bassett North
| Wootton Bassett North | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mollie Eileen May Groom | 1,789 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Duncan Bamford | 1,327 | |||
| Labour | Julian Watson | 679 | |||
| Majority | 462 | ||||
Wootton Bassett South
| Wootton Bassett South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Toby Russell Sturgis | 2,641 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Daphne Matthews | 2,323 | |||
| Labour | Ellis Webb | 991 | |||
| Majority | 318 | ||||
References
- Wiltshire County Council Diary 1997/8 (Trowbridge: Wiltshire County Council, 1997, pp. 5-11
- Horsey, John (Returning Officer), Declarations of results for West Wiltshire county divisions, 1 May 1997
- Results for Aldbourne and Ramsbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Alderbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Amesbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Avon and Cannings at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Bedwyn & Pewsey at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Bourne Valley at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Bradford on Avon at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Bremhill and Calne at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Calne at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Chippenham Park at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Chippenham Sheldon at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Chippenham Town at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Collingbourne at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Corsham at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Cricklade and Purton at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Devizes at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Devizes South and Bromham at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Downton at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Durrington at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Holt at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Kington at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Lavington at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Malmesbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Marlborough at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Melksham at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Melksham Without at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Mere at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Minety at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Pickwick and Box at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Salisbury Bemerton at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Salisbury Harnham at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Salisbury St Mark at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Salisbury St Martin at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Salisbury St Paul at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Southwick at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Tisbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Trowbridge East at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Trowbridge South at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Trowbridge West at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Upper Wylye Valley at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Warminster East at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Warminster West at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Westbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Whorwellsdown at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Wilton and Wylye at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Wootton Bassett North at wiltshire.gov.uk
- Results for Wootton Bassett South at wiltshire.gov.uk
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