Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election, 2015

The 2015 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all members of the council of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in England.^[1] This is on the same day as other local elections and coincided with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

Election result

The election saw an eight-seat enlargement of local Conservatives' running group, having been the designation of the absolute majority of winning candidates hence governing group since 2007; the results saw four Independent (politician)s one of whom had defected in the previous term overturned, the latter in the same way as two UKIP councillors — and two Liberal Democrats lost to Conservatives. All wards of the United Kingdom in this borough consequently were served by Conservative councillors save for Old Windsor choosing its two delegates to be from Old Windsor Residents and Taxpayers Association and three-member Pinkneys Green at the opposite end of the borough which elected one Liberal Democrat, topping the poll by seven votes ahead of two Conservatives it elected and 312 votes ahead of the runner-up. Having run the council from 1995-1997 and 2003-2007, the party's single councillor represented a record low for the party, meaning the resident's association mentioned became the formal opposition.

National Flood Prevention Party

A runner-up was Ewan Larcombe who in 2011 founded the National Flood Prevention Party in Horton and Wraysbury and took his position regarding the intense 2013-2014 and dynamic of the River Thames since construction of the Jubilee River, its corollary protecting most of the borough;^[2] the combined effect of these inundated hundreds of homes in that ward and the military forces helped rescue people, to lay sandbags and Princes William and Harry laid sandbags as the British Royal Family have a strong connection to the Royal Borough, owning Windsor Castle. The position was symbolic as to speed the Thames Valley's drainage east of the borough the smaller-than-county size unitary (local government) authority would need to lobby. The UK government gave in relation to Wraysbury in 2014 assurances that money is no issue in funding the Environment Agency which primarily reduces river (fluvial) flooding and is implementing from 2019 a programme of works for lower Thames flood prevention proposed in 2003.^[3]^[4]^[5] Datchet upstream of that ward flooded for the first recorded time on the railway in the candidate's own ward.

Windsor and Maidenhead Local Election Result 2015^[6]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	54	8	0	+8	94.7	59.4	100,175	+1.3%
	Old Windsor Residents' & Ratepayers Association	2	0	0	0	3.5	2.1	3,468	+1%
	Liberal Democrat	1	0	2	-2	1.8	19.0	32,070	-6.1%
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0	3.7	17,073	+0.4%
	UKIP	0	0	2	-2	0	4.0	6,777	+3.9%
	Independent	0	0	4	-4	0	4.5	6,380	-0.9%
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	3,468	+0.9%
	National Flood Prevention Party	0	0	0	0	0	1.2	743	N/A

Wards

Ascot and Cheapside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Hilton	2011
	Conservative	Lilly Evans	1985
	Liberal Democrat	Tamasin Barnbrook	420
	Green	Lucas Ruzo	347
	Labour	Mark Olney	305
	Liberal Democrat	David Imperiali	301
Turnout				74.05

Belmont
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Love	2107
	Conservative	Marion Mills	1875
	Conservative	Lisa Targowska	1627
	Liberal Democrat	Helen Craggs	914
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Hickley	694
	Liberal Democrat	Dave Mackay	693
	Green	John Barron	668
	Labour	Ian Smith	665
	Labour	Nigel Smith	620
	UKIP	Paul De Luca	460
Turnout				68.77

Bisham and Cookham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Kellaway	2255
	Conservative	Gerry Clark	2180
	Conservative	MJ Saunders	1995
	Liberal Democrat	Mandy Brar	1584
	Liberal Democrat	Fiona Hewer	1044
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Nye	793
	Labour	Jane Collisson	314
	Labour	Richard Penston	296
	Labour	Graham Lee	256
Turnout				77.7

Boyn Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stuart Carroll	1992
	Conservative	Claire Stretton	1903
	Conservative	Paul Lion	1901
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Holness	974
	Liberal Democrat	Norma Herdson	867
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Hill	866
	Green	Rachel Cook	683
	Labour	Louise Raffo	652
	Labour	Mark Wilson	495
Turnout

Bray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Burbage	2661
	Conservative	David Coppinger	2478
	Conservative	Leo Walters	2280
	UKIP	Tina Thomas	558
	Liberal Democrat	Sheila Adams	506
	Liberal Democrat	Mary Stockton	424
	Labour	Andrew Foakes	402
	Liberal Democrat	Rob Acker	401
	Labour	Dudley Targett	385
	Labour	Ashok Sharma	375
Turnout

Castle Without
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Rankin	1886
	Conservative	Wesley Richards	1856
	Conservative	Shamsul Shelim	1561
	Liberal Democrat	Helen Edwards	621
	Labour	Fiona Dent	553
	Liberal Democrat	Thomas Hinds	501
	Labour	Michelle Boundy	494
	Liberal Democrat	Antony Wood	485
	Labour	Yvonne Olney	433
	Independent	Margery Thorogood	287
	Independent	David Eglise	275
	Independent	Raewyn Porteous	228
Turnout				67.89
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing

Clewer East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Bowden	1341
	Conservative	Eileen Quick	1141
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Clemo	591
	Liberal Democrat	Julian Tisi	504
	Labour	Janet Campbell	451
	UKIP	Simon Lowe	422
Turnout				66.13
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing

Clewer North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Collins	1712
	Conservative	Nicola Pryer	1546
	Conservative	Hashim Bhatti	1464
	Independent	Wisdom Da Costa	1251
	Independent	Carole Da Costa	1205
	Independent	Kevin Chapman	1100
	Labour	Antony Matthews	718
	Independent	Jennifer Wilby	398
	Independent	Terry Wilby	234
Turnout				66.77
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Clewer South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Airey	1250
	Conservative	Edward Wilson	861
	UKIP	Tom Bursnall	454
	Labour	Mulle Price	410
	UKIP	Donald Sanver	296
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Fagence	272
	Liberal Democrat	John Edwards	264
	Independent	Chris Beale	189
Turnout				62.58

Cox Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ross McWilliams	2170
	Conservative	Clive Bullock	2133
	Conservative	Paul Brimacombe	2085
	Liberal Democrat	Bruce Adams	910
	Liberal Democrat	Bill Black	835
	Liberal Democrat	Gareth Jones	725
	UKIP	Lance Carter	692
	Labour	Margaret Horner	498
	Labour	Robert Horner	455
	Labour	Elsie Neil	364
Turnout				71.38

Datchet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jesse Grey	1438
	Conservative	Gary Muir	1369
	Labour	Jennifer Ward	523
	Liberal Democrat	Linda O'Flynn	478
	Liberal Democrat	Timothy O'Flynn	420
Turnout				64.38

Eton and Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Malcolm Alexander	503
	Liberal Democrat	Virginia Fussey	460
Turnout				69.14

Eton Wick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samantha Rayner	657
	Labour	Peter Shearman	358
	Independent	Peter Lawless	290
Turnout				72.73
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Furze Platt
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Sharp	1998
	Conservative	Hari Sharma	1845
	Conservative	Mohammed Ilyas	1669
	Liberal Democrat	Terry Payman	957
	UKIP	David Butcher	787
	Liberal Democrat	Humaira Khan	783
	Labour	Chris Harding	750
	Liberal Democrat	Cynthia Pitteway	692
Turnout				68.84

Horton and Wraysbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Colin Rayner	1712
	Conservative	John Lenton	1545
	National Flood Prevention Party	Ewan Larcombe	743
	Labour	Peter Ward	404
	Liberal Democrat	Parvis Jamieson	209
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Wilkinson	146
Turnout				66.78

Hurley and Walthams
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maureen Hunt	2163
	Conservative	David Evans	2143
	Conservative	Carwyn Cox	1990
	Liberal Democrat	John Iles	544
	Labour	Patrick McDonald	484
	Labour	Jessica Bisset	453
	Liberal Democrat	Jenny Werner	404
	Labour	Sara Reeves	396
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer Zuldt	287
Turnout				73.01

Maidenhead Riverside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Jenner	2167
	Conservative	Simon Dudley	2116
	Conservative	Adam Smith	1995
	Liberal Democrat	Saghir Ahmed	685
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Newbound	653
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Keay	604
	Labour	Robert Barclay	562
	Labour	Colin Fowles	529
	Green	Craig McDermott	517
	UKIP	Nadine Wilkinson	499
Turnout				68.33

Oldfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Hill	2199
	Conservative	Derek Wilson	2153
	Conservative	Ashgar Majeed	1995
	Labour	Louise Clarke	860
	UKIP	Edmund Holliday	785
	Labour	Geoffrey Cutting	778
	Liberal Democrat	Adam Bermange	731
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Johnstone	649
	Liberal Democrat	Derek Tyler	514
Turnout				59.97

Old Windsor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Old Windsor Residents Association	Lynne Jones	1785
	Old Windsor Residents Association	Malcolm Beer	1683
	Conservative	Elizabeth Cudd	553
	Conservative	Hamish Macmillam	488
	UKIP	Lucas Crane	216
	UKIP	Bruno Haine	190
	Labour	Roy Reeves	145
	Labour	Ahamed Mashoor	136
Turnout				73.83

Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Natasha Airey	1549
	Conservative	Phillip Bicknell	1331
	Liberal Democrat	Amarjeet Bhamra	383
	Labour	Laura Binnie	380
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Hinds	317
	Green	Simon Beer	290
	UKIP	Peter Bishop	274
	UKIP	Nicole Fowler	206
	Independent	Jon Davey	198
	Independent	Franco De Luca	121
Turnout				73.74

Pinkneys Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Werner	1854
	Conservative	Charles Hollingsworth	1847
	Conservative	Marius Gilmore	1625
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Bond	1542
	Conservative	Shez Courtenay-Smith	1542
	Liberal Democrat	Clive Baskerville	1535
	UKIP	John Radley	446
	Labour	Jennifer Cooper	382
	Labour	Hilary Brodie	316
Turnout				75.04

Sunningdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christine Bateson	2159
	Conservative	Sayonara Luxton	1669
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Grant-Adamson	327
	Liberal Democrat	Sonya Lippold	308
	Labour	Anne Brindle	277
Turnout				71.66

References

↑ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
↑ National Flood Prevention Party, political party PP1713 Electoral Commission. Accessed 11 June 2014.
↑ Responses to the River Thames scheme consultation summary responses Environment Agency. July 2010. Accessed 11 June 2015.
↑ "Lower Thames floodplain 'expensive' says prime minister" BBC News. 25 April 2014. Accessed 11 June 2015.
↑ "Scheme given £60m boost...work...is due to commence in 2019" Get Surrey, website of the Surrey Advertiser group of newspapers. 2 December 2014. Accessed 11 June 2015.
↑ "Borough Election Results 2015 - By Ward". The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Retrieved 2015-05-09.

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