2015 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

The 2015 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all the members of Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England to coincide with other local elections, an election which was held simultaneously with the 2015 General Election, resulting in higher turnout than the previous election.^[1]

Results[]

Conservative Party candidates won 41 of the 42 seats. A Labour Party councillor held one of seats of the Labour Party group. The election saw a one-seat loss by Labour compared to the previous election.^[2] As compared to the last election, the result marks a gain of one councillor by Conservatives. The result can alternatively be considered a gain of five Conservative councillors, counting three by-elections and a defection from the Conservative Party grouping during the 2011-2015 council, bringing the Majority Group total before the election to 36.^[3]^[4]

Bracknell Forest Council Election, 2015
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	41	1	0	+1	98	59	71287
Labour	1	0	1	-1	2	23	28313
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	8	9966
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	4	5120
Green	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	2558
Hanworth & Birch Hill Residents	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	1680
Binfield Independent Conservatives	0	0	0	0	0	1.05	1280
Independent (candidates)	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1259
TUSC	0	0	0	0	0	0.18	218

Ward Results[]

Ascot[]

Ascot
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dorothy Hayes	1916
	Conservative	Tony Virgo	1607
	Labour	Bob Draper	420
	Green	Sarah Cottle	385
	Labour	Tony House	319
	Liberal Democrats	David Lindop	298
	Liberal Democrats	Tristan Pithers	223
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Binfield with Warfield[]

Binfield with Warfield (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Harrison	2995
	Conservative	Sarah Peacey	2917
	Conservative	Ian Leake	2813
	Binfield Independent Conservatives	Nigel Rennie	1280
	Labour	David Fawcett	1028
	Labour	Timothy Hanson	906
	Labour	Dennis Good	759
Majority
Turnout				70
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bulbrook[]

Bullbrook (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Bob Angell	1547
	Conservative	Kirsten Miller	1365
	Labour	Caroline Egglestone	884
	Labour	Graham Firth	775
	Liberal Democrats	Kim Lyons	422
Majority
Turnout				63
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central Sandhurst[]

Central Sandhurst (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Michael Brossard	1717
	Conservative	Phillip King	1585
	Labour	Anne Brunton	552
	Liberal Democrats	D Clark	456
	Labour	Alan Harold Round	321
Majority
Turnout				69
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

College Town[]

College Town (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nick Allen	1765
	Conservative	Pauline McKenzie	1563
	Labour	Narendra Angdembe	544
	Labour	Keith Roberts	419
	Liberal Democrats	Darren Bridgman	342
Majority
Turnout				66
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crown Wood[]

Crown Wood (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin Dudley	1809
	Conservative	Marc Brunel-Walker	1723
	Conservative	Suki Hayes	1491
	Labour	Wilf Holness	988
	UKIP	David Jones	904
	Labour	John Wright	856
	UKIP	Olivio Barreto	811
	Labour	Matthew White	808
Majority
Turnout				63
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crowthorne[]

Crowthorne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jim Finnie	1774
	Conservative	Bob Wade	1567
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Pope	611
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Freeman	534
	Labour	Vera Shambrook	400
	Labour	Nazeer Mohammed	346
Majority
Turnout				72
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Hollands North[]

Great Hollands North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mary Temperton	1823
	Conservative	Peter Hill	1348
	Conservative	Michael Gbadebo	1321
	Labour	Naheed Ejaz	829
	Green	Mark Brown	390
	TUSC	Neil Adams	88
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Great Hollands South[]

Great Hollands South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jan Angell	1087
	Conservative	Jennie McCracken	1083
	Labour	Clive Temperton	839
	Labour	Peter Frewer	601
	UKIP	Jeff Newbold	479
	Green	Derek Florey	306
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas MacMahon	245
Majority
Turnout				67
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hanworth (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gill Birch	1689
	"Conservative"	Sandra Ingham	1531
	"Conservative"	Malcolm Tullett	1530
	"Labour"	Adam Smith	854
	"Labour"	James Quinton	797
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	William Davison	780
	"Hanworth" & birch hill Residents	Charles Baily	778
	"Labour"	Stephen Young	701
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Charles Wade	667
	"Hanworth" & birch hill Residents	David Elford	480
	"Hanworth" & birch hill Residents	Philip Pitt	422
	"Liberal" Democrat	David Droar	379
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harmans Water (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Isabel Mattick	2037
	"Conservative"	Christopher Turrell	1973
	"Conservative"	Ash Merry	1953
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Shelagh Pile	951
	"Labour"	Nicola Strudley	847
	"Labour"	Keith MacDonald	841
	"Labour"	Diane Thomas	820
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	John Stringer	711
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Robert Warren	640
	"Green"	Susan Rayment	419
Majority
Turnout				65
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Little Sandhurst and Wellington (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Dale Birch	1578
	"Conservative"	Paul Bettison	1570
	"Liberal" Democrat	Mark Vandersluis	568
	"Labour"	Val Goodwin-Higson	506
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Paul Connell	495
	"Labour"	John Piasecki	331
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

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Old Bracknell (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	William Heydon	1191
	"Conservative"	Iain McCracken	1087
	"Labour"	Roy Bailey	819
	"Labour"	Kathleen Nugent	797
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Roger Inions	461
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Amira Sagher	406
	"Trade" unionist and socialist Coalition	Terry Pearce	68
	"Trade" unionist and socialist Coalition	Val Pearce	62
Majority
Turnout				62
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Owlsmoor (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	John Porter	1390
	"Conservative"	David Worrall	1261
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	John Blewitt	542
	"Liberal" Democrat	Ray Earwicker	468
	"Labour"	Brian Wilson	340
	"Liberal" Democrat	Larraine De Laune	284
	"Labour"	Leo Anniballi	277
Majority
Turnout				70
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Priestwood and Garth (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Alvin Edwin Finch	1561
	"Conservative"	Graham Birch	1296
	"Conservative"	Tina McKenzie-Boyle	1281
	"Labour"	Tricia Brown	1038
	"Labour"	Paul Bidwell	1033
	"Labour"	Diane Allum-Wilson	902
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Terry Dilliway	842
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Carolynn Tilbury	634
Majority
Turnout				61
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Warfield Harvest Ride (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Gareth Barnard	3081
	"Conservative"	Robert McLean	2380
	"Conservative"	Cliff Thompson	2164
	"Green"	Adrian Haffegee	710
	"Labour"	Maggie Gibbons	588
	"Labour"	Anne Shillcock	512
	"Independent"	Jason Kilmartin	449
	"Independent"	Martyn Towle	403
Majority
Turnout				71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wildridings & Central (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Dee Hamilton	1092
	"Conservative"	Michael Skinner	988
	"Labour"	Andrew Jackson	694
	"Labour"	Guy Gillbe	660
	"Liberal" Democrat	Patrick Smith	290
	"Independent"	Lee Cooper	219
	"Independent"	Justin Bellhouse	188
Majority
Turnout				64
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

}

Winkfield & Cranbourne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	"Conservative"	Moira Gaw	1864
	"Conservative"	Susie Phillips	1797
	"UK" Independence (UKIP)	Ken La Garde	643
	"Green"	Derek Wall	348
	"Labour"	Carol Draper	291
	"Labour"	Lesley Hunter	248
Majority
Turnout				73
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References[]

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ 2015 Results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-19.
^ 2011 results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-20
^ Borough Elections^{[permanent dead link]} Bracknell News. Alanna Harmsworth. 8 May 2015. Accessed 20 May 2015.

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.

[2] 2015 Results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-19.

[3] 2011 results BFC. Accessed 2015-05-20

[4] Borough Elections^{[permanent dead link]} Bracknell News. Alanna Harmsworth. 8 May 2015. Accessed 20 May 2015.

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