2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

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2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

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All 42 seats to Bracknell Forest Borough Council 22 seats needed for a majority
Con Lab Leader Paul Bettison Mary Temperton Party Conservative Labour Leader's seat Little Sandhurst and Wellington Great Hollands North Last election 41 seats, 52.0% 1 seat, 22.2%
Incumbent Council control Conservative

The 2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England.

The Conservative Party has controlled the council since its establishment as a unitary authority in 1997.

Background[]

Bracknell Forest Borough Council will hold local elections on 2 May 2019 along with councils across England as part of the 2019 local elections. The council elects its members in all-out elections, with all its councillors up for election every four years.^[1][2] Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2015. In that election, forty-one Conservative councillors and one Labour councillor were elected.

The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since the unitary authority was created in 1997. The predecessor district council had been controlled by both the Labour and Conservative parties.

Overall results[]

After the previous election, and immediately before this election, the composition of the council was:

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41	1
Conservative	Labour

The Conservatives held the council losing just three seats with two going to Labour and one to the Liberal Democrats.

Following the 2019 election, the composition of the council was:

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38	3	1
Conservative	Labour

Ward results[]

Ascot[]

Ascot (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorothy Hayes	756	63.1
	Conservative	Nigel Atkinson	708	59.0
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Banks	291	24.3
	Labour	Katherine Giles	246	20.5
	Labour	Stephen Young	171	14.3
Majority			417	34.7
Turnout			2,172	29

Binfield with Warfield[]

Binfield with Warfield (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Leake	1,341	60.6
	Conservative	John Harrison	1,337	60.4
	Conservative	Ankur Shiv Bhandari	1,125	50.8
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Francis	611	27.6
	Labour	Lorraine Copley	499	22.5
	Labour	Eric Pilmoor	403	18.2
	Labour	Andrew Walker	360	16.3
Majority
Turnout			2,214	29

Bullbrook[]

Bullbrook (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Angell	651	51.5
	Conservative	Ian Kirke	619	49.0
	Labour	Lara Johnson	441	34.9
	Labour	David McMullen	357	28.2
	Liberal Democrats	Kim Lyons	230	18.2
Majority			178	14.1
Turnout			1,264	27

Central Sandhurst[]

Central Sandhurst (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Brossard	565	47.0
	Conservative	Gaby Kennedy	542	45.1
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Forster	422	35.1
	Liberal Democrats	Leigh Quigg	309	25.7
	Green	Rosie Chandler	162	13.5
	Labour	Garrett Cooke	125	10.4
	Labour	Leo Anniballi	122	10.1
Majority			120	10.0
Turnout			1,202	31

College Town[]

College Town (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pauline McKenzie	632	63.1
	Conservative	Nicholas Allen	617	61.6
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Thompson	250	25.0
	Labour	Clive Urquhart	213	21.3
	Labour	Matthew White	135	13.5
Majority			367	36.6
Turnout			1,001	26

Crown Wood[]

Crown Wood (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marc Brunel-Walker	809	49.7
	Conservative	Colin Dudley	778	47.8
	Conservative	Suki Hayes	756	46.5
	Labour	Danielle Turner	625	38.4
	Labour	Christopher Foxon	560	34.4
	Labour	Guy Gillbe	459	28.3
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Clay	276	17.0
Majority			131	8.1
Turnout			1,627	28

Crowthorne[]

Crowthorne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Wade	713	54.1
	Conservative	Tina McKenzie-Boyle	711	54.0
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Pope	374	28.4
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Sexton	289	21.9
	Labour	Kate Cameron-Daum	216	16.4
	Labour	Jonathon Monger	198	15.0
Majority			337	25.6
Turnout			1,317	32

Great Hollands North[]

Great Hollands North (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Temperton	1,374	73.8
	Labour	Kathryn Neil	1,044	56.1
	Conservative	Peter Hill	540	29.0
	Conservative	Max Mir	346	18.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Hutchinson	163	8.8
Majority			604	27.1
Turnout			1,862	34

Great Hollands South[]

Great Hollands South (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Gbadebo	567	44.7
	Conservative	Lizzy Gibson	528	41.6
	Labour	Kathleen Nugent	451	35.6
	Labour	Naheed Ejaz	362	28.5
	Green	Derek Florey	261	20.6
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Biddle	159	12.5
Majority			77	6.0
Turnout			1,268	34

Hanworth[]

Hanworth (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gill Birch	1,028	55.8
	Conservative	Mike Gibson	950	51.5
	Conservative	Michael Skinner	897	48.7
	Labour	Nicola Goddard	577	31.3
	Labour	Jenny Penfold	572	31.0
	Labour	Shawn Hearn	548	29.7
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Enga	424	23.0
Majority			320	17.4
Turnout			1,843	30

Harmans Water[]

Harmans Water (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Chris Turrell	1,039	49.4
	Conservative	Isabel Mattick	1,013	48.2
	Conservative	Ash Merry	1,005	47.8
	Labour	Thomas Neill	560	26.6
	Labour	Diane Thomas	506	24.1
	Labour	John Wright	448	21.3
	UKIP	Shelagh Pile	434	20.6
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Smith	424	20.2
Majority			445	21.2
Turnout			2,102	32

Little Sandhurst and Wellington[]

Little Sandhurst and Wellington (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dale Birch	744	55.3
	Conservative	Paul Bettison	741	55.1
	Liberal Democrats	Rebecca Duffett	393	29.2
	Labour	Megan Wright	275	20.4
	Labour	Nicola Mansfield	248	18.4
Majority			348	25.9
Turnout			1,345	33

Old Bracknell[]

Old Bracknell (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Heydon	626	50.3
	Conservative	Malcolm Tullett	569	45.7
	Labour	Susan Cahill	493	39.6
	Labour	Roy Bailey	485	39.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Maxwell	180	14.5
Majority			76	6.1
Turnout			1,244	29

Owlsmoor[]

Owlsmoor (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Porter	631	58.0
	Conservative	Ray Mossom	604	55.5
	Labour	Diane Allum Wilson	276	25.4
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Vandersluis	256	23.5
	Labour	Clive Temperton	128	11.8
Majority			328	30.1
Turnout			1,088	28

Priestwood and Garth[]

Priestwood and Garth (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alvin Finch	693	42.0
	Conservative	Jennie Green	676	41.0
	Labour	Tricia Brown	595	36.1
	Labour	Paul Bidwell	593	36.0
	Conservative	Graham Birch	579	35.1
	Labour	Steve Fearon	506	30.7
	UKIP	Dave Colley	315	19.1
	Liberal Democrats	Darren Bridgman	294	17.8
Majority			2	0.1
Turnout			1,649	29

Warfield Harvest Ride[]

Warfield Harvest Ride (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gareth Barnard	1,274	65.6
	Conservative	Sandra Ingham	1,273	65.6
	Conservative	Robert McLean	1,128	58.1
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bradly	494	25.5
	Labour	Libbi Miller	355	18.3
	Labour	Anne Shillcock	312	16.1
	Labour	Graham Firth	256	13.2
Majority			634	32.6
Turnout			1,941	32

Wildridings and Central[]

Wildridings and Central (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dee Hamilton	474	38.1
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Parker	466	37.5
	Conservative	Kirsten Ashman	399	32.1
	Liberal Democrats	James Dunsmuir	366	29.4
	Labour	Peter Frewer	263	21.1
	Labour	Michael Karim	245	19.7
	Green	Maciej Pawlik	127	10.2
Majority
Turnout			1,244	31	-

Winkfield and Cranbourne[]

Winkfield and Cranbourne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Moira Gaw	1,100	75.4
	Conservative	Tony Virgo	945	64.8
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Jenkins	249	17.1
	Labour	Bob Miller	206	14.1
	Labour	Alan Round	163	11.2
Majority			696	47.7
Turnout			1,458	36

By-elections[]

Old Bracknell[]

Old Bracknell: 9 December 2021

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Bidwell	434	61.1	+23.2
	Conservative	Iain Alexander	276	38.9	-9.3
Majority			158	22.2
Turnout			711	17.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	16.3

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