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The2011 Central Bedfordshire Council electionfor theCentral Bedfordshire Council was held on 5 May 2011, along with otherUnited Kingdom local elections. The whole council was up for election following boundary changes, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2015.
All councillors defending their seats this year were first elected in 2009, when the council was formed.
The Conservative Party retained an overall control on the council, winning 49 of the 59 seats on the council. Of the remaining 10 seats, 4 were won by the Liberal Democrats, 4 were won by Independents and the Labour Party won its first seat on the council.[1]
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 49 | -5 | 83.05 | 53.61 | 86,017 | +1.94 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 5 | -6 | 8.47 | 14.36 | 23,040 | -14.58 | |||
| Independent | 4 | +3 | 6.78 | 8.05 | 12,922 | +4.02 | |||
| Labour | 1 | +1 | 1.70 | 22.23 | 35,668 | +10.18 | |||
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.03 | 1,651 | -0.49 | |||
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.72 | 1,150 | N/A | |||
The overall turnout was 41.73% with a total of 160,448 valid votes cast.
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:
| 54 | 11 | 1 |
| Conservative | Lib Dem | I |
After the election, the composition of the council was:
| 49 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Conservative | Lib Dem | I | L |
I - Independent
L - Labour
Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. All results are listed below:[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Paul Duckett* | 2,372 | 25.42 | ||
| Independent | Mark Smith | 2,137 | 22.90 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Blair | 2,133 | 22.85 | ||
| Conservative | Howard Lockey | 1,883 | 20.17 | ||
| Labour | Peter Joyce | 808 | 8.66 | ||
| Majority | 250 | 2.68 | |||
| Turnout | 9,333 | 48.10 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Rita Drinkwater* | 2,714 | 23.09 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Dalgarno* | 2,575 | 21.90 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Wenham | 2,460 | 20.93 | ||
| Labour | David Devereux | 1,400 | 11.91 | ||
| Labour | Douglas Landman | 1,304 | 11.09 | ||
| Labour | Lorraine Warwick | 1,302 | 11.08 | ||
| Majority | 1,060 | 9.02 | |||
| Turnout | 11,755 | 41.00 | |||
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Councillors Drinkwater and Dalgarno previously served as a Conservative Party Councillor in theSilsoe andShillington ward Stotfold and Arlesey ward respectively.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher Wells | 1,294 | 75.32 | ||
| Labour | Rachel Lewington | 424 | 24.68 | ||
| Majority | 870 | 50.64 | |||
| Turnout | 1,718 | 46.60 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ian Shingler | 615 | 31.91 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Janet Nunn* | 456 | 23.66 | ||
| Conservative | Martin Hawkins | 406 | 21.07 | ||
| Independent | Lyndon Davison-Williams | 225 | 11.68 | ||
| Labour | Michael Wingrove | 137 | 7.11 | ||
| UKIP | Steven Wildman | 88 | 4.57 | ||
| Majority | 159 | 8.25 | |||
| Turnout | 1,927 | 48.80 | |||
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Janet Nunn previously served as a councillor in the Barton Ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jane Lawrence* | 997 | 27.08 | ||
| Conservative | Maurice Jones* | 988 | 26.84 | ||
| Labour | Bernard Briars | 883 | 23.99 | ||
| Labour | Rex Skinner | 813 | 22.09 | ||
| Majority | 105 | 2.85 | |||
| Turnout | 3,681 | 38.20 | |||
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Councillors Lawrence and Jones both previously served as Councillors for theBiggleswade ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Lawrence* | 1,648 | 30.43 | ||
| Conservative | Peter Vickers | 1,604 | 29.61 | ||
| Labour | Sheila Grayston | 1,121 | 20.70 | ||
| Labour | Allister Dennis | 1,403 | 19.26 | ||
| Majority | 483 | 8.91 | |||
| Turnout | 5,416 | 41.70 | |||
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Councillors Lawrence and Vickers both previously served as Councillors for the Biggleswade ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ruth Gammons* | 2,215 | 36.31 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Stay* | 2,134 | 34.98 | ||
| Labour | Daniel Heley | 711 | 11.65 | ||
| Labour | Isaac Sibiya | 424 | 6.95 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Adrees Latif | 404 | 6.62 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Salma Nasir | 213 | 3.49 | ||
| Majority | 1,423 | 23.33 | |||
| Turnout | 6,101 | 47.20 | |||
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Councillors Gammons and Stay both previously served as Councillors for the South East Bedfordshire ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Susan Clark | 1,697 | 17.88 | ||
| Conservative | Alan Bastable | 1,639 | 17.26 | ||
| Conservative | Kenneth Matthews* | 1,596 | 16.81 | ||
| Independent | James Baker | 890 | 9.38 | ||
| Independent | Roger Baker* | 794 | 8.36 | ||
| Labour | Miriam Gale | 732 | 7.71 | ||
| Independent | Iain Clapham | 725 | 7.64 | ||
| Labour | Alan Morris | 725 | 7.64 | ||
| Labour | Laurence Pollock | 695 | 7.32 | ||
| Majority | 706 | 7.43 | |||
| Turnout | 9,493 | 39.20 | |||
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Councillor Matthews previously served as a Councillor in theCranfield ward and Roger Baker was previously elected as a Conservative Party councillor in the Marston ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Carole Hegley* | 841 | 64.64 | ||
| Labour | Michael Hearty | 301 | 23.14 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Thorne | 159 | 12.22 | ||
| Majority | 540 | 41.20 | |||
| Turnout | 1,301 | 39.00 | |||
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Councillor Hegley previously served as a Councillor in theDunstable Downs ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David McVicar* | 1,092 | |||
| Conservative | John Young | 948 | 20.64 | ||
| Independent | Beryl Meakins | 803 | 17.48 | ||
| Labour | Robert Shelley | 709 | 15.43 | ||
| Labour | Michael Stokes | 682 | 14.85 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Patricia Larkman | 210 | 4.57 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Winter | 150 | 3.26 | ||
| Majority | 145 | 3.16 | |||
| Turnout | 4,594 | 34.40 | |||
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Councillor McVicar previously served as a Councillor in theIcknield ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Roger Pepworth | 591 | 42.98 | ||
| Conservative | John Kane* | 584 | 42.47 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | David Larkman | 200 | 14.55 | ||
| Majority | 7 | 0.51 | |||
| Turnout | 1,375 | 37.20 | |||
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Councillor Kane previously served as a Councillor in the Icknield ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Julian Murray | 877 | 21.25 | ||
| Conservative | Denise Green | 757 | 18.34 | ||
| Conservative | Jeannette Freeman* | 753 | 18.25 | ||
| Labour | Michael Rogers | 618 | 14.98 | ||
| Labour | Duncan Ross | 594 | 14.39 | ||
| Independent | Laurie Mansfield | 198 | 4.80 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Roderick Keyes | 168 | 4.07 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anthony Swain | 117 | 2.83 | ||
| Independent | Mary Norman | 45 | 1.09 | ||
| Majority | 4 | 0.09 | |||
| Turnout | 4,127 | 36.60 | |||
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Councillor Murray and Jeannette Freeman previously served as Councillors in the Northfields ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Peter Hollick* | 2,074 | 34.35 | ||
| Conservative | Ann Sparrow* | ||||
| Labour | Mark Cant | 723 | 11.97 | ||
| Labour | Michelle Henderson | 713 | 11.81 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Hunt | 256 | 4.24 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Witherick | 250 | 4.14 | ||
| Majority | 52 | 0.86 | |||
| Turnout | 6,038 | 41.80 | |||
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Councillors Hollick and Sparrow previously served as Councillors in the Watling ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Marion Mustoe* | 1,164 | 75.00 | ||
| Labour | Roger Croft | 298 | 19.20 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Lynda Walmsley | 90 | 5.80 | ||
| Majority | 866 | 55.80 | |||
| Turnout | 1,552 | 46.00 | |||
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Councillor Mustoe previously served as a councillor in the South West Bedfordshire ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrew Turner* | 1,911 | 17.46 | ||
| Conservative | Catherine Chapman | 1,607 | 14.68 | ||
| Conservative | Charles Gomm | 1,587 | 14.50 | ||
| Independent | Richard Harris | 1,000 | 9.13 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Mitchell | 875 | 7.99 | ||
| Labour | David Short | 820 | 7.49 | ||
| Labour | Shelid Gardner | 743 | 6.79 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Louise Watton | 687 | 6.28 | ||
| Labour | James Gledhill | 603 | 5.51 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Henry Harding | 588 | 5.37 | ||
| Green | Christopher Fryer | 526 | 4.80 | ||
| Majority | 587 | 5.37 | |||
| Turnout | 10,947 | 35.60 | |||
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Councillor Turner previously served as a councillor in theFlitwick East ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mark Versallion | 1,076 | 70.84 | ||
| Labour | Anthony Kent | 293 | 19.29 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Elaine Morgan | 150 | 9.87 | ||
| Majority | 783 | 51.55 | |||
| Turnout | 1,519 | 47.00 | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Angela Barker | ||||
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Angela Barker was elected unopposed, after having previously served as a councillor in theMaulden &Houghton Conquest ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Goodchild* | 856 | 25.12 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | David Jones* | 699 | 20.51 | ||
| Conservative | John Chatterley | 571 | 16.75 | ||
| Conservative | Peter Swaisland | 445 | 13.06 | ||
| Labour | Paul Cunningham | 429 | 12.59 | ||
| Labour | Maria Jones | 408 | 11.97 | ||
| Majority | 128 | 3.76 | |||
| Turnout | 3,408 | 32.10 | |||
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Councillors Goodchild and Jones previously served as councillors in theHoughton Regis ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Roy Johnstone* | 2,145 | 19.30 | ||
| Conservative | Brian Spurr* | 2,062 | 18.56 | ||
| Conservative | Alan Shadbolt | 1,943 | 17.48 | ||
| Labour | Michael Bishop | 1,060 | 9.54 | ||
| Labour | Heather Copley | 1,059 | 9.53 | ||
| Labour | Daniel Scott | 911 | 8.20 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Guess | 711 | 6.40 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sheila Mercer | 648 | 5.83 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Rosalind Mennie | 573 | 5.16 | ||
| Majority | 883 | 7.94 | |||
| Turnout | 11,112 | 36.90 | |||
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Councillors Johnstone and Spurr previously served as councillors in theLeighton Linslade Central ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Raymond Berry* | 1,525 | 19.69 | ||
| Conservative | David Bowater* | 1,513 | 19.53 | ||
| Conservative | Amanda Dodwell | 1,510 | 19.49 | ||
| Labour | John Bone | 868 | 11.20 | ||
| Labour | Christopher Northedge | 743 | 9.59 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Gray | 543 | 7.01 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nigel Carnell | 528 | 6.82 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Celia Snelling | 517 | 6.67 | ||
| Majority | 642 | 8.29 | |||
| Turnout | 7,747 | 36.00 | |||
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Councillor Berry previously served as a councillor in the Grovebury ward and Councillor Bowater previously served as a councillor in the Leighton Linslade Central ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Hopkin* | 1,990 | 17.30 | ||
| Conservative | Kenneth Janes | 1,486 | 12.92 | ||
| Conservative | Nigel Warren | 1,394 | 12.12 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Snelling* | 1,378 | 11.98 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Freeman | 1,332 | 11.58 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Russell Goodchild | 1,113 | 9.67 | ||
| Labour | Peter Palfrey | 790 | 6.87 | ||
| Labour | Joan Rampley | 728 | 6.33 | ||
| Green | Kenneth Barry | 671 | 5.83 | ||
| Labour | Maurice Rampley | 621 | 5.40 | ||
| Majority | 16 | 0.14 | |||
| Turnout | 11,503 | 46.00 | |||
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Councillor Hopkin and Peter Snelling previously served as councillors in theSouthcott ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patricia Turner* | 1,220 | 68.31 | ||
| Labour | Dennis James | 296 | 16.57 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Jones | 270 | 15.12 | ||
| Majority | 924 | 51.74 | |||
| Turnout | 1,786 | 50.90 | |||
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Councillor Turner previously served as a councillor in theNorthill &Blunham ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Rita Egan | 374 | 40.39 | ||
| Independent | Rae Bird | 358 | 38.66 | ||
| Labour | Iain Matharu | 194 | 20.95 | ||
| Majority | 16 | 1.73 | |||
| Turnout | 926 | 30.10 | |||
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Councillor Egan previously served as a councillor in the Houghton Regis ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Adam Zerny | 1,824 | 36.42 | ||
| Conservative | Doreen Gurney* | 1,204 | 24.04 | ||
| Conservative | Anita Lewis | 1,116 | 22.28 | ||
| Labour | Andrew Hopkins | 462 | 9.23 | ||
| Labour | Paul Rogers | 402 | 8.03 | ||
| Majority | 88 | 1.76 | |||
| Turnout | 5,008 | 50.40 | |||
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Councillor Gurney and Anita Lewis previously served as councillors in thePotton ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Caroline Maudlin | 1,753 | 16.84 | ||
| Conservative | Naomi Sheppard | 1,698 | 16.31 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nigel Aldis* | 1,334 | 12.82 | ||
| Conservative | Benson Themuka | 1,256 | 12.07 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anthony Baines | 911 | 8.75 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Glenys Leach | 798 | 7.67 | ||
| Labour | Sandra Lunn | 673 | 6.47 | ||
| Labour | Kevin Edwards | 672 | 6.46 | ||
| Labour | Cheryl McDonald | 666 | 6.40 | ||
| UKIP | George Konstantinidis | 646 | 6.21 | ||
| Majority | 78 | 0.75 | |||
| Turnout | 10,407 | 37.50 | |||
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Councillor Aldis previously served as a councillor in theSandy ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lewis Birt* | 1,459 | 30.57 | ||
| Conservative | Anthony Brown* | 1,402 | 29.37 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Mackin | 637 | 13.35 | ||
| Labour | Nigel Rushby | 551 | 11.54 | ||
| UKIP | Jonathan Shilton | 416 | 8.72 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Goode | 308 | 6.45 | ||
| Majority | 765 | 16.02 | |||
| Turnout | 4,773 | 41.50 | |||
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Councillors Birt and Brown previously served as councillors in theShefford ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Iain MacKilligan | 733 | 46.22 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Graham* | 649 | 40.92 | ||
| Green | Christopher Puleston | 103 | 6.49 | ||
| Labour | Carolyn Devereux | 101 | 6.37 | ||
| Majority | 84 | 5.30 | |||
| Turnout | 1,586 | 51.50 | |||
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Alison Graham previously served as a councillor in the Silsoe and Shillington ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alan Saunders | 2,227 | 18.14 | ||
| Conservative | John Saunders* | 2,162 | 17.61 | ||
| Conservative | Jonathan Clarke | 2,063 | 16.81 | ||
| Independent | John Street | 1,150 | 9.37 | ||
| Independent | Christina Turner | 926 | 7.55 | ||
| Labour | Paul Bouch | 760 | 6.19 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Collier | 756 | 6.16 | ||
| Labour | George Legate | 670 | 5.46 | ||
| Labour | Satinderjit Singh Dhaliwal | 652 | 5.31 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Isabella Collier | 504 | 4.11 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Timothy Troon | 404 | 3.29 | ||
| Majority | 913 | 7.44 | |||
| Turnout | 12,274 | 46.10 | |||
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Councillor John Saunders previously served as a councillor in theStotfold andArlesey ward and Councillor Clarke previously served as a councillor in the Langford, Bedfordshire|Langford andHenlow Village ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Williams* | 514 | 54.62 | ||
| Labour | Robert Roche | 427 | 45.38 | ||
| Majority | 87 | 9.24 | |||
| Turnout | 941 | 32.10 | |||
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Councillor Williams previously served as a councillor in the Houghton Regis ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Thomas Nicols* | 1,714 | 27.03 | ||
| Conservative | Norman Costin* | 1,603 | 25.28 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Golby | 1,014 | 15.99 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Linda Jack | 696 | 10.97 | ||
| Labour | Rachel Garnham | 689 | 10.86 | ||
| Labour | Peter Turner | 626 | 9.87 | ||
| Majority | 589 | 9.29 | |||
| Turnout | 6,342 | 44.30 | |||
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Councillors Nicols and Costin previously served as councillors in theToddington ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Jamieson* | 1,052 | 59.84 | ||
| Independent | Henry Howden | 355 | 20.19 | ||
| Green | Richard Ellis | 351 | 19.97 | ||
| Majority | 697 | 39.65 | |||
| Turnout | 1,758 | 48.10 | |||
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Councillor Jamieson previously served as a councillor in the Flitwick East ward.
