Local Election Results 2015
Bedford
Whole council up for election.
Note:— The name of Elstow ward was changed to Elstow and Stewartby in January 2013.
CastleWd = Castle Ward Independents
Other results for Bedford:2009201120192023
By-elections for Bedford (may be incomplete): 15th October 2009 (Elected Mayor) — 10th December 2009 (Kingsbrook) — 24th June 2010 (Kempston N.) — 22nd May 2014 (Putnoe) — 29th June 2023 (Wyboston) — 2nd May 2024 (Riverfield) — 4th July 2024 (Wyboston)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
First preferences
| Dave Hodgson | LD | 25282 | 31.4% |
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| Jas Parmar | C | 19417 | 24.1% |
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| Tim Douglas | Lab | 15931 | 19.8% |
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| Steve Lowe | Ind | 12833 | 15.9% |
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| Adrian Haynes | UKIP | 7060 | 8.8% |
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Run-off
| Dave Hodgson | LD | 35302 | 57.1% |
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| Jas Parmar | C | 26513 | 42.9% |
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| Party | Votes | Percent | Seats |
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| Conservative | 32503 | 40.0% | 15 |
| Labour | 20197 | 24.9% | 14 |
| Liberal Democrat | 13969 | 17.2% | 9 |
| UK Independence Party | 5381 | 6.6% | 0 |
| Green Party | 5372 | 6.6% | 0 |
| Independent | 3014 | 3.7% | 2 |
| Castle Ward Independents | 753 | 0.9% | 0 |
| Charles Royden | LD | 2123 | 47.1% |
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| Wendy Rider | LD | 1882 | |
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| Olly Richbell | C | 1231 | 27.3% |
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| Rubina Shaikh | C | 892 | |
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| Cathrine Ward | Lab | 775 | 17.2% |
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| Robert Atkins | Lab | 755 | |
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| Sara Browne | Grn | 382 | 8.5% |
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| Roger Rigby | C | 2730 | 71.0% |
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| Jon Gambold | C | 2393 | |
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| Elizabeth Luder | Lab | 680 | 17.7% |
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| Ashley Frith | Lab | 638 | |
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| Stelios Mores | LD | 436 | 11.3% |
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| Stephen Rutherford | LD | 265 | |
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| David Fletcher | C | 978 | 29.0% |
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| Luigi Reale | Lab | 853 | 25.3% |
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| Shish Miah | C | 774 | |
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| Apu Bagchi | CastleWd | 753 | 22.4% |
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| Mashuk Ullah | Lab | 698 | |
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| Caroline Fensome | CastleWd | 678 | |
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| Lucy Bywater | Grn | 539 | 16.0% |
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| Ben Foley | Grn | 390 | |
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| Mahmud Rogers | LD | 181 | 5.4% |
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| Richard Rogers | LD | 140 | |
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| Ameer Mohammed | Ind | 64 | 1.9% |
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| Randolph Charles | Lab | 1762 | 51.9% |
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| Sue Oliver | Lab | 1559 | |
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| Darren Russell | C | 670 | 19.7% |
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| Nurul Islam | C | 590 | |
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| Janet Culley | UKIP | 477 | 14.1% |
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| Esin Esat | Grn | 228 | 6.7% |
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| Jake Sale | LD | 216 | 6.4% |
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| Mohammad Sabir Rahman | LD | 153 | |
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| Aleksandr Zabolotnov | Ind | 42 | 1.2% |
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| Jane Walker | C | 1140 | 49.5% |
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| Jenni Jackson | Lab | 511 | 22.2% |
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| Peter Lund-Conlon | UKIP | 420 | 18.2% |
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| Sarah Mingay | Grn | 124 | 5.4% |
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| John Ryan | LD | 108 | 4.7% |
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| Henry Vann | LD | 1040 | 32.2% |
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| David Sawyer | LD | 1007 | |
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| Adrian Lennox-Lamb | C | 948 | 29.4% |
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| Robin Illingworth | C | 937 | |
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| Monika Golebiewska | Lab | 573 | 17.8% |
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| Louise Whatham | Lab | 509 | |
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| John Lathaen | UKIP | 342 | 10.6% |
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| Alex Charlton | Grn | 224 | 6.9% |
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| Alex Willmott | Grn | 176 | |
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| John Lloyd | Ind | 99 | 3.1% |
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| Sarah Holland | LD | 804 | 47.7% |
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| Michael Abbott | C | 539 | 32.0% |
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| James Grady | Lab | 344 | 20.4% |
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| Tim Hill | LD | 941 | 46.6% |
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| Margaret Turner | C | 565 | 28.0% |
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| Susan Hoskin | Lab | 355 | 17.6% |
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| Tony Hare | Ind | 158 | 7.8% |
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| Anthony Forth | Lab | 1291 | 31.8% |
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| Jade Uko | Lab | 961 | |
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| Phillippa Martin-Moran | C | 945 | 23.3% |
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| Lorna Marchant | LD | 942 | 23.2% |
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| Richard Harrison | LD | 874 | |
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| Adrian Haynes | UKIP | 663 | 16.3% |
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| Zulika Wightman | C | 564 | |
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| Brant Tilds | Grn | 218 | 5.4% |
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| Stephen Moon | C | 2615 | 63.3% |
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| Sheryl Corp | C | 2242 | |
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| Stephen Lawson | LD | 785 | 19.0% |
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| Mark Bowler | Grn | 732 | 17.7% |
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| Paul Stekelis | LD | 634 | |
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| Colleen Atkins | Lab | 1793 | 49.8% |
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| Louise King | Lab | 1316 | |
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| Andrea Spice | C | 775 | 21.5% |
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| Sanjit Kaur Gill Chowdrey | C | 541 | |
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| Derek Few | UKIP | 323 | 9.0% |
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| David Allen | Ind | 272 | 7.6% |
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| Paul Whitehead | LD | 224 | 6.2% |
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| Jen Foley | Grn | 210 | 5.8% |
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| Ripal Patel | LD | 175 | |
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| Racheall Monton | Grn | 153 | |
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| Alison Foster | C | 1762 | 74.6% |
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| Gary Lloyd | Grn | 377 | 16.0% |
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| Joy Winder | LD | 223 | 9.4% |
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| Anthony Boutall | C | 1210 | 34.0% |
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| Mohammed Nawaz | Lab | 1034 | 29.1% |
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| James Valentine | Lab | 1028 | |
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| Kuldip Singh | C | 769 | |
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| Nicky Attenborough | UKIP | 764 | 21.5% |
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| Richard Baker | Grn | 304 | 8.5% |
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| Terry Gasson | LD | 245 | 6.9% |
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| Bipin Shah | LD | 158 | |
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| Shan Hunt | Lab | 870 | 47.1% |
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| Matt McCarthy | C | 810 | 43.8% |
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| Alex Jones | Grn | 120 | 6.5% |
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| Mamun Islam | LD | 48 | 2.6% |
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| Mark Smith | C | 2074 | 70.1% |
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| Shah Miah | Lab | 540 | 18.3% |
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| Conrad Longmore | LD | 343 | 11.6% |
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| Carl Meader | Lab | 1471 | 69.3% |
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| Sarah King McGee | C | 545 | 25.7% |
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| Tim Crowhurst | Grn | 54 | 2.5% |
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| Philip Standley | LD | 53 | 2.5% |
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| Will Hunt | Lab | 956 | 42.6% |
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| Ryan Gray | C | 746 | 33.2% |
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| Peter Hull | UKIP | 332 | 14.8% |
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| Rosemary Wright | Grn | 112 | 5.0% |
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| Simon Hart | LD | 99 | 4.4% |
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| James Saunders | Lab | 1461 | 38.6% |
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| Anita Gerard | LD | 923 | 24.4% |
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| Abu Sultan | Lab | 848 | |
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| Becky Guynn | LD | 751 | |
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| Chris Billington | UKIP | 603 | 15.9% |
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| Martine Moon | C | 554 | 14.6% |
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| Shekh Sayed | C | 456 | |
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| Lynn Herron | Grn | 242 | 6.4% |
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| John Mingay | C | 1516 | 37.0% |
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| Giovanni Carofano | C | 1143 | |
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| Margaret Badley | Lab | 976 | 23.8% |
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| June McDonald | Lab | 749 | |
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| Gordon Willey | LD | 666 | 16.3% |
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| Dean Crofts | LD | 648 | |
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| John Robertson | UKIP | 382 | 9.3% |
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| Domenico Canzoneri | UKIP | 361 | |
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| Janice Jones | Grn | 328 | 8.0% |
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| Saverio Bongo | Ind | 228 | 5.6% |
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| George Murphy | Grn | 200 | |
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| Patricia Olney | Ind | 955 | 41.2% |
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| Ade Clewlow | C | 914 | 39.4% |
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| Sebastian Sharpe | UKIP | 171 | 7.4% |
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| Anne Saunders | Lab | 152 | 6.6% |
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| Daniel Norton | LD | 84 | 3.6% |
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| David Mingay | Grn | 42 | 1.8% |
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| Michael Headley | LD | 2014 | 46.6% |
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| Rosemary Bootiman | LD | 1578 | |
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| Peter Allen | C | 1447 | 33.5% |
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| Susan Spratt | C | 1105 | |
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| Ceciliah Chigwada | Lab | 588 | 13.6% |
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| Graham Tranquada | Lab | 533 | |
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| Rosie Layton | Grn | 275 | 6.4% |
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| Mohammad Yasin | Lab | 2062 | 54.9% |
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| Mohammed Masud | Lab | 1947 | |
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| Balal Shah | C | 1262 | 33.6% |
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| Muzakkir Khan | C | 965 | |
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| Hannah Jones | Grn | 297 | 7.9% |
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| Dorothea Rogers | LD | 138 | 3.7% |
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| Richard Struck | LD | 108 | |
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| Martin Towler | C | 1206 | 58.0% |
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| James Timkey | UKIP | 344 | 16.5% |
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| John Dawson | Lab | 235 | 11.3% |
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| Eileen Whitmore | Ind | 154 | 7.4% |
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| Patrick Solomon | LD | 142 | 6.8% |
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| Doug McMurdo | Ind | 1042 | 42.5% |
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| Robert Tickle | C | 886 | 36.2% |
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| Susan Aykin | Lab | 266 | 10.9% |
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| Elisabeth Evershed | Grn | 158 | 6.4% |
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| Janet Trengrove | LD | 98 | 4.0% |
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| Graeme Coombes | C | 1698 | 72.8% |
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| Akm Masum | Lab | 383 | 16.4% |
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| Steve Mason | LD | 252 | 10.8% |
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| John Wheeler | C | 1119 | 42.9% |
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| Bill Hall | UKIP | 560 | 21.5% |
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| Gareth Lloyd | LD | 525 | 20.1% |
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| Ali Askor | Lab | 266 | 10.2% |
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| Carlos Linnett | Grn | 138 | 5.3% |
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| Tom Wootton | C | 1618 | 73.5% |
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| Martin Kavanagh | LD | 316 | 14.4% |
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| Lisa Bradbury | Grn | 268 | 12.2% |
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