Ashburton (ward)

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Ashburton is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, in London in the United Kingdom. The ward is wider than the Ashburton area, covering the main retail area of Addiscombe, the Stroud Green, Tollgate and Longheath Garden estates, and large parts of northern Shirley.

The ward currently forms part of the Croydon Central constituency, which is one of the most marginal in the country, 75 votes separating the Conservatives and Labour.

The ward returns three councillors every four years to Croydon Council. At the London local elections 2006 Lindsay Frost, Eddy Arram, and Avril Slipper were elected to the council. All of them were running as Conservative Party candidates.

[edit] Ward result

Ashburton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lindsay Frost	2,513
	Conservative	Eddy Arram	2,431
	Conservative	Avril Slipper	2,390
	Labour	Rona MacDonald	1,057
	Labour	Peter Spalding	971
	Labour	Jitinder Singh	904
	Green	Bernice Golberg	628
	Liberal Democrat	Nirma Ramful	550
	UK Independence	Jeanette Nathan	336
Turnout			4,324	42.7%