Croydon local elections

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Elections for the Council in the London Borough of Croydon are held every four years. The next elections are due to be held in May 2010.

As of 2006, Croydon elects 70 councillors. At the 2002 local elections, 37 Labour councillors, 32 Conservative councillors and 1 Liberal Democrat councillor were elected, maintaining Labour control of the Council. Subsequently one Conservative councillor defected to Labour, defected back to the Conservatives, became an independent and then a Liberal Democrat. Following the death of one Labour councillor and the resignation of two councillors, three by-elections were won by the incumbent party in each case. A 6% swing from Labour to Conservative was seen in the last two in the run-up to the 2006 elections. However, following the Conservatives' victory in 2006, a February 2007 by-election saw a large swing back to Labour.

In 2002, Labour held Croydon with a tiny majority of votes in its marginal wards - one councillor won by just eight votes - and it was inevitable that in the 2006 election the fight would be keenly fought and closely observed. In the end, the Conservatives won 43 seats on the Council, defeating the lone Liberal Democrat and taking ten Labour seats in Waddon, Addiscombe, South Norwood and Upper Norwood.

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[edit] Political control

Summary of council election results:

Overall control Conservative Labour Lib Dem Others
2006 Conservative 43 27 - -
2002 Labour 32 37 1 -
1998 Labour 31 38 1 -
1994 Labour 30 40 - -
1990 Conservative 41 29 - -
1986 Conservative 44 26 - -
1982 Conservative 62 5 - 3
1978 Conservative 56 11 - 3
1974 Conservative 40 17 - 3
1971 Conservative 30 27 - 3
1968 Conservative 47 1 1 11
1964 No overall control 21 21 - 18

[edit] Leaders of the council

[edit] Council elections

[edit] Councillors by party

The controlling and majority group in the borough is the Conservative Party. Since the May 2006 local elections, the composition has been:

Party councillors
43
27
0

Details of individual ward councillors can be found on the BBC's website. (below).[1]

[edit] By-election results

Broad Green By-Election 1993
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Stuart Collins 1972 74.4
Conservative Patricia Knight 528 19.9
Liberal Democrat David Holmes 143 5.4
Majority 1,244 54.5
Turnout 2,643
Labour hold Swing
Sanderstead By-Election 14 September 1995
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Shaw 1712 52.6
Liberal Democrat Tomas Howard-Jones 970 29.8
Labour Michael Phelan 528 16.2
Green Richard Hamlyn 32 1.0
Ind Green Soc Dem John Cartwright 15 0.5
Majority 742 22.8
Turnout 3,257
Conservative hold Swing
Bensham Manor By-Election 17 October 1996
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paula Shaw 1,812 63.7
Conservative John Tooze 690 24.2
Liberal Democrat John Fraser 282 9.9
Green Simon Barnsley 38 1.3
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 25 0.9
Majority 1,122 39.5
Turnout 2,847 29.8
Labour hold Swing
New Addinton By-Election 24 July 1997
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Chris Ward 755 59.8 -10.6
Conservative Robin Sullivan 367 29.1 -0.6
Liberal Democrat Mark Goodrich 97 7.7 +7.7
United Democratic Party Paul Burgess 29 2.3 +2.3
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 15 1.2 +1.2
Majority 388 30.7
Turnout 1,263 15.2
Labour hold Swing
Rylands By-Election 9 July 1998
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Louisa Woodley 1,033 58.1 -8.8
Conservative George Filbey 623 35.0 +1.9
Liberal Democrat Hilary Waterhouse 102 5.7 +5.7
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 21 1.2 +1.2
Majority 410 23.1
Turnout 1,779
Labour hold Swing
New Addington By-Election 4 May 2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Brenda Kirby 1,073 49.4 -12.3
Conservative John Miller 882 40.6 +2.3
Liberal Democrat George Schlich 153 7.1 +7.1
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 62 2.9 +2.9
Majority 191 8.8
Turnout 2,170 26.8
Labour hold Swing
Bensham Manor By-Election 10 June 2004
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nanoo Rajendran 1,935 50.7 -20.9
Conservative John Tooze 631 16.5 -6.3
Liberal Democrat Ejnar Sorensen 581 15.2 +15.2
UK Independence James Feisenberger 328 8.6 +3.0
Green Shasha Khan 257 6.7 +6.7
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 44 1.2 +1.2
Independent Robin Sullivan 42 1.2 +1.1
Majority 1,304 34.2
Turnout 3,818 37.1
Labour hold Swing
Fieldway By-Election 16 June 2005
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Simon Hall 993 52.4 -13.0
Conservative Anthony Pearson 714 37.6 +3.0
Liberal Democrat Simon Hargrave 136 7.2 +7.2
Independent Winston McKenzie 47 2.5 +2.5
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 6 0.3 +0.3
Majority 279 14.8
Turnout 1,896 28.0
Labour hold Swing
Fairfield By-Election 15 December 2005
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Vidhi Mohan 1,459 54.0 +7.8
Labour Peter Horah 871 32.3 -3.8
Liberal Democrat Michael Bishopp 223 8.3 -4.1
Green Bernice Golberg 82 3.0 +3.0
Independent Holly Edmonds 34 1.3 +1.3
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 31 1.1 -4.2
Majority 588 21.7
Turnout 2,700 28.1
Conservative hold Swing


Bensham Manor By-Election 8 February 2007
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alison Butler 1683 61.7
Conservative Roger Taylor 617 22.6
Green Shasha Khan 240 8.8
Liberal Democrat Christina Tyree 126 4.6
UK Independence James Feisenberger 40 1.5
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 15 0.5
The People's Choice Mark Samuel 9 0.3
Majority 1066 39
Turnout 2730 26.0
Labour hold Swing

[edit] Wards

There are 24 wards which represent Croydon Council. All Croydon Council seats were up for re-election for the first time since the 2002 elections, during the election on May 4, 2006. Previously Labour held control of the council. In the election, the Conservatives took 10 seats from Labour and 1 from the Liberal Democrats, giving the newly elected council's political composition as:[2]

Ward Members elected in 2006
Addiscombe Russell Jackson (Con)
Andrew Price (Con)
Maria Garcia de la Huerta (Con)
Ashburton Lindsay Frost (Con)
Eddy Arram (Con)
Avril Slipper (Con)
Bensham Manor Raj Rajendran (Lab)
Greta Sohoye (Lab)
Alison Butler (Lab)
Broad Green Stuart Collins (Lab)
Mike Selva (Lab)
Manju Shahul-Hameed (Lab)
Coulsdon East Christopher Wright (Con)
Brian Udell (Con)
Terry Lenton (Con)
Coulsdon West David Osland (Con)
Gavin Barwell (Con)
Brian Cakebread (Con)
Croham Maria Gatland (Con)
Michael Neal (Con)
Jason Perry (Lab)
Fairfield Vidhi Mohan (Con)
Susan Winborn (Con)
David Fitze (Con)
Fieldway Simon Hall (Lab)
Carole Bonner (Lab)
Heathfield Linda Bailey (Con)
Sharon Massey (Con)
Andy John Waters (Con)
Kenley Jan Buttinger (Con)
Steve O'Connell (Con)
Steve Hollands (Con)
New Addington Brenda Kirby (Lab)
George Ayres (Lab)
Norbury Maggie Mansell (Lab)
Shafi Khan (Lab)
Sherwan Chowdhury (Lab)
Purley Graham Bass (Con)
Derek Millard (Con)
Donald Speakman (Con)
Sanderstead Lynne Hale (Con)
Timothy Pollard (Con)
Yvette Hopley (Con)
Selhurst Timothy Godfrey (Lab)
Toni Letts (Lab)
Toni Letts (Lab)
Selsdon and Ballards Dudley Mead (Con)
Sara Bashford (Con)
Phil Thomas (Con)
Shirley Janet Marshall (Con)
Richard Chatterjee (Con)
Mike Fisher (Con)
South Norwood Susan Bennett (Con)
Luke Clancy (Con)
Jane Avis (Lab)
Thornton Heath Pat Clouder (Lab)
Matthew Kyeremeh (Lab)
Louisa Woodley (Lab)
Upper Norwood Robert Askey (Con)
Pat Ryan (Lab)
George Filbey (Con)
Waddon Tony Harris (Con)
Jonathan Driver (Con)
Simon Hoar (Con)
West Thornton Raj Chandarana (Lab)
Bernadette Khan (Lab)
Mike Mogul (Lab)
Woodside Karen Jewitt (Lab)
Tony Newman (Lab)
Paul Scott (Lab)

[edit] References

  1. ^ BBC NEWS | Election 2006 | Seat-by-seat | Croydon council
  2. ^ http://www.croydon.gov.uk/content/departments/570770/570872/wardmap.pdf

[edit] External links