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.
| 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 | |||
| UKIP | Jeanette Nathan | 336 | |||
| Turnout | 4,324 | 42.7% | |||