St. Mary's is an electoral ward of Trafford covering most of the southern half of Ashton upon Mersey in Sale.
The ward was created in 2004 largely from parts of the old Mersey St. Mary's and St. Martin's wards.
Its electoral history since 2004 is as follows:[1]
| 2011 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Daniel Bunting* | 1,773 | 50.4 | +7.1 | |
| Labour | Matthew Finnegan | 1,246 | 35.4 | +5.8 | |
| UKIP | Stephen Farndon | 201 | 5.7 | +1.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jordan Cooper | 190 | 5.4 | -14.5 | |
| Green | Iram Zaman | 108 | 3.1 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 527 | 15.0 | +1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,518 | 40.0 | -22.8 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Rob Chilton | 2,367 | 43.3 | -12.7 | |
| Labour | Thomas Tomkins | 1,619 | 29.6 | +7.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Marjorie Rhodes | 1,089 | 19.9 | +10.4 | |
| UKIP | Stephen Farndon | 223 | 4.1 | -3.4 | |
| Green | Zoe Power | 165 | 3.0 | -1.9 | |
| Majority | 748 | 13.7 | -20.2 | ||
| Turnout | 5,463 | 62.8 | +28.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| 2008 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Holden* | 1,659 | 56.0 | +1.1 | |
| Labour | Tom Tomkins | 655 | 22.1 | -4.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Diane Webster | 280 | 9.5 | -1.6 | |
| UKIP | Stephen Farndon | 223 | 7.5 | +4.2 | |
| Green | Zoe Power | 145 | 4.9 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 1,004 | 33.9 | +5.2 | ||
| Turnout | 2,962 | 34.3 | -1.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dan Bunting* | 1,642 | 54.9 | +2.7 | |
| Labour | Tom Ross | 783 | 26.2 | -1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Diane Webster | 332 | 11.1 | -2.1 | |
| Green | Simon Campling | 134 | 4.5 | -2.2 | |
| UKIP | Stephen Farndon | 100 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 859 | 28.7 | +4.5 | ||
| Turnout | 2,991 | 36.2 | -0.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Tolhurst* | 1,555 | 52.2 | -4.9 | |
| Labour | Tom Ross | 833 | 28.0 | -5.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Diane Hibberd | 392 | 13.2 | +6.7 | |
| Green | Janet Jackson | 199 | 6.7 | +6.7 | |
| Majority | 722 | 24.2 | +8.4 | ||
| Turnout | 2,979 | 36.8 | -10.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| 2004 (after boundary changes) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Holden | 1,926 | 19.7 | ||
| Conservative | Daniel Bunting | 1,912 | 19.5 | ||
| Conservative | John Tolhurst* | 1,754 | 17.9 | ||
| Labour | Leonard Murkin* | 1,237 | 12.6 | ||
| Labour | Sophie Taylor | 1,073 | 10.9 | ||
| Labour | Angela Gray* | 963 | 9.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Diane Hibberd | 641 | 6.5 | ||
| BNP | Dorothy Gough | 294 | 3.0 | ||
| Turnout | 9,800 | 47.2 | |||
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