Wiltshire Council election, 1997

Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 1 May 1997. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Conservatives as the largest party.

As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election, 1997.

Contents 1 Election Result 2 Results by divisions 2.1 Aldbourne and Ramsbury 2.2 Alderbury 2.3 Amesbury 2.4 Avon and Cannings 2.5 Bedwyn and Pewsey 2.6 Bourne Valley 2.7 Bradford on Avon 2.8 Bremhill and Calne 2.9 Calne 2.10 Chippenham Park 2.11 Chippenham Sheldon 2.12 Chippenham Town 2.13 Collingbourne 2.14 Corsham 2.15 Cricklade and Purton 2.16 Devizes 2.17 Devizes South and Bromham 2.18 Downton 2.19 Durrington 2.20 Holt 2.21 Kington 2.22 Lavington 2.23 Malmesbury 2.24 Marlborough 2.25 Melksham 2.26 Melksham Without 2.27 Mere 2.28 Minety 2.29 Pickwick with Box 2.30 Salisbury Bemerton 2.31 Salisbury Harnham 2.32 Salisbury St Mark 2.33 Salisbury St Martin 2.34 Salisbury St Paul 2.35 Southwick 2.36 Tisbury 2.37 Trowbridge East 2.38 Trowbridge South 2.39 Trowbridge West 2.40 Upper Wylye Valley 2.41 Warminster East 2.42 Warminster West 2.43 Westbury 2.44 Whorwellsdown Hundred 2.45 Wilton and Wylye 2.46 Wootton Bassett North 2.47 Wootton Bassett South 3 References

Election Result

Wiltshire Local Election Result 1997
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	22			+4	46.81	43.4	107,867	+46,488
	Liberal Democrat	20			-13	42.55	35.2	87,367	+23,260
	Labour	4			-13	8.51	18.3	45,365	+6,920
	Independent	1	1	0	+1	2.13	1.6	3,978	+426
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	3,481	+2,402
	Liberal	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	257	-1,992
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	0.09	230	+230

Results by divisions

Aldbourne and Ramsbury

Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Paul Humphries	2,571
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Francis	2,213
	Labour	Brian McLintock	660
Majority			358

Alderbury

Alderbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Temple Blackwood	2,668
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Hardy	1,114
	Labour	Ann Oliver	599
Majority			757

Amesbury

Amesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Allan Godfrey Peach	2,283
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Allen	1,389
	Labour	Ross Pelling	722
	Green	Peter Matthews	157
Majority			894

Avon and Cannings

Avon and Cannings
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dennis James Willmott	2,207
	Liberal Democrat	John Thompson	1,582
	Labour	Terrence O'Sullivan	1,118
	UKIP	Alan Wood	108
Majority			625

Bedwyn and Pewsey

Bedwyn and Pewsey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer Mary Scott	2,735
	Conservative	Arthur Bromwich	2,380
	Labour	Michael Maude	884
Majority			355

Bourne Valley

Bourne Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kevin Christopher Wren	2,718
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Frost	1,705
	Labour	Mark Riches	920
Majority			1,013

Bradford on Avon

Bradford on Avon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Victoria Christine Scott Landell Mills	2,710
	Conservative	Robert George Ian Elliott	1,533
	Labour	Angela Womersley	934
	Green	David Gilbert	385
	UKIP	John Douglas Sankey	122
Majority			1,177

Bremhill and Calne

Bremhill and Calne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christine Crisp	2,854
	Liberal Democrat	Sandra Webb	2,277
	Labour	David Songhurst	868
Majority			577

Calne

Calne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nancy Suzanne Bryant	1,854
	Liberal Democrat	Jeanette Greer	1,692
	Labour	Maureen Songhurst	1,354
Majority			162

Chippenham Park

Chippenham Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Patrick Charles Bourne Coleman	2,746
	Conservative	Mary Norton	1,661
	Labour	Stephen Wheeler	863
Majority			1,085

Chippenham Sheldon

Chippenham Sheldon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	June Margaret Wood	1,994
	Conservative	Donald Ellis	1,392
	Labour	Maureen Lloyd	1,357
Majority			552

Chippenham Town

Chippenham Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Philip George Allnatt	2,709
	Conservative	Richard Purdon	1,967
	Labour	Tim Hayhoe	712
Majority			742

Collingbourne

Collingbourne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Connolly	1,613
	Conservative	Peter Colling	1,489
	Labour	Eric Dalkin	722
	Independent	Anthony Still	489
Majority			122

Corsham

Corsham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Roy Davis	1,893
	Conservative	Hywel Jones	1,438
	Labour	Chris Reid	799
Majority			455

Cricklade and Purton

Cricklade and Purton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Brian Edward Atfield	2,570
	Conservative	Peter Smith	1,862
	Labour	Brian Bayton	773
Majority			708

Devizes

Devizes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor	1,918
	Conservative	Maurice Came	1,496
	Liberal Democrat	Bryan Castle	893
Majority			422

Devizes South and Bromham

Devizes South and Bromham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patricia Rugg	2,932
	Labour	James Thorpe	1,647
	Liberal Democrat	Henry Jordan	1,636
Majority			1,285

Downton

Downton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julian Paul Johnson	2,814
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Ford	1,617
	Labour	Hamish Ross	1,047
	Green	Marion Reed	310
Majority			1,197

Durrington

Durrington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda Patricia Morris	1,731
	Liberal Democrat	Judith Greville	1,636
	Labour	Tamsen Jacobs	812
	Green	Mark Pafford	105
Majority			95

Holt

Holt
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Terrence Peter (Terry) Chivers	2,792
	Conservative	Carolyn Joy Walker	2,142
	Labour	Gregory Anthony Coombes	537
	Liberal	George Frederick James Hawkins	256
	Green	John Richard Pearce	230
Majority			650

Kington

Kington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Antoinette Scott	3,002
	Liberal Democrat	Doreen Darby	2,926
	Labour	Peter Mellett	732
Majority			76

Lavington

Lavington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Bernard William Jarvis	2,663
	Liberal Democrat	Ann Thomson	1,534
	Labour	David Wearn	1,158
Majority			1,129

Malmesbury

Malmesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Lesley Clare Stockman Bennett	2,490
	Conservative	Andrew Watson	2,369
	Labour	Daphne Jones	837
Majority			121

Marlborough

Marlborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Boulton	1,816
	Conservative	Josephine Goodfellow	1,772
	Labour	Alec Light	782
Majority			44

Melksham

Melksham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Salisbury	1,567
	Liberal Democrat	Angela Betty Barker	1,354
	Conservative	Kenneth Williams	768
Majority			213

Melksham Without

Melksham Without
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Barrie Wesley	2,524
	Conservative	Anthony Molland	2,193
	Labour	John Adcock	1,663
Majority			187

Mere

Mere
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert George Catton	2,131
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Houghton-Brown	1,346
	Labour	Graham Parish	604
Majority			785

Minety

Minety
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carole Alethea Soden	3,418
	Liberal Democrat	Anne Davis	1,925
	Labour	John Battersby	457
Majority			1,493

Pickwick with Box

Pickwick with Box
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Judith Helen Seager	1,984
	Liberal Democrat	Dianne McGee	1,701
	Labour	Christopher Lynch	1,375
Majority			283

Salisbury Bemerton

Salisbury Bemerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Terance Rogers	2,040
	Conservative	Pamela Roche	997
	Liberal Democrat	Jo Heaney	883
Majority			1,043

Salisbury Harnham

Salisbury Harnham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iris Throp	1,852
	Liberal Democrat	Brian Dalton[1]	1,261
	Labour	Gary Buckley	665
	Green	Rosemary Perry	186
Majority			591

Salisbury St Mark

Salisbury St Mark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Frederick Chalke	2,399
	Liberal Democrat	John Cherry	1,239
	Labour	Kelvin Dawson	731
	Green	Susan Wright	132
Majority			1,160

Salisbury St Martin

Salisbury St Martin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Paul William Leslie Sample	2,261
	Conservative	Kevin Robbin	1,511
	Labour	Susan Mallory	772
	Green	Indira Nath	209
Majority			750

Salisbury St Paul

Salisbury St Paul
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beryl Mary Jay	2,503
	Conservative	Timothy Nolan	1,102
	Liberal Democrat	Rachel Smith	840
Majority			1,401

Southwick

Southwick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Napier Beatson Irving	1,687
	Independent	Anthony Guy Phillips	1,500
	Labour	Brian Michael Staines	571
	Green	David John Howells	316
Majority			187

Tisbury

Tisbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert John Baddeley	2,420
	Liberal Democrat	Felicity Corp	1,571
	Labour	Paul Whiteside	567
Majority			849

Trowbridge East

Trowbridge East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Thomas Raymond James	1,754
	Conservative	Joan Barbara Savage	1,484
	Labour	Jeffrey Bryan Osborn	1,244
	Green	Antoinette (Toni) Beizsley	150
Majority			270

Trowbridge South

Trowbridge South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Grace Hill	2,363
	Labour	Jefferey David Morris	1,628
	Conservative	Patrick Andrew Sturges	1,473
Majority			735

Trowbridge West

Trowbridge West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Shawne Edney Westbrook	1,482
	Conservative	Anthony Ivan Moore	1,041
	Labour	Helen Bridget Osborn	929
	Green	Carolyn Susan (Lyn) Davis	120
Majority			441

Upper Wylye Valley

Upper Wylye Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mary Fleur de Rhé-Philipe	2,076
	Liberal Democrat	John Denby-Gardner	1,167
	Labour	Ernest Martin McCleave	501
	Green	Kevan James Corcoran	220
Majority			909

Warminster East

Warminster East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorothea Joan Main	1,716
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Jane Day	1,187
	Labour	Robert Alan Smith	706
	Green	Jonathan William Daniels	224
Majority			529

Warminster West

Warminster West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Edward Syme	2,599
	Conservative	Helen Kathleen Margaret Muriel Rowley	1,623
	Green	Elsa-Marie Kitching	483
Majority			976

Westbury

Westbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Christopher Newbury	1,686
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Ian King	1,650
	Conservative	John Aidan Booth	1,324
	Labour	Michael Sutton	974
	Green	James Oliver Toyne	102
Majority			36

Whorwellsdown Hundred

Whorwellsdown Hundred
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Douglas Malcolm Firmager	2,348
	Conservative	Geoffrey Richards	1,910
	Labour	John William Hawkes	718
Majority			438

Wilton and Wylye

Wilton and Wylye
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Clive West	2,293
	Conservative	Anthony Brown-Hovelt	1,987
	Labour	Michael Thomas	725
	Independent	Timothy Ingle Abbott	303
	Green	Sarah Green	152
Majority			306

Wootton Bassett North

Wootton Bassett North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mollie Eileen May Groom	1,789
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Bamford	1,327
	Labour	Julian Watson	679
Majority			462

Wootton Bassett South

Wootton Bassett South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Toby Russell Sturgis	2,641
	Liberal Democrat	Daphne Matthews	2,323
	Labour	Ellis Webb	991
Majority			318

References

• Wiltshire County Council Diary 1997/8 (Trowbridge: Wiltshire County Council, 1997, pp. 5-11
• Horsey, John (Returning Officer), Declarations of results for West Wiltshire county divisions, 1 May 1997
• Results for Aldbourne and Ramsbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Alderbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Amesbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Avon and Cannings at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Bedwyn & Pewsey at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Bourne Valley at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Bradford on Avon at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Bremhill and Calne at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Calne at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Chippenham Park at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Chippenham Sheldon at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Chippenham Town at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Collingbourne at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Corsham at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Cricklade and Purton at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Devizes at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Devizes South and Bromham at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Downton at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Durrington at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Holt at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Kington at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Lavington at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Malmesbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Marlborough at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Melksham at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Melksham Without at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Mere at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Minety at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Pickwick and Box at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Salisbury Bemerton at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Salisbury Harnham at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Salisbury St Mark at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Salisbury St Martin at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Salisbury St Paul at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Southwick at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Tisbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Trowbridge East at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Trowbridge South at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Trowbridge West at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Upper Wylye Valley at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Warminster East at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Warminster West at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Westbury at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Whorwellsdown at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Wilton and Wylye at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Wootton Bassett North at wiltshire.gov.uk
• Results for Wootton Bassett South at wiltshire.gov.uk

Preceded by Wiltshire Council election, 1993

Wiltshire local elections

Succeeded by Wiltshire Council election, 2001