Dacorum Borough Council election, 2007
Elections to Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by one.[1] The Conservative party remained in overall control of the council after winning 44 of the 51 seats which they partly attributed to national events, while the Liberal Democrats lost 2 seats but were pleased to become the official opposition.[2]
Election result
Dacorum Local Election Result 2007 |
Party |
Seats |
Gains |
Losses |
Net gain/loss |
Seats % |
Votes % |
Votes |
+/− |
|
Conservative |
44 |
|
|
+13 |
86.3 |
54.2 |
45,226 |
+9.4% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
5 |
|
|
-2 |
9.8 |
20.5 |
17,136 |
-3.2% |
|
Labour |
2 |
|
|
-12 |
3.9 |
20.3 |
16,928 |
-9.3% |
|
Green |
0 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
3.0 |
2,516 |
+1.8% |
|
Independent |
0 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
1.3 |
1,083 |
+0.8% |
|
National Front |
0 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
0.6 |
541 |
+0.6% |
Ward results
Adeyfield East (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Allan Lawson |
785 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
William Wyatt-Lowe |
752 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Dawn Barnes |
410 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Helen Leach |
370 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Doreen Coburn |
155 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Christine Hardy |
138 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,610 |
35.8 |
|
Adeyfield West (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Keith White |
518 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Keith Reid |
508 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Susan White |
502 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Angela Ashdown |
481 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Sylvia Fry |
200 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Geoffrey Lawrence |
178 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,387 |
31.1 |
|
Aldbury & Wigginton |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Mike Edwards |
475 |
57.0 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Michael James |
306 |
36.7 |
|
|
Labour |
Tony Shaw |
53 |
6.4 |
|
Majority |
169 |
20.3 |
|
Turnout |
834 |
44.8 |
|
Apsley and Corner Hall (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Brian Ayling |
1,201 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Colin Peter |
1,087 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Michael Clark |
1,084 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Hazel Mackie |
367 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Beryl Milnes |
335 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Michael Sheehan |
321 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Ashley Burton |
258 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Margaret Waugh |
234 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Ian Senior |
212 |
|
|
|
Green |
Jeffrey Fanstone |
206 |
|
|
Turnout |
5,305 |
31.3 |
|
Ashridge |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Nicholas Tiley |
791 |
74.8 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Robert Irving |
184 |
17.4 |
|
|
Labour |
Sharon Greene |
83 |
7.8 |
|
Majority |
607 |
57.4 |
|
Turnout |
1,058 |
50.0 |
|
Bennetts End (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Michelle Lancaster |
721 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Suqlain Mahmood |
655 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Gary Cook |
537 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Bernard Gronert |
525 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Nicole Daly |
206 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Alan Waugh |
175 |
|
|
|
Green |
Malcolm Waterton |
128 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,947 |
35.7 |
|
Berkhamsted Castle (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Andrew Fairburn |
1,049 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Jonathan Mole |
965 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Elizabeth Patterson |
721 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Victor Earl |
690 |
|
|
|
Labour |
James Mackie |
113 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Alan Olive |
104 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,642 |
40.4 |
|
Berkhamsted East (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Julie Laws |
722 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Stephen Bateman |
698 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Philip Gibbs |
627 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
John Lythgoe |
603 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Norman Cutting |
341 |
|
|
|
Green |
Anne Duvall |
152 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Sylvia Shaw |
74 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Mary Khamis |
73 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,290 |
38.7 |
|
Berkhamsted West (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Carol Green |
860 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Ian Reay |
837 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Geraldine Corry |
615 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Garrick Stevens |
601 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Peter Norman |
154 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Natasha Littlechild |
123 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,190 |
39.0 |
|
Bovingdon, Flaunden & Chipperfield (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Richard Roberts |
1,734 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Gill Chapman |
1,711 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Gbola Adeleke |
1,450 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Sharon Sims |
417 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
David Griffiths |
385 |
|
|
|
Green |
Martin Humphrew |
280 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Rick Martin |
252 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Barry Batchelor |
243 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Richard Milnes |
230 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Stephanie Barnes |
218 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Scott Stimpson |
174 |
|
|
Turnout |
7,094 |
40.2 |
|
Boxmoor (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Janice Marshall |
1,470 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Neil Harden |
1,430 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Andrew Williams |
1,306 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Julia Coleman |
520 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Helen Heenan |
429 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Tim Lyle |
416 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Jennifer Simmons |
402 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Stuart Watkin |
375 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Ronald Tindall |
352 |
|
|
|
Green |
Alan Johnson |
231 |
|
|
|
Green |
Hazel Johnson |
216 |
|
|
Turnout |
7,147 |
41.7 |
|
Chaulden and Warners End (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Fiona Guest |
981 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
John Whitman |
935 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Janice Speaight |
931 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Margaret Coxage |
915 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Ronald Coxage |
824 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Anne-Lise Johnsen |
781 |
|
|
|
Green |
Jane Cousins |
327 |
|
|
|
National Front |
Bernard Franklin |
327 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Julie James |
325 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Stephen Wilson |
280 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Neil Kennedy |
257 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Lynda Roe |
256 |
|
|
Turnout |
7,139 |
39.5 |
|
Gadebridge (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Roger Taylor |
623 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Jai Restall |
554 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Maureen Flint |
527 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Stefan Fisher |
434 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Andrew Michie |
161 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Margaret Colquhoun |
124 |
|
|
|
Green |
Paul Harris |
124 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,547 |
34.3 |
|
Grovehill (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Ann Ryan |
956 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Alexander Bhinder |
901 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Terence Douris |
889 |
|
|
|
Labour |
An Fisher |
609 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Michael Maloney |
514 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Richard Walsh |
497 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
John Blackman |
229 |
|
|
|
National Front |
Simon Deacon |
214 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Christopher Fryd |
154 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Martin Rance |
147 |
|
|
Turnout |
5,110 |
32.6 |
|
Hemel Hempstead Town (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Michael Moore |
404 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Robert Wright |
396 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Ellen Halden |
388 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Adam Wyatt-Lowe |
358 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Christopher Angell |
183 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Jean Blackman |
181 |
|
|
|
Green |
Paul Sandford |
112 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,022 |
29.4 |
|
Highfield (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
Brenda Link |
739 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Lloyd Harris |
604 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Elio Gomez |
522 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Bert Bannister |
488 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Kevin Minier |
293 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Miriam Wiedman-Smith |
237 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,883 |
38.4 |
|
Kings Langley (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Alan Anderson |
1,048 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Bob Mclean |
958 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Gerald Angiolini |
376 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Eira Mills |
309 |
|
|
|
Green |
Jenna Selby |
254 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Michael Morton |
187 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Gerald Coulter |
173 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,305 |
44.0 |
|
Leverstock Green (3) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Hazel Bassadone |
1,624 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Margaret Griffiths |
1,523 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Graham Sutton |
1,506 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Douglas Jones |
463 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Alan Dickson |
448 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Jean Langdon |
432 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Thomas Potter |
290 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Sheila Daly |
271 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Adam Roe |
234 |
|
|
|
Green |
Gillian Storey |
192 |
|
|
Turnout |
6,983 |
37.0 |
|
Nash Mill |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Lucy Foster |
511 |
64.8 |
|
|
Labour |
Norman Jones |
182 |
23.1 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Colin Roe |
95 |
12.1 |
|
Majority |
329 |
41.7 |
|
Turnout |
788 |
37.8 |
|
Northchurch |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Alan Fantham |
627 |
70.0 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Julian Critcher |
203 |
22.7 |
|
|
Labour |
Doreen Hills |
66 |
7.4 |
|
Majority |
424 |
47.3 |
|
Turnout |
896 |
41.2 |
|
Tring Central (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
Nicholas Hollinghurst |
824 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Denise Rance |
793 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
John Bowden |
661 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Stan Mills |
651 |
|
|
|
Green |
Colin Kruger |
156 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Douglas Drury |
76 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Fran Howat |
72 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,233 |
41.5 |
|
Tring East |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Penelope Hearn |
660 |
63.3 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Rosemarie Hollinghurst |
349 |
33.5 |
|
|
Labour |
Philip Gonzalez |
33 |
3.2 |
|
Majority |
311 |
29.8 |
|
Turnout |
1,042 |
47.7 |
|
Tring West and Rural (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Derek Townsend |
919 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Christopher Townsend |
895 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
John Allan |
883 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Olive Conway |
866 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Jan Kalaher |
93 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Frank Burgess |
88 |
|
|
Turnout |
3,744 |
47.8 |
|
Watling (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Herbert Chapman |
1,093 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
David Lloyd |
1,068 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Joseph Wales |
167 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Lesley Murray |
153 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Kit Wales |
152 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Angela Tindall |
141 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,774 |
36.2 |
|
Woodhall Farm (2) |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Stephen Holmes |
808 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Colette Wyatt-Lowe |
743 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Sally Anderson |
215 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Barbara Gronert |
204 |
|
|
|
Green |
Helen Batchelor |
138 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Daniel Bonnett |
115 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Paul Elley |
103 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,326 |
29.2 |
|
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