Wiltshire County 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.
Results
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
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 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 |
1,261 |
|
|
|
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
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
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 |
|
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