Wiltshire County Council election, 2001

Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 7 June 2001. The whole council was up for election and the Conservatives held onto control.^[1]

As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election, 2001.

Results

Wiltshire Local Election Result 2001
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	28				59.57	43.67	91,827
	Liberal Democrat	14				29.79	33.67	70,788
	Labour	3				6.38	16.93	35,595
	Independent	2				4.26	2.24	4,712
	Green	0				0	3.49	7,344

Results by divisions

Aldbourne and Ramsbury

Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Paul Humphries	2,873
	Liberal Democrat	William Bernard Cavill	1,265
	Labour	Frank Jeffrey	738
Majority			1,608

Alderbury

Alderbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Raybould Moss	2,577
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Ian Adams	1,698
	Labour	Malcolm Anthony Simmons	541
Majority			879

Amesbury

Amesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Allan Godfrey Peach	2,386
	Liberal Democrat	June Smith	1,009
	Labour	Damian Joseph Luke McCabe	806
	Green	Peter Torquil George Matthews	206
Majority			1,377

Avon and Cannings

Avon and Cannings
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Molland	2,284
	Liberal Democrat	John Francis Thomson	990
	Labour	Colin Robert Hopgood	978
	Green	Ronald Keith Bright	309
Majority

Bedwyn and Pewsey

Bedwyn and Pewsey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lay	2,926
	Liberal Democrat	David John Walker	1,708
	Labour	Alistair Bisatt	902
Majority			1,218

Bourne Valley

Bourne Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kevin Christopher Wren	2,909
	Liberal Democrat	Joan Heaney	1,271
	Labour	Amanda Grace Pettefar	774
	Green	Barry James Stringer	231
Majority			1,638

Bradford on Avon

Bradford on Avon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm George Hewson	2,287
	Conservative	Bryan Earp	1,763
	Labour	James Tracey	846
	Green	John Pearce	370
Majority			524

Bremhill and Calne

Bremhill and Calne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christine Crisp	3,178
	Liberal Democrat	Sylvia Kathleen Doubell	2,170
	Green	Harry Lewis	644
Majority			1,218

Calne

Calne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nancy Suzanne Bryant	1,820
	Liberal Democrat	Joanna Heselwood	1,144
	Labour	John Peter Watkins	1,103
	Green	Derek Alan Quinn	317
Majority

Chippenham Park

Chippenham Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Patrick Charles Bourne Coleman	2,211
	Conservative	Anthony Walter Smith	1,462
	Labour	Maurice George Wood	745
	Green	Maxine Burchell	222
Majority			436

Chippenham Sheldon

Chippenham Sheldon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Sandra Elizabeth (Sandie) Webb	1,588
	Conservative	Ian Barry Bridges	1,167
	Labour	Maureen Frances Lloyd	1,262
Majority			326

Chippenham Town

Chippenham Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Philip George Allnatt	2,111
	Conservative	John Richard Ireland	1,699
	Labour	Brian Odran Healy	718
	Green	Sheila Veitch	236
Majority			219

Collingbourne

Collingbourne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Connolly	1,990
	Labour	Andrew Edwards	850
	Liberal Democrat	John David Bowen-Jones	608
	Independent	Anthony Hadland Still	346
Majority			1,140

Corsham

Corsham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Roy Davis	1,754
	Conservative	Richard Leslie Tonge	1,502
	Labour	Lucy Katharine Bray	602
Majority			252

Cricklade and Purton

Cricklade and Purton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Brian Edward Atfield	1,978
	Conservative	Anthony Charles Clements	1,880
	Labour	Frederick Albert Price	488
Majority			98

Devizes

Devizes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Sheila Nancy Taylor	1,729
	Conservative	Charles Stuart Winchcombe	1,322
	Liberal Democrat	Katherine Jane Walling	669
Majority			407

Devizes South and Bromham

Devizes South and Bromham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patricia Rugg	2,576
	Labour	Angus Raymond Taylor	1,570
	Liberal Democrat	Lionel Harry Grundy	1,426
Majority			1,006

Downton

Downton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julian Paul Johnson	2,922
	Liberal Democrat	Robert William Steel	1,174
	Labour	Ann Oliver	646
	Green	Adam Christopher Gent	419
Majority

Durrington

Durrington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Lawrence Baker	1,540
	Liberal Democrat	Judith Mary Greville	1,494
	Labour	Tamsen Angela Jacobs	663
Majority			46

Holt

Holt
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Terrence Peter (Terry) Chivers	2,396
	Conservative	Christopher March	2,038
	Labour	Gregory Coombes	724
	Green	Sonja Nicolson	305
Majority			358

Kington

Kington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Antoinette Scott	3,470
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Charles Gerard Noblet	2,122
	Labour	Susan Marian Ford	851
Majority			1,348

Lavington

Lavington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dennis James Willmott	2,492
	Liberal Democrat	James Richard Grenville Spencer	1,242
	Labour	William Mark Barnett	1,123
Majority			1,250

Malmesbury

Malmesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Percy Simon Stuart Thomson	2,347
	Liberal Democrat	Lesley Clare Stockman Bennett	2,192
	Labour	Daphne Joy Jones	737
Majority			155

Marlborough

Marlborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Boulton	1,632
	Conservative	Leonard Henry Bulley	1,584
	Labour	Brian Andrew Lawrence McClintock	656
Majority			48

Melksham

Melksham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Angela Betty Barker	1,177
	Labour	Margaret White	949
	Conservative	Jackie Spiers	645
	Green	Hilary Millichamp	123
Majority			228

Melksham Without

Melksham Without
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Arthur Spiers	2,165
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Westbrook	1,774
	Labour	Geoffrey Mitcham	1,669
	Green	Laura Pictor	220
Majority			391

Mere
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Colin Read	2,156
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Houghton-Brown	1,136
	Labour	Michael Foote	571
Majority			1,020

Minety

Minety
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carole Alethea Soden	3,378
	Liberal Democrat	Ann Lorraine Davis	1,641
	Labour	Brian John Bayton	447
Majority			1,737

Pickwick with Box

Pickwick with Box
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Judith Helen Seager	1,770
	Liberal Democrat	David Keith Poole	1,534
	Labour	Christopher John Lynch	1,034
Majority			236

Salisbury Bemerton

Salisbury Bemerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David John McCarthy	1,483
	Conservative	Frances Mary Patricia Howard	927
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Harry Duller	686
Majority

Salisbury Harnham

Salisbury Harnham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Anthony Beotric Snow	1,774
	Liberal Democrat	Brian Edward Dalton	1,417
	Labour	Rosalynne Weston	496
	Green	Sarah Margaret Green	157
Majority

Salisbury St Mark

Salisbury St Mark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Frederick Chalke	2,111
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Margaret Thorpe	968
	Labour	Clive Robert Vincent	647
	Green	Albert John Hansford	193
Majority			1,143

Salisbury St Martin

Salisbury St Martin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Paul William Leslie Sample	2,386
	Conservative	Timothy John Stroud	1,237
	Labour	Simon John Howarth	572
	Green	Susan Isabel Wright	182
Majority			1,149

Salisbury St Paul

Salisbury St Paul
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beryl Mary Jay	1,919
	Conservative	Terence John Lindley	967
	Liberal Democrat	John Patrick Abbott	700
	Green	Mark Pafford	136
Majority			952

Southwick

Southwick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Braid	1,043
	Independent	Tony Phillips	1,001
	Labour	Peter Ezra	620
	Independent	John Irving	562
	Green	Kevan James Cocoran	367
Majority			42

Tisbury

Tisbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Martin Willan	2,440
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Amanda Chettleburgh	1,298
	Labour	Paul Whiteside	589
Majority			1,142

Trowbridge East

Trowbridge East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Ivan Moore	1,440
	Liberal Democrat	Tom Raymond James	1,378
	Labour	Angela Womersley	1,044
	Green	Bob Gledhill	401
Majority			62

Trowbridge South

Trowbridge South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Grace Hill	2,798
	Conservative	Andrew Powell	1,260
	Green	Nigel Pratt	532
Majority			1,538

Trowbridge West

Trowbridge West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jeffrey Bryan Osborn	1,651
	Conservative	Aubrey Harold Thomas Austin	856
	Green	David Entwistle	340
Majority			795

Upper Wylye Valley

Upper Wylye Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mary Fleur de Rhé-Philipe	2,231
	Liberal Democrat	Richard John Crofts	1,057
	Green	Kathryn Toyne	313
Majority			1,174

Warminster East

Warminster East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorothea Joan Main	1,699
	Liberal Democrat	Giacinto Giovanni (John) Barberio	1,196
	Green	Jonathan William Daniels	268
Majority			503

Warminster West

Warminster West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Syme	1,639
	Conservative	Martin Baker	1,307
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Raymond Beaty	1,013
	Green	David John Howell	217
Majority			332

Westbury

Westbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Christopher Newbury	1,580
	Conservative	John Clegg	1,306
	Liberal Democrat	Horace John Prickett	1,086
	Labour	Michael Sutton	785
	Green	James Toyne	129
Majority			274

Whorwellsdown Hundred

Whorwellsdown Hundred
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Trevor William Carbin	2,526
	Conservative	Joan Savage	2,202
	Green	Susan Nowell-Kelley	350
Majority			324

Wilton and Wylye

Wilton and Wylye
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Clive West	2,214
	Conservative	Anthony Julian Brown-Hovelt	1,969
	Labour	Clare Miranda Moody	512
	Green	Hamish Douglas Soutar	157
	Independent	Timothy Ingle Abbott	146
Majority			245

Wootton Bassett North

Wootton Bassett North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mollie Eileen May Groom	1,692
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer Anne Stratton	1,214
	Labour	Valerie Irene Price	573
Majority			478

Wootton Bassett South

Wootton Bassett South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Toby Russell Sturgis	2,545
	Liberal Democrat	Daphne Joyce Matthews	1,799
	Labour	Ellis Webb	971
Majority			746

References

• Results at northwilts.gov.uk
• 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

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