Burgess Hill Town (electoral division)

Coordinates: 50°57′49″N 0°08′20″W / 50.96372°N 0.13887°W / 50.96372; -0.13887

Burgess Hill Town
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Mid Sussex
UK Parliament Constituency:	Mid Sussex
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	8989
County Councillor
Andrew Barrett-Miles (Con)

Burgess Hill Town is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the northern part of the town of Burgess Hill, and came into existence as a result of a boundary review by the Boundary Committee for England, the results of which were accepted by the Electoral Commission in March 2009.

It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: Burgess Hill Dunstall, Burgess Hill Leylands and the northern part of Burgess Hill Meeds; and of the northern part of the civil parish of Burgess Hill.

Election Results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

Burgess Hill Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Barrett-Miles	1,016	36.6	-3.5
	UKIP	Chris French	709	25.5	+11.6
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Cartwright	576	20.7	-20.8
	Labour	Janet Smith	384	13.8	+9.4
	Green	Victoria Grimmett	91	3.3	N/A
Majority			307	11.1
Turnout			2,776	30.6	-7.5
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

2009 Election

Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:

Burgess Hill Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Heather Ross	1,421	41.5
	Conservative	Andrew Barrett-Miles	1,371	40.1
	UKIP	Chris French	476	13.9
	Labour	Nigel Foulkes	152	4.4
Majority			50	1.4
Turnout			3,420	38.1
	Liberal Democrat win (new seat)

References

Election Results - West Sussex County Council

External links

Electoral Divisions in West Sussex

Conservative	Angmering and Findon Arundel and Wick Billingshurst Bognor Regis West & Aldwick Bramber Castle Broadwater Burgess Hill East Burgess Hill Town Chichester North Chichester South Chichester West Cissbury Chichester East Cuckfield and Lucastes East Grinstead Meridian East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood East Preston and Ferring Fernhurst Fontwell Goring Hassocks and Victoria Haywards Heath East Haywards Heath Town Henfield Holbrook Hurstpierpoint & Bolney Imberdown Kingston Buci Lindfield and High Weald Maidenbower Petworth Pound Hill and Worth Pulborough Roffey Rustington Shoreham Southwater and Nuthurst Southwick Storrington The Witterings Tilgate and Furnace Green Warnham and Rusper Worth Forest Worthing East Worthing Pier Worthing West

UKIP	Bersted Bourne Durrington and Salvington Felpham Lancing Middleton Nyetimber Saltings Selsey Sompting and North Lancing

Liberal Democrats	Bognor Regis East Horsham Hurst Horsham Riverside Horsham Tanbridge & Broadbridge Heath Littlehampton East Littlehampton Town Northbrook Tarring

Labour	Bewbush and Ifield West Broadfield Gossops Green and Ifield East Langley Green and West Green Northgate and Three Bridges Southgate and Crawley Central

Independent	Midhurst

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