Scarborough Council election, 2007

Elections to Scarborough Council were held on 3 May, 2007. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party lost overall control of the council to no overall control. Overall turnout was 36%.

Election Result

Election Summary Party
party = Conservative Party (UK)
seats = 23
gain = 2
loss = 6
net = -4
seats % = 46.0
votes % = 39.7
votes = 20,436
plus/minus = -1.4%Election Summary Party
party = Independent (politician)
seats = 15
gain = 5
loss = 3
net = +2
seats % = 30.0
votes % = 30.7
votes = 15,803
plus/minus = +3.8%Election Summary Party
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
seats = 6
gain = 4
loss = 0
net = +4
seats % = 12.0
votes % = 13.7
votes = 7,068
plus/minus = +1.0%Election Summary Party
party = Labour Party (UK)
seats = 4
gain = 0
loss = 4
net = -4
seats % = 8.0
votes % = 6.1
votes = 3,127
plus/minus = -11.3%Election Summary Party
party = Green Party of England and Wales
seats = 2
gain = 2
loss = 0
net = +2
seats % = 4.0
votes % = 7.5
votes = 3,866
plus/minus = +6.0%Election Summary Party
party = British National Party
seats = 0
gain = 0
loss = 0
net = 0
seats % = 0
votes % = 1.5
votes = 798
plus/minus = +1.5%Election Summary Party
party = Alliance for Green Socialism
seats = 0
gain = 0
loss = 0
net = 0
seats % = 0
votes % = 0.5
votes = 250
plus/minus = +0.5%Election Summary
party = North Yorkshire Coast Party
seats = 0
gain = 0
loss = 0
net = 0
seats % = 0
votes % = 0.3
votes = 138
plus/minus = +0.3%

3 Conservative candidates were uncontested.

Ward results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Janet Jefferson
votes = 677
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Rosalyn Fox
votes = 306
percentage =
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party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Jason Mullen
votes = 282
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Michelle Andrew
votes = 266
percentage =
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party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Peter Redwood
votes = 127
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,658
percentage = 32
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John Blackburn
votes = 944
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Mary Preston
votes = 764
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Henry Rowlands
votes = 598
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,306
percentage = 39
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = David Billing
votes = 259
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Eric Broadbent
votes = 240
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Gillian Hopkinson
votes = 220
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Nicholas Henderson
votes = 168
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Alison Lee
votes = 158
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Christopher Walker
votes = 141
percentage =
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party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Sarah Priestley
votes = 140
percentage =
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party = British National Party
candidate = Patricia Scott
votes = 120
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,446
percentage = 25
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Herbert Tindall
votes = uncontested
percentage =
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = David Jeffels
votes = 858
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Michael Jay-Hammer
votes = 743
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Peter Bull
votes = 708
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Robert Lockwood
votes = 286
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Mavis Clayton
votes = 237
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,832
percentage = 45
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Brian O'Flynn
votes = 771
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Brian Simpson
votes = 673
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Geoffrey Evans
votes = 517
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Bernard Pearson
votes = 229
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Tracey Asford
votes = 214
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Carol Hill
votes = 158
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Gordon Vickers
votes = 132
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,694
percentage = 27
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
loser = Labour Party (UK)
swing =Election box gain with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
loser = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Timothy Lawn
votes = 1,069
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = James Preston
votes = 884
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Graham Peirson
votes = 645
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Brian Crinion
votes = 317
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,915
percentage = 46
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Patricia Marsburg
votes = 481
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Kevin Riley
votes = 311
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Jennifer Kelly
votes = 272
percentage =
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party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Katherine White
votes = 223
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Andrew Ellis
votes = 193
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Kevin Scott
votes = 187
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,667
percentage = 30
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
loser = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Michael Cockerill
votes = 1,080
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Colin Haddington
votes = 903
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Samuel Cross
votes = 869
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Gordon Johnson
votes = 641
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Rodney Cartwright
votes = 621
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Valerie Dickenson
votes = 491
percentage =
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party = British National Party
candidate = Kevan Foulds
votes = 340
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 4,945
percentage = 37
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Jane Mortimer
votes = 461
percentage = 65.9
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Lynn Horsman
votes = 239
percentage = 34.1
change = Election box majority
votes = 222
percentage = 31.8
change =Election box turnout
votes = 700
percentage = 39
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Godfrey Allanson
votes = 732
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = David Chambers
votes = 709
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff
votes = 591
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Nicholas Harvey
votes = 508
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = British National Party
candidate = Louise Scott
votes = 212
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,752
percentage = 37
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Graham Backhouse
votes = 578
percentage = 64.2
change = +2.6Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Margaret Pitts
votes = 323
percentage = 35.8
change = +3.1Election box majority
votes = 255
percentage = 28.4
change = -0.5Election box turnout
votes = 901
percentage = 51
change = -4Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Peter Booth
votes = uncontested
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Jane Kenyon
votes = uncontested
percentage =
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = John Armsby
votes = 637
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Marie Harland
votes = 528
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = John Stonehouse
votes = 442
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Beryl Christon
votes = 438
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,045
percentage = 40
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Brian Watson
votes = 995
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Cecil Ridley
votes = 813
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Hazel Lynskey
votes = 723
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Cherry Smith
votes = 639
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Mary Budda
votes = 466
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = John Pinder
votes = 362
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Gaynor Ayres
votes = 339
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 4,337
percentage = 37
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Bonnie Purchon
votes = 388
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Guy Smith
votes = 368
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Eric Smith
votes = 351
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Michael Kelly
votes = 286
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Christopher Nelson
votes = 214
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,607
percentage = 29
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Peter Popple
votes = 664
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Norman Murphy
votes = 467
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Jacqueline Blackburn
votes = 288
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Paul Johnston
votes = 220
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Elizabeth Montgomery
votes = 218
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,857
percentage = 34
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Svetlana Rodgers
votes = 322
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Eileen Vickers
votes = 294
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Graeme Walker
votes = 285
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Peter Southward
votes = 275
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Norman Oldham
votes = 242
percentage =
change = Election box candidate
party = North Yorkshire Coast Party
candidate = Colin Wigglesworth
votes = 138
percentage =
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party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Peter Wright
votes = 134
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,690
percentage = 31
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
loser = Labour Party (UK)
swing =Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Derek Bastiman
votes = 944
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John Flinton
votes = 756
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Russell Bradley
votes = 533
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Thomas Miller
votes = 500
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Phillip Wall
votes = 245
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,978
percentage = 47
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Helen Mallory
votes = 635
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Lucy Haycock
votes = 593
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Roxanne Murphy
votes = 564
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Hamish Harron
votes = 378
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = John Keith
votes = 346
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,516
percentage = 38
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Jonathan Dixon
votes = 670
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Dilys Cluer
votes = 477
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Heather Phillips
votes = 313
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Alezandra Bartlett-Cook
votes = 234
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Ian Stubbs
votes = 206
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Alan Oxley
votes = 181
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Roderick Rodgers
votes = 174
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = British National Party
candidate = Alan Foulds
votes = 126
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,381
percentage = 38
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Green Party of England and Wales
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =Election box gain with party link
winner = Green Party of England and Wales
loser = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Robert Broadley
votes = 659
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Dorothy Clegg
votes = 466
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Steven Leadley
votes = 275
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,400
percentage = 26
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Penny Marsden
votes = 762
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Thomas Fox
votes = 594
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Charles Smith
votes = 546
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Edward Sulman
votes = 437
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Duncan Grant
votes = 188
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 2,527
percentage = 44
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Joseph Plant
votes = 640
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Michael Ward
votes = 451
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Ian Gregson
votes = 427
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Alliance for Green Socialism
candidate = Juliet Boddington
votes = 250
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,768
percentage = 30
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = William Chatt
votes = 482
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Phillip McDonald
votes = 367
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Garry Unsworth
votes = 294
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Josaphine O'Leary
votes = 242
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Christopher Phillips
votes = 179
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,564
percentage = 29
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

External links

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/36ug.stm 2007 Scarborough election result]

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