Local election results
Friday 5th June 2009, 8:02PM BST.
The Conservative Party dominates the map of local Government in Shropshire after strong results in the local elections.
There are now 54 Conservative members on the new unitary Shropshire Council.
The Liberal Democrats have 11 seats, Labour seven and two have gone to independent councillors.
For full news coverage and analysis see today’s Shropshire Star
RESULTS
Abbey
- Jo Jones, Conservative Party, won with 637 votes
- Caroline Mary Cheyne, Liberal Democrat, got 383 votes
- John Lewis, Labour Party, got 268 votes
Albrighton
- Malcolm Gregory Pate, Conservative Party, won with 888 votes
- David Alan Beechey, Independent, 770 votes
- Paul Lusk, Labour Party, 170 votes
Alveley and Claverley
- Tina Woodward, Conservative Party, won with 797 votes
- Frederick David Voysey, Liberal Democrat, got 430 votes
- George Benjamin Henry Lee, Independent, got 394 votes
Bagley
- Beverley Joy Baker, Liberal Democrat, won with 705 votes
- David Stanley Farmer, Conservative Party, got 500 votes
Battlefield
- Mal Price, Conservative Party won with 523 votes
- Ian Francis Peake, Labour Party got 184 votes
- Chris Lord, Independent got 136 votes
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton
- Ted Clarke, Labour Party, won with 2292 votes
- Liz Parsons, Labour Party, won with 2171 votes
- Jon Tandy, Labour Party, won with 2079 votes
- Jackie Brennand, Conservative Party, got 1988 votes
- John Diggory, Conservative Party, got 1948 votes
- Mark Jones, Conservative Party, got 1654 votes
Belle Vue
- Mansel Williams, Labour Party, won with 797 votes
- Steve Jetley, Conservative Party, got 571 votes
- Hayley Farr, Green Party, got 161 votes
- Evan Melvyn Ab-Owain, Liberal Democrat, got 117 votes
Bishop’s Castle
- Peter Francis Phillips, Liberal Democrat, won with 754 votes
- Georgie Ellis, Conservative Party, 641 votes
- Jacqui Morrish, Green Party, 186 votes
Bowbrook
- Peter Michael Adams, Conservative Party, won with 848 votes
- Charles Patrick Wilson, Labour Party, got 278 votes
Bridgnorth East and Astley Abbotts
- Christian Lea, Conservative Party, won with 941 votes
- William Michael Parr, Conservative Party, won with 875 votes
- Adrian Tacchi, Independent, got 796 votes
- David Walker, Liberal Democrat, got 578 votes
- Paul Tacchi, Independent, got 550 votes
- Iain Reginald Findlay Seivewright, Liberal Democrat, got 520 votes
- Patricia Joan Lee, Independent, got 172 votes
Bridgnorth West and Tasley
- Les Winwood, Conservative Party, won with 1199 votes
- John Hurst-Knight, Conservative Party, won with 940 votes
- Richard Douglas Stilwell, Liberal Democrat, got 564 votes
- Vanessa Naomi Voysey, Liberal Democrat, got 512 votes
- Ed Shirley, Independent, got 510 votes
- Norman Cottrell, Independent, got 400 votes
- Geoff Bodenham, Independent, got 272 votes
Broseley
- Jean Elizabeth Jones, Labour Party, won with 1006 votes
- Jo Challinor, Conservative Party, got 490 votes
Brown Clee
- Robert Stuart Tindall, Conservative Party, won with 919 votes
- Richard Andrew Kightley, Liberal Democrat, got 419 votes
Burnell
- Tim Barker, Conservative Party, won with 1234 votes
- Pat Stokes-Smith, Liberal Democrat, got 409 votes
Castlefields and Ditherington
- Alan Mosley, Labour Party won with 719 votes
- Deborah Scollan, Conservative Party got 277 votes
- Toby Green, Green Party got 152 votes
- Michael Antony Foulkes, British National Party got 109 votes
Cheswardine
- Andrew Betham Davies, Conservative Party, won with 781 votes
- Mick Gould, Independent, got 369 votes
- Bob O’Brien, Labour Party, got 112 votes
Chirbury and Worthen
- Heather Mary Kidd, Liberal Democrat, won with 791 votes
- Philip Dennis Morgan, Conservative Party, got 613 votes
Church Stretton and Craven Arms
- David William Evans, Conservative Party, won with 1325 votes
- James Allan Gibson, Conservative Party, won with 1222 votes
- Neville Stephens, Liberal Democrat, got 1072 votes
- Bob Welch, Liberal Democrat, got 903 votes
- Helen Claire Byrne, Green Party, got 595 votes
- Mark Morris, Independent, got 591 votes
- David Percival Gibbon, Green Party, got 552 votes
- Clive Stephen Leworthy, Labour Party, got 502 votes
- James Lloyd Whittall, British National Party, got 221 votes
Clee
- Paul Vincent Andrews, Conservative Party won with 714 votes
- Richard Mark Huffer, Liberal Democrat got 694 votes
- Adrian Coles, Independent got 471 votes
Cleobury Mortimer
- Madge Shineton, Independent, won with 1454 votes
- Gwilym Howard Leslie Butler, Conservative Party, won with 1304 votes
- Betty Doreen Davies, Independent, got 1181 votes
- Ian James Suthers, Conservative Party, got 575 votes
Clun
- Nigel John Hartin, Liberal Democrat, won with 962 votes
- Jackie Williams, Conservative Party, got 900 votes
Copthorne
- Peter Nutting, Conservative Party won with 812 votes
- Margaret Alison Hamer, Liberal Democrat got 699 votes
Corvedale
- Cecilia Mary Anne Motley, Conservative Party, won with 1020 votes
- Claude Lowry Bodenham, Independent, got 701 votes
Ellesmere Urban
- E. Ann Hartley, Conservative Party, won with 539 votes
- Brian John Knight, Liberal Democrat, got 520 votes
- Elizabeth Ballamy, Labour Party, got 113 votes
Harlescott
- Vernon Bushell, Labour Party won with 443 votes
- Jim Taggart, Conservative Party got 380 votes
- Sharon Carrington, Liberal Democrat got 147 votes
- Karl Antony Foulkes, British National Party got 142 votes
Highley
- Eunice Mary Nicholls, Liberal Democrat, won with 654 votes
- Peter John Martin, Conservative Party got 380 votes
Hodnet
- Karen Dale Calder, Conservative Party, won with 987 votes
- Janet Beverley Smith, Labour Party, got 187 votes
Llanymynech
- Arthur Edward Walpole, Conservative Party, won with 901 votes
- Brian Willis, Liberal Democrat, got 424 votes
Longden
- Roger Arthur Evans, Liberal Democrat, won with 970 votes
- Peter Jetson, Conservative Party, got 690 votes
Loton
- David William Llywellyn Roberts, Conservative Party, won with 1077 votes
- Fred Smith, Liberal Democrat, got 362 votes
Ludlow East
- Tracey Huffer, Liberal Democrat, won with 667 votes
- Ed Havard, Conservative Party, got 390 votes
- Christina Jean Evans, British National Party, got 113 votes
- Gareth Stephen Williams, Labour Party got, 109 votes
Ludlow North
- Rosanna Theresa Daphne Taylor-Smith, Conservative Party, won with 685 votes
- Peter Jack Corston, Liberal Democrat, got 500 votes
- Graeme Perks, Independent, got 206 votes
- Imogen Herford, Green Party, got 119 votes
- Caroline Snyder, British National Party, got 54 votes
Ludlow South
- Martin Alan Taylor-Smith, Conservative Party, won with 757 votes
- Viv Parry, Liberal Democrat got 755 votes
Market Drayton East
- Brian Gillow, Conservative Party won with 1100 votes
- Rob Bentley, Labour Party got 331 votes
Market Drayton West
- David James Minnery, Conservative Party, won with 1192 votes
- Roger Hughes, Conservative Party, won with 1179 votes
- Roger Elwyn Walker, Labour Party, got 628 votes
- Val Taylor, Labour Party, got 606 votes
- Philip Richard Reddall, British National Party, got 390 votes
Meole
- Mike Owen, Conservative Party won with 1035 votes
- Gillian Grafton, Liberal Democrat got 416 votes
Minsterley
- Tudor Bebb, Conservative Party, won with 788 votes
- Marian Eva Balmond, Liberal Democrat, got 326 votes
- Nancy Rose Davies, Green Party, got 189 votes
Monkmoor
- Tony Durnell, Conservative Party, won with 582 votes
- Pam Moseley, Labour Party, got 554 votes
Much Wenlock
- Milner Whiteman, Conservative Party, won with 779 votes
- David Michael John Gibbon, Independent, got 531 votes
- Phil Robinson, Liberal Democrat, got 357 votes
Oswestry East
- Martin Bennett, Conservative Party, won with 963 votes
- Bill Benyon, Conservative Party, won with 962 votes
- Peter Alun Cherrington, Independent, got 697 votes
- Philip Damion Box, Labour Party, got 500 votes
- John Edward Keirl, British National Party, got 356 votes
Oswestry South
- Keith Robert Barrow, Conservative, 660 votes
- Owen Thomas, GP, 218
- Romer Hoseason, Liberal Democrat, 201
- David Mervyn Hughes, Labour, 79
Oswestry West
- Vince Hunt, Conservative Party won with 478 votes
- Saffron Neon Gabriel Rainey, Independent got 389 votes
- Elaine Channon, Liberal Democrat got 218 votes
Porthill
- Anne Marilyn Chebsey, Liberal Democrat, won with 864 votes
- Judith Williams, Conservative Party, got 658 votes
Prees
- Paul Anthony Donald Wynn, Conservative Party won with 616 votes
- Janet Ann Proudlove, Independent got 302 votes
- Leslie Edwin Phillips, Independent got 293 votes
- Robert Andrew Irvine-List, UK Independence Party got 210 votes
Quarry and Coton Hill
- Max Winchester, Conservative Party, won with 426 votes
- Andrew Bannerman, Liberal Democrat, got 353 votes
- Huw Peach, Green Party, got 141 votes
- James Grimshaw Gollins, Albion Party, got 57 votes
Radbrook
- Keith Roberts, Conservative Party, won with 754 votes
- Anne Woolland, Liberal Democrat, got 723 votes
Ruyton and Baschurch
- Aggie Josephine Caesar-Homden, Conservative Party won with 735 votes
- Colin Russell Case, Liberal Democrat got 380 votes
- Sue Boulding, Green Party got 201 votes
Selattyn and Gobowen
- David Glyn Lloyd, Conservative Party, won with 1039 votes
- Trevor Davies, Liberal Democrat won with 985 votes
- Barbara Jane Craig, Conservative Party got 831 votes
Severn Valley
Claire Margaret Wild, Conservative Party (sole candidate)
Shawbury
- Simon Paul Anderson Jones, Conservative Party, won with 893 votes
- Norman Aldhous, Liberal Democrat, got 532 votes
Shifnal North
- Gordon Frank Tonkinson, Conservative Party, won with 659 votes
- Kev Turley, Independent, got 482 votes
- Jill Seymour, UK Independence Party, got 269 votes
- Ray Stickland, Independent, got 86 votes
Shifnal South and Cosford
- Stuart John West, Conservative Party, won with 731 votes
- David Ridley Victor Murray, Liberal Democrat, got 415 votes
- Brian Seymour, UK Independence Party, got 235 votes
- David John Carey, Labour Party, got 151 votes
St Martin’s
- Steve Davenport, Conservative Party, won with 588 votes
- Neil Graham, Independent, got 407 votes
- Bill Jenkins, Labour Party, got 312 votes
St Oswald
- Joyce Bernadette Barrow, Conservative Party, won with 824 votes
- Clive Humphries, Liberal Democrat, got 437 votes
Sundorne
- Karen Burgoyne, Conservative Party, won with 443 votes
- Danny Moore, Labour Party, got 346 votes
- Helen Marie Foulkes, British National Party, got 169 votes
Tern
- John Everall, Conservative Party, won with 997 votes
- Helen Woodman, Liberal Democrat, got 611 votes
The Meres
- Brian Beckett Williams, Conservative Party, won with 1061 votes
- Andrew Gordon Whyte, Liberal Democrat, got 331 votes
- Steve Boulding, Green Party, got 196 votes
Underdale
- Miles Kenny, Liberal Democrat, won with 857 votes
- Mary Anne Richey, Conservative Party, got 126 votes
- Rob Allum, Labour Party, got 119 votes
- James Alexander Lewis, British National Party, got 87 votes
- Alan Whittaker, Green Party, got 77 votes
Wem
- Chris Mellings, Liberal Democrat, won with 1497 votes
- Pauline Anne Dee, Independent, won with 1061 votes
- Peter Broomhall, Conservative Party, got 729 votes
- John Hamilton Murray, Conservative Party, got 663 votes
- Peggy Carson, Independent, got 543 votes
- Bill Nevett, Independent, got 361 votes
- Ian R Deakin, British National Party, got 265 votes
Whitchurch North
- Thomas Henry Biggins, Conservative Party, won with 1198 votes
- Peggy Mullock, Conservative Party, won with 836 votes
- Rob Hewson, Independent, got 428 votes
- Andrew Hadden Richardson, Liberal Democrat, got 339 votes
- Pauline Lynn Jones, Liberal Democrat, got 296 votes
- Stephen Nigel Clifford, Labour Party, got 188 votes
Whitchurch South
- Gerald Lionel Dakin, Conservative Party, won with 561 votes
- Chris Chambers, Independent, got 313 votes
- Ruth Christine Leach, Green Party, got 116 votes
- Tricia Dawson, Labour Party, got 83 votes
Whittingon
- Steve Charmley, Conservative Party, won with 794 votes
- Pat Raine, Independent, got 500 votes
Worfield
- Michael Linden Wood, Conservative Party won with 898 votes
- Margaret Edmonson Chalmers Winckler, Independent got 287 votes
- Helen Howell, Liberal Democrat, got 246 votes
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After months of campaigning it’s good to note that the BNP have been seen for what they are and treated accordingly by the Shropshire electorate. I now wish for two things: that the Shropshire Star ceases to be the BNP newsletter…a concerted letter campaign does not reflect public opinion; and that the Foulkes clan and their friends go away and realise most decent people disagree with them. I would also like them to consider the simple fact that 65 years ago tthis week the fighting personnel of this country, our commonwealth allies, and others, launched the greatest sea invasion in history in order to get rid of an ideaolgy similar to their’s. This year was the BNP’s best chance to make a real impact…it didn’t Go away, goodbye, and good riddance.
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Some good results for the Lib Dems which should encourage them for the General Election. It shows that if they don’t fight Labour they don’t split the non-Tory vote and can win seats. If only common sense (or PR) applied in all elections.
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Simon, I don’t agree with their policies but they are in the eyes of the law a legitimate party. Personally I would prefer it if the paper became politics free, especially the letters page which is filled from time to time with absolute drivel and self congratulatory rantings!
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Is it ‘legitimate’ for a party to call for ‘British Jobs for British Workers’ and then use pictures of US construction workers to push their message?
The elderly Italian couple and the soldier used in the leaflet were horrified to see that their photos had been used without their permission by a party whose leader denied the Holocaust in a Mail on Sunday interview as recently as 2006.
How legitimate is all this?
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Frightening to see that we are mired now in royalty-loving bishop-loving class-toadying reactionary Toryism. The BNP has, mercifully failed, but their publicly acceptable face, the Tory party, has succeeded. It is a sad day.
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Harry
I absolutely agree regarding local papers and politics. If I buy a national paper I can be fairly sure of its political leanings and as such my purchase is guaranteed certain points of view. But with the nationals at least I have choice. A local paper has to either avoid political opinion altogether or strike a fair and demonstrable balance. The former has to be preferable as the latter is virtually impossible. As for the BNP they are, as you say, a legitimate political party in the eyes of the law. Unfortunately they are also a party whose policies would deny legitamcy and indeed basic liberties to others if they were to succeed and I personally would be glad to see the back of them. Britain is about much finer ideals than their’s.
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I, for one, am totally happy with the result and totally unsurprised that the electorate have made the right decision.
The Labour party is imploding, a rudderless ship without direction. Congratulations to the boys and girls in blue.
Pete, you write utter nonsense, the Conservatives are far removed from the BNP.
It’s a brilliant day!
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Simon,
The BNP’s result of 17.8% in Sundorne and around 18% in Market Drayton West have obviously escaped your notice.
Despite outrageous lies and smears in the mainstream media, and a limited budget, the BNP has seen it’s vote grow once again. The party has also established a foothold in even the most rural parts of Shropshire.
I would be interested in your definition of “decent people”, I assume you mean people who agree with you and not those who have the temerity to hold a different view?
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Pete, you are clueless!
Like the Labour disaster!
Go Gordon go!! deluded and dangerous.
Things can only get better???
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Pete, the totally unacceptable face of Labour (I don’t say “New” because they have reverted to type) and the example of what the decent people of this country have totally rejected. Just keep up those type of comments Pete, the other parties will revel in the fact that you are making your grotesque mates unelectable for evermore.
The game is up with Labour, it has taken a long time in coming but in the end it always ends in tears and economic disaster. Go back through every Labour Government – not one has been different.
The most welcome sight, Clown, Mandelson and Harriet Harridan this afternoon in Newham, London, being acclaimed by a hand-picked audience of Labourites parroting the Labour tune saying what a good chap Clown was and how he would save the country. This, only hours after an ex Lord Chancellor, Nick Rainsworth and another Labourite loyalist said that (on the Politics Show) there must be a change of leadership if the party was not to disapear. Nothing like a hypocritical “pick – him – up” when Clown spirits are low.
Tomorrow, those same clowns who acclaimed Clown to day will be slating him tomorrow. That’s Labour for you. Hard luck Pete, my – and millions of others commiserations.
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The results were very much expected considering the state of the Govt and the Country however I am not convinced David Cameron and his party are really up to the job.
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Charles,
If you had read the constitution of the party you support, you would understand that it seeks to exlude many British people from the democratic process solely on the basis of their skin colour.
If you had listened to the speech in which your party’s leader (now, shamefully elected as a Euro MP) denied the Holocaust, and considered for a moment the similarities between the policies of your chosen party and the politics that gave rise to Naziism in Europe in the 1930s, then you would have come to the same self-evident conclusions about decency that the rest of us, whether Labour, Tory or any of the otgher parties voters came to – that the racism of the BNP is morally inexcusable, and that their offensive views have no place in a democratic society.
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Stuart,
Once again you seek to blame the economic crisis, which we all know was caused by the implosion of the sort of market capitalism which Margaret Thatcher so admired, on the current government.
Why do you persist in this delusion? Clearly many of the elctorate have voted on this basis, and it’s a grat pity for our democracy that they didn’t take a look at the rest of the ecomonies in Europe and beyond, and see that many of them, even with centre-right governments are in more trouble than we are.
Clearly the parties of the right and extreme right are benefitting from the ignorance of the electorate, and it’s clear that the motives of the Telegraph in hyping up the expenses issue were to disrupt the elections – most especially the Euro ones.
The likely effect of the apparent shift to the right will be catastrophic for the ordinary working people of this country, and the vulnerable in society. We are now in for a period of attacks on laws designed to protect workers, such as the minimum wage and the working time directive, as well as damaging cuts to essential public services such as health and education – we know this will happen because it’s what the Tories always do, whilst spending the money saved on tax breaks for the rich.
The last Tory administration nationally did nothing good for the NHS, nothing good for education, nothing good for the low-paid, nothing good for pensioners. Despite their claim to be a tax-cutting party, other than the 43% tax cut for the wealthiest in society, they actually increased taxes, especially indirect taxes which we all know have a disproportionately high impact upon the poorest – including pensioners such as yourself.
Hard times are a-coming…
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Charles, if decent means respectable, kind, obliging and/or generous, could you explain what is ‘decent’ about the BNP leader denying the Holocaust?
What is your view of people like Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the founders of militant Palestinian group, Hamas, David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan and Nick Griffin, all of whom deny the Holocaust?
What is ‘decent’ about their denial that 6 million people died in concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis?
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I was quite disgusted with the use of the pictures of the Battle of Britain in the BNP leaflet that was delivered to our house.
My father was a a RAF navigator in air sea rescue and he also was one of the first to go into Belsen at the end of the war. He lives nearby and I discussed the matter with him. He felt dismayed at the tricks used by this party.
I have to say that discussions with other people before the elections gave the impression that it is the Tory voter that is more likely to vote BNP.
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I am not a BNP supporter however they are a party and they are legal. People saw fit to ellect Nick Griffen and that is the point he was ellected by the people .I noted abuse and violence from bnp anti’s trying to stop Nick Griffen entering the results centre. I noted other politicians walk off the stage becouse they objected to an ellected individual and his ideals I saw a polite articulate individual thank his voters prior to that i saw an awfull interview on sky news where Nick Griffen and his party were ridiculed and not given time to answer questions put to him.
Now i wonder why some seek to vote for a party that seems to be bullied by other political partys and the media ?.
What the labour party and torys should be adressing is why the areas where Bnp are supported feel like they need to vote for a far right party ?? is it becouse they feel their views are ignored??? and due to the areas which in the main have a heavy immigrant population , high unemployment,high crime rate etc etc if labour and who ever is in charge chose to help these people we would not have this situation . And the biggest worry of all unhappy asians from some of these areas are growing up with chips on their shoulders also as they feel they have been put in modern day ghettos and we have ll seen what comes next . So i say labour address the peoples issues do not ignore them and trat them as an underclass or you will reap what you so which seems to be what is happening .Address imigration and all that goe’s with it
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