Slough Council election, 2007
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Elections to the Borough Council in Slough
, England
, were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election. This was the 122nd Slough general local authority election (including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds) since Slough became a local government unit in 1863.
The 2007 election was to fill fourteen seats for the 2007-2011 term. The remaining twenty-seven Slough Councillors continued in office. The fourteen seats were previously contested in the whole Council election of 2004
following the redrawing of the ward boundaries in the Borough.
In the last election in 2006, the Labour Party
gained three seats, the Conservative Party
lost two and the Liberal Democrats
lost one. This result was slightly unusual compared with the other UK local elections
on the same day in which the Conservative Party generally gained seats at the expense of the Labour Party.
The counter cyclical changes continued in the 2007 election. The Labour Party gained another seat from the Conservatives and one from the Liberal Democrats. However the Conservative Party unseated the longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons. Labour finished the count with a net gain of one, which leaves Slough in no overall control. The existing coalition administration (broadly supported by all Councillors not in the Labour group) is likely to continue in office for the next year.
The turnout for the whole borough, as announced at the count on 4 May 2007, was 35.32% of the registered electors.
The result in the Central ward was overturned, on 18 March 2008, at the hearing of an election petition (see the Central ward sub-section below for more details). This was the first time since the nineteenth century that a Slough local election result was overturned by the courts.
The BILLD Group is itself a local coalition, containing members from six parties or groups of independents. The organisations represented in the group before the election are the Slough Liberal Democrats, the Slough Liberals
, the United Kingdom Independence Party
(UKIP) and a representative or representatives from three groups of independents active in one ward each (the Independent Britwellian
Residents in Britwell, Independent Langley Residents in Langley St Mary's and Independents in Wexham Lea wards). The existing members of the Group (excluding UKIP) have an electoral pact for the current election, continuing electoral arrangements which started with the Slough Council election 2001. The Independent Langley Residents Councillor joined The Slough Party, just before the 2007 election.
A number of Independents and others, not affiliated to BILLD, contested the 2007 election.
During the 2006-2007 term the Conservative Party gained one seat from Independent Langley Residents in a by-election. The Independent Conservative councillor for Upton (Balwinder Singh Dhillon) received the official Conservative nomination for 2007, thus giving the Tories a notional gain. In April 2007, the composition of the 41 member council was:-
In the 2007 election 50 candidates were nominated for the 14 seats up for election. One Independent candidate (Dominic Ashford in Wexham Lea) was nominated but withdrew before the poll. The list below is broken down by Party or group of Independents, with a residual category of Others who have no party label or are standing as Independents who are not affiliated to BILLD. The Independent Langley Residents have not nominated an official BILLD candidate in their ward, but their incumbent Councillor has proposed the nominee of The Slough Party in the area who would presumably join the BILLD Group if elected.
was as follows (the Conservatives made two gains from Others compared with the 2006 election, as a result of the Langley St Mary's by-election of 2006 and the Independent Conservative councillor from Upton being nominated as an official Conservative candidate):
No overall Majority
Note: The Others category in this table includes all non-Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Councillors. Richard Stokes (Liberal-Haymill) is the BILLD Group Leader, which group includes the Liberal Democrats and all but one of the Others category Councillors in 2006. The Independent Conservative councillor was not a member of any group in 2006-07, until he was nominated as an official Conservative for the 2007 election.
Britwell and Wexham Court were added to Slough in 1973 (when the two new wards and eleven existing wards were allocated between two and nine seats, instead of the three per ward which had existed previously).
Colnbrook & Poyle was added to Slough in 1995 and became a fourteenth ward, with one member 1995-1996 and two from 1997.
For Slough Council election 2004
the Borough was re-warded. There were still fourteen wards, but only Colnbrook with Poyle (formerly Colnbrook & Poyle) and Haymill had unchanged boundaries.
For brief notes on the individual wards used since 2004, see the individual ward sections below.
The turnout box figures given below include a number of spoilt ballots – see the official results on the Slough Borough Council
website for further details.
As the Slough Council election 2004
was for the whole Council, with each ward returning multiple Councillors, no plus or minus percentages are given for individual candidates or majorities nor a swing figure.
. Stoke ward was named after the parish, southern parts of which were included in Slough, as part of the 1900 and 1930-1931 extensions of the district boundaries. The Liberal Democrats, (building on the Liberal tradition of the Liberal-Labour marginal Stoke ward) overcame the Labour leanings of the former Baylis ward, to win all three seats in 2004. In 2006 and 2007, with new Liberal Democrat candidates, two of the seats were lost to Labour.
(1973-) is a three-member ward in the north-west of the Borough. It includes Britwell parish, although since 1983 some unparished territory was added. Britwell elected some Liberal Councillors in the 1980s but was otherwise safely Labour until 2000. Since then Britwellian
and Independent Britwellian Residents Councillors have become increasingly successful. In 1997 Labour won all three seats, but in 2004 the Residents took the three seats. Patl Janik, the incumbent IBR Councillor, stood for re-election in 2006 as a Slough Independents candidate in opposition to a new IBR nominee, who was elected. The IBR councillor up for election in 2007 was re-elected.
The 2007 Borough election is being held at the same time as the vote to fill the thirteen seats on Britwell Parish Council. The Independent Britwellian Residents nominated eleven candidates (including their three Borough Councillors), whereas The Slough Party nominated four (including the Borough Council candidate). Eleven IBR and two TSP parish councillors were elected. The Labour Party, which before the rise of the IBR had dominated the Parish Council, has not nominated any candidates.
and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway
arrived in the 1840s. It was a safe Labour ward under the 1983 boundaries, but in 2004 the Conservatives won two of the three seats of the revised ward. In 2006 there was a straight fight between the Conservative incumbent and a Labour challenger, which the Labour candidate won. It is noticeable that he was the only Councillor elected in 2006 with more than 50% of the votes cast in his ward.
In 2007, after a closely contested election, the Conservatives ousted the incumbent Labour councillor. An election petition was subsequently presented. At a hearing of the High Court held in Slough Town Hall on 18 March 2008, the 2007 result was declared void because of bogus electoral registrations and postal votes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7302809.stm.
text of the judgment in the case of Simmons v Khan
(1930-), (in the south of the Borough) is a three-member ward. It was part of the ancient parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey and was an original ward of Slough. The ward has existed in some form continuously since the district was first warded in 1930. Before 1970 Chalvey was Conservative but since then it has been safely Labour. The Liberal Democrats came within ten votes of winning the last seat in the ward in 2004. Labour retained the seat with an increased majority in 2006, so they still hold all three seats. In 2007 the Conservatives took over as runners up to Labour.
Green (2004-) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the western part of the previous ward, incorporates the old Cippenham village area (now a suburb of Slough). This ward includes the village green
, which it is named after. In 2004 it elected 1 Conservative (since defected to UKIP) and 2 Labour Councillors. Labour councillors were re-elected in 2006 and 2007.
Meadows (2004-) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporating the Windsor Meadows development. This estate caused the large population growth in the area, since the 1983 redistribution of wards. Presumably these are the Meadows which the ward is named after. The ward elected 3 Labour Councillors in 2004. The Labour incumbents, up for election in 2006 and 2007, were re-elected.
& Poyle
(1995-2004), Colnbrook with Poyle
(2004-) is a (since 1997) two-member ward in the furthest east part of the Borough between to the M4 motorway and Greater London. Labour elected some Councillors here, in 1995 and 1997 (1 seat), but by 2004 the ward was safely Conservative. There was no election in this ward in 2006.
In an unexpected result in 2007, the Conservative incumbent was ousted by a Labour candidate.
parish, the southern part of which was incorporated in Slough as part of the 1930-1931 boundary extension. This was an original Slough ward. It was split between Farnham North and Farnham South wards 1950-1983. This was a safe Labour Ward, in 2004 as before. Labour won in 2006, but may be vulnerable to a less fragmented opposition in future elections.
in the eastern part of the Borough. It is named after a 4 acres (16,187.4 m²) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809. This was the ward where the Liberal Democrats won their first election to Slough Borough Council in 2000 and the party held all three seats after the 2004 election. The Liberal Democrats retained their seats in 2006 and 2007.
, in the eastern part of the Borough. The ward was named after Sir John Kedermister (or Kidderminster), who was Warden of Langley Park and founded some almshouses in Langley in 1617. It is a safe Labour ward and the party held its seats up for election in 2006 and 2007.
St Mary's (1983-) is a three-member ward in north Langley
, in the eastern part of the Borough. St Mary's is named after the church in Langley. This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward, but in 2004 the Independent Langley Residents won two seats and tied for the third (which the Conservative candidate won on a roll of dice, so he was credited with an additional vote). The Conservative Councillor increased his majority to seven in 2006 (over Labour, with ILR in third place), for the only Tory victory of the 2006 Slough election.
In a 2006 by-election the Conservative Party gained a seat from the Independent Langley Residents (with the Labour candidate in second place). This ws the seat contested again in 2007. The Tories again won the seat.
Before the 2007 election the remaining ILR Councillor (Neil Arnold) joined The Slough Party and proposed its candidate for that election
(1930-), part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), is a ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930. It is a three-seat ward. In the early nineteenth century Upton was a village about a mile and a half south-west of the hamlet of Slough (see Central ward). This was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive. Labour won the ward for the first time ever in 1990. In 1997 Labour won two seats and the Conservatives one. At the 2004 election the Conservatives won all three seats, although one Councillor has since become an Independent Conservative. Labour gained a seat from the Tories in 2006.
The Independent Conservative Councillor received the official Conservative nomination for the 2007 election and was re-elected.
Lea (1983-) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the north-east of Baylis & Stoke and the north of Central ward. It combines Wexham Court parish and an area known as Upton Lea. The ward was formerly safely Labour but is now securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004. The Mayor of Slough for 2005-2006 was re-elected in 2006; as was the 2006-2007 Mayor the following year.
Notes:-
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election. This was the 122nd Slough general local authority election (including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds) since Slough became a local government unit in 1863.
The 2007 election was to fill fourteen seats for the 2007-2011 term. The remaining twenty-seven Slough Councillors continued in office. The fourteen seats were previously contested in the whole Council election of 2004
Slough Council election 2004
An election to Slough Borough Council was held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election. This was the 120th Slough general local authority election, since Slough became a local government unit in 1863, including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds.The Borough had...
following the redrawing of the ward boundaries in the Borough.
In the last election in 2006, the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
gained three seats, the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
lost two and the Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
lost one. This result was slightly unusual compared with the other UK local elections
United Kingdom local elections, 2006
Local government elections took place in England on Thursday 4 May 2006. Polling stations were open between 7:00 and 22:00.All London borough council seats were up for election, as well as a third of the seats on each of the metropolitan borough councils, and a third of some unitary authorities...
on the same day in which the Conservative Party generally gained seats at the expense of the Labour Party.
The counter cyclical changes continued in the 2007 election. The Labour Party gained another seat from the Conservatives and one from the Liberal Democrats. However the Conservative Party unseated the longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons. Labour finished the count with a net gain of one, which leaves Slough in no overall control. The existing coalition administration (broadly supported by all Councillors not in the Labour group) is likely to continue in office for the next year.
The turnout for the whole borough, as announced at the count on 4 May 2007, was 35.32% of the registered electors.
The result in the Central ward was overturned, on 18 March 2008, at the hearing of an election petition (see the Central ward sub-section below for more details). This was the first time since the nineteenth century that a Slough local election result was overturned by the courts.
Recent political history of Slough
Slough has an unusual balance of political forces. The council has, since 2004, had no party in overall control. A coalition of the Britwellian, Independent, Liberal and Liberal Democrat Group (BILLD) and the Conservative Group form the current administration, with the Labour Group in opposition. There was (in April 2007) one non-Group affiliated member, an Independent Conservative (who was elected in 2004 as an official Conservative and has been nominated for re-election in 2007 as an official candidate).The BILLD Group is itself a local coalition, containing members from six parties or groups of independents. The organisations represented in the group before the election are the Slough Liberal Democrats, the Slough Liberals
Liberal Party (UK, 1989)
The Liberal Party is a United Kingdom political party. It was formed in 1989 by a group of individuals within the original Liberal Party who felt that the merger of the party with the Social Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democrats, had ended the spirit of the Liberal Party, claiming that...
, the United Kingdom Independence Party
United Kingdom Independence Party
The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP...
(UKIP) and a representative or representatives from three groups of independents active in one ward each (the Independent Britwellian
Britwellian
Britwellian is the name chosen by two local political groups, which have contested elections in the three member Britwell Ward of Slough Borough Council. The regular Council elections in Slough are normally for a third of the Council, with one seat contested in each ward...
Residents in Britwell, Independent Langley Residents in Langley St Mary's and Independents in Wexham Lea wards). The existing members of the Group (excluding UKIP) have an electoral pact for the current election, continuing electoral arrangements which started with the Slough Council election 2001. The Independent Langley Residents Councillor joined The Slough Party, just before the 2007 election.
A number of Independents and others, not affiliated to BILLD, contested the 2007 election.
During the 2006-2007 term the Conservative Party gained one seat from Independent Langley Residents in a by-election. The Independent Conservative councillor for Upton (Balwinder Singh Dhillon) received the official Conservative nomination for 2007, thus giving the Tories a notional gain. In April 2007, the composition of the 41 member council was:-
- LabourLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
18 - BILLD 16 (Slough Liberal Democrats 5, Slough LiberalsLiberal Party (UK, 1989)The Liberal Party is a United Kingdom political party. It was formed in 1989 by a group of individuals within the original Liberal Party who felt that the merger of the party with the Social Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democrats, had ended the spirit of the Liberal Party, claiming that...
3, (Wexham Lea) Independents 3, Independent BritwellianBritwellianBritwellian is the name chosen by two local political groups, which have contested elections in the three member Britwell Ward of Slough Borough Council. The regular Council elections in Slough are normally for a third of the Council, with one seat contested in each ward...
Residents 3, Independent Langley Residents 1, United Kingdom Independence PartyUnited Kingdom Independence PartyThe United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP...
1) - ConservativeConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
7
In the 2007 election 50 candidates were nominated for the 14 seats up for election. One Independent candidate (Dominic Ashford in Wexham Lea) was nominated but withdrew before the poll. The list below is broken down by Party or group of Independents, with a residual category of Others who have no party label or are standing as Independents who are not affiliated to BILLD. The Independent Langley Residents have not nominated an official BILLD candidate in their ward, but their incumbent Councillor has proposed the nominee of The Slough Party in the area who would presumably join the BILLD Group if elected.
- LabourLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
14 - ConservativeConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
12 (not contesting Foxborough or Wexham Lea wards) - BILLD 12 (Slough Liberal DemocratsLiberal DemocratsThe Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
9, Independent 1, Independent BritwellianBritwellianBritwellian is the name chosen by two local political groups, which have contested elections in the three member Britwell Ward of Slough Borough Council. The regular Council elections in Slough are normally for a third of the Council, with one seat contested in each ward...
Residents 1, Slough LiberalsLiberal Party (UK, 1989)The Liberal Party is a United Kingdom political party. It was formed in 1989 by a group of individuals within the original Liberal Party who felt that the merger of the party with the Social Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democrats, had ended the spirit of the Liberal Party, claiming that...
1) (not contesting Colnbrook with Poyle and Langley St Mary's wards) - The Slough Party (a new local political party) 5
- Others 7 (Independent 4 (including the one who withdrew); no party label 3)
Summary of Council composition 2006-2007
Before the elections held on 3 May 2007, the composition of Slough Borough CouncilSlough Borough Council
Slough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough, in the South East England Region of the United Kingdom.This article deals mainly with the unitary authority which was first elected, on a shadow basis, in 1997. It became the local authority for Slough on 1 April 1998...
was as follows (the Conservatives made two gains from Others compared with the 2006 election, as a result of the Langley St Mary's by-election of 2006 and the Independent Conservative councillor from Upton being nominated as an official Conservative candidate):
No overall Majority
Note: The Others category in this table includes all non-Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Councillors. Richard Stokes (Liberal-Haymill) is the BILLD Group Leader, which group includes the Liberal Democrats and all but one of the Others category Councillors in 2006. The Independent Conservative councillor was not a member of any group in 2006-07, until he was nominated as an official Conservative for the 2007 election.
List of Councillors whose terms expired in 2007
| Ward | Party | Elected | Incumbent | Cand.? | Re-elected? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylis & Stoke | Liberal Democrats | 2004 | Mushtaq Ahmed Hayat * | No | N/A |
| Britwell | Ind. Britwellian Res. | 2002 | Patrick Shine * | Yes | Yes |
| Central | Labour | 1999 | Lydia Emelda Simmons (a) | Yes | No |
| Chalvey | Labour | 2001 | Raja Mohammed Zarait | Yes | Yes |
| Cippenham Green | Labour | 2004 | Michael John Holledge | No | N/A |
| Cippenham Meadows | Labour | 2001 | Sat Pal Singh Parmar (b) | Yes | Yes |
| Colnbrook with Poyle | Conservative | 1997 | Steve Burkmar | Yes | No |
| Farnham | Labour | 2001 | Joginder Singh Bal | Yes | Yes |
| Foxborough | Liberal Democrats | 2004 | Sonja Anne Jenkins * | Yes | Yes |
| Haymill | Liberal | 1990 | David John Munkley * | Yes | Yes |
| Kedermister | Labour | 1988 | Mewa Singh Mann | Yes | Yes |
| Langley St Mary's | Conservative | 2006 | Diana Victoria Coad | Yes | Yes |
| Upton | Conservative | 2004 | Balwinder Singh Dhillon (c) | Yes | Yes |
| Wexham Lea | Independent | 2002 | David MacIsaac * | Yes | Yes |
- * Member of the BILLD Group
- Notes:
- (a) Simmons previously served as a Councillor 1979-1994.
- (b) Parmar previously served as a Councillor 1995-2000.
- (c) Dhillon was elected as an official Conservative candidate in 2004, but served as an Independent Conservative Councillor from 2004-2007. He was re-elected as an official Conservative in 2007.
Election result summary
- Note: The figures in brackets, in the seats column, are for the overall Councillors after the election.
Ward notes and 2007 results
Slough was first warded in 1930. The town was re-warded 1950, 1983 and 2004.Britwell and Wexham Court were added to Slough in 1973 (when the two new wards and eleven existing wards were allocated between two and nine seats, instead of the three per ward which had existed previously).
Colnbrook & Poyle was added to Slough in 1995 and became a fourteenth ward, with one member 1995-1996 and two from 1997.
For Slough Council election 2004
Slough Council election 2004
An election to Slough Borough Council was held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election. This was the 120th Slough general local authority election, since Slough became a local government unit in 1863, including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds.The Borough had...
the Borough was re-warded. There were still fourteen wards, but only Colnbrook with Poyle (formerly Colnbrook & Poyle) and Haymill had unchanged boundaries.
For brief notes on the individual wards used since 2004, see the individual ward sections below.
The turnout box figures given below include a number of spoilt ballots – see the official results on the Slough Borough Council
Slough Borough Council
Slough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough, in the South East England Region of the United Kingdom.This article deals mainly with the unitary authority which was first elected, on a shadow basis, in 1997. It became the local authority for Slough on 1 April 1998...
website for further details.
As the Slough Council election 2004
Slough Council election 2004
An election to Slough Borough Council was held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election. This was the 120th Slough general local authority election, since Slough became a local government unit in 1863, including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds.The Borough had...
was for the whole Council, with each ward returning multiple Councillors, no plus or minus percentages are given for individual candidates or majorities nor a swing figure.
Baylis & Stoke
Baylis & Stoke (2004-) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the west of Central ward and to the east of Haymill. It broadly combined the former Baylis and Stoke wards. Baylis was named after Baylis House and the estate of Baylis, which from the sixteenth century was a sub-division of the parish of Stoke PogesStoke Poges
Stoke Poges is a village and civil parish in the South Buckinghamshire district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, about three miles north of Slough and a mile east of Farnham Common....
. Stoke ward was named after the parish, southern parts of which were included in Slough, as part of the 1900 and 1930-1931 extensions of the district boundaries. The Liberal Democrats, (building on the Liberal tradition of the Liberal-Labour marginal Stoke ward) overcame the Labour leanings of the former Baylis ward, to win all three seats in 2004. In 2006 and 2007, with new Liberal Democrat candidates, two of the seats were lost to Labour.
- Votes and turnout percentage include 16 spoilt ballot papers. The registered electorate, estimated from the above vote totals and turnout announced at the count, is 6,608. The turnout, based on valid votes only, is therefore 42.21%.
- Votes and percentage turnout include 18 spoilt ballot papers. The registered electorate, estimated from the above vote totals and turnout announced at the count, is 6,936. The turnout, based on valid votes only, is therefore 37.57%.
Britwell
BritwellBritwell
Britwell is a residential housing estate and civil parish in the north west of Slough, Berkshire, in the south of England. It is about 23 miles west of London.The name Britwell derives from the old English beorhtan wiellan meaning 'bright, clear well'....
(1973-) is a three-member ward in the north-west of the Borough. It includes Britwell parish, although since 1983 some unparished territory was added. Britwell elected some Liberal Councillors in the 1980s but was otherwise safely Labour until 2000. Since then Britwellian
Britwellian
Britwellian is the name chosen by two local political groups, which have contested elections in the three member Britwell Ward of Slough Borough Council. The regular Council elections in Slough are normally for a third of the Council, with one seat contested in each ward...
and Independent Britwellian Residents Councillors have become increasingly successful. In 1997 Labour won all three seats, but in 2004 the Residents took the three seats. Patl Janik, the incumbent IBR Councillor, stood for re-election in 2006 as a Slough Independents candidate in opposition to a new IBR nominee, who was elected. The IBR councillor up for election in 2007 was re-elected.
The 2007 Borough election is being held at the same time as the vote to fill the thirteen seats on Britwell Parish Council. The Independent Britwellian Residents nominated eleven candidates (including their three Borough Councillors), whereas The Slough Party nominated four (including the Borough Council candidate). Eleven IBR and two TSP parish councillors were elected. The Labour Party, which before the rise of the IBR had dominated the Parish Council, has not nominated any candidates.
- Note: The incumbent Independent BritwellianBritwellianBritwellian is the name chosen by two local political groups, which have contested elections in the three member Britwell Ward of Slough Borough Council. The regular Council elections in Slough are normally for a third of the Council, with one seat contested in each ward...
Residents Councillor was Paul Janik, who stood for re-election as a Slough Independents candidate against a new IBR nominee. The result is categorised as an IBR hold.
- 10 spoilt ballots
Central
Central (1930-1950 and 1983-) has had different boundaries during the three of the four Slough redistributions in which it has existed (it was divided between Central North and Central South wards 1950-1983), but it has always been a three-member ward with Wexham to the north, Langley to the east, Upton to the south, Chalvey to the south-west and Baylis & Stoke to the west. It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West RoadGreat West Road
The Great West Road may refer to:*A4 road from London to Bath and Bristol, England*The Golden Mile in West London, part of the above*Great West Road, Zambia...
and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
arrived in the 1840s. It was a safe Labour ward under the 1983 boundaries, but in 2004 the Conservatives won two of the three seats of the revised ward. In 2006 there was a straight fight between the Conservative incumbent and a Labour challenger, which the Labour candidate won. It is noticeable that he was the only Councillor elected in 2006 with more than 50% of the votes cast in his ward.
In 2007, after a closely contested election, the Conservatives ousted the incumbent Labour councillor. An election petition was subsequently presented. At a hearing of the High Court held in Slough Town Hall on 18 March 2008, the 2007 result was declared void because of bogus electoral registrations and postal votes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7302809.stm.
text of the judgment in the case of Simmons v Khan
- 15 spoilt ballots
Chalvey
ChalveyChalvey
Chalvey is a former village which is now a suburb of Slough in the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, England. It was transferred to Berkshire from Buckinghamshire in 1974....
(1930-), (in the south of the Borough) is a three-member ward. It was part of the ancient parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey and was an original ward of Slough. The ward has existed in some form continuously since the district was first warded in 1930. Before 1970 Chalvey was Conservative but since then it has been safely Labour. The Liberal Democrats came within ten votes of winning the last seat in the ward in 2004. Labour retained the seat with an increased majority in 2006, so they still hold all three seats. In 2007 the Conservatives took over as runners up to Labour.
- 16 spoilt ballot papers
Cippenham Green
CippenhamCippenham
Cippenham is a suburb of the unitary authority of Slough in the county of Berkshire, England. It was transferred to Berkshire from Buckinghamshire in 1974.The name, Cippenham derives from the old English Cippan-ham, meaning Cippa's homestead....
Green (2004-) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the western part of the previous ward, incorporates the old Cippenham village area (now a suburb of Slough). This ward includes the village green
Village green
A village green is a common open area which is a part of a settlement. Traditionally, such an area was often common grass land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events...
, which it is named after. In 2004 it elected 1 Conservative (since defected to UKIP) and 2 Labour Councillors. Labour councillors were re-elected in 2006 and 2007.
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Cippenham Meadows
CippenhamCippenham
Cippenham is a suburb of the unitary authority of Slough in the county of Berkshire, England. It was transferred to Berkshire from Buckinghamshire in 1974.The name, Cippenham derives from the old English Cippan-ham, meaning Cippa's homestead....
Meadows (2004-) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporating the Windsor Meadows development. This estate caused the large population growth in the area, since the 1983 redistribution of wards. Presumably these are the Meadows which the ward is named after. The ward elected 3 Labour Councillors in 2004. The Labour incumbents, up for election in 2006 and 2007, were re-elected.
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Colnbrook with Poyle
ColnbrookColnbrook
Colnbrook is a large village in the unitary authority of Slough, in Berkshire, England. It is situated southeast of central Slough, east of Windsor and west of central London....
& Poyle
Poyle
Poyle is a village and suburb in the unitary authority of Slough, in South East England. It is situated immediately west of the M25 motorway and 16.8 miles west of Charing Cross in London.-History:...
(1995-2004), Colnbrook with Poyle
Colnbrook with Poyle
Colnbrook with Poyle is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, England, consisting of Colnbrook with Poyle. It is at the eastern end of the borough, and is just to the west of the M25 motorway, which separates the parish from Heathrow Airport in the London Borough of...
(2004-) is a (since 1997) two-member ward in the furthest east part of the Borough between to the M4 motorway and Greater London. Labour elected some Councillors here, in 1995 and 1997 (1 seat), but by 2004 the ward was safely Conservative. There was no election in this ward in 2006.
In an unexpected result in 2007, the Conservative incumbent was ousted by a Labour candidate.
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Farnham
Farnham (1930-1950 and 1983-) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough, to the south of Britwell and west of Haymill. It was named after Farnham RoyalFarnham Royal
Farnham Royal is a village and civil parish within the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the south of the county, around 22 miles west of Charing Cross, Central London....
parish, the southern part of which was incorporated in Slough as part of the 1930-1931 boundary extension. This was an original Slough ward. It was split between Farnham North and Farnham South wards 1950-1983. This was a safe Labour Ward, in 2004 as before. Labour won in 2006, but may be vulnerable to a less fragmented opposition in future elections.
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Foxborough
Foxborough (1983-) is a three-member ward in south-east LangleyLangley, Slough
Langley is a large village in the unitary authority of Slough, Berkshire in South East England. It is situated 2 miles east of central Slough, and 20 miles west of London...
in the eastern part of the Borough. It is named after a 4 acres (16,187.4 m²) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809. This was the ward where the Liberal Democrats won their first election to Slough Borough Council in 2000 and the party held all three seats after the 2004 election. The Liberal Democrats retained their seats in 2006 and 2007.
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Haymill
Haymill (1983-) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough (to the east of Farnham ward and west of Baylis & Stoke), which was left unchanged by the 2004 redistribution. It is a safe Liberal ward having last elected a non-Liberal Councillor in 1984. The Liberal Councillors and activists, for this ward, did not join the Liberal Democrats in 1988. In 2006 and 2007 the Liberal Councillor up for election held their seats, so all three Councillors are still Liberals.- 9 spoilt ballot papers
Kedermister
Kedermister (sometimes locally pronounced Keddermeister) (1983-) is a three-member ward in south-west LangleyLangley, Slough
Langley is a large village in the unitary authority of Slough, Berkshire in South East England. It is situated 2 miles east of central Slough, and 20 miles west of London...
, in the eastern part of the Borough. The ward was named after Sir John Kedermister (or Kidderminster), who was Warden of Langley Park and founded some almshouses in Langley in 1617. It is a safe Labour ward and the party held its seats up for election in 2006 and 2007.
- Note: Councillor Buchanan was the incumbent in Baylis and Stoke ward
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Langley St Mary's
LangleyLangley, Slough
Langley is a large village in the unitary authority of Slough, Berkshire in South East England. It is situated 2 miles east of central Slough, and 20 miles west of London...
St Mary's (1983-) is a three-member ward in north Langley
Langley, Slough
Langley is a large village in the unitary authority of Slough, Berkshire in South East England. It is situated 2 miles east of central Slough, and 20 miles west of London...
, in the eastern part of the Borough. St Mary's is named after the church in Langley. This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward, but in 2004 the Independent Langley Residents won two seats and tied for the third (which the Conservative candidate won on a roll of dice, so he was credited with an additional vote). The Conservative Councillor increased his majority to seven in 2006 (over Labour, with ILR in third place), for the only Tory victory of the 2006 Slough election.
In a 2006 by-election the Conservative Party gained a seat from the Independent Langley Residents (with the Labour candidate in second place). This ws the seat contested again in 2007. The Tories again won the seat.
Before the 2007 election the remaining ILR Councillor (Neil Arnold) joined The Slough Party and proposed its candidate for that election
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Upton
UptonUpton, Slough
Upton is a suburb of Slough in Berkshire, England. Until the local government reforms of 1974 it was in Buckinghamshire. It was one of the villages that developed into the town.-History:...
(1930-), part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), is a ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930. It is a three-seat ward. In the early nineteenth century Upton was a village about a mile and a half south-west of the hamlet of Slough (see Central ward). This was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive. Labour won the ward for the first time ever in 1990. In 1997 Labour won two seats and the Conservatives one. At the 2004 election the Conservatives won all three seats, although one Councillor has since become an Independent Conservative. Labour gained a seat from the Tories in 2006.
The Independent Conservative Councillor received the official Conservative nomination for the 2007 election and was re-elected.
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Wexham Lea
WexhamWexham
Wexham is a settlement and civil parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. It is on the borders of the unitary authority of Slough and the non-metropolitan county of Berkshire, in southern England....
Lea (1983-) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the north-east of Baylis & Stoke and the north of Central ward. It combines Wexham Court parish and an area known as Upton Lea. The ward was formerly safely Labour but is now securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004. The Mayor of Slough for 2005-2006 was re-elected in 2006; as was the 2006-2007 Mayor the following year.
- 17 spoilt ballot papers. Dominic James Ashford was nominated as an Independent candidate, but withdrew before the poll, claiming that he had drawn attention to Slough Town Football ClubSlough Town F.C.Slough Town F.C. is an English semi-professional football club. The club was officially founded in 1890 after the amalgamation of three local clubs, Swifts, Slough Albion and Young Men's Friendly Society, who between them forged a new club, Slough F.C....
. There has been a local controversy as the ruling coalition has declined to spend public money on assisting the club to find a ground in Slough.
- Symbols: * BILLD Group candidate, + incumbent
Members of Slough Borough Council 2007-2008
| Ward | Party | Elected | Term | Councillor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylis & Stoke | Liberal Democrats | 2004 | 2008 | Rashad Javaid Butt * |
| Baylis & Stoke | Labour | 2007 | 2011 | Fiza Ahmed Matloob |
| Baylis & Stoke | Labour | 2006 | 2010 | Azhar Qureshi |
| Britwell | Ind. Britwellian Res. | 2002 | 2008 | Sean Patrick Wright * |
| Britwell | Ind. Britwellian Res. | 2002 | 2011 | Patrick Shine * |
| Britwell | Ind. Britwellian Res. | 2006 | 2010 | John Joseph Finn * |
| Central | Conservative | 2004 | 2008 | Mohammed Aziz |
| Central | Conservative | 2007 | 2011 | Eshaq Khan |
| Central | Labour | 2006 | 2010 | Shafiq Ahmed Chaudhry |
| Chalvey | Labour | 2002 | 2008 | Pervez Choudhry |
| Chalvey | Labour | 2001 | 2011 | Raja Mohammad Zarait |
| Chalvey | Labour | 2006 | 2010 | Mohammed Rasib |
| Cippenham Green | UK Independence | 1995 | 2008 | William Geoffrey Howard * (a) |
| Cippenham Green | Labour | 2007 | 2011 | Patricia Josephine O'Connor |
| Cippenham Green | Labour | 2002 | 2010 | James Charles Robert Swindlehurst |
| Cippenham Meadows | Labour | 2003 | 2008 | May Dodds |
| Cippenham Meadows | Labour | 2001 | 2011 | Sat Pal Singh Parmar (b) |
| Cippenham Meadows | Labour | 2004 | 2010 | Nimrit Chohan |
| Colnbrook with Poyle | Conservative | 2000 | 2008 | Dexter Jerome Smith |
| Colnbrook with Poyle | Labour | 2007 | 2011 | Rakesh Pabbi |
| Farnham | Labour | 1997 | 2008 | Robert Anderson |
| Farnham | Labour | 2001 | 2011 | Joginder Singh Bal |
| Farnham | Labour | 2002 | 2010 | Sukhjit Kaur Dhaliwal |
| Foxborough | Liberal Democrats | 2000 | 2008 | John William Edwards * |
| Foxborough | Liberal Democrats | 2004 | 2011 | Sonja Anne Jenkins * |
| Foxborough | Liberal Democrats | 2004 | 2010 | Robert Clive Plimmer * |
| Haymill | Liberal | 1987 | 2008 | Richard Stanley Stokes * (c) |
| Haymill | Liberal | 1990 | 2011 | David John Munkley * |
| Haymill | Liberal | 2004 | 2010 | Brian Graham Hewitt * |
| Kedermister | Labour | 2002 | 2008 | Jagjit Singh Grewal |
| Kedermister | Labour | 1988 | 2011 | Mewa Singh Mann |
| Kedermister | Labour | 2002 | 2010 | Christine Rita Small |
| Langley St Mary's | Ind. Langley Res. | 2004 | 2008 | Neil James Arnold * |
| Langley St Mary's | Conservative | 2006 | 2011 | Diana Victoria Coad |
| Langley St Mary's | Conservative | 2000 | 2010 | Derek Ernest Cryer (d) |
| Upton | Conservative | 1999 | 2008 | Julia Thomson Long (e) |
| Upton | Conservative | 2004 | 2011 | Balwinder Singh Dhillon (f) |
| Upton | Labour | 2006 | 2010 | Balvinder Singh Bains (g) |
| Wexham Lea | Independent | 2000 | 2008 | Michael Anthony Haines * (h) |
| Wexham Lea | Independent | 2002 | 2011 | David Ian MacIsaac * |
| Wexham Lea | Independent | 2004 | 2010 | Mohammed Latif Khan * (i) |
Notes:-
- * Member of the BILLD Group
- (a) Howard: Formerly Labour 1995-2001 and Conservative 2001-2005
- (b) Parmar: Formerly served 1995-2000
- (c) Stokes: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1983-1986
- (d) Cryer: Formerly served 1967-1974
- (e) Long: Formerly served 1983-1990
- (f) Dhillon: Formerly Conservative 2004 and Independent Conservative 2004-2007.
- (g) Bains: Formerly 2003-2004
- (h) Haines: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1987-1991 and 1992-1998
- (i) Khan: Formerly served as a Labour Councillor 1999-2002
See also
- SloughSloughSlough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
- Slough local electionsSlough local electionsSlough is a district in the South East England Region.Slough Borough Council is normally elected by thirds, with Councillors serving a four year term...
- Slough Borough CouncilSlough Borough CouncilSlough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough, in the South East England Region of the United Kingdom.This article deals mainly with the unitary authority which was first elected, on a shadow basis, in 1997. It became the local authority for Slough on 1 April 1998...
- Slough (UK Parliament constituency)Slough (UK Parliament constituency)Slough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
External links
- Detailed results
- http://www.lgce.gov.uk/your-area/slough.cfm The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?gid=3 The Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire