2007 North Hertfordshire District Council election

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All 49 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council
25 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
	Con	Lab	LD
Leader	F. John Smith	David Kearns	Steve Jarvis
Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats
Seats before	33	9	7
Seats after	30	10	9
Seat change	3	1	2
Popular vote	18,441	7,238	10,094
Percentage	47.0%	18.5%	25.7%

Results of the 2007 North Hertfordshire District Council election

Leader before election

F. John Smith
Conservative

Leader after election

F. John Smith
Conservative

The 2007 North Hertfordshire District Council election was held on 3 May 2007, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. All 49 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council were up for election following changes to ward boundaries.^[1] Labour and the Liberal Democrats both increased their number of seats, but the Conservatives retained their majority on the council. The Conservative leader, F. John Smith, remained leader of the council after the election.^[2]^[3]

North Hertfordshire District Council Election, 2007
Seats	Gains	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	30	61.2	47.0	18,441
Liberal Democrats	9	18.4	25.7	10,094
Labour	10	20.4	18.5	7,238
Green	0	0.0	7.4	2,906
UKIP	0	0.0	0.9	350
Independent	0	0.0	0.5	183

Ward results

The main changes to the previous ward structure were:^[1]

Graveley and Wymondley ward was renamed Chesfield and increased from having one councillor to two.
Letchworth East ward had its number of councillors reduced from three to two.
The three separate single-councillor wards of Offa, Hoo and Hitchwood were combined into a three-councillor ward called Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo.

The results for each ward were as follows. An asterisk (*) indicates a sitting councillor standing for re-election.^[5]^[6]

Arbury ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Andrew Dempster Young*	776	62.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Simpson	461	36.8%
Turnout			1,252	58.8%

Baldock East ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Marilyn Roberta Kirkland*	542	53.6%
	Conservative	Les Wisher	466	46.1%
Turnout			1,011	46.2%

Baldock Town ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Michael Douglas Robert Mackenzie Muir*	1,161	62.2%
	Conservative	Ian Jeremy Knighton*	1,094	58.6%
	Conservative	Michael Edwin Weeks*	994	53.3%
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Ann Gallager	410	22.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Marcus Keighley	389	20.8%
	Labour	Peter Anthony Mardell	373	20.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Alan Young	367	19.7%
Turnout			1,866	34.2%

Cadwell ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tricia Gibbs*	504	67.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Oliver Canning	156	20.9%
	Labour	Austin John Denyer Smith	87	11.6%
Turnout			747	42.2%

Chesfield ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Sal Jarvis*	803	59.6%
	Liberal Democrats	Lee Downie	757	56.2%
	Conservative	Karen Harding	529	39.2%
Turnout			1,348	32.7%

Codicote ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tom Brindley*	504	58.3%
	Independent	John Roy McGregor	183	21.2%
	Labour	Jan Burnell	118	13.7%
	Green	Harold Bland	57	6.6%
Turnout			864	40.8%

Ermine ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Howard Maycroft Marshall*	689	77.9%
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Ellen Inwood	190	21.5%
Turnout			884	44.2%

Hitchin Bearton ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Judi Billing*	922	43.8%
	Labour	Martin Stears*	793	37.7%
	Labour	Deepak Singh Sangha*	758	36.0%
	Conservative	Pat Cherry	561	26.6%
	Conservative	Charles Spencer Bunker	523	24.8%
	Conservative	Tony Strong	456	21.7%
	Green	George Howe	399	18.9%
	Green	Susan Dye	365	17.3%
	Green	Ashley Walker	331	15.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Maynard	285	13.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Macmillan	251	11.9%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Ircha	226	10.7%
Turnout			2,106	36.1%

Hitchin Highbury ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Clark*	1,423	55.6%
	Liberal Democrats	Lawrence Oliver*	1,260	49.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Body	1,250	48.8%
	Conservative	Sarah Jane Wren*	1,026	40.1%
	Conservative	Mark Hanson	895	34.9%
	Green	Bob Mardon	265	10.3%
	Labour	Mark Francis Crawley	178	7.0%
	Green	Alan Brookman	174	6.8%
	Green	Tabitha Middleton	142	5.5%
Turnout			2,561	45.2%

Hitchin Oughton ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Edward Billing*	643	53.5%
	Labour	Joan Irene Kirby*	636	53.0%
	Conservative	Penny Brook	326	27.1%
	Conservative	Stephen Parker	322	26.8%
	Liberal Democrats	Ronald Alexander Clark	124	10.3%
	Green	Sarah Pond	119	9.9%
	Green	Heather Summers	89	7.4%
Turnout			1,201	32.1%

Hitchin Priory ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Allison Gertrude Ashley*	956	62.5%
	Conservative	Richard Arthur Charles Thake*	895	58.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael John Lott	309	20.2%
	Green	Chris Honey	204	13.3%
	Green	Teresa Caroline Loveday	193	12.6%
	Liberal Democrats	John Stephen White	177	11.6%
	Labour	Min Birdsey	149	9.7%
Turnout			1,530	42.9%

Hitchin Walsworth ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Bernard Frank James Lovewell*	984	43.3%
	Conservative	Alan John Millard	963	42.4%
	Conservative	Ray Shakespeare-Smith*	861	37.9%
	Labour	Ryan Ottis Johnson	768	33.8%
	Labour	Derek Nigel Sheard*	724	31.9%
	Green	Giles Colin Woodruff	664	29.2%
	Labour	Roger Aubrey Wood	555	24.4%
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Clark	374	16.5%
	Liberal Democrats	David Shirley	347	15.3%
Turnout			2,272	38.0%

Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David John Barnard*	1,603	66.4%
	Conservative	David Miller*	1,516	62.8%
	Conservative	Claire Patricia Annette Strong*	1,512	62.6%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Donald Johnson	503	20.8%
	Green	David Ashton	486	20.1%
	Labour	Clare Helen Billing	391	16.2%
Turnout			2,415	43.4%

Kimpton ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Cyril Bishop*	512	72.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Simon Jarvis	125	17.8%
	Labour	Jean Elizabeth Ann Wood	65	9.2%
Turnout			704	39.8%

Knebworth ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jane Elizabeth Gray*	987	66.1%
	Conservative	Alan Bardett*	943	63.1%
	Liberal Democrats	Debra Wilkins	296	19.8%
	Labour	John Brian Burnell	232	15.5%
	Labour	Harry Painter	213	14.3%
	Green	William Berrington	183	12.2%
Turnout			1,494	37.1%

Letchworth East ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lorna Rose Kercher*	549	43.9%
	Labour	Arthur Jarman	503	40.2%
	Conservative	Michael Paterson*	456	36.5%
	Conservative	Diane Margaret Ivy Proudlove*	440	35.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Rebecca Carole Winder	202	16.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Mertsi Merentytto Fisher	187	15.0%
Turnout			1,250	32.2%

Letchworth Grange ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Peter Kearns*	912	43.5%
	Conservative	Simon Bloxham*	906	43.2%
	Conservative	Allison Dear	869	41.4%
	Conservative	Monica Bloxham*	852	40.6%
	Labour	Jean Andrews	843	40.2%
	Labour	Tony Eden	840	40.1%
	Liberal Democrats	Julie Louise Inwood	335	16.0%
Turnout			2,097	36.1%

Letchworth South East ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Julian Michael Cunningham*	928	46.8%
	Conservative	John Leo Dobson Booth	861	43.4%
	Conservative	David Charles Levett*	841	42.4%
	Labour	Nicholas Frederick Henry Kissen	451	22.7%
	Labour	Kevin Douglas Lake	433	21.8%
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Elaine Kingman	430	21.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Winter	422	21.3%
	Liberal Democrats	John Winder	374	18.9%
	UKIP	John Finbarr Barry	350	17.6%
Turnout			1,984	34.3%

Letchworth South West ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Lynda Needham*	1,532	60.7%
	Conservative	Melissa Jane Davey*	1,426	56.5%
	Conservative	Terry Hone*	1,407	55.7%
	Liberal Democrats	John Paul Winder	593	23.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Clem Jonathan Harcourt	541	21.4%
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Geoffrey Penny	536	21.2%
	Labour	Headley Valentine Parkins	279	11.1%
	Green	Jon Hart	263	10.4%
	Green	Eric Blakeley	252	10.0%
	Green	Heidi Mollart-Griffin	183	7.3%
Turnout			2,524	42.1%

Letchworth Wilbury ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Gary Thomas Grindal*	595	45.8%
	Labour	Ian Mantle	592	45.6%
	Conservative	Elliot William Needham*	546	42.1%
	Conservative	Pradeep Kumar Sharma	431	33.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Ursula Winder	307	23.7%
Turnout			1,298	32.2%

Royston Heath ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Colin Weston Burt*	780	52.1%
	Conservative	Fiona Ronan Hill*	778	52.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Elizabeth Coates	536	35.8%
	Liberal Democrats	Nanya Esther Lilley	445	29.7%
	Labour	Robin Anthony King	194	13.0%
Turnout			1,496	36.2%

Royston Meridian ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tony Hunter*	842	57.9%
	Conservative	Francis John Smith*	785	54.0%
	Liberal Democrats	John Raymond Ledden	333	22.9%
	Liberal Democrats	David Robert May	312	21.5%
	Green	Karen Harmel	266	18.3%
	Labour	Vaughan West	183	12.6%
Turnout			1,454	35.6%

Royston Palace ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Liz Beardwell*	753	49.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Edward Inwood*	710	46.9%
	Conservative	Bill Davidson	648	42.8%
	Conservative	Graham William Palmer	607	40.1%
	Labour	Ken Garland	149	9.8%
Turnout			1,515	36.7%

Weston and Sandon ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Jarvis*	604	72.9%
	Conservative	Catherine Elaine Rowell	219	26.4%
Turnout			828	51.6%

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