2019 Babergh District Council election

2019 Babergh District Council election
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All 32 seats for Babergh District Council; 17 seats needed for a majority
	Winner of each seat at the 2019 Babergh District Council election
Council control before election; ; Conservative	Council control after election ; ; No overall control

The 2019 Babergh District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Babergh District Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

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2019 Babergh District Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	30	15	1	1	16	46.9	34.8	11,791	–5.5
	Green	27	4	0	0	4	12.5	23.3	7,887	+10.6
	Independent	11	8	1	1		25.0	19.5	6,572	+6.9
	Liberal Democrats	11	3	0	0		9.4	10.3	3,478	–2.1
	Labour	11	2	0	0	1	6.3	9.6	3,253	–8.0
	UKIP	2	0	0	0		0.0	1.1	387	–3.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Lee Parker	415	49.5
	Conservative	David Holland	278	33.1
	Green	Laura Smith	146	17.4
Turnout			843	39.4
	Independent win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Bryn Hurren	833	80.1
	Conservative	Jacqueline Rawlinson	207	19.9
Turnout			1,059	47.8
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Alastair McCraw	712	85.9
	Conservative	William Shropshire	59	7.1
	Green	Caroline Wheeler	58	7.0
Turnout			833	40.6
	Independent win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Ward	458	46.8
	Independent	Stephen Laing	314	29.7
	Green	Philippa Draper	211	19.9
	Independent	Stephen Williams	44	4.2
Turnout			1,033	40.8
	Conservative win (new seat)

2019 Babergh District Council election

Election result

Ward results

Assington

Box Vale

Brantham

Brett Vale

Bures St. Mary & Nayland

Capel St. Mary

Chadacre

Copdock & Washbrook

East Bergholt

Ganges

Great Cornard

Hadleigh North

Hadleigh South

Lavenham

Long Melford

North West Cosford

Orwell

South East Cosford

Sproughton & Pinewood

Stour

Sudbury North East

Sudbury North West

Sudbury South East

Sudbury South West

By-elections

Great Cornard

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Melanie Barrett	405	53.2
	Green	Miriam Burns	356	46.8
Turnout			778	34.2
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Carpendale	681	79.1
	Conservative	Delme Thompson	180	20.9
Turnout			892	37.6
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Stephen Plumb	983	65.6
	Conservative	Michael Holt	780	52.1
	Green	Luis Orna Diaz	372	24.8
	Green	Felix Reeves Whymark	324	21.6
Turnout			1,514	31.3
	Independent hold
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	David Busby	604	61.4
	Conservative	Barry Gasper	380	38.6
Turnout			1,022	39.8
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Alan Hinton	432	44.4
	Conservative	Dominic Torringtom	292	30.0
	Green	Sallie Davies	250	25.7
Turnout			980	42.9
	Independent win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Derek Davis	561	70.9
	Conservative	Paul Clarke	111	14.0
	Green	Sharon-Anne Kennedy	65	8.2
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Ingram	54	6.8
Turnout			797	42.0
	Independent win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Beer	703	39.3
	Conservative	Mark Newman	682	38.2
	Conservative	Honor Grainger-Howard	640	35.8
	Labour	Anthony Bavington	553	30.9
	Labour	Tracey Welsh	504	28.2
	Labour	Stewart Sheridan	463	25.9
	Green	Dean Walton	372	20.8
	Green	Andrew Liffen	309	17.3
	Green	Tobias Horkan	290	16.2
	Liberal Democrats	Marjorie Bark	254	14.2
Turnout			1,787	25.4
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sian Dawson	236	36.0
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Harman	146	22.3
	Labour	Angela Wiltshire	143	21.8
	Green	Peter Lynn	131	20.0
Turnout			669	32.5
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Kathryn Grandon-White	832	54.8
	Conservative	Michael Fraser	436	28.7
	Conservative	Matthew Pescott-Frost	392	25.8
	Green	Amy Aylett	368	24.2
	Labour	Rickaby Shearly-Sanders	328	21.6
	Green	Sophie Ship	245	16.1
Turnout			1,518	34.0
	Independent gain from Conservative
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Margaret Maybury	745	45.9
	Independent	Clive Arthey	704	43.4
	Conservative	Philip Faircloth-Mutton	624	38.5
	Green	Karen Marshall	541	33.4
	UKIP	Leon Stedman	254	15.7
Turnout			1,622	39.1
	Conservative hold
	Independent win (new seat)

North West Cosford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Robert Lindsay	690	70.6
	Conservative	Alexandra Dawson	287	29.4
Turnout			985	45.6
	Green win (new seat)

Orwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Vivienne Gould	654	72.4
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	249	27.6
Turnout			928	44.8
	Green win (new seat)

South East Cosford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Leigh Jamieson	708	61.7
	Conservative	Alan Ferguson	440	38.3
Turnout			1,163	54.9
	Green win (new seat)

Sproughton & Pinewood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Zachary Norman	508	36.8
	Green	Richard Hardacre	437	31.6
	Labour Co-op	David Plowman	436	31.6
	Conservative	Christopher Hudson	352
Turnout			1,062	24.1
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Green win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Nunn	1,276	76.4
	Conservative	Elisabeth Malvisi	625	37.4
	Green	Janet Smith	383	22.9
	Green	John Smith	206	12.3
Turnout			1,670	36.4
	Independent hold
	Conservative gain from Independent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mary McLaren	292	31.2
	Independent	Christopher Sawyer	259	27.6
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Bamford	225	24.0
	Green	Lyndon Ship	161	17.2
Turnout			946	40.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alison Owen	190	36.4
	Conservative	Gary Quinlan	136	26.1
	UKIP	Paul Dalley	133	25.5
	Green	Theresa Munson	63	12.1
Turnout			527	25.5
	Labour win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Janice Osborne	411	33.4
	Labour	Trevor Cresswell	372	30.3
	Conservative	Simon Barrett	361	29.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bennett	303	24.7
	Labour	Daniel Williams	285	23.2
	Green	Michael Chapman	216	17.6
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Spivey	212	17.2
	Green	John Burch	166	13.5
Turnout			1,241	30.8
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Adrian Osborne	260	42.2
	Labour	Luke Cresswell	210	34.1
	Green	Heather James	79	12.8
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Platt	67	10.9
Turnout			627	30.8
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Susan Ayres	262	35.6
	Labour	Nicola Dixon	205	27.9
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Welsh	99	13.5
	Green	Julie Fowles-Smith	86	11.7
	Independent	Robert Darvell	84	11.4
Turnout			745	34.8
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Barrett	971	46.4	+9.0
	Labour	Jake Thomas	602	28.7	−0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Marjorie Bark	287	13.7	+0.2
	Green	James Killbery	234	11.2	−8.6
Majority			369	17.7
Turnout			2,094
	Conservative hold		Swing	4.9

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v t e Council elections in Suffolk
Suffolk County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021 2026
Babergh District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
East Suffolk District Council	2019 2023
Ipswich Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Mid Suffolk District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
West Suffolk District Council	2019 2023
East Suffolk County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Forest Heath District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Abolished
St Edmundsbury Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Abolished
Suffolk Coastal District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Abolished
Waveney District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2015 Abolished
West Suffolk County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
See also: Wards Boundary changes