Dover District Council elections

Dover District Council is the local authority for the Dover District in Kent, England. The council is elected every four years.

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats^[a]	UKIP	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year						Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (55 seats)
1973	29	21	0	–	5		Conservative
1976	35	17	0	–	3		Conservative
New ward boundaries (56 seats)
1979	35	19	1	–	1		Conservative
1983	39	17	0	–	0		Conservative
1987	33	19	4	–	0		Conservative
1991	28	21	6	–	1		No overall control
1995	13	39	4	0	0		Labour
1999	26	28	1	0	1		No overall control
New ward boundaries (45 seats)
2003	22	20	3	0	0		No overall control
2007	28	15	2	0	0		Conservative
2011	26	19	0	0	0		Conservative
2015	25	17	0	3	0		Conservative
New ward boundaries (32 seats)
2019	19	12	0	0	1		Conservative
2023	14	17	0	0	1		Labour

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	755	50.3	−16.0
	Conservative	665	44.3	+10.6
	Liberal Democrats	81	5.4	+5.4
Majority		90	6.0
Turnout		1,501	30.2
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	558	69.2	+7.4
	Labour	248	30.8	−7.4
Majority		310	38.4
Turnout		806	34.1
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	619	71.2	+1.6
	Labour	158	18.2	−13.0
	Liberal Democrats	92	10.6	+1.6
Majority		461	53.0
Turnout		869	35.2
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	245	59.5	−7.1
	Labour	99	24.0	−9.4
	Liberal Democrats	68	16.5	+16.5
Majority		146	35.5
Turnout		412	35.2
	Conservative hold	Swing

Council composition

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Philpott	749	60.5	−0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Acarnley	234	18.9	+18.9
	Labour	John Adams	214	17.2	−4.9
	Independent	Stewart Dimmock	43	3.5	+0.0
Majority			515	41.6
Turnout			1,239	34.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Smith	1,031	61.0	+0.2
	Labour	Ernest Brimmell	449	26.5	−12.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Featherstone	211	12.5	+12.5
Majority			582	34.5
Turnout			1,691	29.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Susan Chandler	892
	Conservative	Jane Sheridan	748
	Liberal Democrats	Bryan Curtis	336
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Smith	254
	Labour	Benet Bano	111
	Labour	Ernest Brimmel	110
Turnout			2,451	24.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Thompson	661	79.7	+11.4
	Conservative	Marianne Ford	108	13.0	−12.6
	Independent	Reginald Hansell	59	7.1	+0.9
	Independent	Edward Lee-Delisle	1	0.1	+0.1
Majority			553	66.7
Turnout			829	23.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Viviane Revell	365	33.7	−3.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Mackie	274	25.3	+6.1
	Conservative	Jennifer Morgan	252	23.3	−8.2
	Independent	Graham Wanstall	70	6.5	−5.8
	UKIP	Peter Campbell-Marshall	65	6.0	+6.0
	Independent	Victor Morgan	56	5.2	+5.2
Majority			91	8.4
Turnout			1,082	20.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mike Conolly	1,109	66.0	−1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Bryan Curtis	459	27.3	+5.4
	Labour	John Bird	113	6.7	−3.5
Majority			650	38.7
Turnout			1,681	31.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Viv REVELL	244	32.7
	Conservative	Mandy Marie SEHMBI	219	29.4
	Liberal Democrats	Dean STILES	93	12.5
	Dover Alliance	Raymond John WHITE	86	11.5
	English Democrat	Tony OVENDEN	72	9.7
	UKIP	Vic MATCHAM	32	4.3
Majority			25
Turnout				20.86
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey LYMER	239	62.2	−5.3
	Labour	Peter WALKER	90	23.4	+0.7
	UKIP	Victor Peter MATCHAM	55	14.3	+4.7
Majority			149
Turnout				20.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Michael WALLACE	744	53.7	+3.5
	Conservative	Deborah Nicholson BOULARES	642	46.3	−3.5
Majority			102
Turnout				26.58
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Cowan	460	61.9	−6.5
	Conservative	Pauline Catterall	283	38.1	+38.1
Majority			177	23.8
Turnout			743
	Labour hold		Swing

Buckland By-Election 4 May 2017^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nathaniel Richards	573	43.1	+2.6
	Conservative	Callum Warriner	566	42.5	+13.6
	UKIP	Timothy Turner	192	14.4	−16.2
Majority			7	0.5
Turnout			1,331
	Labour hold		Swing

St Margaret's-at-Cliffe By-Election 23 November 2017^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Jull	750	70.5	+17.7
	Labour	Charles Woodgate	314	29.5	+7.6
Majority			436	41.0
Turnout			1,064
	Conservative hold		Swing

Guston, Kingsdown and St Margaret's-at-Cliffe By-Election 12 December 2019^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Bates	2,523	59.1	+16.5
	Labour	Eileen Rowbotham	902	21.1	+5.3
	Green	Sarah White-Gleave	461	10.8	−8.7
	Liberal Democrats	Roben Franklin	382	9.0	+9.0
Majority			1,621	38.0
Turnout			4,268
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mill Hill By-Election 6 May 2021^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Hawkes	716	40.3	+10.0
	Labour	Jeffrey Loffman	608	34.2	−6.4
	Green	Mike Eddy	292	16.4	−12.7
	Independent	Chris Tough	103	5.8	+5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Rick Blackwell	59	3.3	+3.3
Majority			108	6.1
Turnout			1,778
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Napier	647	43.6	+7.5
	Conservative	Roger Walkden	567	38.2	+8.0
	UKIP	Peter McDermott	159	10.7	−22.9
	Independent	Graham Wanstall	110	7.4	+7.4
Majority			80	5.4
Turnout			1,483
	Labour gain from UKIP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dan Friend	721	51.6	+17.3
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Fox	676	48.4	+34.0
Majority			45	3.2
Turnout			1,397
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Ingrid Dodd	767	28.8	+18.0
	Reform	James Defriend	733	27.5	N/A
	Conservative	David Hawkes	456	17.1	−42.0
	Labour	Steve Wisbey	389	14.6	−6.5
	Restore	Jez Hermer	284	10.7	N/A
	Independent	Graham Wanstall	35	1.3	N/A
Majority			34	1.3
Turnout			2,664
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing