2005 Isle of Wight Council election
Local election in England
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The 2005 Isle of Wight Council elections were held on the Isle of Wight, England, on 5 May 2005. The result led to a landslide Conservative victory gaining 22 councillors, leading the Isle of Wight to Conservative control from no overall control previously.[1]
Results
The party standings following the election:[1]
| Party | 2001 Cllrs | Gain/Loss | 2005 Cllrs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 13 | +22 | 35 | |
| Independents | 13 | −7 | 6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 19 | −14 | 5 | |
| Labour Party | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
| Total | 48 | – | 48 | |
The outcome of the election led to a significant change in composition of the Isle of Wight Council. Prior to the election, the Liberal Democrats were the largest group overall but still didn't hold a majority, leading to a coalition known as 'Island First' with independent councillors. The election showed a fall in support for the Liberal Democrats as the Conservatives gained 23 seats and took over as the largest group with a majority of 22. Following the change in control of the council, Cllr Andy Sutton took over with the promise that every aspect of the Conservative manifesto would be followed as they had indicated before the election.[2] Despite this promise there has been some debate on how well the original manifesto has been followed.[3][4]
Ward results
The following are results from each electoral ward.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Vanessa Churchman | 513 | |||
| Independent | Leslie Kirkby | 495 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Tait | 422 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Sarah Pigot | 689 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Barbara Clough | 422 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Winifred McRobert | 750 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Kendall | 353 | |||
| Labour | Alexander Rickard | 151 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ivan Bulwer | 1,185 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Ernest Fox | 628 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patrick Joyce | 1,256 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | David Cleaver | 607 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Colin West | 810 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jill Wareham | 687 | |||
| Labour | Peter Turner | 106 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Whittaker | 567 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Kevin Jacobs | 402 | |||
| Labour | Michael Nobbs | 273 | |||
| Independent | Peter Foster | 181 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Barbara Foster | 468 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Liam Verstraeten | 390 | |||
| Conservative | Stephen Gray | 292 | |||
| Independent | Dennis Lewis | 177 | |||
| Labour | Doris Frizel | 139 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Erica Oulton | 1,016 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Carr | 525 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Wendy Arnold | 930 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Malcolm Groves | 463 | |||
| Independent | Richard Etherington | 256 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alan Wells | 620 | |||
| Independent | Wendy Wardrop | 345 | |||
| UKIP | Paul Birch | 79 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Effemey | 797 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Tibble | 519 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lora Peacey-Wilcox | 608 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | David Hill | 573 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | George Brown | 342 | |||
| Labour | Kenn Pearson | 318 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Lloyd | 272 | |||
| UKIP | Rosemary Lynden-Bell | 47 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Margaret Webster | 596 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Margaret Lloyd | 390 | |||
| Labour | Jane Turner | 137 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Muriel Miller | 863 | |||
| Conservative | Simon Walker | 463 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Eugenie-Dawn Cousins | 847 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Marc Morgan-Huws | 411 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Gillian Kennett | 856 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Hinton | 430 | |||
| Independent | Collin Lillywhite | 261 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Sutton | 817 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Wareham | 448 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Hobart | 504 | |||
| Independent | Paul Fuller | 307 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Wilkinson | 182 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Deborah Gardiner | 451 | |||
| Conservative | Constance Cowley | 414 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Harris | 390 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Timothy Hunter-Henderson | 652 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Stuart | 410 | |||
| Labour | David Piggott | 262 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Shelagh Swan | 565 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Shirley Smart | 356 | |||
| Labour | Stuart Clements | 221 | |||
| Liberal | Richard Carruthers | 30 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Brian Mosdell | 701 | |||
| Independent | Robert Richards | 620 | |||
| Independent | John Rackett | 187 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jullian Whittaker | 393 | |||
| Labour | Nicholas Wray | 337 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Malcolm Ross | 291 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Cunningham | 593 | |||
| Labour | Cordula Rayner | 355 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Guy Radclyffe | 298 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Roger Mazillius | 1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Charles Hancock | 408 | |||
| Conservative | Alan Nightingale | 398 | |||
| Labour | Laraine Pascoe | 250 | |||
| Socialist Labour | James Spensley | 36 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Geoffrey Lumley | 483 | |||
| Conservative | Clive Page | 337 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Moth | 221 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Gary Price | 522 | |||
| Conservative | Roger Berrisford | 438 | |||
| Labour | Steven Falla | 248 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | John Adams | 552 | |||
| Conservative | David Woodward | 470 | |||
| Labour | Ernest White | 204 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Albert Taylor | 804 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Nobbs | 375 | |||
| Independent | Anthony Gordon | 271 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Chapman | 866 | |||
| Conservative | Adrian Axford | 463 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ian Stephens | 669 | |||
| Conservative | Peter Newman | 358 | |||
| Labour | Christine Wilde | 338 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Ward | 600 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Blezzard | 475 | |||
| Independent | Ronald Teasdale | 357 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Heather Humby | 986 | |||
| Conservative | Dawn Martin | 339 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Diana Tuson | 949 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Reginald Barry | 844 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Burt | 933 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Garlick | 497 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Pugh | 906 | |||
| Labour | Peter Coleman | 298 | |||
| Independent | John Fleming | 285 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Williams | 727 | |||
| Labour | Alan Hollands | 434 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Diana Beevers | 304 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anne Bishop | 889 | |||
| Independent | Harold Rees | 524 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | David Knowles | 698 | |||
| Conservative | Robert Woodgate | 689 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | John Bowker | 719 | |||
| Conservative | Rosalind Whitworth | 340 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | George Cameron | 738 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | John Howe | 726 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jonathan Fitzgerald-Bond | 554 | |||
| Independent | Brenda Lawson | 451 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Doran | 271 | |||
| Green | Louis Lawrence | 251 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Susan Scoccia | 688 | |||
| Independent | Albert Bartlett | 448 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | David White | 283 | |||
| Independent | Paul Hatchwell | 229 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Barry Abraham | 1,216 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Barry Townsend | 635 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jillian Wood | 1,136 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Catherine Wright | 633 | |||