North Somerset Council elections

North Somerset Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. Until 1 April 1996 it was a non-metropolitan district called Woodspring, in the county of Avon.

Year	Conservative	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Labour	Green^[b]	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year						Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (61 seats)
1973	41	3	10	–	7		Conservative
1976	50	0	7	0	4		Conservative
New ward boundaries (59 seats)
1979	46	3	5	0	5		Conservative
1980	45	3	6	0	5		Conservative
1982	46	3	5	0	5		Conservative
1983	47	3	4	0	5		Conservative
1984	47	3	4	0	5		Conservative
1986	45	6	4	1	3		Conservative
1987^[c]	45	5	4	1	4		Conservative
1991	36	14	4	1	4		Conservative
Woodspring becomes a unitary authority, named changed to North Somerset (59 seats)
1995	18	29	6	1	5		No overall control
New ward boundaries (61 seats)
1999	32	11	13	1	4		Conservative
2003	24	23	10	1	3		No overall control
2007	43	8	3	1	6		Conservative
2011	42	6	5	1	7		Conservative
New ward boundaries (50 seats)
2015	36	4	3	1	6		Conservative
2019	13	11	6	3	17^[d]		No overall control
2023	13	9	10	7	11^[e]		No overall control

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Porter	279	32.7	−20.9
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Bibb	229	26.8	−3.0
	Independent	Anthony Horry	196	23.0	+23.0
	Labour	Stephen Lyall	149	17.5	+1.0
Majority			50	5.9
Turnout			853	36.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Bell	811	44.4	+8.2
	Conservative	Clive Webb	651	35.9	−9.0
	Independent	Malcolm Timmis	205	11.2	+11.2
	Labour	Chris Belton-Reed	161	8.8	−10.7
Majority			160	8.5
Turnout			1,828	25.4
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Kehoe	593	29.2	−4.7
	Conservative	Stanley Vyce	534	26.3	+6.7
	Independent	Ralph James	496	24.4	−10.7
	Labour	Douglas May	410	20.2	+8.8
Majority			59	2.9
Turnout			2,033	29.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Election results

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carl Francis-Pester	431	44.3	−17.1
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Griggs	369	37.9	+15.0
	Labour	Derek Waters	174	17.9	+2.2
Majority			62	6.4
Turnout			974	44.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Johnston	476	43.8	+4.0
	Conservative	David Pasley	434	39.9	−20.3
	UKIP	Anthony Butcher	118	10.8	+10.8
	Labour		59	5.4	+5.4
Majority			42	3.9
Turnout			1,087	45.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Jolley	488	38.9	+20.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jean Lord	452	36.1	+36.1
	Labour	Patricia Gardener	205	16.4	+16.4
	Independent	Reyna Knight	108	8.6	−73.3
Majority			36	2.8
Turnout			1,253	49.0
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Griggs	812	31.1	+1.3
	Independent	Anthony Moulin	749	28.7	−5.8
	Conservative	Jill Iles	678	26.0	+3.5
	Independent	Hilary Burn	267	10.2	+10.2
	Labour	Bryan Moore	104	4.0	−9.1
Majority			63	2.4
Turnout			2,610	38.4
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nanette Kirsen	360	33.9	+33.9
	Labour	Pauline Robertson	353	33.2	−28.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Neale	202	19.0	+3.4
	Conservative	Anne-Marie Gregory	147	13.8	−9.3
Majority			7	0.7
Turnout			1,062	40.0
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Judd	946
	Conservative	Steven Edwards	920
	Conservative	Marcia Pepperall	904
	Liberal Democrats	Ronald Moon	513
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Skinner	498
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hardaway	494
	Labour	Barbara Francis	268
	Labour	Brian Grace	234
	Labour	Simon Stokes	218
	Independent	Laurence Orme	157
	UKIP	Mary Brown	154
Turnout			5,306	26.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amratlal Patel	478	27.5	−33.6
	Independent	John Ley-Morgan	477	27.5	+27.5
	Liberal Democrats	Paula Howell	421	24.3	−4.1
	Independent	Sidney Carter	228	13.1	+13.1
	Labour	Josephine Bateman	132	7.6	−2.9
Majority			1	0.1
Turnout			1,736	24.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terence Porter	1,411	64.9	−4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Bindon	511	23.5	+2.8
	Labour	Timothy Taylor	253	11.6	+1.4
Majority			900	41.4
Turnout			2,175	42.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Geoff Coombs	816	61.7
	Conservative	Peter Burden	314	23.7
	Labour	Terry Connell	124	9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Alderton	69	5.2
Majority			502	37.9
Turnout			1,323	28.3
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Clayton	1,044	55.0	−0.5
	UKIP	Louis Rostill	449	23.6	+23.6
	Liberal Democrats	Rachel Ling	214	11.3	−3.2
	Conservative	John Butler	192	10.1	−12.7
Majority			595	31.3
Turnout			1,899
	Labour hold		Swing

Weston-super-Mare North Worle By-Election 25 July 2013^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Derek Mead	531	25.5	+25.5
	Conservative	Richard Nightingale	471	22.6	−27.5
	Labour	Denise Hunt	445	21.4	−1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Keating	321	15.4	−11.2
	UKIP	Steven Pearse-Danker	220	10.6	+10.6
	Independent	Rachel Ling	93	4.5	+4.5
Majority			60	2.9
Turnout			2,081
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Portishead East: 6 May 2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Portishead Ind.	Caroline Davinia Goddard	768	40.4	−30.6
	Conservative	David Harry Collingwood Oyns	609	32.1	+14.7
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Anthony Welton	303	16.0	N/A
	Labour	Sophie Ann Davies	219	11.5	+3.2
Turnout			1,899	34.15	–1.81
Registered electors			5,701
	Portishead Ind. hold		Swing

Congresbury & Puxton: 22 July 2021^[24]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Phil Neve	594	64.5	*N/A*
	Conservative	Samantha Pepperall	270	29.3	+15.7
	Labour	Dawn Parry	57	6.2	−25.8
Majority			324	35.2	N/A
Turnout			922	28.6	−10.7
	Green gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	24.4

Wrington: 16 November 2023^[25]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Thomas Daw	336	32.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	Annabel Tall	297	28.9	+6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Samantha Louden-Cooke	283	27.5	N/A
	Labour	Steven Lister	112	10.9	N/A
Majority			39	3.8
Turnout			1,028
	Green gain from Independent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Denise Estelle Hunt	589	36.4
	Conservative	James Davies	525	32.4
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Stuart Rice	265	16.4
	Independent	Richard Geoffrey Skinner	132	8.2
	UKIP	Anita Christine Maria Spencer-Johns	108	6.7
Majority			64	0.4
Turnout			1,619	25.6
	Labour gain from North Somerset First Independents

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Mike Dunn	1,254	55.6
	Conservative	James Gillham	399	17.7
	Reform	James Read	349	15.5
	Liberal Democrats	Francoise Johnston	129	5.7
	Labour	Ian Ridge	121	5.3
Majority			855	37.9
Turnout			2,252
	Green hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Harriott	350	29.0	−25.4
	Reform	Louise Branson	334	27.7	N/A
	Conservative	Harry Blades	224	18.6	−27.0
	Green	Dave Skinner	197	16.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jude Chambers	100	8.3	N/A
Majority			16	1.3
Turnout			1,205
	Labour hold