Dartford Borough Council election, 2011

Elections to Dartford Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011. The whole council (44 seats) was up for election and the Conservative party retained overall control of the council.

The Conservatives won seats from both the Labour Party and the Swanscombe and Greenhithe Residents Association, as well as retaining all their gains at the previous election.

Election result

"Residents Association" is the Swanscombe and Greenhithe Residents Association.

Turnout: 41.21%

Dartford Borough Council Election Result 5 May 2011
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	31	5	-	+5	70	52.87	37,819
	Labour	9	-	3	-3	20	31.20	22,122
	Residents	4	-	2	-2	9	6.62	4690
	English Democrats	0	-	-	-		6.25	4615
	UKIP	0	-	-	-		<1	392
	Green	0	-	-	-		<1	316
	Independent	0	-	-	-		<1	287
	Liberal Democrat	0	-	-	-		<1	159

Ward results

In multi-member wards, "majority" is taken as the difference in votes between the lowest of the elected and the highest of the not elected.

Bean & Darenth (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Douglas Armitt	908	20.92
	Conservative	David Alan Hammock	886	20.41
	Conservative	Rebecca Louise Shanks	824	18.98
	Labour	Margaret Anne Eaton	416	9.58
	Labour	Alan William Pearson	362	8.34
	Labour	Sarah Wimhurst	358	8.25
	English Democrats	Stephen Richard Culliford	227	5.23
	English Democrats	Gary Paul Rogers	185	4.26
	English Democrats	Neil Charles Tibby	175	4.03
Majority			408
Turnout			4341	38.49
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brent (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nancy Catherine Wightman	1152	18.93
	Conservative	Drew Swinerd	1129	18.55
	Conservative	Peter John Cannon	1115	18.32
	Labour	Julian Timothy Bryant	779	12.80
	Labour	Raghvir Singh Athwal	638	10.48
	Labour	Christian Arthur Nicholson	616	10.12
	English Democrats	Michael Terrence Tibby	252	4.14
	English Democrats	Jeremy Richard Chattenton	211	3.47
	English Democrats	Mitchell Roy Jackson	193	3.17
Majority
Turnout			6085	44.80
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Castle (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sheila East	337	56.35
	Labour	Dharma Ramdass Appadoo	122	20.40
	Residents	Richard John Lees	83	13.88
	English Democrats	Frances Elizabeth Moore	56	9.36
Majority			215
Turnout			598	32.20
	Conservative hold		Swing

Greenhithe (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Susan Patricia Butterfill	572	14.06
	Conservative	Keith Martin Kelly	550	13.52
	Conservative	David James Mote	537	13.20
	Residents	Peter Martin Harman	501	12.32
	Conservative	Victoria Louise Morris	478	11.75
	Residents	Victor Openshaw	467	11.48
	Labour	John Wallace Masson	295	7.25
	Labour	Monica Lesley Masson	289	7.11
	Labour	Joyce Wise	287	7.06
	English Democrats	Dianne Cooper	91	2.24
Majority
Turnout			4067	32.39
	Residents hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Residents		Swing
	Conservative gain from Residents		Swing

Heath (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Ronald Lloyd	1501	24.13
	Conservative	Patricia Anne Thurlow	1401	22.52
	Conservative	Richard John Wells	1365	21.95
	Labour	Rosetta Mary Barnett	591	9.50
	Labour	David John Michael Stock	560	9.00
	Labour	Robert John Celino	534	8.59
	English Democrats	Carol White-Griffiths	268	4.31
Majority
Turnout			6220	48.24
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Joyce Green (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Muckle	543	28.85
	Labour	Matthew James Bryant	512	27.21
	Conservative	Scott David Shewbridge	281	14.93
	Conservative	Terence Jonathan White	211	11.21
	English Democrats	Glenn Gardner	176	9.35
	Liberal Democrat	William Simmonds	91	4.84
	Liberal Democrat	George Sakellariou	68	3.61
Turnout			1882	34.26
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Joydens Wood (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ann Dorothy Allen	1766	25.57
	Conservative	Marilyn Iris Peters	1717	24.86
	Conservative	Jennifer Ann Rickwood	1661	24.05
	Labour	Paul Frederick Blankley	515	7.46
	Labour	Susan May Brooker	515	7.46
	Labour	Michael John Allen	501	7.25
	English Democrats	Laurence Williams	232	3.36
Turnout			6907	47.03
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Littlebrook (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Ivan Muckle	585	32.43
	Labour	Thomas Anthony Maddison	504	27.94
	Conservative	Julie Anne Ozog	256	14.19
	Conservative	Ragbhir Singh Sandhu	233	12.92
	English Democrats	Paul Anthony Wells	226	12.53
Turnout			1804	35.78
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeremy Alan Kite	1828	25.12
	Conservative	Steven Hamilton Brown	1747	24.01
	Conservative	Roger Perfitt	1562	21.46
	Independent	Jennifer Mary MacDonald	493	6.77
	Labour
	Labour	Catherine Mary Stafford	449	6.17
	Labour	Maureen Anna Jansseune	378	5.19
	Labour	John Roger Ward	323	4.44
	Green	Christopher John Burton	316	4.34
	UKIP	Sanya-Jeet Thandi	181	2.49
Turnout			7277	53.05
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Newtown (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gary Reynolds	951	16.56
	Conservative	Avtar Singh Sandhu	938	16.33
	Conservative	Michael John Street	898	15.63
	Labour	David John Baker	842	14.66
	Labour	Helen Mary Susan Flint	733	12.76
	Labour	Gurdial Singh Rai	679	11.82
	English Democrats	Daryl Saines	265	4.61
	English Democrats	James Thomas Read	225	3.92
	English Democrats	Louise Ann Uncles	213	3.71
Turnout			5744	42.17
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Princes (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rosemary Bryant	811	19.87
	Labour	Patrick Kelly	728	17.83
	Labour	Geoffrey Truscott Prout	684	16.76
	Conservative	Rebecca Florence Storey	536	13.13
	Conservative	Jean Carol Shippam
	Conservative	Steven Ronald Jarnell	526	12.89
	English Democrats	Christine Lorraine Dunmall	268	6.57
Turnout			4082	36.57
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Stone (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Burrell	713	18.53
	Labour	John Paul Adams	642	16.68
	Labour	Jonathon Simon Hawkes	609	15.83
	Conservative	Madeleine Barbara Phyllis Rogers	588	15.28
	Labour	Iqbal Badwal	560	14.55
	Conservative	Brian Walter Wells	544	14.14
	English Democrats	Paul David Cooper	192	4.99
Turnout			3848	33.89
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Francis Coleman	960	36.82
	Conservative	Anthony Robert Martin	817	31.34
	Labour	Stephen Robert David de Winton	371	14.23
	Labour	Samantha Kirsty Fallick	322	12.35
	English Democrats	Christopher Henry Bousfield	137	5.26
Turnout			2607	45.18
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Swanscombe (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Bryan Ernest Read	1063	24.82
	Residents	Leslie James Bobby	1011	23.61
	Residents	John Alfred Hayes	993	23.19
	Labour	Anne Elizabeth Burke	359	8.38
	Labour	David Edward May	342	7.99
	Labour	Marilyn Sharon May	303	7.08
	UKIP	Stephen Wilders	211	4.93
Turnout			4282	32.96
	Residents hold		Swing
	Residents hold		Swing
	Residents hold		Swing

Town (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew John Davis	533	25.66
	Conservative	Christopher Jon Shippam	495	23.83
	Labour	Carole Ann Jones	391	18.83
	Labour	Ian Alexander Kettley	354	17.04
	English Democrats	Nathan Andrew (Potton) King	129	6.21
	English Democrats	Andrew Richard Charles Waghorn	106	5.10
		Ashley Brown	43	2.07
		Hasan Nurhakli	26	1.25
Turnout			2077	37.55
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arron Bardoe	1145	18.22
	Conservative	Anthony Wells	1142	18.17
	Conservative	Jan Michael Ozog	1028	16.35
	Labour	Christine Angell	756	12.03
	Labour	Garry Graham Sturley	666	10.59
	Labour	Samuel Taiwo-Brown	660	10.50
	English Democrats	John Henry Griffiths	258	4.10
	English Democrats	Michelle Laura Duncan	225	3.58
	Independent	Josephine Anne Shippam	218	3.47
	English Democrats	Steven Thomas Uncles	188	2.99
Turnout			6286	47.08
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Wilmington (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Edward Hunnisett	1071	38.44
	Conservative	Edward John Lampkin	960	34.46
	Labour	Derek Alexander Hills	322	11.56
	Labour	Graham Christopher David Steele	316	11.34
	English Democrats	Teresa Cannon	117	4.20
Turnout			2786	47.34
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

External links

• Dartford Council Results