Woking Borough Council election, 2015

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The 2015 Woking Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect one third of members to Woking Borough Council in England coinciding with other local elections held simultaneously with a General Election which resulted in increased turnout compared to the election four years before. Elections in each ward are held in three years out of four.^[1]

Results

Conservatives gained two seats from Liberal Democrats and lost one to a Labour party member.

The result added one councillor to councillors within the group with overall control of the Council since 2011 or since 2007 counting a short period of minority administration.^[2]^[3]

Woking Borough Council Election, 2015
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	24	2	1	+1	75	49	19091
	Liberal Democrat	9	0	2	-2	28	17	6808
	Labour	2	1	0	+1	6	15	5901
	Independent	1	0	0	0	3	3	1350
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	11	4390
	Greens	0	0	0	0	0	4	1377
	Patriotic Socialist	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	9

Ward by ward

Byfleet
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Harry Briggs	1445
	Independent	Amanda Boote	1050
	Liberal Democrat	Andy Grimshaw	558
	UKIP	Richard Squire	449
	Labour	Michael Wood	316
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Goldsworth East
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hilary Addison	1592
	Liberal Democrat	James Sanderson	859
	Labour	Jay Butcher	766
	UKIP	Tim Read	377
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hermitage and Knaphill South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Paul Smith	1129
	Liberal Democrat	Tina Liddington	710
	UKIP	Troy De Leon	401
	Labour	Colin Bright	302
	Green	Vanessa King	118
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Horsell East and Woodham
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Anne Murray	1849
	Liberal Democrat	Rosemary Johnson	361
	UKIP	Terry Knight	264
	Labour	Elizabeth Evans	241
	Green	Topher Dykes	140
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Horsell West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beryl Hunwicks	2117
	Liberal Democrat	Anne-Marie Barker	987
	UKIP	Stephen Herbert	385
	Labour	John Scott-Morgan	376
	Green	Joanna Kelly	198
	Patriotic Socialist	Leo Dix	9
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kingfield and Westfield
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrat	Will Forster	971
	Conservative	Natalie Bourne	922
	Labour	Nigel Jackson	440
	UKIP	Robert Shatwell	396
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Knaphill
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Melanie Whitehand	2645
	Labour	Richard Ford	659
	UKIP	Bradley Hough	617
	Liberal Democrat	Syed Jaffri	595
	Green	James Brierley	304
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Maybury and Sheerwater
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Tahiz Aziz	1913
	Conservative	Colin Scott	1002
	UKIP	Judith Squire	416
	Independent	Ian Vousden	300
	Green	Will Hemmings	248
	Liberal Democrat	Norman Johns	214
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Old Woking
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Lawrence	486
	Liberal Democrat	Louise Morales	467
	UKIP	Jim Gore	240
	Labour	Barney Pimentel	176
	Green	John Parkin	75
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Pyrford
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Graham Chrystie	2076
	Liberal Democrat	Gareth Davies	366
	UKIP	Robin Milner	331
	Labour	Mohammed Khalid	154
	Green	Joel Street	140
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Johns and Hook Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Graham Cundy	1744
	Liberal Democrat	Rebecca Whale	320
	Labour	Tom Willis	216
	UKIP	Marcia Taylor	197
	Green	Hilary Griffiths	154
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Byfleet
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Richard Wilson	2084
	Lib Dems	William Wolfe	400
	Labour	Katherine Kearey	342
	UKIP	Neil Willetts	317
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

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v t e (2014 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2015 (→ 2016)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham St Helens Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils	Allerdale Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Carlisle Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Colchester Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Dover East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Northampton Norwich Oadby and Wigston Pendle Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Scarborough Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
Mayoral elections	Bedford Copeland Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay
See also: United Kingdom general election, 2015

v t e Council elections in Surrey
Surrey 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 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013
Elmbridge 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
Epsom and Ewell Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Guildford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Mole Valley District 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
Reigate and Banstead 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
Runnymede 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
Spelthorne Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Surrey Heath Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Tandridge District 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
Waverley Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Woking 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
See also: Wards Boundary changes Middlesex County Council elections

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↑ Woking Results Get Surrey, website of Surrey Advertiser/Herald/Guardian Group of newspapers. Accessed 2015-05-20.
↑ Borough composition, showing 24, 9, 2, 1 split of councillors WBC. Accessed 2015-05-20

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