1996 Stevenage Borough Council election

1996 UK local government election

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13 of the 39 seats to Stevenage Borough Council
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Labour	Liberal Democrats
Seats before	36	1
Seats won	12	1
Seats after	38	1
Seat change	2
Popular vote	12,748	2,246
Percentage	68.3%	12.0%

Map showing the results of contested wards in the 1996 Stevenage Borough Council elections.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

Elections to Stevenage Council were held on 2 May 1996. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 1992. The Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. The council was one of a number where the Conservatives lost their last seats.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Labour 38
Liberal Democrats 1

Election result

Stevenage Local Election Result 1996
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	12	3	1	2	92.3	70.3	12,748	27.0
Conservative	0	0	3	2	0	18.6	3,468	17.9
Militant Labour	0	0	0	0	0	1.1	196	New
Social Democrat	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

All comparisons in seats and vote share are to the corresponding 1992 election.

Ward results

Bandley Hill

Bandley Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bob Woodward	1,175	68.2%
	Liberal Democrats	K. Lloyd	220	12.8%
	Conservative	F. Warner	187	10.9%
	Militant Labour	J. Horton	141	8.2%
Turnout				29.2%
	Labour hold

Bedwell Plash

Bedwell Plash
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michael Downing	1,086	79.9%
	Conservative	M. Wyatt	170	12.5%
	Liberal Democrats	S. Grubert	104	7.6%
Turnout				36.8%
	Labour hold

Chells

Chells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ken Vale	879	84.8%
	Conservative	G. Hegan	158	15.2%
Turnout				32.1%
	Labour hold

Longmeadow

Longmeadow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bruce Jackson	1,026	64.2%
	Conservative	R. Dimelow	295	18.4%
	Liberal Democrats	M. Latham	278	17.4%
Turnout				33.2%
	Labour hold

Martins Wood

Martins Wood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michael P. Patston	1,269	64.6%
	Conservative	E. Hegan	437	22.2%
	Liberal Democrats	B. Segadelli	259	13.2%
Turnout				28.6%
	Labour gain from Conservative

Mobbsbury

Mobbsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Robin G. Parker	847	50.4%
	Labour	J. Nadauld	755	45.0%
	Conservative	S. Huetson	77	4.6%
Turnout				54.2%
	Liberal Democrats hold

Note: Mobbsbury ward was won by Labour at the last regular election in 1992, but gained by the Liberal Democrats in an unscheduled election in 1994.

Monkswood

Monkswood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Liz Harrington	653	85.6%
	Conservative	P. Rushforth	110	14.4%
Turnout				34.0%
	Labour hold

Old Stevenage

Old Stevenage
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Pamela E.J. Gallagher	1,261	60.7%
	Conservative	P. McPartland	815	39.3%
Turnout				37.7%
	Labour gain from Conservative

Pin Green

Pin Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Simon K. Speller	910	74.0%
	Conservative	M. Mason	186	15.1%
	Liberal Democrats	J. Moorcroft	133	10.8%
Turnout				34.7%
	Labour hold

Roebuck

Roebuck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Monika Cherney-Craw	871	69.4%
	Conservative	M. Hurst	207	16.5%
	Liberal Democrats	J. Hamblin	177	14.1%
Turnout				31.9%
	Labour hold

St Nicholas

St Nicholas
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bob Fowler	687	68.1%
	Liberal Democrats	M. Griffith	166	16.5%
	Conservative	S. Woods	156	15.5%
Turnout				29.1%
	Labour hold

Shephall

Shephall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert A. Clark	697	77.2%
	Conservative	M. Davies	89	9.9%
	Liberal Democrats	G. Snell	62	6.9%
	Militant Labour	M. Pickersgrill	55	6.1%
Turnout				28.7%
	Labour hold

Symonds Green

Symonds Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Tony T. Turner	1,479	71.8%
	Conservative	M. Notley	581	28.2%
Turnout				37.3%
	Labour gain from Conservative

References

"Council compositions by year". The Elections Centre.
"Local Election Summaries 1996". The Elections Centre.
Millar, Frank (3 May 1996). "Tories suffer massive defeats in local elections". Irish Times. p. 10.
^ "Complete list of results;Elections;Local". The Times. 4 May 1996. p. 1.
^ "Stevenage Borough Council Election Results 1973–2012" (PDF). Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "Members of the Council". Archived from the original on 8 November 2002. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

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