2018 Runnymede Borough Council election

2018 UK local government election

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3 May 2018 (2018-05-03)

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16 of the 42 seats in the Runnymede Borough Council
22 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party
	Con	Res
Leader	Nick Prescot	Linda Gillham
Party	Conservative	RIRG
Leader since	2017	2018
Leader's seat	Englefield Green West	Thorpe
Last election	26	6
Seats before	36	6
Seats won	11	2
Seats after	33	6
Seat change	3
Popular vote	8,893	1,954
Percentage	49.3%	9.4%

	Third party	Fourth party
	Ind	Lab
Leader	Malcolm Cressey	Fiona Dent
Party	Independent	Labour
Leader since	2018	2018
Leader's seat	Foxhills	Egham Hythe
Last election	0	0
Seats before	0	0
Seats won	2	1
Seats after	2	1
Seat change	2	1
Popular vote	1,350	4,580
Percentage	6.5%	22.0%

Leader before election

Nick Prescot
Conservative

Leader after election

Nick Prescot
Conservative

Elections for Runnymede Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018 alongside nationwide local elections. A third of the council was up for election, and the Conservatives retained control. Labour won their first seat on the council for over 20 years.

Election results

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Runnymede Borough Council Election 2022
Party		This election			Full council			This election
Party		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Conservative	11	3	68.8	22	33	78.6	10,266	49.3
	RIRG	2		12.5	4	6	14.3	1,954	9.4
	Independent	2	2	12.5	0	2	4.8	1,783	8.6
	Labour	1	1	6.3	0	1	2.4	4,580	22.0
	Liberal Democrats	0		7.1	0	0	7.3	1,328	6.4
	UKIP	0		0	0	0	0	582	2.8
	Green	1	1	7.1	0	1	2.4	345	1.7

Ward results

Addlestone Bourneside

Addlestone Bourneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Raymond Furey	739	52.60	−4.76
	Labour	June Patricia Tilbury	498	35.44	+5.20
	Liberal Democrats	Chelsea Katherine Whyte	168	11.96	+0.97
Turnout			1,414	32.68
	Conservative hold		Swing

Addlestone North

Addlestone North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David William Parr	779	63.80	+3.98
	Labour	Michael William Scott	442	36.20	−3.98
Turnout			1,236	26.03
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey Meads

Chertsey Meads
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Luke Dennett	900	66.08	+13.80
	Labour	Philip Martin	462	33.92	+11.19
Turnout			1,386	30.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey South and Row Town

Chertsey South and Row Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Snow	723	48.56	−7.91
	Conservative	Neil William Rubidge	719	48.29	−8.18
	Green	Richard George Miller	345	23.17	−1.65
	Labour	James Douglas Scott	249	16.82	−1.09
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Jane Whyte	246	16.52	N/A
	UKIP	Graham Frank Wood	144	9.67	N/A
Turnout			1,493	32.13
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey St Ann's

Chertsey St Ann's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Joseph Edis	736	49.10	+7.17
	Labour	Arran Richard Neathey	481	32.09	+4.14
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Thomas Lee	158	10.54	+2.92
	UKIP	William Albert Bruno	124	8.27	−13.74
Turnout			1,513	31.27
	Conservative hold		Swing

Egham Hythe

Egham Hythe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fiona Robertson Dent	682	53.12	+23.13
	Conservative	Jonathan James Wilson	602	46.88	+7.97
Turnout			1,299	27.50
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Egham Town

Egham Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Alan Alderson	674	56.21	−5.86
	Conservative	Charles Stewart Prescott	269	22.44	−0.08
	Labour	William Keith Heal	256	21.35	+6.26
Turnout			1,202	30.48
	Residents hold		Swing

Englefield Green East

Englefield Green East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter John Taylor	411	53.59	−11.60
	Labour	Robert Ashley King	199	25.95	+5.04
	Liberal Democrats	Nina Immink	157	20.47	+7.30
Turnout			770	34.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

Englefield Green West

Englefield Green West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Touros Kusneraitis	389	41.25	−0.95
	Labour	Abby Louise King	306	32.45	+2.62
	RIRG	Annabel Rose Tresilian Clarke	168	17.82	N/A
	UKIP	David Charles Hunt	80	8.48	−18.92
Turnout			946	29.70
	Conservative hold		Swing

Foxhills

Foxhills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Malcolm David Cressey	725	42.30	*N/A*
	Independent	Angela Shepperdson	625	36.46	*N/A*
	Conservative	Emma Georgina Bancroft	564	32.91	−20.91
	Conservative	David Calum James MacPhee	489	28.53	−25.29
	Liberal Democrats	Don Whyte	402	23.45	N/A
	Labour	John Colin Gurney	204	11.90	−4.42
	UKIP	Toby Micklethwait	134	7.82	−21.76
Turnout			1,716	41.72
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

New Haw

New Haw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark James Maddox	725	62.61	+0.98
	Labour	James Richard Mullett	236	20.38	+1.48
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Jane Coulon	197	17.01	−1.40
Turnout			1,166	26.78
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thorpe

Thorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Margaret Theresa Harnden	827	59.80	+3.63
	Conservative	Christian Thomas Jepson Egglishaw	396	28.63	+17.59
	Labour	Jack Eugeniusz Stokes	160	11.57	+3.59
Turnout			1,389	32.86
	Residents hold		Swing

Virginia Water

Virginia Water
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Parshotam Singh Sohi	738	47.31	−9.07
	Independent	Alex Balkan	433	27.76	N/A
	RIRG	Brian Anthony Clarke	285	18.27	−11.68
	Labour	James Lloyd Neal	104	6.67	N/A
Turnout			1,563	36.85
	Conservative hold		Swing

Woodham

Woodham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Ewan Anderson-Bassey	1,087	73.05	+5.41
	Labour	Anne Marie Emerson-Miller	301	20.23	N/A
	UKIP	Valerie Ann Woodhouse	100	6.72	−17.45
Turnout			1,502	35.32
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

"Declaration of Result of Poll". Runnymede Borough Council. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
"ELECTION 2018: Runnymede Borough Council goes to the polls". Royal Borough Observer. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

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