2019 Uttlesford District Council election

2019 UK local government election

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2 May 2019 (2019-05-02)

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All 39 seats to Uttlesford District Council
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	R4U	Liberal Democrats
Last election	9 seats, 25.3%	6 seats, 15.7%
Seats won	26	7
Seat change	17	1
Popular vote	18,234	10,692
Percentage	38.3%	22.5%
Swing	13.0%	6.8%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Conservative	Independent
Last election	23 seats, 42.7%	1 seat, 5.0%
Seats won	4	2
Seat change	19	1
Popular vote	13,419	2,084
Percentage	28.2%	4.4%
Swing	14.5%	0.6%

Map showing the winner in each ward for the 2019 Uttlesford District Council election

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

R4U

The 2019 Uttlesford District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Uttlesford District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

Summary

Election result

2019 Uttlesford District Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	R4U	29	26	17	0	17	66.7	38.3	18,234	+13.0
	Liberal Democrats	30	7	3	2	1	17.9	22.5	10,692	+6.8
	Conservative	38	4	0	19	19	10.3	28.2	13,419	–14.5
	Independent	2	2	1	0	1	4.4	5.1	2,084	–0.6
	Labour	18	0	0	0		0.0	3.5	1,664	–3.6
	Green	9	0	0	0		0.0	2.7	1,294	+1.6
	UKIP	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	193	–2.7

Ward Results

Ashdon

Ashdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	R4U	James Leon Herman De Vries	321	41.5	−1.7
	Conservative	Howard Stephen Rolfe	270	34.9	−11.7
	Green	Paul Henry Allington	79	10.2	New
	Liberal Democrats	Sara Booth	59	7.6	New
	Labour	Oliver James Rowley	36	4.7	New
Majority
Turnout			774	49.1
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Broad Oak & The Hallingsburys

Broad Oak & The Hallingsburys
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Geof Driscoll	571	47.9
	R4U	Neil Reeve	524	44.0
	Conservative	Keith Artus	404	33.9
	Conservative	Lesley Wells	316	26.5
	UKIP	David Allum	193	16.2
	Liberal Democrats	Maryanne Fleming	133	11.2
Turnout			1,197	37.7
	R4U gain from Conservative
	R4U gain from Conservative

Clavering

Clavering
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Edward Oliver	497	56.5
	R4U	Tracy Williams	232	26.4
	Liberal Democrats	John Clift	150	17.1
Majority
Turnout			883	47.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Debden & Wimbish

Debden & Wimbish
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Stewart Luck	307	40.7
	Conservative	Tina Knight	245	32.5
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Hare	142	18.8
	Green	Edward Gildea	33	4.4
	Labour	Peter Donovan	28	3.7
Majority
Turnout			706	44.5
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Elsenham & Henham

Elsenham & Henham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Petrina Lees	927	64.1
	R4U	Garry Lecount	612	42.3
	Liberal Democrats	Fred Frindle	526	36.4
	Liberal Democrats	David South	320	22.1
	Conservative	Liam Hithersey	142	9.8
	Labour	Callum Parris	79	5.5
Majority
Turnout			1,458	41.4
	R4U gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	R4U gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Felsted & Stebbing

Felsted & Stebbing
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Sandi Merifield	661	45.9
	R4U	John Evans	647	44.9
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Silcock	409	28.4
	Conservative	Roy Ramm	352	24.4
	Conservative	Charlotte Salomon	294	20.4
	Liberal Democrats	Antoinette Wattebot	152	10.5
	Green	Ruth Wheaton	96	6.7
	Labour	Humphrey Barbier	49	3.4
	Labour	David Sowter	46	3.2
Turnout			1,455	42.5
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Flitch Green & Little Dunmow

Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christian Criscione	374	58.8
	R4U	Felicity Sutton	179	28.1
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Raddon	83	13.1
Majority
Turnout			1,849	34.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Dunmow North

Great Dunmow North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Alexander Armstrong	779	63.9
	R4U	Louise Pepper	652	53.4
	Conservative	John Davey	378	31.0
	Conservative	Paul Davies	291	23.9
	Liberal Democrats	David Morgan	114	9.3
Majority
Turnout			1,228	33.7
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Great Dunmow South & Barnston

Great Dunmow South & Barnston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Rod Jones	978	58.8
	R4U	Patrick Lavelle	970	58.3
	R4U	Colin Day	865	52.0
	Conservative	Danielle Frost	551	33.1
	Conservative	Graham Barker	472	28.4
	Conservative	Vic Ranger	438	26.3
	Labour	Gerard Darcy	202	12.1
Majority
Turnout			1,703	34.0
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Hatfield Heath

Hatfield Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Reginald Mark Lemon (Mark Lemon)	430	76.9
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Dyer	66	11.8
	Labour	Bill McCarthy	63	11.3
Majority
Turnout			578	32.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

High Easter & Rodings

High Easter & Rodings
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Susan Barker	483	70.5
	Green	Margaret Shaw	91	13.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jonh Hudson	70	10.2
	Labour	Faridah Gullam	41	6.0
Majority
Turnout			707	36.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Littlebury, Chesterfords & Wenden Lofts

Littlebury, Chesterfords & Wenden Lofts
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Neil Gregory	1,057	57.0
	Independent	Richard Pavitt	1,027	55.3
	Conservative	Robert Chambers	481	25.9
	Conservative	Julie Redfern	471	25.4
	Green	Kevin Wing	263	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Hughes	219	11.8
Majority
Turnout			1,872	54.8
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Newport

Newport
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Neil Hargreaves	952	75.2
	R4U	Ant Gerard	853	67.4
	Conservative	Gregory Smith	208	16.4
	Conservative	Tom Flack	199	15.7
	Liberal Democrats	Marion Dyer	147	11.6
Majority
Turnout			1,276	43.4
	R4U hold		Swing
	R4U hold		Swing

Saffron Walden Audley

Saffron Walden Audley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Deryk Alan Eke	744	45.0
	R4U	Barbara Ann Light	740	44.7
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Hibbs	584	35.3
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Maurice Ede	261	15.8
	Conservative	George Maurice Smith	243	14.7
	Conservative	Sam Slota-Newson	228	13.8
	Green	Sarah Jane Heaton Allington	226	13.7
	Labour	David Patrick O'Brien	152	9.2
Majority
Turnout			1,707	37.1
	R4U hold		Swing
	R4U hold		Swing

Saffron Walden Castle

Saffron Walden Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Heather Jane Asker	818	54.8
	R4U	Richard Ford Freeman	742	49.7
	Conservative	Sam Goddard	289	19.4
	Conservative	David James Sadler	230	15.4
	Liberal Democrats	Steffi Suhr	209	14.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Newman Lefever	207	13.9
	Green	Abigail Saffrey	145	9.7
	Labour	Simon David Trimnell	119	8.0
	Labour	Laura Jane Snell	95	6.4
Majority
Turnout			1,525	35.4%
	R4U hold		Swing
	R4U hold		Swing

Saffron Walden Shire

Saffron Walden Shire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	John Stuart Lodge	1,136	52.0
	R4U	Arthur George Coote	1,130	51.8
	R4U	Paul Geoffrey Fairhurst	1,096	50.2
	Conservative	Andrew James Ketteridge	478	21.9
	Green	Trilby Fiona Roberts	376	17.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sonia Sault	358	16.4
	Conservative	Karan Karunakaram	353	16.2
	Conservative	Nicholas David Osborne	348	15.9
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Peter Philip Langworthy	272	12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Jane Barrows	258	11.8
	Labour	Yvonne Lily Morton	238	10.9
Majority
Turnout			2,225	27.7
	R4U hold		Swing
	R4U hold		Swing
	R4U hold		Swing

Stansted North

Stansted North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Dean	905	60.7
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Sell	871	58.4
	Conservative	Nick Church	484	32.4
	Conservative	Josie Thompson	453	30.4
	Labour	Joe Lewis	92	6.2
	Labour	Alfred Miti	79	5.3
Majority
Turnout			1,514	43.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Stansted South & Birchanger

Stansted South & Birchanger
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Melvin Caton	550	57.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ayub Khan	463	48.4
	Conservative	Gary Davey	349	36.5
	Conservative	Jennie Sutton	325	34.0
	Labour	Daniel Brett	81	8.5
	Labour	Thomas Van De Bilt	68	7.1
Majority
Turnout			1,011	22.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Stort Valley

Stort Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Janice Loughlin	459	72.3
	Conservative	Dapne Wallace-Jarvis	176	27.7
Majority
Turnout			640	39.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Takeley

Takeley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Geoff Bagnall	928	61.1
	R4U	Maggie Sutton	913	60.1
	R4U	Vere Isham	800	52.7
	Conservative	Jim Gordon	442	29.1
	Conservative	Derek Jones	428	28.2
	Conservative	Howard Ryles	332	21.9
	Liberal Democrats	Teddy Kimber	140	9.2
	Labour	Terry Brandon	119	7.8
Majority
Turnout			1,536	25.1
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

Thaxted & The Eastons

Thaxted & The Eastons
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Tayler	1,263	75.4
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Foley	1,229	73.4
	Conservative	Ralph Barrington	364	21.7
	Conservative	Marie Siddans	305	18.2
	Labour	Alex Young	77	4.6
Majority
Turnout			1,717	42.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

The Sampfords

The Sampfords
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Alan Storah	383	47.3
	Conservative	William Burton	265	32.8
	Green	Emma Horton	88	10.9
	Liberal Democrats	Claire Vintiner	73	9.0
Majority
Turnout			807	45.9
	R4U gain from Conservative		Swing

By-elections

Newport

Newport: 6 May 2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	R4U	Judy Emanuel	892
	Conservative	Jennie Sutton	322
	Green	Edward Gildea	63
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Smith	62
	Labour	Andrew Sampson	61
Turnout				45
	R4U hold		Swing

The Newport by-election was triggered by the resignation of Anthony Gerard, who had been elected as a Residents for Uttlesford councillor in May 2019 but defected to the Greens in October 2019.

The Sampfords

The Sampfords: 6 May 2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Smith	384
	R4U	Uli Gerhard	361
	Green	Madeleine Radford	52
	Labour	Sanjukta Ghosh	46
	Liberal Democrats	Maryanne Fleming	21
Turnout				48.7
	Conservative gain from R4U		Swing

This by-election was triggered by the death of Residents for Uttlesford councillor Alan Storah.

Great Dunmow South & Barnston

Great Dunmow South & Barnston: 5 January 2023
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Loveday	375	46.0	+14.2
	R4U	Kerry Herbert	238	29.2	–27.3
	Labour	Ben Cavanagh	115	14.1	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Lorraine Flawn	88	10.8	New
Majority			137	16.8	N/A
Turnout			830	16.4	–17.6
Registered electors			5,048
	Conservative gain from R4U		Swing	20.8

This by-election was triggered by the resignation of Residents for Uttlesford councillor Colin Day.

References

"Uttlesford District Council - Results - District elections 2 May 2019". www.uttlesford.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
Boothroyd, David (18 October 2019). "Grave news for Labour". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
^ Dunderdale, Louise (7 May 2021). "Local elections 2021: UDC ward results for Newport and The Sampfords". Dunmow Broadcast. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
"Declaration of Result of Poll" (PDF). Uttlesford District Council. 6 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
Suslak, Anne (10 January 2023). "'Significant' Conservative win at Dunmow and Barston by-election". Dunmow Broadcast. Retrieved 12 June 2023.

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