2023 Runnymede Borough Council election

2023 English Local election

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4 May 2023 (2023-05-04)

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14 of the 41 seats in the Runnymede Borough Council
21 seats needed for a majority

Registered

59,845

Turnout

19,547 (32.7%)

	First party	Second party	Third party
	Con	Lab	LD
Leader	Tom Gracey	Robert King	Don Whyte
Party	Conservative	Labour Co-op	Liberal Democrats
Leader since	2022	2021	2019
Leader's seat	Woodham & Rowtown	Egham Hythe	Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South
Last election	6	2	1
Seats before	24	3	3
Seats won	5	2	2
Seats after	20	4	4
Seat change	4	1	1
Popular vote	7,211	4,236	3,751
Percentage	36.9%	21.7%	19.2%
Swing	1.0 pp	4.4 pp	0.6 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
	Res	Grn	IND
Leader	Isabel Mullens	Steve Ringham	Malcolm Cressey
Party	RIRG	Green	Independent
Leader since	2022	2022	2019
Leader's seat	Egham Town	Addlestone North	Ottershaw
Last election	2	1	1
Seats before	6	1	4
Seats won	2	1	2
Seats after	6	2	5
Seat change	0	1	1
Popular vote	1,667	1,278	1,237
Percentage	8.5%	6.5%	6.3%
Swing	0.0 pp	0.1 pp	4.8 pp

A map presenting the results of the election, by party of the councillor elected from each ward

Leader before election

Tom Gracey
Conservative

Leader after election

Tom Gracey
Conservative
No overall control

The 2023 Runnymede Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect one-third of members of the Runnymede Borough Council in Surrey, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England.

The Conservative Party lost control of the council for the second time since the first election in 1973, the first being a short period between 1996 and 1998 when it was also under no overall control. In the previous election in 2022, the Conservative Party retained control of the council, winning 6 out of 14 seats and holding their majority, albeit reduced to 7. Liberal Democrat, Labour Co-op Party and Green Party each made gains of one seat each, and one independent gained a seat also.

The Conservatives managed to form a minority administration after the election with informal support from the three independent councillors representing the Ottershaw ward.

These were the first elections to be held with a new requirement for voters to have photo ID to vote in person at a polling station.

Overall results

Runnymede Borough Council election 2023
Party		This election			Full council			This election
Party		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Conservative	5	4	35.7	15	20	48.8	7,211	36.9	-1.0%
	Labour Co-op	2	1	14.3	2	4	9.8	4,236	21.7	+4.4%
	Liberal Democrats	2	1	14.3	2	4	9.8	3,751	19.2	+0.6%
	RIRG	2	0	14.3	4	6	14.6	1,667	8.5	=0.0%
	Independent	2	1	14.3	3	5	12.2	1,237	6.3	-4.8%
	Green	1	1	7.1	1	2	4.9	1,278	6.5	+0.1%
	Liberal	0	New	0.0	0	0	0.0	81	0.4	New
	Reform UK	0	New	0.0	0	0	0.0	71	0.4	New
	Heritage	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	15	0.1	-0.2%

Ward results

The results for each ward were as follows:

Addlestone North

Addlestone North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Manu Singh	545	39.7	−0.9
	Conservative	David Curran	515	37.5	+0.3
	Labour Co-op	June Tilbury	228	16.6	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Rudi Dikty-Daudiyan	86	6.3	−1.6
Majority			30	2.2
Rejected ballots			7
Turnout			1374	31.5
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing	-0.6

Addlestone South

Addlestone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Snow	609	41.7	−2.6
	Labour Co-op	Elaine Percival	529	36.3	+11.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ray Williamson	178	12.2	−6.0
	Green	Brian Gardiner	143	9.8	−3.0
Majority			80	5.5
Rejected ballots			14
Turnout			1459	30.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-7.1

Chertsey Riverside

Chertsey Riverside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jaz Mavi	565	41.9	+2.7
	Labour Co-op	Cai Parry	519	38.5	+11.0
	Liberal Democrats	Annabel Jones	158	11.7	−10.4
	Green	Elaine Brindley	107	7.9	−3.6
Majority			46	3.4
Rejected ballots			5
Turnout			1349	29.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4.1

Chertsey St. Ann's

Chertsey St. Ann's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Nuti	647	45.1	+10.8
	Labour Co-op	Ricky Milstead	524	36.5	+16.5
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Lee	167	11.6	−1.5
	Green	Tim Hayes	96	6.7	New
Majority			123	8.6
Rejected ballots			10
Turnout			1434	30.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.9

Egham Hythe

Egham Hythe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Robert King	749	49.8	−8.0
	Conservative	Mark Adams	624	41.5	−0.8
	Liberal	Roberto Buono	81	5.4	New
	Independent	John Olorenshaw	49	3.3	New
Majority			125	8.3
Rejected ballots			2
Turnout			1503	30.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	-3.6

Egham Town

Egham Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Isabel Mullens	927	64.6	+9.2
	Labour	Meera Saravanan	213	14.9	−0.1
	Conservative	John Osborn	212	14.8	−3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Heath	82	5.7	+0.9
Majority			714	49.8
Rejected ballots			7
Turnout			1434	32.8
	RIRG hold		Swing	+4.7

Englefield Green East

Englefield Green East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Trevor Gates	442	54.5	+8.6
	Conservative	Lewis Virgo	188	23.2	−3.9
	Labour Co-op	Archie Langdon	113	13.9	−5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Jordan	68	8.4	+1.2
Majority			254	31.3
Rejected ballots			1
Turnout			811	33.2
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing	+6.3

Englefield Green West

Englefield Green West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eliza Kettle	613	53.9	+17.1
	Conservative	Tanya Solomon	525	46.1	+11.1
Majority			88	7.7
Rejected ballots			6
Turnout			1138	30.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+3.0

Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South

Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Don Whyte	689	73.2	+4.4
	Conservative	Tommy Traylen	252	26.8	−4.4
Majority			437	46.4
Rejected ballots			3
Turnout			941	33.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+4.4

New Haw

New Haw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Smith	1,135	64.7	+17.2
	Conservative	Jacqui Gracey	536	30.6	−17.5
	Green	Martin Robson	68	3.9	New
	Heritage	Gian Palermiti	15	0.9	−3.5
Majority			599	34.2
Rejected ballots			8
Turnout			1754	37.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	+17.4

Ottershaw

Ottershaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Michael Cressey	746	45.4	−10.2
	Conservative	Peter Edwards	431	26.2	+1.1
	Labour Co-op	Joe Rourke	215	13.1	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin DeCruz	133	8.1	−0.1
	Green	Peter Chiverton	118	7.2	New
Majority			315	19.2
Rejected ballots			6
Turnout			1643	34.1
	Independent hold		Swing	-5.7

Thorpe

Thorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Elaine Gill	740	53.5	+0.4
	Conservative	Jacqueline Sharp	395	28.6	+0.6
	Labour Co-op	Benjamin Niblett	178	12.9	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Cheryl Smith-Wright	70	5.1	+0.2
Majority			345	24.9
Rejected ballots			7
Turnout			1383	32.1
	RIRG hold		Swing	-0.1

Virginia Water

Virginia Water
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Chris Howorth	789	47.5	−9.2
	Liberal Democrats	Karin Roswell	646	38.9	+2.9
	Labour Co-op	Karen McKinlay-Gunn	107	6.4	−0.9
	Reform UK	Mayuran Senthilnathan	71	4.3	New
	Green	Maciej Pawlik	48	2.9	New
Majority			143	8.6
Rejected ballots			4
Turnout			1661	38.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	-6.0

Woodham and Rowtown

Woodham and Rowtown
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Gracey	923	55.5	+0.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Coulon	339	20.4	−8.3
	Labour Co-op	Michael Scott	248	14.9	New
	Green	Vicky Flyn	153	9.2	−7.0
Majority			584	35.1
Rejected ballots			7
Turnout			1663	34.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.4

References

"Local election 2023". Runnymede Borough Council. 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
"Your Councillors". Runnymede Borough Council. 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
Caulfield, Chris (18 May 2023). "New Runnymede leader to take on council with no overall control". Surrey Live. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
"Voter ID". The Electoral Commission. 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
"Election results by wards, 4 May 2023". Runnymede Borough Council. 5 May 2023.
"Live Surrey 2023 local election results and reaction as it happens". Surrey Live. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.

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