Watford Borough Council elections are held three years out of every four, to elect members of Watford Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England. A third of the council is elected each time. Since the last boundary changes in 2016 the council has comprised 36 councillors representing 12 wards, each of which elects three councillors. In addition to the 36 councillors Watford also has a directly-elected mayor. Elections to Hertfordshire County Council are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections.[1]
Council elections
[edit]- 1973 Watford Borough Council election
- 1976 Watford Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[2]
- 1979 Watford Borough Council election
- 1980 Watford Borough Council election
- 1982 Watford Borough Council election
- 1983 Watford Borough Council election
- 1984 Watford Borough Council election
- 1986 Watford Borough Council election
- 1987 Watford Borough Council election
- 1988 Watford Borough Council election
- 1990 Watford Borough Council election
- 1991 Watford Borough Council election
- 1992 Watford Borough Council election
- 1994 Watford Borough Council election
- 1995 Watford Borough Council election
- 1996 Watford Borough Council election
- 1998 Watford Borough Council election
- 1999 Watford Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[3][4]
- 2000 Watford Borough Council election
- 2002 Watford Borough Council election
- 2003 Watford Borough Council election
- 2004 Watford Borough Council election
- 2006 Watford Borough Council election
- 2007 Watford Borough Council election
- 2008 Watford Borough Council election
- 2010 Watford Borough Council election
- 2011 Watford Borough Council election
- 2012 Watford Borough Council election
- 2014 Watford Borough Council election
- 2015 Watford Borough Council election
- 2016 Watford Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[1]
- 2018 Watford Borough Council election
- 2019 Watford Borough Council election
- 2021 Watford Borough Council election
- 2022 Watford Borough Council election
- 2023 Watford Borough Council election
- 2024 Watford Borough Council election
Results maps
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2010 results map
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2011 results map
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2012 results map
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2014 results map
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2015 results map
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2016 results map
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2018 results map
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2019 results map
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2021 results map
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2022 results map
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2023 results map
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2024 results map
By-election results
[edit]1994-1998
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | 3,768 | 48.2 | −14.1 | ||
Conservative | 2,473 | 31.7 | +9.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 1,570 | 20.1 | +4.3 | ||
Majority | 1,295 | 16.5 | |||
Turnout | 7,811 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | 3,695 | 50.0 | +1.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 1,963 | 26.6 | +4.9 | ||
Labour | 1,727 | 23.4 | −6.7 | ||
Majority | 1,732 | 23.4 | |||
Turnout | 7,385 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
1998-2002
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | 1,447 | 51.1 | +7.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 906 | 32.0 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative | 477 | 16.9 | −1.9 | ||
Majority | 541 | 19.1 | |||
Turnout | 2,830 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | 1,260 | 42.5 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative | 1,011 | 34.1 | −7.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 467 | 15.8 | −1.3 | ||
Independent | 116 | 3.9 | +3.9 | ||
Green | 112 | 3.8 | +3.8 | ||
Majority | 249 | 8.4 | |||
Turnout | 2,966 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | 1,691 | 56.9 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative | 674 | 22.7 | +1.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 607 | 20.4 | −2.2 | ||
Majority | 1,017 | 34.2 | |||
Turnout | 2,972 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
2002-2006
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Shirena Counter | 1,024 | 72.4 | +5.0 | |
Conservative | Alan Luto | 245 | 17.3 | −1.5 | |
Labour | Ngagbogu Akubue | 105 | 7.4 | −3.2 | |
Green | Faye Cullen | 40 | 2.8 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 779 | 55.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,414 | 28.8 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
2006-2010
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Mark Watkin | 887 | 45.4 | +17.4 | |
Conservative | Angela Basit | 828 | 42.4 | −12.0 | |
Green | Sally Ivins | 145 | 7.4 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Mohammed Riaz | 92 | 4.7 | −6.9 | |
Majority | 59 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,952 | 36.6 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Darren Walford | 932 | 50.0 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | Richard Southern | 486 | 26.1 | −12.4 | |
Labour | Mark Xerri | 273 | 14.6 | +4.0 | |
Green | Helen Wynne | 91 | 4.9 | +0.9 | |
BNP | Guy Dickens | 83 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
Majority | 446 | 23.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,865 | 40.83 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Stephen Johnson | 534 | 27.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Malcolm Adcock | 489 | 24.8 | ||
Green | Maria Green | 463 | 23.5 | ||
Labour | Ahsan Khan | 438 | 22.2 | ||
Majority | 45 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 1969 | 36.6 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
2010-2014
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Helen Lynch | 696 | 44.1 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Fred Grindrod | 622 | 39.4 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Youseffe Fahmy | 158 | 10.0 | −12.2 | |
Green | Dorothy Nixon | 79 | 5.0 | −1.4 | |
UKIP | Dan Channing | 24 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 74 | 4.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,579 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Jeanette Aron | 1,021 | 48.5 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Penny Edwards | 818 | 38.8 | +2.5 | |
Labour | Omar Ismail | 134 | 6.4 | −5.3 | |
Green | Sally Ivins | 133 | 6.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 203 | 9.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,106 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maureen Joan Mills | 917 | 52.9 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Granville Gough | 403 | 23.2 | −4.3 | |
Independent | Mohammad Azam | 190 | 11.0 | +11.0 | |
Independent | Paul Baker | 129 | 7.4 | −0.7 | |
Conservative | David Charles Ealey | 95 | 5.5 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 514 | 29.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,734 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Lizz Ayre | 716 | 45.9 | −1.7 | |
Labour | Avril Haley | 550 | 35.3 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Binita Mehta | 151 | 9.7 | −1.1 | |
Green | Su Murray | 83 | 5.3 | −0.9 | |
UKIP | Renie Price | 59 | 3.8 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 166 | 10.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,559 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Glen Saffery | 487 | 37.2 | −7.4 | |
Conservative | Tony Rogers | 292 | 22.3 | −8.8 | |
UKIP | Philip Cox | 277 | 21.1 | +21.1 | |
Labour | Omar Ashraf | 212 | 16.2 | −0.7 | |
Green | Alison Wiesner | 42 | 3.2 | −4.1 | |
Majority | 195 | 14.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,310 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
2014-2018
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Smith | 934 | 44.1 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Helen Lynch | 762 | 36.0 | +19.2 | |
Conservative | Camilla Khawaja | 318 | 15.0 | −4.5 | |
Green | Su Murray | 104 | 4.9 | −9.7 | |
Majority | 172 | 8.1 | |||
Turnout | 2,118 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Maggie Parker | 1,239 | 64.7 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Richard Bell | 395 | 20.6 | +6.9 | |
Labour | Sue Sleeman | 281 | 14.7 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 844 | 44.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,915 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Peter Jeffree | 1,430 | 54.7 | +10.1 | |
Conservative | David Fallon | 915 | 35.0 | +1.6 | |
Labour | Junior Sesay | 267 | 10.2 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 515 | 19.7 | |||
Turnout | 2,612 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
2018-2022
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Imran Hamid | 828 | 55.3 | −3.5 | |
Conservative | Joseph Gornicki | 420 | 28.1 | +4.7 | |
Labour | Sue Sleeman | 248 | 16.6 | −1.1 | |
Majority | 408 | 27.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,496 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Bill Stanton | 871 | 55.4 | −5.6 | |
Conservative | Carly Bishop | 490 | 31.2 | +13.2 | |
Labour | Seamus Williams | 210 | 13.4 | −7.5 | |
Majority | 381 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,571 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Watford (Electoral Changes) Order 2016", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2016/112, retrieved 14 May 2023
- ^ The Borough of Watford (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975
- ^ "Watford". BBC Online. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
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- ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Tudor Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk.
- ^ "Results - Borough 2008 - 16 October Tudor by-election". Watford Borough Council. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Leggatts Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
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