Elections to West Wiltshire District Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats held their overall control, winning twenty-seven seats while the Conservatives took ten, Independents four and the Labour Party two.
Three single-member wards, Ethandune, Melksham Roundpond, and Westbrook, had only one candidate in each case and thus were uncontested.
Results
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 27 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 62.8 | 47.9 | 20,890 | -3 | |
Conservative | 10 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 23.3 | 35.6 | 15,520 | +4 | |
Independent | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.3 | 6.3 | 2,768 | 0 | |
Labour | 2 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 2,290 | -1 | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 2,149 | 0 |
Ward results
[edit]Blackmore Forest
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Nicola Mary Remsik | 342 | |||
Conservative | Andrew George Milton | 340 | |||
Labour | Geoffrey Alan Mitcham | 211 | |||
Majority | 2 | ||||
Turnout | 25.4 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Bradford-on-Avon North
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Janet Lindsay Repton | 685 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Sophie Farkas | 677 | |||
Conservative | David James Blagden | 315 | |||
Conservative | Simon John Birkett | 302 | |||
Green | John Richard Pearce | 181 | |||
Majority | 362 | ||||
Turnout | 38.55 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Bradford-on-Avon South
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Minna Winifred Gillham | 955 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Frances Lewis | 819 | |||
Conservative | Baldev Singh Jathoul | 411 | |||
Green | Vivien Jennifer Talbot | 313 | |||
Majority | 408 | ||||
Turnout | 41.03 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Corsley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Leonard Frank Osborn | 433 | |||
Liberal Democrats | John Vladimir Landell Mills | 77 | |||
Majority | 356 | ||||
Turnout | 40.49 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Dilton Marsh
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Alison Mary Irving | 338 | |||
Green | Kevan James Corcoran | 158 | |||
Majority | 180 | ||||
Turnout | 35.02 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Ethandune
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Michael Elwyn Jones | ||||
Majority | Uncontested | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Holt
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Anthony John Hunter | 448 | |||
Conservative | Gerald Clive Burnan | 411 | |||
Green | Lex Hepenstall | 62 | |||
Majority | 37 | ||||
Turnout | 41.90 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Manor Vale
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Campbell Viles | 624 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Judith Cunliffe-Jones | 597 | |||
Conservative | Marion Joyce Davis | 549 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Malcolm George Hewson | 417 | |||
Green | Matthew William Griffith | 223 | |||
Majority | 48 | ||||
Turnout | 38.91 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Melksham Forest
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sarah Patricia Cardy | 389 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Victoria Christine Scott Landell Mills | 91 | |||
Majority | 298 | ||||
Turnout | 31.75 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Melksham Lambourne
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Davina Margaret Griffin | 299 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Colin Norman Harrison | 160 | |||
Majority | 139 | ||||
Turnout | 28.20 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Melksham Roundpond
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Angela Betty Barker | ||||
Majority | Uncontested | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Melksham Town
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brian Stanley Mudge | 376 | |||
Labour | Mavis Elcock | 344 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Adrienne Margaret Westbrook | 286 | |||
Majority | 32 | ||||
Turnout | 28.96 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Melksham Woodrow
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Nicholas Shawne Edney Westbrook | 345 | |||
Labour | Marcus Aurelius | 267 | |||
Majority | 78 | ||||
Turnout | 31.10 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Mid Wylye Valley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Christopher Newbury | 295 | |||
Conservative | Patrick Andrew Sturges | 286 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Simon Rowland Fisher | 52 | |||
Majority | 9 | ||||
Turnout | 48.58 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Paxcroft
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Trevor William Carbin | 634 | |||
Conservative | June Edith Dallimore | 342 | |||
Majority | 292 | ||||
Turnout | 38.32 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Shearwater
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Burke Mounde | 242 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gregory James Doyle | 225 | |||
Majority | 17 | ||||
Turnout | 39.25 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Summerham
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Adrian George Fox | 701 | |||
Conservative | Roy Leslie Sloper | 357 | |||
Majority | 344 | ||||
Turnout | 49.77 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Trowbridge Adcroft
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Nicholas Blakemore | 346 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Raymond James | 324 | |||
Conservative | James Martin Haddon Alsop | 145 | |||
Green | Richard Douglas Mills | 102 | |||
Majority | 179 | ||||
Turnout | 23.32 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Trowbridge College
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Grace Hill | 496 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Jeffrey Bryan Osborn | 382 | |||
Conservative | James Oliver Powell | 245 | |||
Conservative | Darren James Earley | 242 | |||
Labour | Hazel Marie Sargent | 223 | |||
Green | Nigel John Pratt | 99 | |||
Majority | 137 | ||||
Turnout | 25.63 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Trowbridge Drynham
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Marcus Alexander Francis | 480 | |||
Conservative | Graham David Payne | 407 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Helen Bridget Osborn | 368 | |||
Conservative | Anthony John Christopher Pearce | 297 | |||
Green | Jean Ham | 90 | |||
Majority | 39 | ||||
Turnout | 23.28 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Trowbridge John of Gaunt
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Robert John Brice | 503 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Joan Mary Stacey | 498 | |||
Conservative | John Roland Wallace Knight | 364 | |||
Conservative | Richard Adrian Knight | 356 | |||
Labour | Andrew John Hungerford | 248 | |||
Green | David Entwistle | 155 | |||
Majority | 134 | ||||
Turnout | 25.12 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Trowbridge Park
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Stephen John Oldrieve | 492 | |||
Conservative | Peter Fuller | 492 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Andrew James Bryant | 491 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Ivan Moore | 440 | |||
Green | Robert Gledhill | 191 | |||
Majority | 1 | ||||
Turnout | 29.10 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Warminster East
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher March | 956 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Davis | 919 | |||
Conservative | Kay Carol Whatley-Gibbs | 902 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Mark Houghton Brown | 569 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Edward Raymond Beaty | 569 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Peter John Williams | 507 | |||
Green | Roland Peter Noyce | 282 | |||
Majority | 333 | ||||
Turnout | 32.80 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Warminster West
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John Edward Syme | 976 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Catherine Jane Day | 915 | |||
Liberal Democrats | David John Lovell | 882 | |||
Conservative | Martin John Baker | 829 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Robert Nixon Jackson | 817 | |||
Conservative | Anthony James Nicklin | 568 | |||
Majority | 53 | ||||
Turnout | 28.82 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Weavers
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Anthony Guy Phillips | 851 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Horace John Prickett | 604 | |||
Conservative | Aubrey Harold Austin | 551 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Richard George Crofts | 343 | |||
Green | Kathryn Jennifer Toyne | 176 | |||
Majority | 53 | ||||
Turnout | 39.76 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Westbrook
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Terrence Peter Chivers | ||||
Majority | Uncontested | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Westbury with Storridge
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John David Annetts | 1,237 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Ian King | 1,139 | |||
Conservative | Marion Clegg | 875 | |||
Labour | Elisha Manasseh | 787 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Sally Scott-White | 786 | |||
Conservative | David George Lux | 655 | |||
Conservative | William Scott Shiel Braid | 636 | |||
Independent | William Thomas Miller | 437 | |||
Green | James Oliver Toyne | 258 | |||
Majority | 88 | ||||
Turnout | 34.51 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Wylye Valley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Daniel Hurd | 269 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Carleton Arden Hulme Beaman | 134 | |||
Independent | Francis Morland | 133 | |||
Majority | 135 | ||||
Turnout | 42.06 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- Sue Bonham-Lovett, District and Parish Elections 6 May 1999: Report of the Returning Officer, report to West Wiltshire District Council Annual Meeting on 19 May 1999, Agenda Item no. 11, published 14 May 1999, available at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.