Local election in England
The 2005 Isle of Wight Council elections were held on the Isle of Wight, England, on 5 May 2005. The result led to a landslide Conservative victory gaining 22 councillors, leading the Isle of Wight to Conservative control from no overall control previously.[1]
Results
The party standings following the election:[1]
Party | 2001 Cllrs | Gain/Loss | 2005 Cllrs |
| Conservative Party | 13 | +22 | 35 |
| Independents | 13 | −7 | 6 |
| Liberal Democrats | 19 | −14 | 5 |
| Labour Party | 3 | −1 | 2 |
Total | 48 | – | 48 |
The outcome of the election led to a significant change in composition of the Isle of Wight Council. Prior to the election, the Liberal Democrats were the largest group overall but still didn't hold a majority, leading to a coalition known as 'Island First' with independent councillors. The election showed a fall in support for the Liberal Democrats as the Conservatives gained 23 seats and took over as the largest group with a majority of 22. Following the change in control of the Council, Cllr Andy Sutton took over with the promise that every aspect of the Conservative manifesto would be followed as they had indicated before the election.[2] Despite this promise there has been some debate on how well the original manifesto has been followed.[3][4]
Ward results
The following are results from each electoral ward.[5]
Ashey Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Vanessa Churchman | 513 | | |
| Independent | Leslie Kirkby | 495 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Tait | 422 | | |
Bembridge North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Sarah Pigot | 689 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Barbara Clough | 422 | | |
Bembridge South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Winifred McRobert | 750 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Kendall | 353 | | |
| Labour | Alexander Rickard | 151 | | |
Binstead Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Ivan Bulwer | 1,185 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ernest Fox | 628 | | |
Brading and St Helens Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Patrick Joyce | 1,256 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Cleaver | 607 | | |
Brighstone and Calbourne Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Colin West | 810 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jill Wareham | 687 | | |
| Labour | Peter Turner | 106 | | |
Carisbrooke East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | David Whittaker | 567 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kevin Jacobs | 402 | | |
| Labour | Michael Nobbs | 273 | | |
| Independent | Peter Foster | 181 | | |
Carisbrooke West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Barbara Foster | 468 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Liam Verstraeten | 390 | | |
| Conservative | Stephen Gray | 292 | | |
| Independent | Dennis Lewis | 177 | | |
| Labour | Doris Frizel | 139 | | |
Central Rural Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Erica Oulton | 1,016 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Carr | 525 | | |
Chale, Niton and Whitwell Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Wendy Arnold | 930 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Malcolm Groves | 463 | | |
| Independent | Richard Etherington | 256 | | |
Cowes Castle East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Alan Wells | 620 | | |
| Independent | Wendy Wardrop | 345 | | |
| UKIP | Paul Birch | 79 | | |
Cowes Castle West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | John Effemey | 797 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Tibble | 519 | | |
Cowes Central Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Lora Peacey-Wilcox | 608 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Hill | 573 | | |
Cowes Medina Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | George Brown | 342 | | |
| Labour | Kenn Pearson | 318 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Lloyd | 272 | | |
| UKIP | Rosemary Lynden-Bell | 47 | | |
East Cowes North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Margaret Webster | 596 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Margaret Lloyd | 390 | | |
| Labour | Jane Turner | 137 | | |
East Cowes South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Muriel Miller | 863 | | |
| Conservative | Simon Walker | 463 | | |
Fairlee Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Eugenie-Dawn Cousins | 847 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Marc Morgan-Huws | 411 | | |
Freshwater Afton Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Gillian Kennett | 856 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Hinton | 430 | | |
| Independent | Collin Lillywhite | 261 | | |
Freshwater Norton Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Robert Sutton | 817 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Wareham | 448 | | |
Gurnard Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | John Hobart | 504 | | |
| Independent | Paul Fuller | 307 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Wilkinson | 182 | | |
Lake North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Deborah Gardiner | 451 | | |
| Conservative | Constance Cowley | 414 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Harris | 390 | | |
Lake South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Timothy Hunter-Henderson | 652 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Stuart | 410 | | |
| Labour | David Piggott | 262 | | |
Mount Joy Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Shelagh Swan | 565 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Shirley Smart | 356 | | |
| Labour | Stuart Clements | 221 | | |
| Liberal | Richard Carruthers | 30 | | |
Newchurch Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Brian Mosdell | 701 | | |
| Independent | Robert Richards | 620 | | |
| Independent | John Rackett | 187 | | |
Newport North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Jullian Whittaker | 393 | | |
| Labour | Nicholas Wray | 337 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Malcolm Ross | 291 | | |
Newport South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Michael Cunningham | 593 | | |
| Labour | Cordula Rayner | 355 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Guy Radclyffe | 298 | | |
Northwood Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Roger Mazillius | 1 | | |
Osborne Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Charles Hancock | 408 | | |
| Conservative | Alan Nightingale | 398 | | |
| Labour | Laraine Pascoe | 250 | | |
| Socialist Labour | James Spensley | 36 | | |
Pan Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Geoffrey Lumley | 483 | | |
| Conservative | Clive Page | 337 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Moth | 221 | | |
Parkhurst Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | Gary Price | 522 | | |
| Conservative | Roger Berrisford | 438 | | |
| Labour | Steven Falla | 248 | | |
Ryde North East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | John Adams | 552 | | |
| Conservative | David Woodward | 470 | | |
| Labour | Ernest White | 204 | | |
Ryde North West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Albert Taylor | 804 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Nobbs | 375 | | |
| Independent | Anthony Gordon | 271 | | |
Ryde South East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | Brian Chapman | 866 | | |
| Conservative | Adrian Axford | 463 | | |
Ryde South West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Ian Stephens | 669 | | |
| Conservative | Peter Newman | 358 | | |
| Labour | Christine Wilde | 338 | | |
Sandown South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Ian Ward | 600 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Blezzard | 475 | | |
| Independent | Ronald Teasdale | 357 | | |
Sandown North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Heather Humby | 986 | | |
| Conservative | Dawn Martin | 339 | | |
Seaview and Nettlestone Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Diana Tuson | 949 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Reginald Barry | 844 | | |
Shalfleet and Yarmouth Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | William Burt | 933 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Garlick | 497 | | |
Shanklin Central Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | David Pugh | 906 | | |
| Labour | Peter Coleman | 298 | | |
| Independent | John Fleming | 285 | | |
Shanklin North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | David Williams | 727 | | |
| Labour | Alan Hollands | 434 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Diana Beevers | 304 | | |
Shanklin South Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Anne Bishop | 889 | | |
| Independent | Harold Rees | 524 | | |
Ryde St John's East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | David Knowles | 698 | | |
| Conservative | Robert Woodgate | 689 | | |
Ryde St John's West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | John Bowker | 719 | | |
| Conservative | Rosalind Whitworth | 340 | | |
Totland Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | George Cameron | 738 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Howe | 726 | | |
Ventnor East Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Jonathan Fitzgerald-Bond | 554 | | |
| Independent | Brenda Lawson | 451 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Doran | 271 | | |
| Green | Louis Lawrence | 251 | | |
Ventnor West Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Susan Scoccia | 688 | | |
| Independent | Albert Bartlett | 448 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | David White | 283 | | |
| Independent | Paul Hatchwell | 229 | | |
Wootton Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Barry Abraham | 1,216 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Barry Townsend | 635 | | |
Wroxall and Godshill Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Jillian Wood | 1,136 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Catherine Wright | 633 | | |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Local election results: Isle of Wight". BBC. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ "Pledge to fulfill election promises". Isle of Wight County Press. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
- ^ "Culture and heritage sacrificed to meet pre-election promises". Isle of Wight County Press. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
- ^ "Pre-election promises not been kept". Isle of Wight County Press. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
- ^ "Isle of Wight Council election 2005". Isle of Wight County Press. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2009.