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1991 Guildford Borough Council election

1991 UK local government election

1991 UK local government election

The sixth full elections for Guildford Borough Council took place on 2 May 1991. The Conservatives lost control of Guildford Borough Council for the first time since the council was created in the early 1970s. Overall the election resulted in a hung council with 19 Conservative councillors, 19 Liberal Democrats, 6 Labour and 1 independent.

Relative to the 1987 elections the Conservatives lost 11 seats, the Liberal Democrats gained 10 and one gain was made by an independent.

The Liberal Democrats gained all six seats in the Ash and Tongham area from the Conservatives consisting of the following wards Ash, Ash Vale and Tongham.

Additionally the Liberal Democrats gained four seats in the town of Guildford from the Conservatives. These 4 gains were as follows - the remaining Conservative councillor for Onslow ward; both Conservative councillors for Holy Trinity and one of the two Conservatives councillors for Christchurch.

An independent captured a seat from the Conservatives in the rural Tillingbourne ward to the south west of the borough.

Results by ward

References

References

  1. Results were published in the Surrey Advertiser 9 May 1991 edition.
  2. The Surrey Advertiser published on 9 May 1991 omitted the vote figure for Mrs P Parke. The "801" vote figure included on this Wikipedia page is from http://www.dennispaul.org/Politics/roll_-_onslow.htm. This webpage also gave vote figures for B Parke of 1055 and K Johns of 773 both of which matched those in the Surrey Advertiser for this 1991 election. However the webpage wrongly stated that B Parke was elected in this 1991 election.
  3. GR Bellerby was more commonly known as Bill Bellerby. He appears in every Surrey Advertiser summary of Guildford BC election results from 1973 to 1991 as either B Bellerby or Bill Bellerby. For example both the 1973 and 1976 results list all other candidates in all the wards in Guildford by initials except one who they list as 'Bill Bellerby'. "Guildford Borough Council - A Compendium of Municipal Election results 1835 to 1974" by Roger Ottewill repeated lists his initials as 'GR Bellerby' and that form is used herein.
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