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1994 Reading Borough Council election

The 1994 Reading Borough Council election was held on 5 May 1994, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. Sixteen of the 45 seats on Reading Borough Council were up for election, being the usual third of the council (15 seats) plus a by-election in Battle ward, where Labour councillor David Booth had resigned. Prior to the election there had been one independent "Thames Conservative" councillor, Hamza Fuad, who had been elected as a Conservative, but split from the party in 1990. He did not stand for re-election in 1994. Labour retained its majority on the council.

Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
11	0	1	-1	68.8	47.8	18,624	+10.7
2	2	1	+1	12.5	26.4	10,266	-14.5
3	1	0	+1	18.8	23.0	8,943	+7.6
0				0.0	2.5	974	-1.0
0				0.0	0.3	130	N/A

The results in each ward were as follows (candidates with an asterisk* were the previous incumbent standing for re-election):

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	1,630	70.3	+16.4
	Liberal Democrats	354	15.3	+6.3
	Conservative	334	14.4	−18.4
2,318
	Labour hold	+5.05

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,103	62.3	+8.6
	Conservative	333	18.8	−13.7
	Liberal Democrats	246	13.9	+4.6
	Green	89	5.0	+0.5
1,771
	Labour hold	+11.15

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,296	75.4	n/a
	Conservative	422	24.6	n/a
1,718
	Labour hold	n/a

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,500	45.3	−21.3
	Labour	1,198	36.2	+13.0
	Liberal Democrats	490	14.8	+6.9
	Green	122	3.7	+1.4
3,310
	Conservative gain from Labour	-17.15

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,030	60.6	+4.9
	Conservative	313	18.4	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	262	15.4	−16.1
	Green	94	5.5	−7.2
1,699
	Labour hold	n/a

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,118	63.0	+13.3
	Conservative	344	19.4	−13.8
	Liberal Democrats	313	17.6	+4.3
1,775
	Labour hold	+9.05

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,144	42.0	+10.3
	Conservative	817	30.0	−16.1
	Labour	760	27.9	+8.2
2,721
	Liberal Democrats hold	+13.2

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,348	49.3	+12.0
	Conservative	943	34.5	−17.8
	Liberal Democrats	441	16.1	+6.7
2,732
	Labour hold	+14.9

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,603	63.4	+6.5
	Liberal Democrats	465	18.4	n/a
	Conservative	332	13.1	−24.3
	BNP	130	5.1	n/a
2,530
	Labour hold	-5.95

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,711	68.1	+1.2
	Conservative	369	14.7	−3.0
	Liberal Democrats	289	11.5	n/a
	Green	145	5.8	−3.0
2,514
	Labour hold	+5.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,774	51.4	+29.2
	Conservative	1,231	35.7	−28.2
	Labour	370	10.7	−1.1
	Green	76	2.2	+0.1
3,451
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative	+28.7

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,487	53.8	+5.6
	Conservative	575	20.8	−15.4
	Liberal Democrats	544	19.7	+7.7
	Green	159	5.8	+2.1
2,765
	Labour hold	+10.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,651	66.2	+10.2
	Conservative	527	21.1	−19.4
	Liberal Democrats	235	9.4	n/a
	Green	81	3.2	−0.2
2,494
	Labour hold	+14.8

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,544	48.5	+6.7
	Liberal Democrats	916	28.8	+16.1
	Labour	582	18.3	+8.7
	Green	139	4.4	+1.9
3,494
	Conservative gain from Independent	n/a

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	1,470	61.7	+2.6
	Labour	468	19.6	+8.1
	Conservative	375	15.7	−11.6
	Green	69	2.9	+0.9
2,382
	Liberal Democrats hold	-2.75

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,269	80.5	+20.2
	Conservative	307	19.5	−16.3
1,576
	Labour hold	+18.25

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	951	40.8	+12.9
	Liberal Democrats	752	32.3	−9.8
	Conservative	627	26.9	−3.1
199	8.5
2,330	33
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats	+11.35

The Kentwood ward by-election in 1994 was triggered by the death of Liberal Democrat councillor George Ford, just 22 days after he had been appointed mayor of Reading.

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