2010 Tandridge District Council election

Background

14 of the seats on the council were up for election, with both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats contesting every seat. 3 Conservative councillors stood down at the election, Eric Morgan from Limpsfield ward, Matthew Groves from Queens Park ward and Ros Langham from Westway ward. Meanwhile, in Burstow, Horne and Outwood ward, the sitting Conservative councillor, Peter Brown, stood as an independent after being deselected and in Whyteleafe Sakina Bradbury defended the seat for the Conservatives after defecting from the Liberal Democrats in 2008. Other parties standing at the election included the UK Independence Party, Labour Party with 8 candidates and the Green Party with 2 candidates.

Election result

The Conservatives remained in control of the council after holding 13 of the 14 seats contested to have 33 seats on the council. No seats changed hands with the Conservatives holding Westway by 29 votes, Queens Park by 37 votes and Whyteleafe by 151 votes. The Conservatives also comfortably held Burstow, Horne and Outwood, despite the challenge from the independent candidate and outgoing Conservative councillor Peter Brown.

|seats % = 92.9 |votes % = 54.8 |plus/minus = -3.2% |seats % = 7.1 |votes % = 30.8 |plus/minus = +1.3% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 7.2 |plus/minus = +1.8% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 5.7 |plus/minus = +1.0% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.9 |plus/minus = -1.0% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.6 |plus/minus = +0.1%

Ward results

References

References

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