2011 Thanet District Council election

Elections to elect all members (councillors) of Thanet District Council were held on 5 May 2011, as part of the 2011 United Kingdom local elections taking place simultaneously with the Alternative Vote Referendum. No political party won an overall majority of seats, meaning that the council went into 'No Overall Control' status for the first time since 1991. The Conservative Party ran a minority administration until December of that year, when a Conservative councillor defected to the Independents group, enabling The Labour Party to run a minority administration until 2015. The District has as its main towns the beach resort towns of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs.

Overall Results

After the election, the composition of the council is:^[1]

Conservative Party (27/56)

Labour Party (26/56)

Independent (3/56)

Party	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
Conservative Party	40,813	46.58		27	6
Labour Party	33,498	38.24		26	7
Liberal Democrats	2,302	2.63		0
UK Independence Party	1,673	1.91		0
Ramsgate First	519	0.59		0	1
Green Party	283	0.32		0
Independent(s)	8,522	9.73		3
Total	87,610	100	0	56	0

Valid ballots cast	39,318	98.60
Invalid/blank ballots cast	559	1.40
Total ballots cast	39,877	100
Registered voters/turnout	93,589	42.61
Source: BBC

Results by ward

Listed below are the results^[2] in each of the 26 wards of Thanet District Council. Each ward elects 2 or 3 councilors, with the exception of Kingsgate ward, which only elects one member.

Beacon Road

Beacon Road (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jenny Matterface	703	27
	Conservative	Rosalind Binks	672	25
	Labour	Gordon John Edwards	670	25
	Conservative	David Macdonald Lawson	591	22
Majority			2	0.07
Turnout			2636	44
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Birchington North

Birchington North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon Day	835	29
	Conservative	Keith Coleman-Cooke	787	27
	Independent	Ash Ashbee	552	19
	Labour	Jodie Sharon Hibbert	228	8
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Granata	210	7
	Independent	Bernard Anthony La Roche	201	7
	Liberal Democrats	Seth Proctor	87	3
Majority			235	8.10
Turnout			2900	53
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Birchington South

Birchington South (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Worrow	1171	23
	Conservative	Alasdair Bruce	1079	21
	Independent	Jack Bernard Cohen	1023	20
	Conservative	Jo Roberts	900	18
	Labour	Hannah Rose Scobie	499	10
	Labour	Rebecca Jayne Scobie	433	8
Majority			123	2.41
Turnout			5105	46
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Bradstowe

Bradstowe (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Saunders	832	29
	Conservative	Bill Hayton	781	27
	Liberal Democrats	Louisa June Rachel Latham	412	14
	Labour	Brian Yeoman	372	13
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Alison Hunt	279	10
	Independent	Robin Peter Vaughan-Lyons	211	7
Majority			369	12.78
Turnout			2887	50
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central Harbour

Central Harbour (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Peter Campbell	859	15
	Labour	Mary Dwyer	743	13
	Labour	Corinna Huxley	729	13
	Independent	Ralph Christopher Hoult	630	11
	Conservative	Sandy Spicer	554	10
	Conservative	Mike Taylor	517	9
	Independent	Frank Batt	485	8
	Conservative	Saul Huggins	440	8
	Independent	Angela Cousins	435	8
	UKIP	Trev Shonk	335	6
Majority			99	1.73
Turnout			5727	39
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Ramsgate First		Swing

Cliffsend and Pegwell

Cliffsend and Pegwell (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Derek Kirby	966	31
	Conservative	Jo Gideon	859	27
	Labour	Steve Ward	502	16
	Independent	Brian Urwin	439	14
	Labour	Peter Wharmby	384	12
Majority			357	11.33
Turnout			3150	49
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cliftonville East

Cliftonville East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sandy Ezekiel	1187	18
	Conservative	Martin Wise	1165	18
	Conservative	Brian Sullivan	1155	18
	Independent	William Friend	601	9
	Independent	Louise Friend	598	9
	Labour	Elizabeth Poole	515	8
	Labour	Margaret Symonds	490	8
	Labour	Matthew Rowland Poole	456	7
	Green	Timothy Peter Patrick Spencer	283	4
Majority			554	8.59
Turnout			6450	49
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cliftonville West

Cliftonville West(3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Clive Hart	875	21
	Labour	Douglas Clark	822	20
	Labour	Linda Aldred	800	19
	Conservative	Bert McCastree	588	14
	Conservative	Henry James Martell	567	14
	Conservative	John Rothman	525	13
Majority			212	5.08
Turnout			4177	35
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Dane Valley

Dane Valley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sandra Jean Hart	921	19
	Labour	John Martin Edwards	863	18
	Labour	Will Scobie	818	17
	Conservative	Wendy Allan	582	12
	Conservative	Michael Jarvis	479	10
	Conservative	David Wallin	431	9
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew David Brown	289	6
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Flaig	278	6
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Furness	243	5
Majority			236	4.81
Turnout			4904	35
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Eastcliff

Eastcliff (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Green	767	18
	Labour	Rick Everitt	651	15
	Labour	Pat Moore	622	15
	Ramsgate First	Gerry O'Donnell	519	12
	Conservative	Eric Easton	457	11
	Conservative	John Holmes	404	10
	Conservative	David Barrie Spicer	372	9
	Independent	Jane Ann Roscow	226	5
	Independent	Les Shonk	224	5
Majority			103	2.43
Turnout			4242	35
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Garlinge

Garlinge (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Shirley Timlinson	482	21
	Conservative	Ken Gregory	440	19
	Labour	Beth Caroline Denning	415	18
	Labour	Colin James Harvey	403	17
	Independent	Roy Douglas Ovenden	312	13
	UKIP	David John Greely	266	11
Majority			25	1.08
Turnout			2318	40
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kingsgate

Kingsgate (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert William Bayford	518	65
	Labour	Nigel Utton	171	21
	UKIP	Alan Terry	107	13
Majority			347	43.59
Turnout			796	46
	Conservative hold		Swing

Margate Central

Margate Central (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Iris Johnston	682	39
	Labour	John Terence Charles Watkins	570	32
	Conservative	Matthew Clements	283	16
	Conservative	Glenn Coleman-Cooke	235	13
Majority			287	16.21
Turnout			1770	34
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Nethercourt

Nethercourt (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Steven Alexandrou	669	24
	Labour	Kim Gibson	628	22
	Conservative	Jill Marion Kirby	600	21
	Conservative	Brenda Marilyn Rogers	562	20
	UKIP	Sarah Larkins	188	7
	UKIP	Maggie Carter	166	6
Majority			28	1.00
Turnout			2813	44
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Newington

Newington (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mike Harrison	705	33
	Labour	Richard Russell Nicholson	702	33
	Conservative	Wynnette Joyce Marsh	370	17
	Conservative	Phil Simpson	351	16
Majority			332	15.60
Turnout			2128	36
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Northwood

Northwood (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kay Dark	971	20
	Labour	Elizabeth Green	951	20
	Labour	Ian Driver	877	18
	Conservative	Barbara Byne	726	14
	Conservative	Jenny Hudson	658	14
	Conservative	Mark Mulvihill	616	13
Majority			151	3.15
Turnout			4799	38
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Salmestone

Salmestone (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Harry William Scobie	579	26
	Labour	Ela Lodge-Pritchard	557	25
	Conservative	Ingrid Spencer	417	19
	Conservative	Payam Tamiz	312	14
	UKIP	Jeffrey Elenor	165	8
	UKIP	Andy Jardine	163	7
Majority			140	6.38
Turnout			2193	34
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Sir Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Montefiore (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michelle Fenner	872	31
	Labour	Alan Poole	858	31
	Conservative	Gillian Elizabeth Todd	541	19
	Conservative	Vic Todd	514	18
Majority			317	11.38
Turnout			2785	42
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Peters

St Peters (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ian James Gregory	1385	21
	Conservative	Zita Pauline Wiltshire	1330	20
	Conservative	Jason Savage	1329	20
	Labour	Wendy Perfect	869	13
	Labour	Dick Symonds	861	13
	Labour	Emma Poole	853	13
Majority			460	6.94
Turnout			6627	44
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thanet Villages

Thanet Villages (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Bob Grove	1209	23
	Conservative	Mike Roberts	1011	19
	Conservative	Linda Wright	837	16
	Conservative	Karen Sullivan	720	14
	Independent	Ken Read	523	10
	Labour	Andrew Stephen Bean	516	10
	Labour	Serena Bean	472	9
Majority			117	2.21
Turnout			5288	47
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Viking

Viking (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mave Saunders	1487	22
	Conservative	Chris Wells	1352	20
	Conservative	Julie Marson	1321	19
	Labour	Colin Kemp	777	11
	Labour	Bill Pitt	733	11
	Labour	Stephen Perfect	649	10
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Anne Branscombe-Kent	504	7
Majority			544	7.97
Turnout			6823	48
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Westbrook

Westbrook (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Neil Hornus	704	30
	Conservative	Mick Tomlinson	697	30
	Labour	Kerry Harker	459	20
	Labour	Louise Mary Frances Drelaud	450	19
Majority			238	10.30
Turnout			2310	42
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Westgate-on-Sea

Westgate-on-Sea (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Thomas George King	853	17
	Conservative	Simon Moores	793	16
	Conservative	Brian Goodwin	751	15
	Conservative	Richard Chapman	675	14
	Labour	David Michael Bull	555	11
	Labour	Lynda Diane Robinson	528	11
	Labour	Meg Harvey	444	9
	UKIP	Rosamund Mary Parker	283	6
Majority			76	1.56
Turnout			4882	42
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ "Election results by party, 5 May 2011". democracy.thanet.gov.uk. 5 May 2011.
^ "Election results by party, 5 May 2011". democracy.thanet.gov.uk. 5 May 2011.

[1] "Election results by party, 5 May 2011". democracy.thanet.gov.uk. 5 May 2011.

[2] "Election results by party, 5 May 2011". democracy.thanet.gov.uk. 5 May 2011.

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