Elections to Mid Bedfordshire District Council were held on 3 May 1979, on the same day as the general election, so turnout was higher than usual in district council elections for Mid Bedfordshire. All 53 seats were up for election.
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Registered | 70,014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 79% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result edit
There were now 53 seats on the council, compared with 49 in 1976. Gains and losses in the results table are compared with the 1976 district council election.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 31 | +1 | 58.5 | 43.4 | 20,677 | +0.1 | |||
Independent | 16 | +2 | 30.2 | 24.3 | 11,563 | +0.3 | |||
Labour | 5 | +2 | 9.4 | 24.5 | 11,686 | -1.2 | |||
Ind. Conservative | 1 | +1 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 2,086 | +2.8 | |||
Liberal | 0 | -1 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 1,631 | -2.0 |
Ward Results edit
All results are listed below:[2]
Figures on turnout were taken from Plymouth University's Elections Centre, which gives the number of registered voters, and the percentage turnout for each ward. The number of ballots cast for each ward was calculated from these. Percentage change in turnout is compared with the same ward in the 1976 District Council election.
The percentage of the vote for each candidate was calculated compared with the number of ballots cast in the ward. Note that in a ward with more than one seat, voters were allowed to place as many crosses on the ballot paper as seats. The percentage change for each candidate is compared with the same candidate in the 1976 District Council election.
Candidates who were members of the council before the election are marked with an asterisk.
Ampthill edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms A Cowell | 1,728 | 51.8 | ||
Conservative | Ms A Palmer* | 1,566 | 46.9 | +7.8 | |
Labour | Ms G Wagstaff | 1,480 | 44.4 | +14.5 | |
Conservative | B Soaper | 1,399 | 41.9 | ||
Liberal | Ms M Laycock | 1,141 | 34.2 | ||
Liberal | J Low | 895 | 26.8 | ||
Turnout | 3,337 | 79.0 | +6.0 |
Arlesey edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms A Albon* | 1,227 | 55.1 | -0.9 | |
Conservative | R Turner | 1,028 | 46.2 | +5.5 | |
Labour | David Harrowell | 995 | 44.7 | ||
Labour | J Tizard | 678 | 30.5 | ||
Turnout | 2,226 | 80.6 | +29.5 |
Aspley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Ms A Melina | Unopposed | NA | ||
Independent | W Jaye | Unopposed | NA |
Biggleswade Ivel edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms F Killeen* | 1,623 | 51.4 | +18.8 | |
Labour | L Chambers* | 1,580 | 50.0 | +18.7 | |
Ind. Conservative | Patricia Rouse* | 1,548 | 49.0 | +19.3 | |
Ind. Conservative | Ms M Armstrong | 1,331 | 42.2 | +17.5 | |
Labour | Alistair Costley | 1,077 | 34.1 | +17.0 | |
Labour | R McIlroy | 857 | 27.1 | ||
Turnout | 3,157 | 80.3 | -1.2 |
Biggleswade Stratton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Ms C Cook* | 1,951 | 58.7 | +22.7 | |
Conservative | Richard Bennett* | 1,743 | 52.4 | +25.3 | |
Labour | Victor Brunt* | 1,448 | 43.6 | +17.1 | |
Conservative | J Dominey | 1,090 | 32.8 | ||
Labour | T Bornett | 992 | 29.8 | ||
Labour | P Milton | 979 | 29.5 | ||
Turnout | 3,324 | 82.3 | +0.8 |
Blunham edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms E Woods* | Unopposed | NA |
Campton & Meppershall edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J Buxton* | Unopposed | NA |
Clifton & Henlow edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Rogers* | 1,556 | 57.4 | +21.5 | |
Conservative | F Burrows* | 1,495 | 55.1 | +13.1 | |
Independent | William Cliff* | 1,464 | 54.0 | +32.4 | |
Conservative | Patricia Cook | 1,314 | 48.4 | +13.0 | |
Turnout | 2,713 | 75.4 |
Clophill edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | W Russell* | Unopposed | NA |
Cranfield edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J Hawksby | 1,321 | 55.3 | ||
Independent | J Salisbury* | 1,312 | 55.0 | ||
Conservative | R Palmer | 1,167 | 48.9 | ||
Conservative | J Sullivan | 726 | 30.4 | ||
Turnout | 2,387 | 77.0 |
Flitton, Greenfield & Pulloxhill edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms J Eells* | Unopposed | NA |
Flitwick East edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Malcolm Randall* | 1,488 | 59.0 | -6.3 | |
Conservative | Jack Cowell | 1,345 | 53.3 | ||
Labour | Ms F Rolls | 933 | 37.0 | +2.3 | |
Turnout | 2,522 | 79.6 |
Flitwick West edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | A Saxby | Unopposed | NA | ||
Conservative | Dennis Gale* | Unopposed | NA |
Harlington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | A Giles* | 775 | 52.3 | ||
Independent | E Preston | 344 | 23.2 | ||
Independent | J McFadden | 198 | 13.4 | ||
Labour | L Ragless | 127 | 8.6 | ||
Turnout | 1,481 | 83.7 |
Haynes & Houghton Conquest edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | H Craddock* | Unopposed | NA |
Langford edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | G Gates* | 915 | 56.7 | +18.0 | |
Labour | A Loney | 677 | 42.0 | +20.8 | |
Turnout | 1,613 | 84.4 |
Marston edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms C Barnes* | 1,188 | 48.1 | -13.7 | |
Labour | D Towell | 1,176 | 47.6 | ||
Conservative | Fiona Chapman*[a] | 927 | 37.5 | -19.5 | |
Labour | Ms R Martin | 757 | 30.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,469 | 78.4 |
Maulden edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Ms I Robinson* | 914 | 60.3 | -26.9 | |
Ind. Conservative | Howard Lockey | 538 | 35.5 | ||
Turnout | 1,517 | 80.9 | +34.5 |
Northill edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Patricia Turner* | Unopposed | NA |
Old Warden & Southill edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Ms M Hamer-Harries | 439 | 51.8 | +15.8 | |
Conservative | Ms S Pool | 400 | 47.2 | ||
Turnout | 848 | 72.6 | +22.6 |
Potton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J Ream* | Unopposed | NA | ||
Independent | F Jakes* | Unopposed | NA |
Sandy All Saints edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alistair Gammell* | 1,262 | 63.4 | +25.8 | |
Conservative | A Sherwood-King* | 1,203 | 60.4 | +18.5 | |
Labour | I Kirkwood | 562 | 28.2 | ||
Labour | Ms J Monahan | 521 | 26.2 | +12.8 | |
Turnout | 1,991 | 78.8 | +11.2 |
Sandy St Swithuns edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | K Quince* | 1,115 | 50.9 | +10.0 | |
Conservative | N Davidson | 928 | 42.4 | ||
Independent | E Smith | 864 | 39.5 | ||
Labour | L Cameron | 813 | 37.1 | ||
Labour | P Monahan | 710 | 32.4 | +15.3 | |
Labour | W Hibbert | 591 | 27.0 | +23.9 | |
Turnout | 2,189 | 77.4 | +9.8 |
Shefford edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ms A Gouldsbrough | 770 | 45.3 | ||
Independent | A Smyth | 723 | 42.6 | ||
Conservative | D Cadman | 677 | 39.8 | +3.2 | |
Independent | Ms M Faircloth | 497 | 29.3 | +16.2 | |
Labour | Ms G Emmerson | 212 | 12.5 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Ms R McIlroy | 196 | 11.5 | ||
Turnout | 1,699 | 80.6 |
Shillington & Stondon edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | R Roe* | 1,120 | 54.3 | ||
Independent | S Burr | 820 | 39.7 | ||
Conservative | D Simkins | 714 | 34.6 | ||
Conservative | P Parrish | 691 | 33.5 | ||
Turnout | 2,063 | 79.7 |
Stotfold edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J Long* | 1,958 | 60.5 | +26.3 | |
Labour | H Wood | 1,683 | 52.0 | +20.8 | |
Independent | F Hyde* | 1,600 | 49.4 | +14.6 | |
Independent | R Watkins | 1,493 | 46.1 | +15.8 | |
Turnout | 3,239 | 72.5 | +19.1 |
Wensley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | W Goodyer* | 519 | 51.1 | -5.4 | |
Liberal | C Riches | 490 | 48.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,016 | 83.5 |
Westoning edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jean Kent* | Unopposed | NA |
Woburn edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | D Woodward* | 562 | 58.5 | +18.2 | |
Independent | J Ellis | 383 | 39.9 | +11.7 | |
Turnout | 961 | 81.4 | +19.6 |
Wrest edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | G Wood* | Unopposed | NA |
Notes edit
- ^ Mrs Chapman's full name is Catherine Fiona Chapman MBE. Since 2009 she has been councillor for Flitwick on Central Bedfordshire Council, and is listed on Central Bedfordshire Council's website as Cllr Mrs C Fiona Chapman MBE.[3][4] She is sometimes listed as Catherine Chapman,[5] and sometimes as Fiona Chapman.[6][4] She was first elected to Mid Bedfordshire District Council in 1976.[2]
References edit
- ^ "District level Authority Results.xlsx", www.electionscentre.co.uk, The Elections Centre, Plymouth University, pp. 1976, 1979, retrieved 14 May 2017
- ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael, "Mid Bedfordshire District Council Election Results 1973-2007" (PDF), www.electionscentre.co.uk, The Elections Centre, Plymouth University, retrieved 14 May 2017
- ^ "Cllr Mrs C Fiona Chapman MBE", centralbeds.moderngov.co.uk, archived from the original on 14 August 2017, retrieved 14 May 2017
- ^ a b "Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Central Bedfordshire Council, Vice-Chairman Councillor Fiona Chapman MBE", www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk, retrieved 14 May 2017[permanent dead link]
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Election Results 2003 - Mid Bedfordshire". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Election Results 2007 - Mid Bedfordshire". www.andrewteale.me.uk.