2008 Runnymede Borough Council election

Elections to Runnymede Council were held on 1 May 2008. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

Three councillors had resigned from the council before the election and a further two did not stand for re-election.^[1] No seats changed hands with the Conservative party remaining dominant on the council.^[2]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Runnymede Local Election Result 2008
	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	14	82.4	57.1	12,402	-1.0%
Runnymede Residents Association	3	17.6	12.3	2,678	+2.5%
Labour	0	0	14.6	3,160	+2.2%
UKIP	0	0	8.3	1,808	-0.5%
Liberal Democrats	0	0	6.5	1,408	-3.4%
Independent	0	0	0.6	141	-0.3%
Green	0	0	0.5	109	+0.5%

Ward results

Addlestone Bourneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patricia Broadhead	975	72.4	-3.8
	Labour	Gavin Morrison	230	17.1	-6.7
	Independent	Colin Stephens	141	10.5	+10.5
Majority			745	55.3	+2.9
Turnout			1,346	33.2	+1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Addlestone North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rebecca Denby	731	65.0	+5.5
	Labour	Deborah Greenwood	185	16.4	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Key	132	11.7	-1.4
	UKIP	Tarun Comar	77	6.8	-3.7
Majority			546	48.6	+4.7
Turnout			1,125	27.6	-1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey Meads
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Norman	826	60.4	+2.6
	UKIP	Christopher Browne	294	21.5	+3.7
	Labour	Bernie Stacey	247	18.1	+3.2
Majority			532	38.9	-1.1
Turnout			1,367	32.7	-0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey St.Ann's (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Chapman	755
	Conservative	Louis Pouyanne	698
	Labour	Paul Greenwood	461
	Labour	Kenneth Denyer	395
	UKIP	Robert Belobaba	191
	UKIP	Ileana Nguyen	142
Turnout			2,642	31.2	-0.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey South and Row Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Edwards	947	67.2	+3.3
	UKIP	Gillian Ellis	262	18.6	-1.3
	Labour	Peter Kingham	201	14.3	-1.9
Majority			685	48.6	+4.6
Turnout			1,410	35.2	-0.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Egham Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Runnymede Residents Association	Anthony Moore	719	59.5	+5.1
	Conservative	Andrew Sheldon	358	29.6	-5.7
	Labour	Keith Thompson	132	10.9	+0.6
Majority			361	29.9	+10.8
Turnout			1,209	31.0	-1.9
	Independent hold		Swing

Englefield Green East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marisa Heath	493	51.9	-2.2
	Liberal Democrats	James Whiteley	264	27.8	-7.8
	Labour	Sebastian Michnowicz	101	10.6	+10.6
	UKIP	Rosemary Browne	91	9.6	-0.6
Majority			229	24.1	+5.6
Turnout			949	23.3	-0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Englefield Green West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugh Meares	464	44.5	+2.0
	UKIP	Anthony Micklethwait	264	25.3	-0.4
	Labour	Roxanne Mashari	129	12.4	+12.4
	Green	Jenny Gould	109	10.5	+10.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Heath	77	7.4	-6.5
Majority			200	19.2	+2.4
Turnout			1,043	32.9	+0.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Foxhills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Francis	975	70.2	+9.4
	Labour	John Gurney	227	16.3	+4.5
	UKIP	Leon Mullett	187	13.5	-0.3
Majority			748	53.9	+6.9
Turnout			1,389	34.5	-0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hythe (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Yvonna Lay	659
	Conservative	Jonathan Wilson	600
	Labour	David Bell	299
	Labour	Antonio Dorileo	281
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Watson	191
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Harrowell	187
	UKIP	Guy Leven-Torres	141
Turnout			2,358	27.4	+0.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

New Haw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Adrian Tollett	895	72.5	+8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Coulon	339	27.5	-8.6
Majority			556	45.0	+17.2
Turnout			1,234	29.4	-2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thorpe (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Runnymede Residents Association	Elaine Gill	1,024
	Runnymede Residents Association	Margaret Harnden	935
	Conservative	William Roberts	485
	Conservative	Nicholas Wase-Rogers	373
Turnout			2,817	34.1	-2.7
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Virginia Water
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Roberts	986	72.3
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Key	218	16.0
	UKIP	Steve Gynn	159	11.7
Majority			768	56.3
Turnout			1,363	33.6	-2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Woodham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Jones	1,182	81.3
	Labour	George Blair	272	18.7
Majority			910	62.6
Turnout			1,454	35.2	-1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

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