2012 Woking Borough Council election

The 2012 Woking Borough District Council election was held on 3 May 2012 to elect members of the Woking Borough Council.^[1]^[2] Of the 12 available seats, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats tied by winning six seats each.^[3]^[4]

Election result

Woking Borough Election, 2012
	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	6	50%	43.40%	8,828
Labour	0	0%	15.30%	3,116
Liberal Democrats	6	50%	32.70%	6,639
Peace	0	0%	0.20%	34
UKIP	0	0%	8.40%	1,714

Ward results

Brookwood (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kevin Davis	468	70.40%
	Labour	Rebecca Geach	74	11.10%
	Liberal Democrats	Norman Johns	123	18.50%
Majority
Turnout			665	34.90%

Byfleet (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carol Brailsford	644	34.60%
	Labour	Anthony Mullins	138	7.40%	-3.60%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Roberts	952	51.10%
	UKIP	Mathew Waters	128	6.90%
Majority
Turnout			1,862	33.20%	-12.0

Goldsworth East (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Crisp	350	16.60%	+10.00%
	Conservative	Colin Kemp	680	32.20%
	UKIP	Pamela Wellstead	128	6.10%
	Liberal Democrats	Amanda Van Niekerk	952	45.10%	+1.10%
Majority
Turnout			2,110	34.40%	-12.20

Goldsworth West (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Laura Ashall	270	28.60%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Eastwood	515	54.50%
	Labour	Audrey Worgan	160	16.90%
Majority
Turnout			945	24.90%

Horsell East & Woodham (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Terence Knight	154	11.10%
	Labour	Jill Rawling	143	10.30%
	Liberal Democrats	James Sanderson	188	13.50%	-1.70%
	Conservative	Michael Smith	905	65.10%
Majority
Turnout			1,390	37.50%	-17.7

Horsell West (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Branagan	1,096	52.20%
	Labour	Colin Bright	329	11.30%
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Johnson	592	28.20%
	UKIP	Timothy Shaw	196	9.30%	+1.40%
Majority
Turnout			2,099	39.10%	-15.3

Kingfield & Westfield (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Brown	326	23.50%
	UKIP	Rob Burberry	149	10.70%
	Conservative	John Lawrence	304	21.90%
	Liberal Democrats	Derek McCrum	434
	Peace	Julie Roxburgh	9
Majority
Turnout			1,387	34.30%	-11.3

Knaphill (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Matthew Davies	273	11.20%	+4.20%
	Labour	Richard Ford	254	10.40%	-0.70%
	Liberal Democrats	Lisa Harding	593	24.20%	-6.30%
	Conservative	Sajjad Hussain	1,327	54.20%
Majority
Turnout			2,347	34.90%	-11.6

Maybury & Sheerwater (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammad Ali	1,072
	Conservative	Raza Babar	685	21.50%
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Bashir	1,088	34.10%
	UKIP	David Roe	345	10.80%	-1.90%
Majority
Turnout			3,190	43.90%	-4.5

The election in Maybury and Sheerwater was voided by the Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey on petition.^[5] The subsequent by-election was won by the Conservatives.^[6]

Mount Hermon East (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Bittleston	898	69.40%
	Labour	Sabir Hussain	143	11.10%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Wilson	253	19.60%
Majority
Turnout			1,294	34.10%

Mount Hermon West (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Elizabeth Evans	130	9.10%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Johnson	691	48.20%
	Conservative	Colin Scott	510	35.60%
	UKIP	Francis Squire	102	7.10%
Majority
Turnout			1,433	31.60%

Pyrford (1 Councillor)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ashley Bowes	1,041	63.60%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Grimshaw	287	17.50%	-1.60%
	UKIP	Robin Milner	199	12.10%	+5.20%
	Labour	Michael Wood	111	6.80%	+0.10%
Majority
Turnout			1,638	41.30%	-17.0

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