2016 Reading Borough Council election

The 2016 Reading Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Reading Borough Council in England.^[1][2] The election for Police and Crime Commissioner was held on the same day. The Labour Party increased their borough-wide vote by over 7% and held on to marginal seats in Church, Kentwood and Caversham, the latter receiving the highest number of votes recorded for any candidate at this election .^[3]

2016 Reading Borough Council election

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16 out of 46 seats to Reading Borough Council 24 seats needed for a majority
Winner of each seat at the 2016 Reading Borough Council election

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Seats	+/-
	Labour	31	0
	Conservative	10	0
	Green Party	3	0
	Liberal Democrats	2	0
	Labour hold

Election result

Reading Borough Council Election, 2016

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	11	0	0	0	68.7	45.0	15,888	+7.5
	Conservative	3	0	0	0	18.7	28.3	10,017	-7.0
	Green	1	0	0	0	6.2	12.2	4,318	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	1	0	0	0	6.2	11.5	4,075	+3.7
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.7	970	-5.2
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	55	0.0
	Liberal	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	44	0.0

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Page	1,281	58.2%	+15.9%
	Conservative	Trevor Slack	466	21.1%
	Green	Joe Sylvester	236	10.7%
	Liberal Democrats	Kirsten Bayes	218	9.9%
Majority			815	37.1%
	Labour hold		Swing

Battle

Battle 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gul Khan	1,174
	Conservative	Michael Hey	401
	Green	Alan Lockey	209
	Liberal Democrats	John Grout	183
Majority			773
	Labour hold		Swing

Caversham

Caversham 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Davies	1,481	50.8
	Conservative	Ed Hogan	961	33.0
	Green	David Foster	270	9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Burden	203	7.0
Majority			520	17.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Church

Church 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eileen McElligott	985
	Conservative	Paul Carnell	646
	Green	Kathryn McCann	220
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Thomas	100
Majority			339
	Labour hold		Swing

Katesgrove

Katesgrove 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rose Williams	1,106	60.8%
	Conservative	Syed Abbas	302	16.6%
	Green	Louise Keane	239	13.1%
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret McNeill	172	9.5%
Majority			804	44.2%
	Labour hold		Swing

Kentwood

Kentwood 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daya Pal Singh	1,054
	Conservative	Emma Warman	810
	UKIP	Howard Thomas	254
	Green	Ruth Shaffrey	150
	Liberal Democrats	Glenn Goodall	145
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Mapledurham

Mapledurham 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Isobel Ballsdon	590
	Liberal Democrats	Jenny Woods	262
	Labour	Simon Rogers	161
	Green	Brent Smith	87
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

Minster

Minster 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liz Terry	1,139
	Conservative	Alanzo Seville	572
	UKIP	Linda Ann Giles	224
	Liberal Democrats	James Moore	166
	Green	Keith Johnson	141
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Norcot

Norcot 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jo Lovelock	1,305
	Conservative	Robert Masterson	358
	UKIP	Philip Martin Giles	232
	Green	Jill Wigmore-Welsh	126
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Walls	95
	Liberal	Stephen Graham	44
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Park

Park 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Brenda McGonigle	1,375
	Labour	Dave Dymond	1,011
	Conservative	Roland Hazell	260
	Liberal Democrats	Rebecca Rye	83
Majority
	Green hold		Swing

Peppard

Peppard 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Beale-Stanford	1,299
	Labour	Leighton Yeo	542
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Boardley	489
	Green	Sally Newman	219
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

Redlands

Redlands 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Jones	1,096
	Green	Kizzi Murtagh	383
	Conservative	Natalie Greenstreet	343
	Liberal Democrats	Francis Jakeman	206
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Southcote

Southcote 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Debs Edwards	1,325
	Conservative	Russell Martin	515
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Cole	129
	Green	Doug Cresswell	106
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Thames

Thames 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ed Hopper	1,383
	Labour	Karen Rowland	665
	Liberal Democrats	Guy Penman	467
	Green	Sarah McNamara	353
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tilehurst

Tilehurst 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Meri O’Connell	1,044
	Conservative	Robert Vickers	641
	Labour	Matt Harrison	468
	UKIP	Stephen George James	260
	Green	Miriam Kennet	56
Majority
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Whitley

Whitley 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Emmett McKenna	1,095
	Conservative	James Kiriamiti	470
	Green	Richard Black	148
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Haines	115
	TUSC	Neil Adams	55
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections between 2016 and 2018

Southcote by-election 21 July 2016^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jason Brook	934	64.1	+0.2
	Conservative	Russell Martin	381	26.1	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Cole	77	5.3	−0.9
	Green	Alan Lockey	66	4.5	−0.6
Majority			553	37.9
Turnout			1,458
	Labour hold		Swing