2019 Runnymede Borough Council election

Elections for Runnymede Borough Council took place on 2 May 2019 alongside nationwide local elections. Due to changes to the ward boundaries, all 41 seats on the Council were up for election. The Conservative Party lost seats, but retained its majority on the council.^[1]

2019 Runnymede Borough Council election

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All 41 seats in the Runnymede Borough Council 21 seats needed for a majority
Registered	60,686
Turnout	31.0%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Nick Prescot Linda Gillham Don Whyte Party Conservative RIRG Liberal Democrats Leader since 2017 2019 Leader's seat Englefield Green West Thorpe Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South Last election 33 6 0 Seats won 26 6 3 Seat change 7 3 Popular vote 22,395 5,814 3,590 Percentage 47.0% 12.2% 7.6%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Arran Neathey Michael Brierley Party Labour Green Leader since 2019 2019 Leader's seat Egham Hythe Addlestone North Last election 1 0 Seats won 2 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 9,482 1,623 Percentage 19.9% 3.4%
Results of the 2019 Runnymede Borough Council election
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

Results

Runnymede Borough Council Election 2019[2]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative	41	26	0	7	7	63.4	47.0	22,395
	Labour Co-op	30	2	1	0	1	4.9	19.9	9,482
	RIRG	6	6	0	0		14.6	12.2	5,814
	Liberal Democrats	9	3	3	0	3	7.3	7.6	3,590
	Independent	5	3	2	0	2	7.3	6.4	3,029
	UKIP	7	0	0	0		0.0	3.7	1,743
	Green	4	1	1	0	1	2.4	3.4	1,623

Ward results

Addlestone North

Addlestone North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Broadhead	414	33.96
	Green	Michael Robert Brierley	408	33.47
	Independent	Stewart Mark Mackay	408	33.47
	Conservative	David William Parr	388	31.83
	Conservative	Peter James Waddell	330	27.07
	Labour Co-op	Anne Emerson-Miller	278	22.81
	Independent	Keith David Collett	274	22.48
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Andrew Lawrence	263	21.58
	Labour Co-op	Adrian Anthony Elston	252	20.67
	Labour Co-op	Michael William Scott	205	16.82
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Addlestone South

Addlestone South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Snow	690	48.02
	Conservative	Jonathan James Wilson	658	45.79
	Conservative	John Raymond Furey	655	45.58
	Labour Co-op	June Patricia Tilbury	465	32.36
	Labour Co-op	Noel Martin Daniels	416	28.95
	Labour Co-op	Gavin Tennent Morrison	411	28.60
	UKIP	James Turner	313	21.78
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey Riverside

Chertsey Riverside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Alban Cotty	543	48.74
	Conservative	Dolsie Vaughan Clarke	540	48.47
	Conservative	Stephen Luke Dennett	534	47.94
	Liberal Democrats	Annabel Mary Jones	356	31.96
	Labour Co-op	Tina Miranda Jenkins	334	29.98
	Labour Co-op	Joseph Vincent Blake	288	25.85
	Labour Co-op	Peter Kingham	263	23.61
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chertsey St Ann's

Chertsey St Ann's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Gordon Nuti	675	51.06
	Conservative	Richard Joseph Edis	601	45.46
	Conservative	Myles Lee Willingale	553	41.83
	Labour Co-op	Phillip James Martin	384	29.05
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Thomas Lee	363	27.46
	Labour Co-op	Edmund Alan Moore	333	25.19
	Labour Co-op	Bernie Charles Stacey	324	24.51
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Egham Hythe

Egham Hythe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Robert Ashley King	598	46.14
	Conservative	Mark Raymond Adams	585	45.14
	Labour Co-op	Arran Richard Neathey	574	44.29
	Conservative	Yvonna Pia Lay	567	43.75
	Conservative	Gillian Warner	563	43.44
	Labour Co-op	Adam Feroze Manzoor Abbas	557	42.98
Turnout
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		Swing

Egham Town

Egham Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Isabel Alice Mullens	1,031	66.73
	RIRG	Alan Alderson	1,027	66.47
	RIRG	Brian Anthony Clarke	900	58.25
	Conservative	David Coen	358	23.17
	Conservative	Maureen Catherine Elizabeth Furey	258	16.70
	Labour Co-op	Jacqueline Mary Fletcher	232	15.02
	Conservative	David Calum James MacPhee	218	14.11
	Labour Co-op	Katie Violet Regardsoe	207	13.40
	Labour Co-op	William Keith Heal	205	13.27
Turnout
	RIRG hold		Swing
	RIRG hold		Swing
	RIRG hold		Swing

Englefield Green East

Englefield Green East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marisa Natalia Heath	455	50.56
	Conservative	Japneet Kaur Sohi	346	38.44
	Independent	David John Knight	254	28.22
	Liberal Democrats	Ian David Heath	215	23.89
	Labour Co-op	Dominic John Breen	200	22.22
	Labour Co-op	William Christopher Ian Hayes	197	21.89
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Englefield Green West

Englefield Green West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nigel Michael King	497	44.10
	Conservative	Michael Touros Kusneraitis	481	42.68
	Conservative	Nicholas Hugh Prescot	437	38.78
	Green	Andrea Berardi	405	35.94
	Labour Co-op	Abby Louise King	337	29.90
	Labour Co-op	James Rhys Davies	299	26.53
	Labour Co-op	Jack Eugeniusz Stokes	203	18.01
	UKIP	Jason Doig Myles	200	17.75
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South

Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Donald James Whyte	539	53.21
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Jane Whyte	526	41.36
	Liberal Democrats	Theresa Lois Burton	419	32.80
	Conservative	Robert Ian Bromley	319	31.49
	Conservative	Angela Shepperdson	290	28.63
	Conservative	John Gerard Kavanagh	254	25.07
	Green	Benjamin Timothy George Smith	171	16.88
	UKIP	Anthony Robert Micklethwait	155	15.30
	UKIP	Christopher David Butcher	150	14.81
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

New Haw

New Haw

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Mary Gracey	777	56.43
	Conservative	Mark James Maddox	737	53.52
	Conservative	Stephen David Walsh	679	49.31
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Jane Coulon	551	40.01
	Labour Co-op	James Richard Mullett	362	26.29
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ottershaw

Ottershaw

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Olorenshaw	1,047	58.56
	Independent	Malcolm David Cressey	1,046	58.50
	Conservative	Iftikhar Chaudhri	517	28.91
	Conservative	Neill William Rubidge	503	28.13
	Conservative	Shannon Kerry Niomi Saise-Marshall	494	27.63
	UKIP	Graham Frank Wood	387	21.46
	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats	358	20.02
	Labour	John Colin Gurney	273	15.27
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thorpe

Thorpe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RIRG	Elaine Gill	990	61.68
	RIRG	Linda Mary Gillham	946	58.94
	RIRG	Margaret Theresa Harnden	920	57.32
	Conservative	Nicholas John Wase-Rogers	327	20.37
	Conservative	Charles Michael Collins	325	20.25
	Conservative	June Dorothy Seager	301	18.75
	UKIP	William Albert Bruno	216	13.46
	Labour Co-op	Nayier Latif Ahmad	157	9.78
	Labour Co-op	Joseph William Harry Royal	156	9.72
Turnout
	RIRG hold		Swing
	RIRG hold		Swing
	RIRG hold		Swing

Virginia Water

Virginia Water

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Paul Howorth	937	68.75
	Conservative	Jonathan Hulley	927	68.01
	Conservative	Parshotam Singh Sohi	828	60.75
	Labour Co-op	James Lloyd Neal	321	23.55
	Labour Co-op	Maliha Malika Reza	284	20.84
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Woodham and Rowtown

Woodham and Rowtown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas James Francis Gracey	981	56.51
	Conservative	David Ewan Anderson-Bassey	939	54.09
	Conservative	Scott Alderson Lewis	914	52.65
	Green	Gordon George William Matthews	639	36.81
	Labour Co-op	Jessica Abigail Weeds	367	21.14
	UKIP	Valerie Ann Woodhouse	322	18.55
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing