Highcliffe and Walkford

Highcliffe and Walkford is a civil parish and electoral ward in Christchurch, Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 2 councillors to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.^[1]

Election
2019	Nigel Brooks (Christchurch Independents)	Nigel Geary (Independent)
2019	Nigel Brooks^[5] (Independent)	Nigel Geary (Independent)
2022	Nigel Brooks^[5] (Independent)	Andy Martin (Christchurch Independents)
2023	David Martin (Christchurch Independents)	Andy Martin (Christchurch Independents)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CI	Andy Martin‡^[a]	2,810	73.8	+25.7
	CI	David Francis Martin	2,450	64.3	+20.9
	Conservative	Mike Ellis	354	9.3	−22.7
	Independent	Nigel David Brooks‡	324	8.5	−39.6
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Alan Beresford Ede	317	8.3	−1.9
	Labour	Lorraine Brown	260	6.8	−1.2
	Green	Helen Frances Woodall	220	5.8	N/A
	Conservative	Efe Ohwofasa	208	5.5	−21.8
	Reform UK	Vince Cable	189	5.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Harrison	168	4.4	−5.0
	Communist	Carol Ann Wilcox	40	1.0	N/A
Majority
Turnout			3,810	44.05
	CI hold		Swing
	CI hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CI	Andy Martin	1,778	61.95
	Liberal Democrats	Pete Brown	571	19.89
	Conservative	Christopher Seymour Nigel Van Hagen	358	8.98
	Labour	David Stokes	358	5.85
Majority			1,207	42.06
Total votes			2,875

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Nigel Brooks	1,792	48.1
	Independent	Nick Geary	1,617	43.4
	Conservative	Trish Jamieson	1,192	32.0
	Conservative	Colin Jamieson	1,017	27.3
	Liberal Democrats	Lily Cox	379	10.2
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Harris	351	9.4
	Labour	Kathryn Boniface	297	8.0
	Labour	Roger Boniface	266	7.1
Majority
Turnout			3,728	44.22
	Independent win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)

History