Election Results 2007

After a long campaign and much hard work by all members who took part, the results are in.

Joel Foley, the Wycombe Conservative Future Chairman, has been elected as councillor for the Totteridge Ward. Joel, together with his campaign team, knocked on over a thousand doors during the election campaign, and in his speech at the count on Friday 4th May he gave thanks to the people of Totteridge for "recognising young potential" and to the Conservative Future members and other party members, including Paul Goodman MP who helped with canvassing in the ward. Joel now becomes the youngest Councillor on the Wycombe District Council.

Our commiserations go out to CF member Daryl Roberts who, despite a well fought campaign with Julia Pritchard, fell just just 19 votes short of ousting Labour Councillor Margaret Draper. Daryl was the youngest candidate in the Wycombe District and no doubt will prove to be an asset to the party over the coming years.

On the whole we have gained one seat on the Wycombe Council. With previous Conservative Councillors retiring or losing their seat, there are a number of new faces on the council.

The make up of the council following the election on May 3rd 2007 is as follows:

Conservative - 49 (up 1)
Labour - 5 (down 4)
Liberal Democrats - 4 (up 2)
Independent - 2 (up 1)

For a detailed breakdown of the results visit the Wycombe Council Website.

Nationally we have had great success
(from conservatives.com)

The 2007 local government elections have seen the Conservatives make an incredible breakthrough in the North. We now control 20 councils in the North, and more councils in the North than Labour. Councils we’ve gained:

• East Riding of Yorkshire for the first time ever, making 18 gains and taking the Lib Dem and Labour leaders’ seats.

• South Ribble for the first time since 1995, gaining 24 seats.

• Chester for the first time since 1986, gaining 7 seats.

• Blackpool, gaining 13 seats – 12 from Labour, 1 from the Lib Dems. We last controlled Blackpool in 1987.

We have now made net gains of over 130 seats in the North. If people were to have voted in Bury and Bolton in a General Election as they did yesterday, we would have won the three Parliamentary seats needed to win a General Election (Bolton NE, Bury N and Bolton W - Ruth Kelly’s seat). We’d also have won Barrow, - John Hutton, the Pension Secretary’s seat. Not only this, but we would have taken seats way beyond our expectations, such as Sunderland Central and Wallasey, as well as Birmingham Selly Oak, Blackpool South and Birmingham Northfield.

• Nationally, we are predicted to gain over 40 per cent of the vote.

• We have now gained over 800 seats and now control 23 more councils.

• We control 205 councils in England overall– more than three times Labour (46) and the Libs Dems (27) combined.

• Labour have been wiped off the map – in 80 councils (and rising) they have no councillors at all (see map, right).

• The Lib Dems are heading for their worst loss of councillors for a decade.

Across the North, we have also made gains in 33 other councils: Allerdale, Alnwick, Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Castle Morpeth, Chester-le-Street, Chorley, Copeland, Crewe and Nantwich, Darlington, Eden, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Fylde, Hambleton, Lancaster, Macclesfield, Oldham, Pendle, Preston, Rotherham, Richmondshire, Salford, Stockton on Tees, Sunderland, Teesdale, Vale Royal, West Lancashire, Wigan, Wyre and York.

Responding to news that the Conservatives have now gained over 800 seats, giving us the largest number of councillors since 1978, Francis Maude, Conservative Chairman said:

"Now that most of the results are in, it’s clear that we’ve made a massive breakthrough. We now control over 200 councils across England – three times as many councils as Labour and the Lib Dems combined. What’s more, we’ve made a great breakthrough in the North of England with more councils than Labour in the North West and Yorkshire."

"We’re now the only party that represents the whole of England. This is a great base on which we can build victory at the next election, taking our message of change, hope and optimism to more communities across the country."