Thursday, May 11, 2006

Election result

For full details of the election results see www.kingston.gov.uk. You will notice that The Conservatives made 6 net gains from the Liberal Democrats and they gained 1 seat from Labour. The Liberal Democrats now have an overall majority of 2 seats, whereas previously they had 12. The biggest swing of the night was in Chessington North and Hook, where the Conservatives achieved a 23% swing against the Liberal Democrats, reducing their majority from over 1100 to a mere 18. Across the Borough the Lib Dem administration is supported by a few thousand fewer people than voted for the Conservative opposition - what price proportional representation now?
One ward stands out like a sore thumb as uncharacteristic of the the rest of Kingston. That is Berrylands, where the Lib Dems contrived a dramatic increase in their vote to unseat our Leader, Kevin Davis. Edward Davey MP seems to have involved himself far more than usual in the campaign, though I don't remember deeing him at the count of votes. There were recounts in Berrylands, Canbury, Norbiton, Old Malden and Alexandra wards.
In my ward of Surbiton Hill the Greens beat Labour into 4th place and my majority over the nearest Lib Dem rose from 66 in 2002 to 552 this time around, rather exceeding my hopes and expectations. I am sure my Anonymous correspondent will be characteristically generous in his congratulations!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good to see your old friend Tim Brown in the local paper crowing about the result in Berrylands. I happen to know that this is not the last the Kingston and Surbiton Conservative Association will hear from him....

Anonymous said...

One ward stands out like a sore thumb as uncharacteristic of the the rest of Kingston. That is Berrylands, where the Lib Dems contrived a dramatic increase in their vote to unseat our Leader and prominent blogger, Kevin Davis.

Current mood: Happy

Any connection between your mood on the Friday and Saturday and the fact that Kevin Davis lost his seat? Methinks someone may have had pretentions to lead the Conservative Group!

Paul Johnston said...

No connection whatever except in your mind. Kevin has been succeeded by Cllr. Howard Jones, with my wholehearted support and that of all the Conservative Group. I am happy because of the success of so many of our colleagues in the Kingston elections. As a local taxpayer you should be too.
By the way I shall not be publishing any of your further fulminations on my blog.