2015 East Lindsey District Council election

2015 UK local government election

The 2015 East Lindsey District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of East Lindsey District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party won overall control of the council from NOC.

Results

East Lindsey District Council Election Result 2015
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	33	N/A	N/A	N/A	60.00	41.40	36,498
UKIP	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	14.55	23.66	20,857
Independent	6	N/A	N/A	N/A	10.91	7.03	6,200
Labour	4	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.27	17.07	15,049
Lincolnshire Independent	3	N/A	N/A	N/A	5.46	4.97	4,379
Liberal Democrats	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	1.81	2.06	1,814
No Label	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.00	1.53	1,350
Green	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.00	1.28	1,128
Independence from Europe	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.00	1.00	881

Council composition

After the election, the composition of the council was:

↓
33	8	6	4	3	1
Conservative	UKIP	IND	Lab	LI	LD

IND - Independent
Lab - Labour
LI - Lincolnshire Independents
LD - Liberal Democrats

Ward results

Source -

Alford

Alford (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Graham Anthony Marsh	1,057	45.55
	Lincolnshire Independent	Sarah Caroline Devereux	775	20.65
	Conservative	Colin Matthews	652
	Labour	Daniel Paul Hopwood	628	26.23
	Labour	Sharon Margaret Wilkinson	356
	Green	Andrew Gareth Hill	284	7.57
Turnout				61.57
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Lincolnshire Independent win (new seat)

A total of 18 ballots were rejected.

Binbrook

Binbrook (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Geoffrey Fry	964	72.00
	Labour	Andrew David Charles Austin	375	28.00
Majority			589	44.00
Turnout			1,339	68.66
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 19 ballots were rejected.

Burgh Le Marsh

Burgh Le Marsh (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Neil Douglas Luther Cooper	582	45.90
	UKIP	James William Brookes	414	32.65
	Independent	David Poole	272	21.45
Majority			168	13.25
Turnout			1,268	63.90
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 23 ballots were rejected.

Chapel St Leonards

Chapel St Leonards (2 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Paul Anthony Hibbert-Greaves	843	45.23
	Conservative	Melvin Leivers	778
	Labour	Fiona Mary Brown	770	36.13
	Independent	Hazel Newcombe	668	18.64
	Labour	David George Smart	525
Turnout				58.03
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 13 ballots were rejected.

Coningsby & Mareham

Coningsby & Mareham (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stanley Morris Avison	2,392	38.62
	UKIP	Aimee Anne Flitcroft	1,546	42.37
	Independent	Martin John Foster	1,177	19.01
	UKIP	Julia Pears	1,078
Turnout				63.07
	Conservative win (new seat)
	UKIP win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 45 ballots were rejected.

Croft

Croft (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Pauline May Cooper	738	67.52
	Independence from Europe	Valerie Pain	355	32.48
Majority			383	35.04
Turnout			1,093	63.58
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 39 ballots were rejected.

Friskney

Friskney (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UKIP	Carleen Dickinson	531	50.48
	Conservative	Kevin Stephen Smith	521	49.52
Majority			10	0.96
Turnout			1,052	63.75
	UKIP win (new seat)

A total of 35 ballots were rejected.

Fulstow

Fulstow (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Michael Buckley	847	61.33
	UKIP	Iris Dainton	298	21.58
	Labour	Jason Paul Garrett-Pughe	236	17.09
Majority			549	39.75
Turnout			1,381	73.54
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 17 ballots were rejected.

Grimoldby

Grimoldby (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Terence John Knowles	611	52.13
	Conservative	Helena Poskitt	275	23.46
	UKIP	Arthur Henderson	172	14.68
	Labour	Dawn Margaret Blakey	114	9.73
Majority			336	28.67
Turnout			1,172	67.87
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 9 ballots were rejected.

Hagworthingham

Hagworthingham (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Grover	864	68.19
	UKIP	Leslie James Pears	403	31.81
Majority			461	36.38
Turnout			1,267	71.43
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 63 ballots were rejected.

Halton Holegate

Halton Holegate (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	James Macaulay Swanson	583	41.23
	Conservative	Thomas James Kemp	434	30.69
	UKIP	Marian Elizabeth Raven	353	24.97
	Independence from Europe	John James Barry	44	3.11
Majority			149	10.54
Turnout			1,414	70.21
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 23 ballots were rejected.

Holton Le Clay & North Thoresby

Holton Le Clay & North Thoresby (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Siobhan Louise Weller	1,727	47.56
	Lincolnshire Independent	Terence Frederick Aldridge	1,225	33.74
	Labour	Michael Robert Booth	679	18.70
Turnout				67.81
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Lincolnshire Independent win (new seat)

A total of 37 ballots were rejected.

Horncastle

Horncastle (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Martin Avison	1,843	28.58
	Liberal Democrats	Fiona Margaret Martin	1,663	25.79
	Independent	Sandra Campbell-Wardman	1,125	17.45
	UKIP	Michael John Beecham	1,042	16.16
	Labour	Janet Frances Lister	775	12.02
Turnout				66.09
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 20 ballots were rejected.

Ingoldmells

Ingoldmells (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin John Davie	365	41.43
	UKIP	Christopher Garton	273	30.99
	Labour	Graham Archer	235	26.67
	Independence from Europe	Katie Leeann Owen	8	0.91
Majority			92	10.44
Turnout			881	60.14
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 7 ballots were rejected.

Legbourne

Legbourne (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Adam Grist	894	73.64
	UKIP	Charles Frederick Wilson	320	26.36
Majority			574	47.28
Turnout			1,214	71.00
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 61 ballots were rejected.

Mabelthorpe

Mabelthorpe (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UKIP	Terence Brindley Brown	1,313	35.45
	Labour	Graham Edward Cullen	1,234	36.81
	Labour	Anthony John Howard	1,158
	UKIP	Annie Elizabeth Reynolds	1,017
	Labour	Patrick Kevin Prince	965
	UKIP	Christopher Reynolds	903
	Conservative	Grama Michael Gooding	852	20.67
	Conservative	Moira Jessie Morgan	539
	Conservative	Carl Ian Tebbutt	494
	Lincolnshire Independent	David Barry Mellor	257	4.48
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Pinion	151
	Independent	Graham Dexter Parkhurst	125	1.37
	No Label	Stephanie Jane Carruthers	111	1.22
Turnout				60.51
	UKIP win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

A total of 9 ballots were rejected.

Marsh Chapel & Somercotes

Marsh Chapel & Somercotes (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert John Palmer	1,299	45.07
	UKIP	Daniel McNally	1,094	37.96
	Labour	Patricia Jane Newman	489	16.97
Turnout				66.05
	Conservative win (new seat)
	UKIP win (new seat)

A total of 6 ballots were rejected.

North Holme

North Holme (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Francis William Patrick Treanor	523	52.94
	Labour	David James Ernest Hall	465	47.06
Majority			58	5.88
Turnout			988	55.90
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 26 ballots were rejected.

Priory & St James

Priory & St James (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sarah Rosemary Dodds	1,089	54.46
	Conservative	Pauline Frances Watson	902	27.19
	Labour	Stuart Pickering	718
	No Label	Andrew Leonard	609	18.35
Turnout				60.44
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 51 ballots were rejected.

Roughton

Roughton (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Gray	Unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

Scarbrough & Seacroft

Scarbrough & Seacroft (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stephen Russell Kirk	1,205	39.28
	Conservative	David Richard Edginton	1,198
	UKIP	John Barry Byford	1,029	45.29
	UKIP	Darrell Blackburn	941
	Labour	Gwendolen Margaret Gray	853	13.94
	UKIP	David John Cargill	801
	Independence from Europe	Robert Milory Sloan	91	1.48
Turnout				55.05
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	UKIP win (new seat)

A total of 31 ballots were rejected.

Sibsey & Stickney

Sibsey & Stickney (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Robert Ashton	1,269	55.94
	Conservative	Neil John Jones	1,173
	UKIP	Jonathan Noble	919	41.54
	UKIP	Tracy Frances Lamy-Edwards	894
	Independence from Europe	Giles Allen Crust	110	2.52
Turnout				68.08
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 128 ballots were rejected.

Spilsby

Spilsby (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Roderick Vincent Williams	538	44.76
	UKIP	Ebony Kate Moore	367	30.53
	Labour	Christopher Clech Prince	297	24.71
Majority			171	14.23
Turnout			1,202	56.76
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 8 ballots were rejected.

St Clements

St Clements (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UKIP	Mark Vincent Dannatt	704	40.58
	Conservative	Sidney Alfred Dennis	573	35.08
	UKIP	Christina Draper	550
	Conservative	James Anthony Carpenter	511
	Labour	Barry Cresswell	375	12.14
	Independent	Mark Crawford Anderson	350	11.33
	Independence from Europe	Malcolm Keen	27	0.87
Turnout				53.64
	UKIP win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 34 ballots were rejected.

St Margarets

St Margarets (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher Thomas Green	481	42.23
	Labour	Laure Marie Stephenson	403	35.38
	Independent	Eileen Ballard	255	22.39
Majority			78	6.85
Turnout			1,139	65.02
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 19 ballots were rejected.

St Marys

St Marys (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Gillian Mary Makinson-Sanders	714	58.29
	Conservative	Victoria Emma Treanor	344	28.08
	Labour	Michael Bateson	167	13.63
Majority			370	30.21
Turnout			1,225	66.49
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 7 ballots were rejected.

St Michaels

St Michaels (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	George Edward Horton	490	44.67
	Conservative	Daniel Mark Turner	384	35.00
	Labour	Neil Andrew Ward	223	20.33
Majority			106	9.67
Turnout			1,097	67.19
	Independent win (new seat)

A total of 19 ballots were rejected.

Sutton on Sea

Sutton on Sea (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lincolnshire Independent	Stephen Leslie William Palmer	953	36.52
	Conservative	Helen Angela Matthews	800	31.52
	UKIP	John Peter Critchlow	757	16.30
	Lincolnshire Independent	Anthony David John Mee	743
	Conservative	Helen Parkhurst	664
	Labour	Josephine Philomena Alderson	429	15.66
	Labour	Keith Finney	298
Turnout				68.82
	Lincolnshire Independent win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 3 ballots were rejected.

Tetford & Donington

Tetford & Donington (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David George Andrews	480	33.66
	Lincolnshire Independent	Daniel Anthony Simpson	426	29.87
	Independent	Douglas Rodwell	270	28.94
	UKIP	Andrew Wyatt Truscott	250	17.53
Majority			54	3.79
Turnout			1,426	74.96
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 14 ballots were rejected.

Tetney

Tetney (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stuart Watson	648	52.90
	No Label	Blair Keith Maynard	577	47.10
Majority			71	5.80
Turnout			1,225	58.56
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 32 ballots were rejected.

Trinity

Trinity (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rosalind Alice Jackson	361	39.03
	Conservative	Edward George Bell	234	25.30
	UKIP	Christopher Burton	195	21.08
	Independent	David Edmund Wing	82	8.86
	No Label	Owen Charles Nicholson	53	5.73
Majority			127	13.73
Turnout			925	52.46
	Labour win (new seat)

A total of 0 ballots were rejected.

Wainfleet

Wainfleet (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Wendy Bowkett	557	46.73
	UKIP	James Gary Edwards	291	24.41
	Labour	Robert Henry Caudwell	191	16.02
	Independence from Europe	Chris Pain	153	12.84
Majority			266	22.32
Turnout			1,192	59.46
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 6 ballots were rejected.

Willoughby with Sloothby

Willoughby with Sloothby (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alan Vassar	591	44.74
	Independent	Stephen William Eyre	563	42.62
	Labour	Rae Rigby	167	12.64
Majority			28	2.12
Turnout			1,321	67.56
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 13 ballots were rejected.

Winthorpe

Winthorpe (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UKIP	Daniel Brookes	990	60.97
	UKIP	Susan Anita Jane Blackburn	922
	Conservative	Carl Stuart Macey	786	25.06
	Green	Philip William Gaskell	345	11.00
	Independence from Europe	Neil Adrian Woods	93	2.97
Turnout				53.57
	UKIP win (new seat)
	UKIP win (new seat)

A total of 38 ballots were rejected.

Withern and Theddlethorpe

Withern and Theddlethorpe (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sandra Harrison	Unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

Woodhall Spa

Woodhall Spa (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Craig James Leyland	1,589	75.18
	Conservative	Susanna Philippa Helen Gorst	1,357
	Green	Harry Richard Wells	499	12.73
	Labour	Martin Roger Yeldham	474	12.09
Turnout				69.73
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 20 ballots were rejected.

Wragby

Wragby (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas John Guyatt	731	55.67
	Independent	Philip John Grimes	582	44.33
Majority			149	11.34
Turnout			1,313	69.75
	Conservative win (new seat)

A total of 49 ballots were rejected.

References

"Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
"Local Election Results 2015 - BBC News". www.bbc.co.uk.
"Declaration of result of poll East Lindsey" (PDF). e-lindsey.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "Local Elections Archive Project - 2015 - East Lindsey". www.andrewteale.me.uk.

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Former councils
Holland County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Humberside County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 Abolished
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Lindsey County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Boothferry Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Cleethorpes Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
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