2019 Chichester District Council election

2019 UK local government election

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2 May 2019

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All 36 seats to Chichester District Council
19 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Seats before	38	5
Seats won	18	11
Seat change	10	7
Popular vote	24,245	19,228
Percentage	41.6%	33.0%

Map showing the results of the 2019 Chichester District Council elections by ward.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

No overall control

Elections to Chichester District Council in West Sussex, United Kingdom were held on 2 May 2019. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party had its majority wiped out.

Boundary changes

In 2016, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England presented its proposed boundary changes for the Chichester District, following a three-month consultation with the public. This involved reducing the number of councillors from 48 to 36, and the number of wards from 29 to 21.

Boundary changes in effect from May 2019
Old wards	New wards
Chichester East	Chichester Central‡
Chichester North
Chichester South
Chichester East	Chichester East
Chichester North	Chichester East
Chichester North	Chichester North
Chichester West	Chichester North
Chichester South	Chichester South
Chichester East	Chichester South
Chichester West	Chichester West
Chichester South	Chichester West
Easebourne	Easebourne
Stedham*	Easebourne
Fernhurst	Fernhurst
Plaistow*
Rogate*
Bury*	Fittleworth‡
Petworth	Fittleworth‡
Boxgrove*	Goodwood‡
Lavant	Goodwood‡
Bosham*	Harbour Villages‡
Donnington*
Fishbourne*
Southbourne
Harting	Harting
Rogate*	Harting
Lavant	Lavant
Funtington*	Lavant
Petworth	Loxwood‡
Plaistow*
Wisborough Green*
Midhurst	Midhurst
Stedham*	Midhurst
North Mundham*	North Mundham and Tangmere‡
Tangmere*
Sidlesham*
Petworth	Petworth
Selsey South	Selsey South
Selsey North*	Selsey South
Sidlesham*	Sidlesham with Selsey North‡
Selsey North*	Sidlesham with Selsey North‡
Southbourne	Southbourne
East Wittering*	The Witterings‡
West Wittering*	The Witterings‡
Westbourne	Westbourne
Funtington*	Westbourne
* Abolished	‡ New creation

Summary

Election result

2019 Chichester District Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	36	18	1	11	10	50.0	42.0	24,245	–15.9
	Liberal Democrats	31	11	7	0	7	30.6	33.3	19,228	+13.6
	Green	9	2	2	0	2	5.6	8.4	4,878	+1.9
	Labour	17	2	2	0	2	5.6	6.7	3,864	±0.0
	Local Alliance	2	2	2	0	2	5.6	2.6	1,528	N/A
	Independent	4	1	0	3	3	2.8	4.1	2,374	–2.3
	UKIP	6	0	0	0		0.0	2.7	1,582	+0.1
	Patria	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	84	±0.0

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18	11	2	2	2	1
Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Green	Labour	LA	I

Ward results

Chichester Central (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Martyn John Bell	381	44.3
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Mary Dorothy Scicluna	353	40.1
	Labour	Malcolm Shepherd	108	12.5
Turnout			861	38.46
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chichester East (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kevin Garry Hughes	462	33.8
	Labour	Sarah Carol Lishman	441	32.3
	Conservative	Christopher Carl Spink	380	27.8
	Conservative	Jane Louise Kilby	355	26.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Francis Hughes	283	20.7
	Green	Pauline Gaskin	279	20.4
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Woolley	246	18.0
	UKIP	Terrence Leonard Walters	146	10.7
Turnout			1,387	30.99
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Chichester North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Edward Plowman	625	38.4
	Conservative	Anthony Peter Dignum	623	38.3
	Conservative	Peter John Budge	586	36.0
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Alexander Joy	560	34.4
	Green	Elizabeth Lucy Noble	490	30.1
	Labour	Theo Kent	219	13.5
Turnout			1,650	38.76
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chichester South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Sarah Mary Sharp	987	61.4
	Green	Heather Margaret Barrie	692	43.0
	Conservative	Jamie David Fitzjohn	324	20.1
	Conservative	Nigel Geoffrey Galloway	321	20.0
	Liberal Democrats	Angus Richard Bond	196	12.2
	Labour	Amanda Jane Atkinson	187	11.6
	Labour	Philip James Wilson	167	10.4
	Liberal Democrats	John Kentish Turbefield	160	10.0
Turnout			1,630	31.74
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing

Chichester West (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Margaret Mary Apel	1,139	55.8
	Liberal Democrats	John-Henry David Bowden	890	43.6
	Conservative	Simon Huw Peter Lloyd-Williams	538	26.3
	Conservative	Stephen Leon Hill	498	24.4
	Labour	James Douglas Hobson	228	11.2
	Labour	Aimie Jane Merrett	216	10.6
	Independent	Michael Clive Thorn	181	8.9
	UKIP	Michael Alan Hamilton Mason	177	8.7
	Patria	Andrew Emerson	84	4.1
Turnout			2,062	42.71
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Easebourne (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Erik Francis Hobbs	536	63.7
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Gordon Motley	287	34.1
Turnout			841	35.93
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fernhurst (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Norma Dorothy Graves	969	56.5
	Conservative	Peter John Henry Wilding	922	53.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Derek Morton	690	40.2
	UKIP	Peter Hugh Pearce	227	13.2
Turnout			1,736	34.35
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fittleworth (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alan James Franklin Sutton	661	66.8
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Anton Cemm	302	30.5
Turnout			990	38.70
	Conservative hold		Swing

Goodwood (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Henry Charles Potter	448	52.0
	Green	Philip Gerald Maber	212	24.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jack David Lovejoy	186	21.6
Turnout			861	34.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harbour Villages (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Geoffrey Frank Moss	1,739	52.0
	Liberal Democrats	David John Alwin Rodgers	1,247	37.3
	Conservative	Penelope Clare Plant	1,178	35.2
	Liberal Democrats	David Conrad Mackintosh	1,138	34.0
	Conservative	Andrew Charles Collins	1,107	33.1
	Conservative	Michael Brian Dicker	996	29.8
	Green	Michael John Neville	961	28.7
	Labour	Jane Anne Towers	329	9.8
	Labour	Stephen John Gough	256	7.6
	Labour	Jane Loveda Turton	235	7.0
Turnout			3,395	42.19
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Harting (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Francesca Bacon O'Kelly	968	74.1
	Conservative	Lawrence Vere Tristram Abel	313	23.9
Turnout			1,307	45.22
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Lavant (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Erroll Prior Palmer	531	58.4
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew John Leeming	266	29.2
	Labour	Gwendoline Jane Miles	94	10.3
Turnout			910	36.01
	Conservative hold		Swing

Loxwood (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Natalie Cecilia Hume	1,088	55.5
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Benjamin Evans	938	47.8
	Conservative	Christian Nicholas Mahne	868	44.3
	Conservative	Christine Victoria Gibson-Pierce	781	39.8
Turnout			2,017	36.56
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Midhurst (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Gordon Valentine McAra	1,280	59.8
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Russell Fowler	666	31.1
	Conservative	Sally Veronica Watts	636	29.7
	Conservative	Nicholas Richard Donald Thomas	553	25.8
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Lynda Annette Neville	335	15.7
	Labour	Margaret Rhona Guest	227	10.6
Turnout			2,150	38.21
	Independent hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

North Mundham and Tangmere (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon John Oakley	798	51.0
	Conservative	Christopher Leslie William Page	691	44.2
	Liberal Democrats	David Betts	666	42.6
	UKIP	Andrew John Sheppard	289	18.5
Turnout			1,576	30.88
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Petworth (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Eileen Patricia Lintill	650	68.4
	Liberal Democrats	David Clifford Hares	172	26.5
	Labour	Jonathan Michael Rodell	107	11.3
Turnout			950	34.01
	Conservative hold		Swing

Selsey South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Local Alliance	Timothy Simon Charles Johnson	811	53.0
	Conservative	John William Evans Elliott	735	48.1
	Conservative	Peter Roger Barrow	513	33.6
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Scotland	265	17.3
	Labour	Bridget Ash	147	9.6
	Labour	Mark Andrew Farwell	127	8.3
Turnout			1,547	31.40
	Local Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sidlesham with Selsey North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Local Alliance	Donna Frances Johnson	717	49.4
	Conservative	Linda Caroline Purnell	648	44.6
	Conservative	Patricia Mary Tull	453	31.2
	Green	Lucinda Anne Gibson-House	436	30.0
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Mary Scotland	280	19.3
Turnout			1,462	30.90
	Local Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Southbourne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Andrew Brown	1,018	62.5
	Liberal Democrats	Tracie Patricia Bangert	884	54.2
	Conservative	Robert Hayes	674	41.3
	Conservative	Nigel Philip Hogben	492	30.2
Turnout			1,673
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

The Witterings (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Graeme Arthur Frederick Barrett	1,309	44.8
	Conservative	Elizabeth Angela Booth Hamilton	1,191	40.7
	Conservative	Susan Therese Taylor	1,003	34.3
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Joanna Gormley	744	25.4
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Elizabeth Milnes	703	24.0
	Green	Stephanie Grace Carn	592	20.2
	Independent	Laurence Pocock	577	19.7
	UKIP	Jonathan Bowman	396	13.5
	UKIP	Maureen Patricia Hunt	347	11.9
	Independent	Martin John Silcocks	336	11.5
	Labour	Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan	314	10.7
Turnout			2,948	36.58
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Westbourne (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Roy Alan Briscoe	583	57.4
	Green	Ann Elizabeth Stewart	229	22.6
	Liberal Democrats	Claire Louise Power	194	19.1
Turnout			1,015	37.89
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

^ Based on pre-2019 boundaries.
^ Indicates boundary change—so this is a nominal figure.

"Election results: Tories lose three Sussex councils". BBC News. 3 May 2019.
"Tories lose overall control of Chichester District Council". Chichester Observer. 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
"Overview of draft recommendations for Chichester District Council" (PDF). Chichester City Council. 2016.
"District and Parish Election Results 2019". Chichester District Council. 2019.

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