1998 Bromley London Borough Council election

Elections to Bromley Council in England were held on 7 May 1998. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.[1]

Because the council fell into no overall control, for the first time in the London Borough of Bromley history it was taken over by a Liberal Democrat/Labour Coalition. This ended in 2001 when the Conservatives regained the council.

Election result

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Turn out across the borough dropped to 40.8%, the lowest in the history of the council.

Bromley Local Election Result 1998
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 28 0 4 -4 46.7 45.3 +4.4
  Liberal Democrats 25 5 1 +4 41.7 35.0 -1.6
  Labour 7 1 1 0 11.7 18.7 -1.5

Despite the Conservatives increasing their share of the vote at the expense of both Labour and Liberal Democrats, they still lost seats to the Liberal Democrats and with it, control of the council. Labour, despite losing votes and seats found themselves as part of the administration. For the first time, the Liberal Democrats had managed to get the first past the post voting system to work in their favour by winning a higher share of seats than share of vote.

Ward results

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Beckenham

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Anerley[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Richard Gaster* 1,362 55.5 −0.1
Liberal Democrats William Alan Macdonald MacCormick* 1,289
Labour Clinton Valvis McCree 765 31.2 −1.0
Labour Andrew Jonathan Pharoah 658
Conservative Adrian Grantham Smith 328 13.4 +1.1
Conservative John Anthony De'Giovanni 308
Majority 24.3 −0.9
Turnout 34.2 −12.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -0.4
Clock House (2)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Edward Aubrey Crowe* 1,871 53.7 +12.6
Liberal Democrats Martin Arthur Lockwood* 1,802
Labour John Alec Dempster 24.0 −7.3
Conservative David Eric Burch 22.3 −5.3
Labour Richard Ernest Hart
Conservative Simon Henry Fawthorp
Majority 29.7 +20.0
Turnout 45.4 −11.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +10.0
Copers Cope (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson
Conservative Russell Lawrence Mellor 1,327
Liberal Democrats George Douglas Denyer 486
Liberal Democrats Patricia Bianca Mary Weal 478
Labour Richard Michael Rory O'Kelly 361
Labour Simon John Dawe
Majority 39.4 +12.1
Turnout 35.1 −6.2
Conservative hold Swing +6.0
Eden Park (2)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jane Elizabeth Green 1,474 45.5 +12.7
Liberal Democrats Anthony Robert Phillips 1,338
Conservative Albert George Miles* 1,237 38.2 −8.4
Conservative Robert Alistair Herd 1,207
Labour Raymond Grenville Taylor 526 16.2 −4.4
Labour Richard Frederick Watts 453
Majority 7.3 21.1
Turnout 45.8 −0.5
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +10.5
Kelsey Park (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael John Tickner*
Conservative Christopher John Elgar* 1,909
Liberal Democrats Reginald William Adams 662
Liberal Democrats Edward Hilary Whitaker 636
Labour Catherine Boyle 400
Labour Stephen Maynard Hale
Majority 42.5 +9.1
Turnout 45.9 +5.3
Conservative hold Swing +4.5
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Arthur Lewis* 1,105 36.8 +1.8
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones* 1,044
Labour Catherine Rose Newman 999 33.2 +1.6
Labour Munir Malik 975
Liberal Democrats Brian James Astell 901 30.0 +8.5
Liberal Democrats Paul David Nash 859
Majority 3.5 +0.1
Turnout 44.9 −5.6
Conservative hold Swing +0.0
Penge (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Timothy Fookes*
Labour Karen Anne Roberts 958
Liberal Democrats Daniel Ward 813
Liberal Democrats Sonia Mary Whitaker 787
Conservative June Rose Briggs 413
Conservative Robert James Erskine
Majority 8.2 −0.8
Turnout 35.1 −8.5
Labour hold Swing -0.4
Shortlands (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Malcolm Peter Hyland*
Conservative George Roger Taylor 1,960
Liberal Democrats Heather Isabel Donovan 690
Liberal Democrats Hilary Elizabeth-Anne Gaster 674
Labour Laurence Ronald Pocock 466
Labour Nicholas James Reed
Majority 41.1 +7.4
Turnout 42.3 −4.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.7
West Wickham North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Carole Mary Hubbard*
Conservative Bryan Charles Humphrys* 1,689
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Margaret Fitch 673
Liberal Democrats Simon David Wales 597
Labour Graham David Blackwood 531
Labour Rebecca Helen Pearson-Close
Majority 36.6 +21.1
Turnout 42.8 −7.2
Conservative hold Swing +10.5
West Wickham South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Frederick Ivan Gray*
Conservative Leonard Walter Tutt 2,022
Labour Richard Henry Redden 646
Labour Janet Ilma Ambrose 622
Liberal Democrats Graham Frederick Keith Radford 593
Liberal Democrats John Raymond Maydwell
Majority 44.3 +17.1
Turnout 43.5 −5.5
Conservative hold Swing +8.5

Bromley & Chislehurst

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Bickley[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ingrid Alexandra Buckley* 2,507 20.5
Conservative Sheila Ann Humphreys* 2,449 20.0
Conservative Gordon William Jenkins* 2,357 19.3
Liberal Democrats David Malcolm Dear 1,027 8.4
Liberal Democrats Anne Wendy Chaplin 991 8.1
Liberal Democrats Susan Anne Taylor 989 8.1
Labour Susan Noelle Cox 690 5.6
Labour Arthur Harold Johnson 638 5.2
Labour Alfred Ernest Parish 579 4.7
Majority
Turnout 40.8
Conservative hold Swing
Bromley Common & Keston (3)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth* 2,284
Liberal Democrats Alan Carter 2,030
Liberal Democrats Alexa Christine Anne Michael* 2,027
Conservative Stephen Leslie Carr 1,670
Conservative Sharon Claire Evans 1,533
Conservative Toby Sanders 1,495
Labour Christopher Lee Leonard Bartram 531
Labour Simon Timothy Williams
Labour Julia Margaret Ann Fogden
Majority
Turnout 36.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chislehurst (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joan Bryant*
Conservative Kathleen Ann Boughey*
Conservative Joan Kathleen Wykes* 2,734
Labour Charles Phillips 988
Labour Andrew Robert Amos
Labour Sharon Wheeler 876
Liberal Democrats Frances Catherine Borrowman 742
Liberal Democrats Ian Malcolm Magrath
Liberal Democrats Olwen Michele Wade-Jones 646
Green John William Taylor 213
Green Glen Adrian Shipley-Younan
Majority
Turnout 38.4
Conservative hold Swing
Hayes (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thelma Ann Manning
Conservative Graham Leslie Arthur
Conservative Neil Richard Reddin 2,666
Labour Gary Ian Boxall 882
Labour George Fryer Johnstone 824
Liberal Democrats Bob Reginald Skinner 820
Labour Michael Thomas King 811
Liberal Democrats Mark Andrew Gill 784
Liberal Democrats William Harold Stott
Majority
Turnout 41.4
Conservative hold Swing
Martins Hill & Town (2)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Peter John Ayres* 1,274
Liberal Democrats Raymond Philip Warner* 1,144
Conservative Philip Thomas Hollobone 1,111
Conservative Paul Louis Jemetta* 1,024
Labour Iain Philip Ambler 406
Labour Marcus Sherrard Oliver
Green John Robert Street 109
Green Gillian Frances Windall
Majority
Turnout 38.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest William Dyer*
Labour Robert Justin Yeldham* 826
Conservative Michael John Hennessey 708
Conservative Dennis Arthur Boughey 685
Liberal Democrats Carmel Bernadette Anne Butler 235
Liberal Democrats Brian Harry Taylor
Majority
Turnout 31.8
Labour hold Swing
Plaistow & Sundridge (3)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats James Gillespie 1,865 42.2 +18.7
Conservative Catherine Ann Bustard 1,824 41.3 −2.7
Liberal Democrats Stephen Frank Gosling 1,818
Conservative Michael Turner 1,812
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird* 1,791
Liberal Democrats Lennard Douglas Woods 1,768
Labour Robert Armstrong 580 13.1 −9.9
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright 501
Labour Gordon Thomas Yates* 464
Green Joyce Linda Brown 147 3.3 −6.2
Green Ann Christine Garrett 133
Green Frances Mary Speed 124
Majority
Turnout 39.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +10.7

Orpington

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Biggin Hill[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Colin Gostt* 1,830 50.9
Liberal Democrats Walter Robert Shekyls* 1,742
Conservative David Robert Haslam 1,481 41.2
Conservative Christopher Douglas Wordingham 1,366
Labour Brendan French 284 7.9
Labour Leonard David Hall 283
Majority 9.7
Turnout 43.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Chelsfield & Goddington (3)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Graem Peters* 2,477 48.5
Liberal Democrats Gillian Margaret Chamarette* 2,461
Liberal Democrats Michael James Hall* 2,399
Conservative Adrian Stuart Marshall 2,146 42.1
Conservative Andre Clive Madrell
Conservative Dean Alastair Saint
Labour Charles Walter Hailes 9.4
Labour Carol Anne Hannay
Labour Peter John Tozer
Majority 6.5
Turnout 45.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Crofton (2)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Helen Cecilia Rabbatts* 2,007 51.4
Liberal Democrats Vivian Charles Ross* 1,883
Conservative Judith Elizabeth Ellis 41.2
Conservative Richard Michael Rayment
Labour Lynn Ann Selwood 7.3
Labour Christopher William Taylor
Majority 10.2
Turnout 49.9
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Darwin (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield* 1,268
Labour John Charles Henry Lewis 210
Liberal Democrats Christine Sperling 208
Majority 62.8
Turnout 50.2
Conservative hold Swing
Farnborough (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 1,832
Liberal Democrats Terence Frank Clark 612
Liberal Democrats Michael Curtis Chamarette 518
Labour Malcolm Barker 318
UKIP James Bruce Carver 285
Labour Canh Linh 238
Majority 40.5
Turnout 41.2
Conservative hold Swing
Orpington Central (2)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Stewart Maines 66.5
Liberal Democrats Michael John Morris 1,475
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter 579 23.9
Conservative Julian Patrick Greville Grainger 549
Labour Keith Aubrey Galley 235 9.7
Labour Christopher Arthur Purnell
Majority 42.6
Turnout 37.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Charles Woods*
Conservative Tara Anne Bowman
Conservative John Richard Ince 2,791
Liberal Democrats Eileen G D Edwards 1,948
Liberal Democrats Margaret Georgina Ayres
Liberal Democrats Derek Gambell 1,706
Labour Joan Headington 606
Labour Amanda Jayne Williams
Labour Peter John Lisle 493
Green Martin James Childs 295
Majority 17.6
Turnout 46.9
Conservative hold Swing
St Mary Cray (3)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Susan Ann Polydorou* 1,381 38.4 −9.9
Liberal Democrats David McBride 1,332 37.0 +12.2
Labour John Richard Holbrook* 1,312
Labour Christopher John Price 1,225
Liberal Democrats Michael Oldman 1,255
Liberal Democrats Brenda Denise Thompson 1,246
Conservative Carole Linda Bowman 24.6 −2.3
Conservative Valerie Anita Cosette Huntingdon-Thresher
Conservative Anne Susan Barrow
Majority 1.4
Turnout 35.4
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing +11.0
St Paul's Cray (3)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Colin Willetts 1,662 42.9
Liberal Democrats Thomas William Hawthorne* 1,597 41.3
Liberal Democrats Martin Alan Curry* 1,471
Liberal Democrats Duncan Keith Borrowman* 1,443
Labour Kelly Jane Galvin 1,440
Labour Elizabeth Ruth Johnstone 1,411
Conservative Mary Winifred Macpherson 15.8
Conservative Richard John Wells
Conservative Christopher George Hillier
Majority 1.7
Turnout 35.0
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

References

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  1. ^ "Local Elections results". The Times. 9 May 1998. p. 46.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m London Borough of Bromley