2017 Gloucestershire County Council election

The 2017 Gloucestershire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom.[1] All 53 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. Control of the council went from a Conservative Party minority to a majority administration.

2017 Gloucestershire County Council election

← 2013 4 May 2017 2021 →

All 53 seats to Gloucestershire County Council
27 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Con LD Lab
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Last election 23 14 9
Seats before 25 14 9
Seats won 31 14 5
Seat change Increase8 Steady Decrease4

  Fourth party Fifth party
  Grn PAB
Party Green PAB
Last election 1 1
Seats before 1 1
Seats won 2 1
Seat change Increase1 Steady

Map showing the results of the 2017 Gloucestershire County Council elections.

Council control before election

No Overall Control

Council control after election

Conservative

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 May 2017 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections,[2] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.[3]

Summary

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The Conservative Party gained nine seats and lost one, leading to a net gain of eight seats. The Liberal Democrats held all their existing seats, remaining the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, whilst the Labour Party lost four seats. UKIP lost all its seats on the council, whilst the Greens gained a second councillor.

The sole remaining independent lost re-election, although the People Against Bureaucracy Group held on to their seat.

Results

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Gloucestershire County Council election, 2017
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 31 10 2 +8 58.5 45.1 79,759
  Liberal Democrats 14 0 0 0 26.4 27.4 48,462
  Labour 5 1 5 -4 9.4 14.4 25,541
  Green 2 1 0 +1 3.8 7.7 13,556
  PAB 1 0 0 0 1.9 1525
  UKIP 0 0 3 -3 0 3.2 5,631
  Other parties 0 0 2 -2 0 2.2 3,907

Results by Division

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Cheltenham

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All Saints and Oakley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Colin Hay 1,440 53 +3
Conservative Martin Andrew Tracey 844 31 +7
Labour Alec Gamble 271 10 −4
Green Sarah Jane Field 186 7 −5
Majority 596 22 −4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Battledown and Charlton Kings
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Matt Babbage 1,845 46 +10
Liberal Democrats Paul Gerard McCloskey 1,794 45 +10
Green Lorraine Elizabeth Mason 180 5 0
Labour Caroline Adele Gavin 170 5 −1
Majority 51 1 0
Conservative hold Swing
Benhall and Up Hatherley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Simon Wheeler 1,972 52 +11
Conservative Mike Saunders 1506 40 +13
Labour Kenneth Syme 159 4 0
Green Adam Paul Van Coevorden 147 4 0
Majority 466 12 −2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Charlton Park and College
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Klara Sudbury 2,392 61 +14
Conservative Peter Frantz Vagn Christensen 1,263 32 −4
Green Elizabeth Johnson 143 4 +4
Labour Malcolm Bride 136 3 −3
Majority 1129 29 +18
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Hesters Way and Springbank
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Suzanne Theresa Williams 1,421 54 −1
Conservative Shaun Stephen Bailey 781 30 +7
Labour Clive Robert Harriss 203 8 −8
UKIP Barry George Lodge 125 5 +5
Green Dale Karl Campbell 86 3 +3
Majority 640 24 −6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Lansdown and Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Harman 1,921 50 +4
Liberal Democrats Dilys Mary Juliet Barrell 1,620 42 +14
Labour Kevin Michael Boyle 160 4 −2
Green Anne Knight-Elliott 143 4 −3
Majority 301 8 −10
Conservative hold Swing
Leckhampton and Warden Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Iain Andrew Paterson Dobie 2,128 49 +15
Conservative Chris Nelson 1,902 43 +10
Green Timothy Cosmo Bonsor 188 4 −7
Labour Joe Sucksmith 165 4 +4
Majority 226 6 +5
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Pittville and Prestbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PAB John Payne 1,525 38 −21
Liberal Democrats Dennis Frank Parsons 1,402 35 +20
Conservative Jerry Forrest 846 21 +5
Labour Ian Hugh White 140 3 +3
Green Ian Antony Lander 120 3 +3
Majority 123 3 −40
PAB hold Swing
St Mark's and St Peter's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Francis Coleman 1,814 59 +15
Conservative Carney Charles Bonner 704 23 +9
Labour Robert Ramuz Irons 233 8 −2
Green Emily Catherine Campbell 201 7 +1
UKIP Peter Bowman 107 3 −24
Majority 1,110 36 +19
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
St Paul's and Swindon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Bernard Fisher 1,175 50 +6
Conservative Christopher John Daniels 564 24 +10
Labour Charles Francis Fraser 424 18 +8
Green Adrian Becker 169 7 +1
Majority 611 26 +9
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Cotswold

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Bourton-on-the-Water and Northleach
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Hodgkinson 2,365 60 +21
Conservative Mark Mackenzie-Charrington 1,581 40 +3
Majority 784 20 +18
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Campden-Vale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lynden Stow 2,145 68 +6
Liberal Democrats Bella McMillan-Scott 721 23 +9
Green Ailsa Spindler 173 5 +5
UKIP Robert McNeil Wilson 109 3 −13
Majority 1,424 45 −1
Conservative hold Swing
Cirencester Beeches
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Nigel Robbins 1,971 58 +19
Conservative Stuart Tarr 1,179 34 +3
Green Joy Irving 138 4 0
UKIP Chris Harlow 132 4 −16
Majority 792 24 +16
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Cirencester Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Joe Harris 2,193 63 +8
Conservative Tony Curry 957 27 +5
Labour Terry Pomroy 176 5 0
UKIP Bob Stephens 94 3 −11
Green Bob Irving 92 2 −1
Majority 1,236 36 +3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Fairford and Lechlade on Thames
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Raymond Theodoulou 1,867 55 +7
Liberal Democrats Andrew Doherty 1,081 32 +15
Labour Trevor Smith 197 6 −4
Green Xanthe Messenger 141 4 −2
UKIP Pete Bown 106 3 −16
Majority 786 23 −6
Conservative hold Swing
South Cerney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Shaun Parsons 1,746 49 +10
Liberal Democrats Tatyan Cheung 1,690 48 +20
UKIP Margaret Rastelli 118 3 −15
Majority 56 1 −10
Conservative hold Swing
Stow-on-the-Wold
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Nigel Moor 2,340 63 +6
Liberal Democrats Rachel Coxcoon 1,014 27 +21
Green Andrew Maclean 210 6 −2
UKIP Edeltraud French 139 4 −14
Majority 1,326 36 −3
Conservative hold Swing
Tetbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Hirst 2,061 69 +28
Green Sabrina Poole 743 25 +20
UKIP Guy Parfitt 204 7 −12
Majority 1318 44 +22
Conservative hold Swing

Forest of Dean

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Blakeney and Bream
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Henry Boyles 1,224 33 +7
UKIP Richard Nicholas Leppington 1,053 28 −8
Labour Janet Hazel Keene 743 20 −13
Green Louise Mary Elliott 387 10 +10
Liberal Democrats Derek George Couzens 297 8 +2
Majority 171 5 +2
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
Cinderford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Graham Leslie Morgan 1,144 54 +7
Conservative Marc Silverthorn 527 25 +12
UKIP Roger Ashley Jean Wilkinson 201 9 −19
Green Jill Raymond 178 8 +3
Liberal Democrats Lindsey Margaret Read 69 3 −4
Majority 617 29 +10
Labour hold Swing
Coleford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Carole Ann Alloway-Martin 1,128 48 +23
Labour Shaun Stammers 603 26 −7
Liberal Democrats Heather Margaret Lusty 231 10 +5
UKIP Martin Robert Hill 225 10 −15
Green Fiona Bowie 145 6 +6
Majority 525 22 +14
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Drybrook and Lydbrook
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terry Hale 874 33 +18
Independent Andrew Edward Gardiner 828 31 +6
Labour Di Martin 692 26 +2
Liberal Democrats Gill Moseley 133 5 +2
UKIP Averil Elisabeth Sumners 132 5 −24
Majority 46 2 −2
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
Lydney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alan Preest* 1,110 46 +28
Labour Mel Farrant 578 24 +5
UKIP Alan Grant 332 14 −28
Green James Greenwood 270 11 +4
Liberal Democrats Terry Tull 144 6 +6
Majority 532 22 −1
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
  • Alan Preest was elected in 2013 as a UKIP councillor
Mitcheldean
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brian Robinson 1,762 55 +31
Liberal Democrats Sue Henchley 632 20 +14
Labour Angela Sullivan 452 14 +4
UKIP Ian Mitchell Aitken 193 6 −13
Green Poppy Turpin-West 153 5 +1
Majority 1,130 35 +27
Conservative gain from Independent Swing
  • The seat had previously been gained in a by-election. Changes shown are those from 2013.
Newent
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Will Windsor-Clive 1,794 63 +26
Labour Roger Anthony Sterry 311 11 −1
Green David Richard Humphreys 301 11 +6
Liberal Democrats Ian Iredale King 243 9 +7
UKIP Alec Robert Tritton 188 7 −15
Majority 1,483 52 +37
Conservative hold Swing
Sedbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Patrick Christopher Molyneux 1,312 39 +8
Green Chris McFarling 780 23 +12
Labour Jake Ivor Lewis 479 14 −4
Liberal Democrats Roy Birch 363 11 −3
Independent Gethyn Joffre Davies 265 8 +8
UKIP John Duncan William McOwan 123 4 −22
Majority 532 16 +11
Conservative hold Swing

Gloucester

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Abbey
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Gravells 2,320 70 +23
Labour Kirsten Hodges 600 18 0
Liberal Democrats Oliver Hartland Mountjoy 409 12 +2
Majority 1,720 52 +28
Conservative hold Swing
Barnwood and Hucclecote
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David John Brown 2,127 50 +9
Conservative Lise Noakes 1,731 41 +10
Labour Trevor Howard 303 7 −3
Green Frances Joan Griffiths 77 2 +2
Majority 396 9 −1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Barton and Tredworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sajid Patel 1,459 51 +9
Labour Carol Francis 1,157 40 −6
UKIP Phillip Anthony William Nash 165 6 +6
Liberal Democrats Christopher Ward 107 4 −2
Majority 302 11 +7
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Coney Hill and Matson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kate Haigh 940 43 −3
Conservative Jenny Watkins 806 37 +21
UKIP Gary Frederick Cleaver 241 11 −19
Liberal Democrats Stephen Derick John Morrison 211 10 +5
Majority 134 6 −10
Labour hold Swing
Grange and Kingsway
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Norman 1,558 57 +25
Labour Mat McCall 668 25 −11
UKIP Rob McCormick 193 7 −17
Liberal Democrats David William Bebbington 190 7 +3
Green Robert Peter Brookes 103 4 0
Majority 890 32 +28
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Hempsted and Westgate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Pam Tracey 1,171 50 +5
Labour Neil Hampton 709 30 −3
Liberal Democrats Imogen Alice Caterer 202 9 +1
UKIP Daniel Woolf 138 6 +6
Green Matthew John Sidford 129 5 −9
Majority 462 20 +8
Conservative hold Swing
Kingsholm and Wotton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Eric Hilton 1,525 52 +11
Conservative Justin Hudson 694 24 +7
Labour Jack Fayter 531 18 −1
Green Jonathan Cecil Ingleby 98 3 −3
UKIP Edit Kovacs 83 3 −11
Majority 831 28 +6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Longlevens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kathy Williams 1,884 49 +8
Liberal Democrats Linda S Castle 1,374 36 +16
Labour Steve Gower 312 8 −3
UKIP Matt Young 155 4 −19
Green Christopher David Britton 108 3 −1
Majority 510 13 −5
Conservative hold Swing
Quedgeley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Damian Hawthorne 1,364 50 +18
Liberal Democrats Anna Mozol 757 28 +5
Labour John Bloxsom 321 12 −8
UKIP Scott Clacher 178 7 −13
Green Gerald Owain Hartley 84 3 −2
Majority 607 22 +13
Conservative hold Swing
Tuffley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Gilbert Miller 1,710 52 +17
Labour Tracey Sharon Millard 1,191 36 0
UKIP Simon Paul Collins 226 7 −17
Liberal Democrats Abigail Ciara Watson 185 6 +1
Majority 519 16 +15
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Stroud

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Bisley and Painswick
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Keith Stuart Rippington 2,163 50 +9
Green Alan Mossman 1,230 28 +3
Liberal Democrats Alexander Findlay 964 22 +18
Majority 933 22 +6
Conservative hold Swing
Cam Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brian Tipper 2,166 54 +11
Labour Julie Douglass 1,456 36 −5
Liberal Democrats Adrian Anthony Walker-Smith 411 10 +1
Majority 710 18 +16
Conservative hold Swing
Dursley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Loraine Vivienne Patrick 1,574 45 +12
Labour Steve Lydon 1,339 38 +3
Liberal Democrats George William James Butcher 608 17 −3
Majority 235 7 +5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Hardwicke and Severn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Frank Davies 1,655 58 +6
Liberal Democrats Mike Stayte 470 17 +12
Labour Liz Ashton 442 16 −11
Green Sue Hartley 272 10 −5
Majority 1,185 41 +16
Conservative hold Swing
Minchinhampton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Rachel Smith 2,320 50 +25
Conservative Dorcas Lavinia Maxine Binns 2,293 50 +17
Majority 27 0 −8
Green gain from Conservative Swing
Nailsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Steve Robinson 1,722 42 +7
Conservative Emma Sims 1,559 38 −4
Green Sarah Blowers 436 11 −7
Liberal Democrats Colleen Angela Rothwell 365 9 +5
Independent Robert Hansjorg Paterson 66 2 +2
Majority 163 4 −3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Rodborough
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Brian Oosthuysen 1,508 45 +2
Conservative Alex Bisset 1,048 31 +13
Green Philip Blomberg 488 15 +4
Liberal Democrats Christine Linda Headley 292 9 −1
Majority 460 14 −11
Labour hold Swing
Stonehouse
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lesley Williams 1,361 46 +2
Conservative Ginny Anne Smart 953 32 +14
Green Carol Jill Kambites 251 8 +1
Liberal Democrats Sylvia Jean Bridgland 213 7 +4
UKIP Glenville Alexander Gogerly 183 6 −10
Majority 408 14 −12
Labour hold Swing
Stroud Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Eva Ward 1,742 41 +1
Labour Debbie Hicks 1,262 30 +2
Conservative Debbie Young 1,000 24 +9
Liberal Democrats Steve Dechan 242 6 +3
Majority 480 11 −1
Green hold Swing
Wotton-under-Edge
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats John Edward Cordwell 1,776 47 +4
Conservative Graham Smith 1,545 41 +3
Labour Mark Huband 337 9 −3
UKIP David Hinder 128 3 +3
Majority 231 6 +1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Tewkesbury

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Bishop's Cleeve
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Anthony Bird 2,277 61 +12
Liberal Democrats Peter Raymond Norcross Richmond 1,009 27 −10
Labour Rose Phillips 302 8 −5
Green Cate Cody 143 4 +4
Majority 1,268 34 +22
Conservative hold Swing
Brockworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert John Edward Vines 1,788 53 +11
Liberal Democrats Clare Louise Softley 1,055 32 −9
Green Graham Anthony Allen 252 8 +8
UKIP Sarah Jane Field 248 7 +7
Majority 733 21 +20
Conservative hold Swing
Churchdown
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jack Lawrence Williams 1,768 51 +2
Conservative Graham John Bocking 1,415 40 +10
Labour Colin Gordon Simpson 316 9 −5
Majority 353 11 −8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Highnam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Phil Awford 2,530 71 +4
Labour Stephen Robert Miller 446 13 −6
Liberal Democrats Helen S Munro 340 10 −4
Green Susan Joan Billington 246 7 +7
Majority 2,084 58 +10
Conservative hold Swing
Tewkesbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kevin John Cromwell 1,192 41 +12
Independent Mike Sztymiak 1,148 39 −1
Labour Edward Hudson 254 9 +1
Liberal Democrats Guy Dennis St John Fancourt 157 5 +2
UKIP Stuart George Adair 112 4 −16
Independent Gavin Preedy 75 3 +3
Majority 44 2 −9
Conservative gain from Independent Swing
Tewkesbury East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Vernon Dennis Smith 1,652 64 +27
Liberal Democrats Cait Clucas 440 17 +7
Labour Fiona Cochrane Castle 368 14 +5
Green Simon James Carter 131 5 +3
Majority 1,212 47 +31
Conservative hold Swing
Winchcombe and Woodmancote
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Edward Wilson 2,469 64 +2
Liberal Democrats Tom Brinicombe 960 25 +4
Labour Stanford Leigh Mitchell 260 7 −10
Green Sophie Dominique Franklin 177 5 +5
Majority 1,509 39 −3
Conservative hold Swing

By-elections between 2017 and 2021

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Churchdown

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A by-election was held on Thursday 3 May 2019 for the Churchdown Division due to the death of County Councillor Jack Williams.

Churchdown by-election 3 May 2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Ben Evans 1,405 48 −3
Conservative Graham Bocking 811 28 −12
Independent Dick Bishop 263 9 +9
Green Cate Cody 249 8 +8
UKIP Robert McCormick 213 7 +7
Turnout
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  2. ^ "The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006, Schedule Part 1". Legislation.gov.uk. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  3. ^ "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2011.