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2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election

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2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election
← 2019 4 May 2023 (2023-05-04) 2027 →
All 41 seats to Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council
21 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Leader Simon Werner Andrew Johnson (defeated)
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Borough First
Last election 9 seats, 25.3% 23 seats, 42.8% 3 seats, 12.1%
Seats before 10[a] 22 3
Seats after 22 7 7
Seat change Increase13 Decrease16 Increase4
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Blank Blank Blank
Party Residents Flood Prevention Independent
Last election 5 seats, 6.9% 1 seat, 1.2% 1 seat, 1.3%
Seats before 4 1 1
Seats after 4[b] 1 0
Seat change Steady Steady Decrease1
Result and the vote share of the top candidate in each ward
Leader before election

Andrew Johnson
Conservative

Leader after election

Simon Werner
Liberal Democrats

The 2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council in Berkshire, England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. The election saw the Liberal Democrats win a majority of the seats on the council, which had previously been under Conservative control.

Overview

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Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council had been under Conservative majority control since 2007. The Conservative leader of the council was Andrew Johnson, who had been leader since 2019. Prior to the election, there were six registered political parties represented on the council (two of which were Residents' Associations) and one independent councillor. The Old Windsor Residents' Association, The Borough First Independents, and the one independent councillor had all formed a political group called the "Local Independents", led by Lynne Jones.[2] There was one vacancy on the council immediately before the election, where a Liberal Democrat councillor for Belmont ward had resigned in March 2023.[3]

The election saw the Liberal Democrats win 22 of the 41 seats on the council, up from 10 before the election, giving them an overall majority. The Conservatives saw their number of seats fall from 22 to 7.[4] One of the Conservatives to lose their seat was the leader of the council, Andrew Johnson.[5]

The Liberal Democrat leader, Simon Werner, was formally appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 23 May 2023.[6] The Conservatives appointed Maureen Hunt to be their new leader in opposition.[7]

Before the election, the composition of the council was:

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22 9 9
CON LD IND

After the election, the composition of the council became:

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22 12 7
LD OTH CON

Summary

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Election result

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2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election
Party Candidates Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Liberal Democrats 32 22 13 0 Increase13 53.7 44.6 39,208 +19.3
  Conservative 41 7 0 16 Decrease 16 17.1 29.4 25,857 -13.4
  Borough First 10 7 4 0 Increase4 17.1 10.0 8,832 -2.1
  Residents 4 4 0 1 Decrease 1 9.8 4.7 4,180 -2.2
  Flood Prevention 1 1 0 0 Steady 2.4 1.2 1,099 Steady
  Labour 26 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 6.0 5,295 -3.1
  Green 6 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 1.9 1,642 +0.9
  Independent 5 0 0 1 Decrease 1 0.0 1.0 1,767 -1.3
  Reform UK 1 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 0.1 123 New

Candidates

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The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council following the close of nominations on 5 April 2023.

Ascot and Sunninghill

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Ascot & Sunninghill (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Sharpe* 1,257 48.6 −4.0
Conservative John Story* 1,254 48.5 −3.5
Conservative Asghar Majeed 993 38.4 −17.1
Liberal Democrats Lilly Evans 979 37.9 +15.1
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Pope 940 36.4 +19.1
Liberal Democrats Sanjay Karia 877 33.9 +15.3
Labour John Gripton 472 18.3 +4.0
Green Rosemary Magill 423 16.4 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,599 30.35
Registered electors
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Belmont

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Belmont (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Simon Bond* 1,641 71.0 +27.6
Liberal Democrats Sian Martin 1,585 68.6 +30.7
Conservative Mohammed Ilyas 502 21.7 −6.7
Conservative William Scawn 494 21.4 −5.2
Labour Patricia Lattimer 245 10.6 −1.4
Majority
Turnout 2,325 42.90
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Bisham and Cookham

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Bisham & Cookham (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Mandy Brar* 2,101 81.1 +25.0
Liberal Democrats Mark Howard 1,887 72.8 +32.3
Conservative Gerry Clark* 526 20.3 −20.6
Conservative Tom Weiss 375 14.5 −23.1
Labour Georgina Grouse 94 3.6 −0.9
Labour Mel Stack 65 2.5 +0.2
Majority
Turnout 2,598 49.77
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Boyn Hill

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Boyn Hill (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Adam Bermange 1,466 64.7 +42.3
Liberal Democrats George Shaw 1,383 61.0 +39.0
Conservative Gurpreet Bhangra* 636 28.1 −17.5
Conservative Anuj Khanna 580 25.6 −24.4
Labour Marios Alexandrou 195 8.6 −1.7
Labour Pat McDonald 165 7.3 +0.4
Majority
Turnout 2,275 44.26
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Bray

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Bray (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Borough First Suzanne Cross 907 45.9 +15.6
Conservative Leo Walters* 746 37.7 −14.7
Borough First Glynis Crane 726 36.7 N/A
Conservative Derek Wilson 691 35.0 −19.9
Liberal Democrats Bruce Adams 317 16.0 −3.5
Liberal Democrats Timothy Martin 262 13.3 +1.4
Labour Robert White 175 8.9 +0.9
Majority
Turnout 1,981 35.47
Registered electors
Borough First gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Clewer and Dedworth East

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Clewer & Dedworth East (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Borough First Helen Price* 1,160 69.3 +26.9
Borough First Alison Carpenter 945 56.4 N/A
Conservative Phillip Bicknell 371 22.1 −13.8
Conservative Hashim Bhatti 286 17.1 −18.5
Labour David Sanders 247 14.7 +3.0
Independent Richard Margison 169 10.1 N/A
Majority
Turnout 1,676 31.26
Registered electors
Borough First hold Swing
Borough First gain from Residents Swing

Clewer and Dedworth West

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Clewer & Dedworth West (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
WWRA Wisdom da Costa* 778 39.8 −11.4
WWRA Carole da Costa* 759 38.8 −6.4
Independent Edward Wilson 649 33.2 −9.3
Independent Malcolm Alexander 424 21.7 −17.3
Independent Jon Davey* 418 21.4 −23.8
Conservative Ian Haggart 299 15.3 −27.2
Conservative Lars Swann 244 12.5 −26.5
Labour Deborah Foster 212 10.8 +2.9
Majority
Turnout 1,960 35.95
Registered electors
WWRA hold Swing
WWRA hold Swing

Clewer East

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Clewer East (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Karen Davies* 1,469 77.0 +34.7
Liberal Democrats Amy Tisi* 1,468 76.9 +33.6
Conservative Nicola Pryer 402 21.1 −19.0
Conservative Kaumil Shah 336 17.6 −21.6
Majority
Turnout 1,914 37.84
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Cox Green

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Cox Green (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Chris Moriarty 1,677 69.4 +43.5
Liberal Democrats Gary Reeves 1,597 66.1 +43.3
Conservative Phil Haseler* 678 28.1 −24.0
Conservative Sunil Sharma 452 18.7 −33.3
Labour Robert Horner 129 5.3 −2.1
Labour John Lupton 85 3.5 −2.6
Green Simon Beer 84 3.5 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,421 44.11
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury

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Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Flood Prevention Ewan Larcombe* 1,099 45.4 +4.0
Borough First David Buckley 1,071 44.2 +13.0
Borough First Jodie Grove 953 39.3 +13.0
Conservative Margaret Lenton 748 30.9 −15.5
Conservative Patrick Barr 638 26.3 −11.2
Conservative Amit Verma 589 24.3 −6.6
Labour Peter Ward 394 16.3 +7.7
Labour Jenny Ward 289 11.9 +0.6
Green Zsofia Macho 278 11.5 N/A
Liberal Democrats Dan Boresjo 241 10.0 −2.0
Liberal Democrats Joshua Trood 195 8.1 −2.9
Majority
Turnout 2,435 30.92
Registered electors
Flood Prevention hold Swing
Borough First gain from Conservative Swing
Borough First gain from Conservative Swing

Eton and Castle

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Eton and Castle (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Julian Tisi 1,701 54.6 +32.4
Liberal Democrats Devon Davies 1,686 54.2 +28.8
Liberal Democrats Mark Wilson 1,667 53.5 +25.3
Conservative Samantha Rayner* 902 29.0 −21.2
Conservative Penelope Banham 869 27.9 −17.6
Conservative Shamsul Shelim* 670 21.5 −15.2
Green Michael Boyle 416 13.3 N/A
Green Liam Harrison 310 9.9 N/A
Labour Rick Ludovici 285 9.1 −3.7
Labour Murtaza Khan 229 7.3 −6.4
Majority
Turnout 3,124 36.94
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Furze Platt

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Furze Platt (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Catherine Del Campo* 1,582 67.1 +19.9
Liberal Democrats Joshua Reynolds* 1,457 61.8 +20.9
Conservative Hari Sharma 577 24.5 +1.6
Conservative Josh Wallace 534 22.7 +0.9
Labour George Blair 170 7.2 +0.9
Labour Clive Lattimer 141 6.0 +1.9
Independent Tom Easten 107 4.5 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,362 41.90
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Hurley and Walthams

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Hurley & Walthams (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats George Blundell 782 48.2 +28.1
Conservative Maureen Hunt* 765 47.2 −16.8
Liberal Democrats Rob Castell 664 41.0 +22.6
Conservative Andrew Johnson* 643 39.7 −11.2
Green Craig McDermott 131 8.1 N/A
Labour Sally Lupton 94 5.8 −4.9
Labour Tim Langley 72 4.4 −2.3
Majority
Turnout 1,628 34.06
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Oldfield

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Oldfield (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Borough First Helen Taylor* 1,015 53.0 +12.8
Borough First Geoffrey Hill* 992 51.8 +7.6
Conservative Seema Goyal 731 38.2 +3.8
Conservative Jade Jones 543 28.4 −2.0
Labour Louise Fairlie 307 16.0 +4.0
Majority
Turnout 1,924 36.21
Registered electors
Borough First hold Swing
Borough First hold Swing

Old Windsor

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Old Windsor (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
OWRA Lynne Jones* 1,419 79.1 +5.3
OWRA Neil Knowles* 1,224 68.2 +4.0
Conservative Peter Auger 274 15.3 −9.5
Labour Roy Reeves 254 14.2 +6.7
Conservative Colin Blackwell 250 13.9 −2.1
Majority
Turnout 1,795 32.08
Registered electors
OWRA hold Swing
OWRA hold Swing

Pinkneys Green

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Pinkneys Green (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Clive Baskerville* 1,832 76.5 +26.2
Liberal Democrats Simon Werner* 1,819 76.0 +18.9
Conservative Martyn Cook 355 14.8 −15.5
Conservative Bern Guly 310 12.9 −13.4
Labour Jane Collisson 176 7.4 +2.4
Labour Joseph Freeman 162 6.8 +3.4
Majority
Turnout 2,405 43.62
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Riverside

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Riverside (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Kashmir Singh 1,622 63.0 +43.3
Liberal Democrats Richard Coe 1,527 59.3 +38.5
Conservative Sohaib Khan 776 30.1 −7.1
Conservative Toni Tucker 622 24.1 −9.9
Labour Nigel Smith 178 6.9 −1.1
Reform UK Jake Collingwood 123 4.8 N/A
Majority
Turnout 2,582 45.81
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

St Mary's

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St Mary's (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jack Douglas 1,199 65.9 +40.8
Liberal Democrats Gurch Singh* 1,123 61.7 +21.8
Conservative Donna Stimson* 476 26.2 −15.1
Conservative Hillary Su 387 21.3 −18.6
Labour Keith Nicholas 290 15.9 +2.9
Majority
Turnout 1,831 35.10
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Gurch Singh had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but had defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2020.[8]

Sunningdale and Cheapside

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Sunningdale & Cheapside (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sayonara Luxton* 736 44.9 −7.8
Conservative Genevieve Gosling 698 42.5 −15.7
Borough First Valerie Pike 574 35.0 −0.2
Borough First Matt Newman 489 29.8 N/A
Liberal Democrats Carolyn Fallon 244 14.9 −2.5
Liberal Democrats Mariano Julia 218 13.3 −1.6
Labour Nigel Hayward 170 10.4 +5.1
Majority
Turnout 1,641 35.09
Registered electors
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

By-elections

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Ascot & Sunninghill, 17 October 2024

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Ascot & Sunninghill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sally Coneron 1,264 58.5 +18.4
Liberal Democrats George Jezard 703 32.5 +1.3
Borough First Matt Newman 118 5.5 New
Labour Nigel Hayward 74 3.4 –11.6
Majority 561 26.0
Turnout 2159 24.8
Conservative hold Swing +8.6

References

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  1. ^ Includes one vacant seat in Belmont ward formerly held by Liberal Democrat councillor John Baldwin until his resignation in March 2023.
  2. ^ Both before and after the election there were two Residents' Associations with two councillors each: Old Windsor (2 councillors) and West Windsor (2 councillors).
  1. ^ "Notice of elections – Borough". Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council. 21 March 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Your councillors". Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  3. ^ Bagley, James (27 March 2023). "Probed Maidenhead councillor resigns following 'outburst'". The Royal Borough Observer. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Borough elections 2023". Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  5. ^ Almroth-Wright, Indy; O'Hagan, Patrick (5 May 2023). "Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose control". BBC News. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  6. ^ Oricchio, Elisa (25 May 2023). "New Royal Borough leader and cabinet confirmed at meeting". Maidenhead Advertiser. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  7. ^ Preston, James (18 May 2023). "New Conservative leader says 'time to rebuild' in Windsor and Maidenhead". Maidenhead Advertiser. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  8. ^ Roberts, George (17 June 2020). "Conservative councillor defects to Lib Dems amid suspension claims". Maidenhead Advertiser. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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