2019 Chichester District Council election

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.[1][2]

2019 Chichester District Council election

2 May 2019
All 36 seats to Chichester District Council 19 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Seats before 38[lower-alpha 1] 5[lower-alpha 1] Seats won 18 11 Seat change 10[lower-alpha 2] 7[lower-alpha 2] 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

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.[3]

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

Election result

Chichester District Council Election Result 2019[4]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	18	1	11	10	50.00	41.61	24,245
	Liberal Democrats	10	7	0	7	30.55	33.00	19,228
	Green	2	2	0	3	5.56	8.37	4,878
	Labour	2	2	0	2	5.56	6.63	3,864
	Local Alliance	2	2	0	2	5.56	2.62	1,528
	Independent	1	0	3	3	2.77	4.07	2,374
	UKIP	0	0	0		0.00	2.72	1,582
	Patria	0	0	0		0.00	0.14	84
Total		36						58,262

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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	34.6
	Labour	Sarah Carol Lishman	441
	Conservative	Christopher Carl Spink	380	28.1
	Conservative	Jane Louise Kilby	355
	Liberal Democrats	John Francis Hughes	283	20.2
	Green	Pauline Gaskin	279	10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Woolley	246
	UKIP	Terrence Leonard Walters	146	5.6
Turnout			2,612	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	37.9
	Conservative	Anthony Peter Dignum	623	38.7
	Conservative	Peter John Budge	586	18.8
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Alexander Joy	560
	Green	Elizabeth Lucy Noble	490	15.7
	Labour	Theo Kent	219	7.0
Turnout			3,125	38.76
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chichester South (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Green	Sarah Mary Sharp	987	54.9
	Green	Heather Margaret Barrie	692
	Conservative	Jamie David Fitzjohn	324	21.1
	Conservative	Nigel Geoffrey Galloway	321
	Liberal Democrats	Angus Richard Bond	196	11.6
	Labour	Amanda Jane Atkinson	187	11.6
	Labour	Philip James Wilson	167
	Liberal Democrats	John Kentish Turbefield	160
Turnout			3,056	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	51.1
	Liberal Democrats	John-Henry David Bowden	890
	Conservative	Simon Huw Peter Lloyd-Williams	538	26.1
	Conservative	Stephen Leon Hill	498
	Labour	James Douglas Hobson	228	11.1
	Labour	Aimie Jane Merrett	216
	Independent	Michael Clive Thorn	181	4.6
	UKIP	Michael Alan Hamilton Mason	177	4.5
	Patria	Andrew Emerson	84	2.1
Turnout			3,970	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	66.9
	Conservative	Peter John Henry Wilding	922
	Liberal Democrats	John Derek Morton	690	24.4
	UKIP	Peter Hugh Pearce	227	8.0
Turnout			2,829	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	44.6
	Liberal Democrats	David John Alwin Rodgers	1,247
	Conservative	Penelope Clare Plant	1,178	35.6
	Liberal Democrats	David Conrad Mackintosh	1,138
	Conservative	Andrew Charles Collins	1,107
	Conservative	Michael Brian Dicker	996
	Green	Michael John Neville	961	10.4
	Labour	Jane Anne Towers	329	8.9
	Labour	Stephen John Gough	256
	Labour	Jane Loveda Turton	235
Turnout			9,234	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	54.3
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Benjamin Evans	938
	Conservative	Christian Nicholas Mahne	868	44.2
	Conservative	Christine Victoria Gibson-Pierce	781
Turnout			3,731	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	34.5
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Russell Fowler	666	27.0
	Conservative	Sally Veronica Watts	636	32.0
	Conservative	Nicholas Richard Donald Thomas	553
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Lynda Annette Neville	335
	Labour	Margaret Rhona Guest	227	6.1
Turnout			3,707	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	60.2
	Conservative	Christopher Leslie William Page	691
	Liberal Democrats	David Betts	666	27.1
	UKIP	Andrew John Sheppard	289	11.8
Turnout			2,456	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	31.0
	Conservative	John William Evans Elliott	735	47.7
	Conservative	Peter Roger Barrow	513
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Scotland	265	10.1
	Labour	Bridget Ash	147	10.5
	Labour	Mark Andrew Farwell	127
Turnout			2,616	31.40
	Local Alliance gain from Conservative
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sidlesham with Selsey North (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Local Alliance	Donna Frances Johnson	717	28.2
	Conservative	Linda Caroline Purnell	648	43.3
	Conservative	Patricia Mary Tull	453
	Green	Lucinda Anne Gibson-House	436	17.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Mary Scotland	280	11.0
Turnout			2,544	30.90
	Local Alliance gain from Conservative
	Conservative hold		Swing

Southbourne (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Andrew Brown	1,018	61.1
	Liberal Democrats	Tracie Patricia Bangert	884
	Conservative	Robert Hayes	674	21.7
	Conservative	Nigel Philip Hogben	492	37.5
Turnout			3,111
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

The Witterings (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Graeme Arthur Frederick Barrett	1,309	46.5
	Conservative	Elizabeth Angela Booth Hamilton	1,191
	Conservative	Susan Therese Taylor	1,003
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Joanna Gormley	744	19.2
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Elizabeth Milnes	703
	Green	Stephanie Grace Carn	592	7.9
	Independent	Laurence Pocock	577	7.7
	UKIP	Jonathan Bowman	396	9.9
	UKIP	Maureen Patricia Hunt	347
	Independent	Martin John Silcocks	336	4.5
	Labour	Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan	314	4.2
Turnout			7,536	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

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

1. "Election results: Tories lose three Sussex councils". BBC News. 3 May 2019.
2. "Tories lose overall control of Chichester District Council". Chichester Observer. 3 May 2019.
3. "Overview of draft recommendations for Chichester District Council" (PDF). Chichester City Council. 2016.
4. "District and Parish Election Results 2019". Chichester District Council. 2019.