2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election

The 2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2019. That was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections in order to elect members of Windsor and Maidenhead Council in Berkshire, England. The whole council was up for election.

Before the election, the composition of the council was

• Conservative 54
• Liberal Democrat 1
• Labour 0
• Independent 2

Background

The Independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England carried out an electoral review of the Royal Borough with the view to change our electoral arrangements from May 2019. The Commission announced the number of councillors was to reduce and also looked into the number of wards, their names and boundaries.[1] This reduced the number of councillors from 57 to 41.[2]

Before the election, the composition of the council was:

↓

54	1	2
CON	LD	IND

After the election, the composition of the council became:

↓

23	9	5	4
CON	LD	IND	IND

Election result

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 2019 Election Result
Party	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	23	0	15	−15	56%	43%	35,999
Liberal Democrat	9	8	0	+8	23%	25%	21,253
Labour	0	0	0	0	0%	9%	7,669
Independent	5	3	0	+3	12%	9%	7,877
Local Independent Group	4	4	0	+4	9%	12%	10,106
Green	0	0	0	0	0%	1%	918

Wards

Ascot and Sunninghill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Hilton	1,446
	Conservative	Julian Sharpe	1,372
	Conservative	John Story	1,355

Belmont

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	John Baldwin	838
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Bond	959

bisham & Cookham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Mandy Brar	1,321
	Conservative	Gerry Clark	963

Boyn Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Stuart Caroll	1,076
	Conservative	Gurpreet Bhangra	981

Bray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Coppinger	1,039
	Conservative	Leo Walters	991

Clewer and Dedworth East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Helen Price	762
	Independent	Carole da Costa	725

Clewer and Dedworth West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Wiisdom Da Costa	1,067
	Independent	Jon Davey	941

Clewer East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Amy Tisi	814
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Davies	794

Cox Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Phil Hasler	1,223
	Conservative	Ross McWilliams	1,219

Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Cannon	1,117
	National Flood Prevention Party	Ewan Larcome	998
	Conservative	Gary Muir	903

Eton and Castle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Samantha Rayner	1,457
	Conservative	John Bowden	1,319
	Conservative	Shamsul Shelim	1,065

Furze Platt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine del Campo	1,177
	Liberal Democrats	Joshua Reynolds	1,019

Hurley and Walthams

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Maurine Hunt	1,033
	Conservative	Andrew Johnson	822

Oldfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Geoff Hill	738
	Independent	Helen Taylor	671

Old Windsor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Lynne Jones	1,619
	Independent	Neil Knowles	1,408

Pinkneys Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Werner	1,507
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Baskerville	1,326

Riverside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Simon Dudley	851
	Conservative	Chris Targowski	777

St Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Donna Stimpson	624
	Conservative	Gurch Singh	604

Sunningdale and Cheapside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Christine Bateson	946
	Conservative	Sayonara Luxton	857

[3]

References

1. "RBWM" (PDF). RBWM.
2. "LGBCE | Local electoral arrangements finalised for Windsor and Maidenhead | LGBCE Site". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
3. Maidenhead, The Royal Borough of Windsor and. "Borough elections 2019 - by ward". www3.rbwm.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2019.