Election Results 2010

By-elections October 2010 Following the resignations of Borough Councillor Lawrence Taylor in and County Councillor Henry Smith in , elections were held on Thursday 7 October. The candidates elected are shown in bold on the tables below.

Crawley Borough Council – Tilgate Ward CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES Ray Ward Conservative 656 Arshad Khan Justice 6 Colin Lloyd (elected) Labour 764 Maurice Day UKIP 79 Turnout for Tilgate Ward: 32%

West County Council - Maidenbower Division CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES Robert Lanzer Conservative 1036 (elected) Arshad Khan Justice 12 Peter Smith Labour 417 Sulu Pandya Liberal Democrat 82 John Mac Canna UKIP 61 Turnout for Maidenbower Division: 17%

Local Elections 2010 On Thursday 6 May 2010 local elections were held for 12 wards in . The candidates elected are shown in bold on the table below.

WARD CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES Linda Atkinson BNP 393

(Turnout 54.0%) Bewbush Michael Jones (elected) Labour 1660 Bewbush Ray Ward Conservative 1280

Broadfield North Adam Brown Conservative 1124

(Turnout 55.1%) Broadfield North Ian Irvine (elected) Labour 1267

Broadfield South Colin Moffatt Labour 1023

(Turnout 54.5%) Broadfield South Alan Quirk (elected) Conservative 1277

Furnace Green Vernon Atkinson BNP 228

(Turnout 71.8%) Furnace Green Jean Calcott Labour 873 Furnace Green Carol Eade (elected) Conservative 1408 Furnace Green Darren Wise Liberal Democrats 554

Ifield Francis Carlin BNP 333

(Turnout 62.1%) Ifield John Denman (elected) Conservative 1877 Ifield John Mortimer Labour 1616 Ifield Richard Symonds Independent 271

Langley Green Stephen Joyce (elected) Labour 1577 (Turnout 60.8%) Langley Green Ijaz Khan Conservative 1225

Langley Green Kevin Osborne Liberal Democrats 654

Maidenbower Peter Smith Labour 1289

(Turnout 68.4%) Maidenbower Ken Trussell (elected) Conservative 2989

Northgate Mirza Ali Conservative 854 (Turnout 60.2%) Northgate Dennis Kenealy BNP 253 Northgate Peter Lamb (elected) Labour 1104

Pound Hill North Richard Burrett (elected) Conservative 2111

(Turnout 69.6%) North Eddie Reay Liberal Democrats 702

Pound Hill North Jogi Singh Labour 611 Pound Hill North Dinesh Tagarsi UKIP 124

Pound Hill South & Lee Burke (elected) Conservative 2586 Worth

(Turnout 70.1%) Pound Hill South & Sulu Pandya Liberal Democrats 795 Worth Pound Hill South & Philomena Woodhams Labour 984 Worth

Southgate Howard Bloom (elected) Conservative 1839

(Turnout 60.2%) Southgate Ryan Grice BNP 322 Southgate Jim McGough Labour 1603

West Green Vanessa Cumper Conservative 946 (elected) (Turnout 60.0%) West Green Stuart Minihane BNP 237

West Green TP Patel Labour 936

2010 Local Elections - Key Facts • Percentage turnout for all 12 wards was 62.5% • Percentage turnout in the 2008 local election was 33.88%

Council composition following results:

• 26 Conservative • 11 Labour

General Election Results 2010 On Thursday 6 May 2010, Parliamentary elections were held in Crawley.

CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES Chris French UK Independence Party 1,382 Andrew Hubner Independent 143 Arshad Khan Justice Party 265 Chris Oxlade Labour Party 15,336 Henry Smith (elected) Conservative Party 21,264 Philip Smith Green Party 598 Richard Trower British National Party 1,672 John Vincent Liberal Democrats 6,844

Overall turnout was 65.4%.