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Local Election Results 2005

Isle of Wight

Whole council up for election. One Independent councillor was elected unopposed.

Other results for Isle of Wight: 2009 2013 2017 2021
By-elections for Isle of Wight (may be incomplete): 30th August 2007 (Newport N.) — 9th October 2008 (Mount Joy) — 18th December 2008 (Newchurch) — 5th May 2010 (Ryde S.) — 11th November 2010 (Chale, Niton & Whitwell) — 23rd June 2011 (Binstead & Fishbourne) — 17th November 2011 (West Wight) — 25th January 2018 (Central Wight) — 20th June 2019 (Whippingham & Osborne) — 12th December 2019 (Newport W.) — 24th November 2022 (Brighstone, Calbourne & Shalfleet) — 24th August 2023 (Wootton Bridge) — 21st December 2023 (Ventnor & St Lawrence)

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Consolidated results — Isle of Wight 2005

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 31748 49.2% 35
Liberal Democrat 18490 28.7% 5
Independent 8788 13.6% 6
Labour 5005 7.8% 2
Green Party 251 0.4% 0
UK Independence Party 126 0.2% 0
Socialist Labour Party 36 0.1% 0
Liberal Party 30 0.0% 0

Ashey

Vanessa Churchman C 513 35.9%
Leslie Kirkby Ind 495 34.6%
Richard Tait LD 422 29.5%

Bembridge North

Sarah Pigot C 689 62.0%
Barbara Clough LD 422 38.0%

Bembridge South

Winifred McRobert C 750 59.8%
Gordon Kendall LD 353 28.1%
Alexander Rickard Lab 151 12.0%

Binstead

Ivan Bulwer C 1185 65.4%
Ernest Fox LD 628 34.6%

Brading and St Helens

Patrick Joyce C 1256 67.4%
David Cleaver LD 607 32.6%

Brighstone and Calbourne

Colin West C 810 50.5%
Jill Wareham LD 687 42.9%
Peter Turner Lab 106 6.6%

Carisbrooke East

David Whittaker C 567 39.8%
Kevin Jacobs LD 402 28.3%
Michael Nobbs Lab 273 19.2%
Peter Foster Ind 181 12.7%

Carisbrooke West

Barbara Foster Ind 468 31.9%
Liam Verstraeten LD 390 26.6%
Stephen Gray C 292 19.9%
Victor Lewis Ind 177 12.1%
Doris Frizel Lab 139 9.5%

Central Rural

Erica Oulton C 1016 65.9%
Michael Carr LD 525 34.1%

Chale, Niton and Whitwell

Wendy Arnold C 930 56.4%
Malcolm Groves LD 463 28.1%
Richard Etherington Ind 256 15.5%

Cowes Castle East

Alan Wells C 620 59.4%
Wendy Wardrop Ind 345 33.0%
Paul Birch UKIP 79 7.6%

Cowes Castle West

John Effemey C 797 60.6%
Stephen Tibble LD 519 39.4%

Cowes Central

Lora Peacey-Wilcox C 608 51.5%
David Hill LD 573 48.5%

Cowes Medina

George Brown C 342 34.9%
Kenn Pearson Lab 318 32.5%
Peter Lloyd LD 272 27.8%
Rosemary Lynden-Bell UKIP 47 4.8%

East Cowes North

Margaret Webster C 596 53.1%
Margaret Lloyd LD 390 34.7%
Jane Turner Lab 137 12.2%

East Cowes South

Muriel Miller Ind 863 65.1%
Simon Walker C 463 34.9%

Fairlees

Eugenie-Dawn Cousins C 847 67.3%
Mark Morgan-Huws LD 411 32.7%

Freshwater Afton

Gillian Kennett C 856 55.3%
Brian Hinton LD 430 27.8%
Colin Lillywhite Ind 261 16.9%

Freshwater Norton

Robert Sutton C 817 64.6%
Martin Wareham LD 448 35.4%

Gurnard

John Hobart C 504 50.8%
Paul Fuller Ind 307 30.9%
Robert Wilkinson LD 182 18.3%

Lake North

Deborah Gardiner Lab 451 35.9%
Constance Cowley C 414 33.0%
Peter Harris LD 390 31.1%

Lake South

Timothy Hunter-Henderson C 652 49.2%
Anne Stuart LD 410 31.0%
David Piggott Lab 262 19.8%

Mount Joy

Shelagh Swan C 565 48.2%
Shirley Smart LD 356 30.4%
Stuart Clements Lab 221 18.9%
Richard Carruthers Lib 30 2.6%

Newchurch

Brian Mosdell C 701 46.5%
Robert Richards Ind 620 41.1%
John Rackett Ind 187 12.4%

Newport North

Julian Whittaker C 393 38.5%
Nicholas Wray Lab 337 33.0%
Malcolm Ross LD 291 28.5%

Newport South

Michael Cunningham C 593 47.6%
Cordula Rayner Lab 355 28.5%
Guy Radclyffe LD 298 23.9%

Northwood

Roger Mazillius Ind unop.

Osborne

Charles Hancock Ind 408 37.4%
Peter Nightingale C 398 36.4%
Laraine Pascoe Lab 250 22.9%
James Spensley SocLab 36 3.3%

Pan

Geoffrey Lumley Lab 483 46.4%
Clive Page C 337 32.4%
Ian Moth LD 221 21.2%

Parkhurst

Garry Price LD 522 43.2%
Roger Berrisford C 438 36.3%
Steven Falla Lab 248 20.5%

Ryde North East

John Adams LD 552 45.0%
David Woodward C 470 38.3%
Ernest White Lab 204 16.6%

Ryde North West

Albert Taylor C 804 55.4%
Michael Nobbs LD 375 25.9%
Anthony Gordon Ind 271 18.7%

Ryde South East

Brian Chapman LD 866 65.2%
Adrian Axford C 463 34.8%

Ryde South West

Ian Stephens Ind 669 49.0%
Peter Newman C 358 26.2%
Christine Wilde Lab 338 24.8%

St Johns East

David Knowles LD 698 50.3%
Robert Woodgate C 689 49.7%

St Johns West

John Bowker LD 719 67.9%
Rosalind Whitworth C 340 32.1%

Sandown North

Heather Humby Ind 986 74.4%
Dawn Martin C 339 25.6%

Sandown South

Ian Ward C 600 41.9%
Robert Blezzard LD 475 33.2%
Ronald Teasdale Ind 357 24.9%

Seaview and Nettlestone

Diana Tuson C 949 52.9%
Reginald Barry LD 844 47.1%

Shalfleet and Yarmouth

William Burt C 933 65.2%
Peter Garlick LD 497 34.8%

Shanklin Central

David Pugh C 906 60.8%
Peter Coleman Lab 298 20.0%
John Fleming Ind 285 19.1%

Shanklin North

David Williams C 727 49.6%
Alan Hollands Lab 434 29.6%
Diana Beevers LD 304 20.8%

Shanklin South

Anne Bishop C 889 62.9%
Harold Rees Ind 524 37.1%

Totland

George Cameron C 738 50.4%
John Howe LD 726 49.6%

Ventnor East

Jonathan Fitzgerald-Bond C 554 36.3%
Brenda Lawson Ind 451 29.5%
Peter Doran LD 271 17.7%
Louis Lawrence Grn 251 16.4%

Ventnor West

Susan Scoccia C 688 41.7%
Albert Bartlett Ind 448 27.2%
David White LD 283 17.2%
Paul Hatchwell Ind 229 13.9%

Wootton

Barry Abraham C 1216 65.7%
Barry Townsend LD 635 34.3%

Wroxall and Godshill

Jillian Wood C 1136 64.2%
Catherine Wright LD 633 35.8%

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