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Local Election Results 2007

Reading

One-third of council up for election. No election this year in Mapledurham.

Roman = The Roman Party. Ave!

Note:— There was a by-election in Church ward which, unusually, was held on a separate ballot paper rather than combined with the main council election. The main council election result is in the main list below; the result of the by-election was:

Church by-election

Timothy Harris C 1084 47.1%
Marian Livingston Lab 822 35.7%
Anthony Warrell LD 218 9.5%
Kate Day Grn 176 7.7%

Other results for Reading: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
By-elections for Reading (may be incomplete): 4th May 2006 (Southcote; Thames) — 16th November 2006 (Tilehurst) — 3rd May 2007 (Church) — 22nd May 2014 (Park) — 24th July 2014 (Southcote) — 21st July 2016 (Southcote) — 12th December 2019 (Kentwood) — 3rd August 2023 (Norcot)

Map of the resultsExport spreadsheet


Consolidated results — Reading 2007

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 13910 38.4% 6
Labour 11634 32.1% 6
Liberal Democrat 7258 20.0% 3
Green Party 3098 8.6% 0
UK Independence Party 194 0.5% 0
Independent 85 0.2% 0
The Roman Party. Ave! 33 0.1% 0

Abbey

Mohammed Ayub Lab 690 37.9%
Richard Royle C 597 32.8%
Warren Swaine LD 274 15.1%
Doug Cresswell Grn 225 12.4%
Jean Pascual Roman 33 1.8%

Battle

Chris Maskell Lab 971 51.5%
David Trim C 433 23.0%
Adrian Windisch Grn 253 13.4%
Andrew Parsons LD 229 12.1%

Caversham [C gain from Lab]

Tom Stanway C 1344 50.3%
Susan Stainthorp Lab 755 28.3%
Christopher Burden LD 306 11.5%
David Patterson Grn 265 9.9%

Church [C gain from Lab. See above for by-election result]

Mike Townend C 1095 47.3%
Christine Grieve Lab 854 36.9%
Mark Mills LD 211 9.1%
Vivienne Johnson Grn 153 6.6%

Katesgrove [LD gain from Lab]

Gareth Epps LD 669 36.6%
Gul Khan Lab 632 34.6%
Ricky Singh C 273 14.9%
Louise Keane Grn 168 9.2%
David Boobier Ind 85 4.7%

Kentwood [C gain from Lab]

Thomas Steele C 1179 44.3%
Richard McKenzie Lab 895 33.6%
Christopher Brown LD 464 17.4%
Hugh Swann Grn 124 4.7%

Minster

Paul Gittings Lab 1098 43.9%
Sandra Vickers C 976 39.0%
Samuel Best-Shaw LD 226 9.0%
Katherine Buse Grn 202 8.1%

Norcot

Graeme Hoskin Lab 1160 50.2%
James Cox C 672 29.1%
Robin Bentham LD 301 13.0%
Mark Walker Grn 179 7.7%

Park [C gain from Lab]

Wazir Hussain C 817 30.9%
Tony Short Lab 810 30.6%
Rob White Grn 688 26.0%
Stuart Frodsham LD 330 12.5%

Peppard [C gain from LD]

Richard Willis C 1808 50.9%
Annette Hendry LD 1350 38.0%
Helen Hathaway Lab 231 6.5%
Kay Harrison Grn 87 2.5%
Ronald Cutting UKIP 73 2.1%

Redlands [LD gain from Lab]

Kirsten Bayes LD 918 41.3%
Peter Kayes Lab 748 33.6%
Martyn Washbourne C 356 16.0%
Gabriel Berry Grn 156 7.0%
John Dearing UKIP 47 2.1%

Southcote

Peter Ruhemann Lab 1028 46.8%
Alan Hawkins C 898 40.9%
Guy Penman LD 168 7.6%
James Towell Grn 103 4.7%

Thames

Jeanette Skeats C 2164 63.7%
Rodney Pinchen LD 504 14.8%
Mary Waite Lab 438 12.9%
Nick Foster Grn 215 6.3%
Sylvia Chumbley UKIP 74 2.2%

Tilehurst

Christopher Harris LD 1145 46.3%
Philip Webb C 769 31.1%
Raymond Richens Lab 425 17.2%
Emma-Louise Scott Grn 134 5.4%

Whitley

Jim Hanley Lab 899 51.8%
Nick Brown C 529 30.5%
Mike Rice LD 163 9.4%
Kevin Jackson Grn 146 8.4%

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