Local Election Results 2008
Reading
One-third of council up for election.
CSense = Common Sense Party
Roman = The Roman Party. Ave!
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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 results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
15466 |
40.5% |
6 |
| Labour |
12321 |
32.3% |
7 |
| Liberal Democrat |
6729 |
17.6% |
3 |
| Green Party |
3061 |
8.0% |
0 |
| Independent |
345 |
0.9% |
0 |
| Common Sense Party |
247 |
0.6% |
0 |
| The Roman Party. Ave! |
18 |
0.0% |
0 |
| Antony Page |
Lab |
968 |
48.1% |
| Andrew Waters |
C |
646 |
32.1% |
| Benjamin Mathis |
LD |
221 |
11.0% |
| Douglas Cresswell |
Grn |
160 |
7.9% |
| Jean Pascual |
Roman |
18 |
0.9% |
| Gul Khan |
Lab |
911 |
48.7% |
| Ali Asghar |
C |
486 |
26.0% |
| Andrew Parsons |
LD |
253 |
13.5% |
| Adrian Windisch |
Grn |
219 |
11.7% |
| David Luckett |
C |
1257 |
51.4% |
| Matthew Rodda |
Lab |
669 |
27.3% |
| Christopher Burden |
LD |
271 |
11.1% |
| David Patterson |
Grn |
250 |
10.2% |
| Mohammed Janjua |
C |
969 |
45.5% |
| Marian Livingston |
Lab |
782 |
36.7% |
| Karl Hobley |
LD |
215 |
10.1% |
| Vivienne Johnson |
Grn |
166 |
7.8% |
| Warren Swaine |
LD |
757 |
38.8% |
| David Sutton |
Lab |
727 |
37.3% |
| Nicholas Allen |
C |
341 |
17.5% |
| Russell Seymour |
Grn |
90 |
4.6% |
| David Boobier |
Ind |
35 |
1.8% |
| Emma Warman |
C |
1238 |
46.5% |
| Richard McKenzie |
Lab |
667 |
25.1% |
| Matthew Platts |
LD |
402 |
15.1% |
| Howard Thomas |
CSense |
247 |
9.3% |
| Kevin Jackson |
Grn |
107 |
4.0% |
| Frederick Pugh |
C |
821 |
61.0% |
| Thurlow O'Neill |
Ind |
310 |
23.0% |
| Michael Eggleton |
LD |
121 |
9.0% |
| Daya Singh |
Lab |
67 |
5.0% |
| Caroline Anscombe |
Grn |
27 |
2.0% |
| Deborah Watson |
Lab |
1186 |
44.9% |
| Philip Webb |
C |
1115 |
42.2% |
| Michael Taylor |
LD |
229 |
8.7% |
| Sunil Gandhi |
Grn |
114 |
4.3% |
| Josephine Lovelock |
Lab |
1171 |
51.1% |
| James Cox |
C |
773 |
33.7% |
| Mark Mills |
LD |
219 |
9.6% |
| Mark Walker |
Grn |
129 |
5.6% |
| Jonathan Hartley |
Lab |
1014 |
33.8% |
| Robert White |
Grn |
994 |
33.2% |
| Martyn Washbourne |
C |
704 |
23.5% |
| Neal Brown |
LD |
286 |
9.5% |
| Amjad Chowdhary |
C |
1857 |
56.2% |
| Annette Hendry |
LD |
1086 |
32.9% |
| Helen Hathaway |
Lab |
246 |
7.4% |
| Patrick Little |
Grn |
116 |
3.5% |
| Glenn Goodall |
LD |
927 |
40.3% |
| Peter Kayes |
Lab |
736 |
32.0% |
| Laurence Taylor |
C |
475 |
20.7% |
| Gabriel Berry |
Grn |
160 |
7.0% |
| Deborah Edwards |
Lab |
1333 |
50.8% |
| Alan Hawkins |
C |
1067 |
40.7% |
| Guy Penman |
LD |
139 |
5.3% |
| James Towell |
Grn |
85 |
3.2% |
| Isobel Ballsdon |
C |
2107 |
65.2% |
| Susan Stainthorpe |
Lab |
484 |
15.0% |
| Pauline Arthur |
LD |
398 |
12.3% |
| Daniel McNamara |
Grn |
243 |
7.5% |
| Peter Beard |
LD |
1085 |
42.0% |
| Sandra Vickers |
C |
1004 |
38.9% |
| Raymond Richens |
Lab |
397 |
15.4% |
| Hugh Swann |
Grn |
97 |
3.8% |
| Michael Orton |
Lab |
963 |
53.7% |
| James Wyman |
C |
606 |
33.8% |
| Christopher Brown |
LD |
120 |
6.7% |
| Keith Johnson |
Grn |
104 |
5.8% |
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