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Local Election Results 2015

East Devon

Whole council up for election. One Independent councillor and two Conservative councillors were elected unopposed.

EDevon = Independent East Devon Alliance

Other results for East Devon: 2003 2007 2011 2019 2023
By-elections for East Devon (may be incomplete): 27th January 2005 (Sidmouth Rural) — 22nd September 2005 (Seaton; Sidmouth Town) — 2nd March 2006 (Honiton St Paul's) — 3rd April 2008 (Dunkeswell) — 26th February 2009 (Honiton St Michael's) — 12th November 2009 (Trinity) — 6th May 2010 (Seaton) — 2nd May 2013 (Feniton & Buckerell) — 21st July 2016 (Exmouth Littleham; Honiton St Michael's) — 6th October 2016 (Exmouth Brixington) — 4th May 2017 (Broadclyst; Whimple) — 1st March 2018 (Exmouth Town) — 20th September 2018 (Ottery St Mary Rural) — 6th May 2021 (Whimple & Rockbeare) — 8th July 2021 (Feniton; Honiton St Michael's) — 23rd September 2021 (Exe Valley) — 10th November 2022 (Newton Poppleford & Harpford) — 2nd May 2024 (Exmouth Brixington)
Results for Devon county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — East Devon 2015

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 31902 37.3% 37
Independent East Devon Alliance 18849 22.0% 10
Liberal Democrat 11587 13.5% 6
Independent 11389 13.3% 6
Green Party 4122 4.8% 0
Labour 3987 4.7% 0
UK Independence Party 3774 4.4% 0

Axminster Rural [C gain from Ind]

Ian Hall C 1065 72.5%
Jerry Walden Lab 403 27.5%

Axminster Town (2)

Andrew Moulding C 1105 30.8%
Douglas Hull LD 910 25.4%
Paul Hayward EDevon 819 22.9%
Stephanie Jones C 580
Lindy Bailhache UKIP 450 12.6%
Martin Spurway LD 352
Chris Tipping Ind 298 8.3%

Beer and Branscombe

Geoff Pook Ind unop.

Broadclyst (2) [1 C gain from LD]

Christopher Pepper C 1799 37.3%
Maria Hale C 1657
Paul Newman Ind 1519 31.5%
Stephen Schlich LD 1504 31.2%

Budleigh (3)

Steve Hall C 1841 39.9%
Alan Dent C 1817
Tom Wright C 1681
Les Cotton EDevon 1525 33.1%
Nick Barton Grn 1244 27.0%

Clyst Valley

Mike Howe C unop.

Coly Valley (2)

Helen Parr C 1478 56.0%
Graham Godbeer C 1300
Sheila Smith EDevon 1159 44.0%
Paul Arnott EDevon 1133

Dunkeswell

Colin Brown C 595 56.9%
Bob Buxton Ind 450 43.1%

Exe Valley

Simon Grundy C 624 52.1%
Erin Whitcroft EDevon 573 47.9%

Exmouth Brixington (3) [1 C gain from Ind]

Maddy Chapman C 1644 36.4%
David Chapman C 1599
Cherry Nicholas C 1511
Mark Daugherty EDevon 1281 28.4%
Andrew Toye LD 855 18.9%
Stuart Fegan Lab 733 16.2%

Exmouth Halsdon (3) [1 EDevon gain from C]

Jill Elson C 1644 29.0%
Megan Armstrong EDevon 1631 28.7%
Pauline Stott C 1539
Tim Dumper LD 1419 25.0%
Emma Gibbons C 1418
Hattie Ajderian Lab 983 17.3%

Exmouth Littleham (3)

Alison Greenhalgh C 1667 26.3%
John Humphreys C 1636
Mark Williamson C 1489
Robert Crick EDevon 1224 19.3%
Daphne Fensom LD 1170 18.5%
Tim Davey UKIP 1164 18.4%
Mike Rosser Grn 1102 17.4%

Exmouth Town (3) [1 C gain from LD]

Eileen Wragg LD 1069 31.0%
Pat Graham LD 970
Bill Nash C 865 25.1%
Paul Dean C 856
Robert Masding Grn 804 23.3%
Roger Bourgein LD 737
Ray Davison Lab 714 20.7%
Jeff Trail C 711

Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh (3) [1 C gain from LD]

Brenda Taylor LD 1317 39.9%
Steve Gazzard LD 1239
Brian Bailey C 1181 35.8%
Richard Scott C 1028
Brian Toye LD 1004
Ryan Youle C 940
Ben Jones Grn 804 24.3%

Feniton and Buckerell [Ind gain from C]

Susie Bond Ind 1048 78.4%
John Zarczynski C 288 21.6%

Honiton St Michael's (3)

David Foster C 1400 39.5%
Mike Allen C 1390
Phil Twiss C 1304
Ashley Alder UKIP 734 20.7%
Jackie Wadsworth EDevon 723 20.4%
John Taylor Ind 690 19.5%
Brian Smith UKIP 636
Bernard Walker UKIP 599

Honiton St Paul's (2)

John O'Leary C 915 33.7%
Dean Barrow C 910
Henry Brown Lab 641 23.6%
Roy Coombs UKIP 598 22.1%
Roger Boote Ind 558 20.6%
Leslie Smith UKIP 475

Newbridges

Iain Chubb C 1014 60.5%
Bill Foster LD 661 39.5%

Newton Poppleford and Harpford [EDevon gain from C]

Val Ranger EDevon 764 61.1%
Patsy Hayman C 486 38.9%

Otterhead

David Key C 817 59.6%
Graham Long Ind 554 40.4%

Ottery St Mary Rural (2) [1 EDevon gain from Ind]

Matt Coppell EDevon 1507 54.6%
Paul Carter C 1255 45.4%
Crawford Winlove EDevon 1226
Alasdair Bruce C 896

Ottery St Mary Town (2) [1 Ind gain from C]

Roger Giles Ind 2087 62.1%
Peter Faithfull Ind 987
Tim Venner C 763 22.7%
Nick Partridge C 561
Andrew Blackwell Lab 513 15.3%

Raleigh [EDevon gain from C]

Geoff Jung EDevon 950 64.4%
Ray Bloxham C 525 35.6%

Seaton (3)

Marcus Hartnell C 1856 33.3%
Jim Knight C 1399
Peter Burrows LD 1329 23.8%
Jenni Brown C 1124
Martin Shaw EDevon 1068 19.2%
Stephen Lee UKIP 828 14.9%
John Walker UKIP 817
Mark Fisher LD 680
Jonathan Underwood LD 649
Jeffrey Packman Ind 493 8.8%

Sidmouth Rural [Ind gain from C]

David Barratt Ind 813 57.2%
Christine Drew C 609 42.8%

Sidmouth Sidford (3) [2 EDevon gains from C]

Stuart Hughes C 1779 38.0%
Dawn Manley EDevon 1479 31.6%
Marianne Rixson EDevon 1327
Ian McKenzie-Edwards C 1145
Debbie Tallis EDevon 1115
Graham Troman C 1022
Jack Brokenshire Ind 898 19.2%
Lewis Ragbourn LD 526 11.2%

Sidmouth Town (3)

Matthew Booth EDevon 1832 41.3%
Cathy Gardner EDevon 1704
John Dyson Ind 1495 33.7%
Sheila Kerridge C 1114 25.1%
Frances Newth C 1068
Peter Sullivan C 904

Tale Vale

Philip Skinner C 992 67.1%
Andrew Dinnis Ind 486 32.9%

Trinity

Ian Thomas C unop.

Whimple [C gain from LD]

Peter Bowden C 792 54.1%
Martin Gammell LD 673 45.9%

Woodbury and Lympstone (2) [1 EDevon gain from Ind, 1 EDevon gain from C]

Ben Ingham EDevon 1841 64.5%
Rob Longhurst EDevon 1526
David Atkins C 1013 35.5%

Yarty

Paul Diviani C 776 49.4%
Steve Horner EDevon 473 30.1%
Colin Boyd Grn 168 10.7%
Robert Jordan LD 154 9.8%

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