Buckinghamshire County Council election results 2017
The Conservatives have retained control of Buckinghamshire County Council winning 41 of the 49 seats on the council.
The results of the Buckinghamshire County Council elections held on Thursday 4th May 2017 were as follows :
Party | Seats 2013 | Seats 2017 | Change +/– |
Conservative | 36 | 41 | +5 |
Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | -1 |
Independent | 1 | 3 | +2 |
Labour | 1 | 1 | – |
UKIP | 6 | o | -6 |
The Conservatives saw an increase in the number of seats on the council gaining five on the 2013 elections.
However it wasn’t all gains for the Conservatives with Labour taking the Booker, Cressex & Castlefield seat from the Conservatives by just 11 votes.
UKIP suffered a major blow in the elections losing all six of the seats they previously had on the Council.
Three party leaders were unseated in the 2017 elections with Lib Dem Leader Avril Davies losing Ivinghoe, the seat she had held for 16 years. Labour group leader Robin Stuchbury also lost in Buckingham West. The UKIP leader, Andy Huxley, lost his Aylesbury seat.
The total number of seats won and the % share of the vote was as follows :
Party | Seats | % of vote |
Conservative | 41 | 53.1% |
Liberal Democrat | 4 | 18.6% |
East Wycombe Independent | 2 | 1.5% |
Labour | 1 | 13.6% |
Independent | 1 | 3.5% |
UKIP | 0 | 6.0% |
Green | 0 | 3.6% |
*The turnout was 34.8%.
The list of electoral divisions and the elected candidates in the 2017 Buckinghamshire County Council elections is as follows :
Electoral divisions | Elected candidates | Elected party (or parties) |
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Abbey | Lesley Mary Clarke | Conservative |
Amersham & Chesham Bois | Gareth David Williams | Conservative |
Aston Clinton & Bierton | Bill Chapple | Conservative |
Aylesbury East | Julie Elizabeth Ward | Conservative |
Aylesbury North | Raj Wali Khan | Liberal Democrat |
Aylesbury North West | Martin Paul Farrow | Liberal Democrat |
Aylesbury South East | Brian Keith Roberts | Conservative |
Aylesbury South West | Niknam Hussain | Liberal Democrat |
Aylesbury West | Steven Michael Lambert | Liberal Democrat |
Beaconsfield | Alan Martin Walters | Conservative |
Bernwood | Clive Harriss | Conservative |
Booker, Cressex & Castlefield | Majid Hussain | Labour |
Buckingham East | Warren Whyte | Conservative |
Buckingham West | Charlie Clare | Conservative |
Chalfont St Giles | Timothy Richard Butcher | Conservative |
Chalfont St Peter | David John Francis Martin | Conservative |
Chesham | Mark Wayne Shaw | Conservative |
Chess Valley | Noel Lawrence Brown | Conservative |
Chiltern Ridges | Patricia Mary Birchley | Conservative |
Chiltern Villages | Jean Elizabeth Teesdale | Conservative |
Cliveden | Dev Dhillon | Conservative |
Denham | Roger William Reed | Conservative |
Downley | Wendy Janet Mallen | Conservative |
Farnham Common & Burnham Beeches | Lin Hazell | Conservative |
Flackwell Heath, Little Marlow & Marlow South East | David Martyn Watson | Conservative |
Gerrards Cross | Barbara Lynn Gibbs | Conservative |
Great Brickhill | Janet Blake | Conservative |
Great Missenden | Peter Ernest Charles Martin | Conservative |
Grendon Underwood | Angela Macpherson | Conservative |
Hazlemere | Katrina Suzanne Atkins Wood | Conservative |
Iver | Luisa Katherine Sullivan | Conservative |
Ivinghoe | Anne Wight | Conservative |
Little Chalfont & Amersham Common | Martin Anthony Tett | Conservative |
Marlow | Alex Collingwood | Conservative |
Penn Wood & Old Amersham | Isobel Anne Darby | Conservative |
Ridgeway East | David James Carroll | Conservative |
Ridgeway West | Carl Alexander Arvid Etholen | Conservative |
Ryemead & Micklefield | Julia Denise Wassell | East Wycombe Independent |
Stoke Poges & Wexham | Ralph Bagge | Conservative |
Stone and Waddesdon | Paul Irwin | Conservative |
Terriers & Amersham Hill | Arif Hussain | Conservative |
The Risboroughs | Bill Bendyshe-Brown | Conservative |
The Wooburns, Bourne End & Hedsor | Mike Appleyard | Conservative |
Totteridge & Bowerdean | Chaudhary Allah Ditta | East Wycombe Independent |
Tylers Green & Loudwater | David Alastair Clifton Shakespeare | Conservative |
Wendover, Halton & Stoke Mandeville | Steve Bowles | Conservative |
West Wycombe | Darren John Hayday | Independent |
Wing | Netta Glover | Conservative |
Winslow | John Chilver | Conservative |