1994 Bromley London Borough Council election

1994 Bromley London Borough Council election
	5 May 1994
All 60 seats to Bromley London Borough Council; 31 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; ; Conservative	Council control after election ; ; Conservative

The 1994 Bromley Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]

Background

The Conservatives went into the election defending a large majority won in 1990. However, that majority had been reduced by two when the Liberal Democrats gained Chelsfield & Goddington in the 1993 by-election.

Election result

The turnout across the borough was 48.1%, the second highest turn out in the council's history.

Bromley Local Election Result 1994
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	+/−
Conservative	32	0	11	-11	53.3	40.9	-8.6
Liberal Democrats	21	15	0	+15	35.0	36.6	+13.3
Labour	7	0	4	-4	11.7	20.2	-3.1

For the Conservatives, 40.9% was their lowest share of the vote of all the nine sets of elections to date and 32 was also their lowest number of seats won. Their overall majority of 4 seats was their lowest in the council's history. For the Liberal Democrats their 36.6% was their highest share of the vote and 21 the most number of seats won. The first past the post voting system was shown to have benefitted the Conservatives and worked against the Labour Party while the Liberal Democrats achieved a fair representation.

Ward results

Beckenham

Anerley[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Richard Gaster*		55.6	+12.1
	Liberal Democrats	William Alan Macdonald MacCormick*
	Labour	Clinton Valvis McCree		32.2	-3.7
	Labour	Corinna Margaret Mary Smart
	Conservative	David Eric Burch		12.3	-1.0
	Conservative	Adrian Grantham Smith
Majority				23.4	+16.0
Turnout				46.6	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+8.0

Clock House (2)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Edward Aubrey Crowe	1,820	41.1	+15.3
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Arthur Lockwood	1,749
	Labour	Deborah Russell	1,388	31.3	-3.2
	Labour	Richard F Watts	1,351
	Conservative	Alan Howarth	1,223	27.6	-12.1
	Conservative	Roderick A. Reed	1,131
Majority				9.7	14.9
Turnout				57.1	+4.4
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.5

Copers Cope (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher John Elgar*		54.9	-9.4
	Conservative	Charles George Priest*
	Liberal Democrats	Mavis J Dowling		27.6	+11.0
	Liberal Democrats	David A Evans
	Labour	Janice M Cooke		17.5	-1.6
	Labour	Bryan Edwin Freake
Majority				27.3	-17.9
Turnout				41.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.9

Eden Park (2)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frances J D Cooke*	1,496	46.6	-10.2
	Conservative	Albert George Miles*	1,431
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Gee	1,052	32.8	+15.7
	Liberal Democrats	Kathleen Isabel Milward	962
	Labour	Gwendoline E Edwards		20.6	-5.5
	Labour	Andrew O Price
Majority				13.8	-16.9
Turnout				45.3	-1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.4

Kelsey Park (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael John B Tickner*		59.7	-10.6
	Conservative	Stephen R. Oxenbridge
	Liberal Democrats	Russell L Egan-Wyer		26.3	+10.2
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Hilary Whitaker
	Labour	Neil W Entwhistle
	Labour	Geraldine F Scanlan
Majority				33.4	-20.8
Turnout				51.2	-3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	-10.4

Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard D Foister*		35.0	-3.8
	Conservative	John Arthur M Lewis*
	Labour	Catherine Boyle		31.6	+1.0
	Labour	Andrew C Barber
	Liberal	Peter White		21.5	-2.5
	Liberal	Gerald A Williams
	Liberal Democrats	Reginald William Adams		11.9	-12.1
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey L Roberts
Majority				3.4	-4.8
Turnout				50.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.4

Penge (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Mansfield*	1,326	45.4	-4.6
	Labour	Peter Timothy Fookes*	1,241
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Ward	1,063	36.4	+26.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sonia Mary Whitaker	1,015
	Conservative	John Anthony De'Giovanni	529	18.1	-10.0
	Conservative	Anthony H G Mills	515
Majority				9.0	-12.9
Turnout				43.6	+1.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.4

Shortlands (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip J Haslop		58.2	-10.4
	Conservative	Malcolm Peter Hyland
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Elizabeth-Anne Gaster		24.5	+5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila M Machray
	Labour	Simon J Dawe		12.0	-0.5
	Labour	Robert N Hughes
	Green	Francis L Locke		5.3	n/a
Majority				33.7	-15.9
Turnout				47.2	-2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.9

Chislehurst

Bickley[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Malcolm Dear*		57.4
	Conservative	Sheila Ann Humphreys
	Conservative	Ingrid Alexandra Buckley
	Liberal Democrats	Michael D Chuter		24.3
	Liberal Democrats	Keith G Room
	Liberal Democrats	Robert R V Woollett
	Labour	Alan A J Bartlett
	Labour	Elsie M Herne
	Labour	Kenneth C H Herring
Majority				33.1
Turnout				47.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chislehurst (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joan Bryant*		54.9
	Conservative	Kathleen Ann Boughey*
	Conservative	Joan Kathleen Wykes*
	Labour	Charles F Phillips		19.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Malcolm Magrath		18.9
	Labour	Andrew Robert Amos
	Labour	Paul A Dyett
	Liberal Democrats	Robert F Webster
	Liberal Democrats	George H Watson
	Green	Paul Ryder		6.2
Majority				35.0
Turnout				45.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mottingham (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ernest William Dyer*		53.4
	Labour	Robert Justin Yeldham
	Conservative	Dennis Arthur Boughey		29.9
	Conservative	Michael John Hennessey
	Liberal Democrats	Ann E Ford		16.7
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Harry Taylor
Majority				23.4
Turnout				43.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Plaistow & Sundridge (3)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jill E Andrew	2,392	44.0
	Conservative	Paul Louis Jemetta	2,291
	Conservative	Dorothy Joan Laird*	2,269
	Liberal Democrats	Lennard Douglas Woods	1,281	23.5
	Liberal Democrats	Michael F Deves	1,272
	Labour	Robert Armstrong	1,252	23.0
	Labour	Michael Thomas King	1,144
	Labour	Nicholas Anthony Wright	1,102
	Green	Joyce Linda Brown		9.5
Majority				20.4
Turnout				44.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Paul's Cray (3)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas William N Hawthorne	2,892	52.7
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Alan Curry	2,536
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Keith Borrowman	2,526
	Labour	Colin Willetts*	1,866	34.0
	Labour	Christopher Arthur Purnell*	1,699
	Labour	Richard Ernest Hart	1,620
	Conservative	Bernard J Cobley	729	13.3
	Conservative	Edna P Bensaid	685
	Conservative	Jason M Hadden	637
Majority				18.7
Turnout				47.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Orpington

Chelsfield & Goddington (3)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Graem Peters*	3,491	58.3	+19.1
	Liberal Democrats	Gilliam Margaret Chamarette	3,420
	Liberal Democrats	Michael James Hall	3,297
	Conservative	Judith Elizabeth Ellis*	1,949	32.5	-16.9
	Conservative	Julian Patrick Greville Grainger*	1,925
	Conservative	Anthony Neil Youd	1,831
	Labour	Charles Walter Hailes	548	9.2	-2.2
	Labour	Odette V Coram	530
	Labour	Carol Anne Hannay	528
Majority				25.8	36.0
Turnout				52.6	-2.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	+18.0

Crofton (2)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Cecilia Rabbatts	2,598	56.3
	Liberal Democrats	Vivian Charles Ross	2,513
	Conservative	Paul Martin Bonter*	1,666	36.1
	Conservative	Peter Sturdy*	1,609
	Labour	Malcolm Barker	353	7.6
	Labour	Timothy J Camm	326
Majority				20.2
Turnout				58.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Farnborough (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jennifer Mary Hillier*		60.1
	Conservative	Eric Norman Goodman*
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Frank Clark		28.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia C Norris
	Labour	Peter J Davenport		11.2
	Labour	Lynn Ann Sellwood
Majority				31.4
Turnout				47.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Orpington Central (2)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Stewart Maines*		67.6
	Liberal Democrats	Michael John Norris*
	Conservative	William K E Huntingdon-Thresher		17.9
	Conservative	Harry J Stranger
	Labour	Harold J Barker		14.5
	Labour	Steven M Collinson
Majority				49.7
Turnout				49.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Charles Woods*		52.0
	Conservative	Joan Hatcher*
	Conservative	Anthony M Owen*
	Liberal Democrats	Julia C Bye		33.1
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen G D Edwards
	Liberal Democrats	Justin D C Cockett
	Labour	Christopher John Price		14.9
	Labour	Rosalie Huzzard
	Labour	Graeme M Burton
Majority				18.8
Turnout				50.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Mary Cray (3)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Richard Holbrook*	2,087	48.3
	Labour	Susan Ann Polydorou*	1,888
	Labour	Gordon Thomas Yates	1,780
	Conservative	Pamela P Brockhurst	1,162	26.9
	Conservative	Leonard C Cruse	1,103
	Liberal Democrats	Ian R Bailey	1,072	24.8
	Conservative	Anne Susan Barrow	1,061
	Liberal Democrats	Ernest James Lovell	1,057
	Liberal Democrats	Ann J Hawthorne	1,027
Majority				21.4
Turnout				41.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Ravensbourne

Biggin Hill[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Colin Gostt	2,085	52.2	+33.5
	Liberal Democrats	Walter Robert Shekyls	1,978
	Conservative	David Robert Haslam*	1,580	39.6	-6.7
	Conservative	John J Cokayne	1,520
	Labour	Leonard David Hall	327	8.2	-5.5
	Labour	Keith Aubrey Galley	297
Majority				12.7
Turnout				49.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Bromley Common & Keston (3)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth*		63.0	+17.9
	Liberal Democrats	Elsie Phythian
	Liberal Democrats	Alexa Christine Anne Michael
	Conservative	Catherine Ann Bustard*		26.6	-12.9
	Conservative	Rose M Covell
	Conservative	Neil Richard Reddin
	Labour	Christopher Martin		10.4	-5.0
	Labour	Robert I Forman
	Labour	Pamela C Remon
Majority				36.4
Turnout				49.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from		Swing

Darwin (1)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter John Bloomfield*		69.2
	Liberal Democrats	Richard J Stillwell		17.4
	Labour	Joyce E Galley		13.4
Majority				51.8
Turnout				53.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hayes (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ernest Denis Barkway*		56.7
	Conservative	Philip Geoffrey Jones*
	Conservative	Nigel G Kelsh*
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Andrew Gill		23.7
	Liberal Democrats	Robert M Manser
	Liberal Democrats	William Harold Stott
	Labour	Elizabeth Ruth Johnstone		19.5
	Labour	Peter W Rance
	Labour	Roy D Shufflebotham
Majority				33.0
Turnout				47.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Martins Hill & Town (2)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Ayres	1,442	40.9
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond Philip Warner	1,335
	Conservative	Michael Turner	1,249	35.4
	Conservative	Anthony Millar Wilkinson*	1,161
	Labour	Cecil R Dean	574	16.3
	Labour	Susan L Yates	405
	Green	Frances Mary Speed	173	4.9
	SDP	Martin B McCabe	88	2.5
Majority				5.5
Turnout				46.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

West Wickham North (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Caroline Mary Hubbard*		52.6
	Conservative	Brian Charles Humphreys*
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Margaret Fitch		37.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Raymond Maydwell
	Labour	Timothy J Craddock		10.4
	Labour	Gwendolen E Pole
Majority				15.5
Turnout				50.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Wickham South (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Frederick Ivan Gray*		53.6
	Conservative	Leonard Walter Tutt
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Frederick Keith Radford		26.4
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon J Stevens
	Labour	Raymond G Mooney		12.4
	Labour	Jane K Taylor
	SDP	Richard Henry Redden		7.6
Majority				27.2
Turnout				49.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

"London Borough Council Elections 5 May 1994 including Results from the European Elections" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
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[London_1994_election-1] "London Borough Council Elections 5 May 1994 including Results from the European Elections" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

[lms-2] London Borough of Bromley

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