LIVE: Kenilworth election results as they are announced - Final results announced
By James Smith
5th May 2023 | Local News
Kenilworth Nub News will be bringing you live updates about the local elections throughout the day, live from the NAEC Stoneleigh.
Results are awaited for both Kenilworth Town Council and Warwick District Council.
Residents took to the polls yesterday (May 4) to vote in 26 councillors across the two councils.
Going into the elections there was no majority control at WDC. Conservatives held 16 of the 44 seats.
Meanwhile at the town council the Greens had the most (eight) but still did not hold a majority at the 17-seat council.
WDC Final Total (of 44 seats): Green 14 / Labour 11 / Lib Dems 10 / Conservative 6 / Whitnash 3
KTC Final Total (of 17 seats): Lib Dems 7 / Green 10 / Lab 0 / Conservative 0
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5.25pm FINAL RESULTS
The district council has no majority party but the Greens are the biggest with 14. Labour took 11 and the Lib Dems 10.
But the Tories dropping down to six is perhaps the headline of the day as they lose 13 seats.
And here are your final results for Kenilworth Town Council - Green 10 / Lib Dems 7.
Read more about the Kenilworth Town Council results here.
Reaction to follow!
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5.21pm Results Announced
And the final two votes of the day are in!
It's a clean sweep for the Greens at KTC Park Hill with Neil Eaton, Roy Minto, Alex Randall and Akira Summers all getting in.
And for Park Hill at WDC the Greens took the lot as well, Lara Cron, James Kennedy and Lowell Williams topping the polls.
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5.03pm
We are still waiting on the very last two results. Kenilworth Park Hill at WDC. And Park Hill at KTC.
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4.40pm
It's official - no party will have total control at Warwick District Council.
That's how we started the day, and what the group leaders predicted.
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4.34pm Results Announced
John Cooke loses his second election of the day as the Tories hold just one of their three district seats for Abbey & Arden.
Richard Hales retains his seat, while Kyn Aizlewood and David Armstrong take the other two for the Greens.
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4.21pm Results Announced
Kenilworth Borrowell remains held by the Lib Dems, with Kate Dickson, Josh Payne and Alan Chalmers all being voted in.
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4.20pm Results Announced
All three Lib Dems in St John's at WDC have kept their seats. Kate Dickson, Richard Dickson and Andrew Milton all being re-elected.
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4.09pm
Labour leader Mini Mangat failed to gain election to the district council as she stood in Myton & Heathcote this time around.
Tories lost all three seats to the Greens.
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4.04pm
Having earlier speculated that leader of the previous district council Andrew Day was likely to lose his seat, he has in fact held on by just five votes following a recount.
Matthew Collins took the most votes for Labour, with Mr Day receiving the second most votes.
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3.47pm
Still waiting on more Kenilworth district results, but Labour have claimed their seventh seat, meaning they now have more than they did before today (five.)
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3.18pm Results Announced
Like London buses and all that! More KTC results in. The Greens have held all four seats in Dalehouse.
David Bailey, Peter Jones, James Kennedy and Mark Stevens are all in.
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3.15pm Results Announced
It's a clean sweep for the Lib Dems in St John's at Kenilworth Town Council.
Richard Dickson, Adrian Marsh, Andrew Milton and Alison Insley are all elected to the council. That's a gain for the Lib Dems at the expense of Tory Rik Spencer.
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3pm
Cubbington and Leek Wootton ballot to be counted for the THIRD time as numbers look very marginal.
Believed to be a Lib Dem seat, based on previous counts.
Nothing confirmed yet.
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2.51pm
While we keep waiting for more Kenilworth results to be announced, here is a roundup of what has happened in Stratford, where the Lib Dems have taken control.
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2.39pm
Could we have a new leader of the council - even if the Tories remain the largest party?
Word on the floor is that Bishop's Tachbrook Ward - where Andrew Day is currently councillor - could be going to Labour.
Nothing confirmed as yet.
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2.18pm
Greens say they are eyeing 15 seats on the district council - that would almost double their tally.
Indications are that Abbey & Arden will be tight. Could portfolio holders John Cooke and Rich Hales lose their seats?
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1.46pm
Down the road in Stratford the Liberal Democrats have taken control with six seats still to be announced.
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1.27pm
Down the road in Warwick, Labour has claimed the first two seats on Warwick District Council, pushing the Tories out from Aylesford. The result means former cabinet member Liam Bartlett is off the council.------
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12.52pm Result Announced
And we have our first Kenilworth Town Council results! Alix Dearing and Zoe Leventhal are both in for the Greens. Conservatives had both seats going into the day. John Cooke loses his seat, meaning he is no longer on all three local councils
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12.29pm
Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington Matt Western is at the count. No sign of Kenilworth's Sir Jeremy Wright as yet.
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12.22pm
Again reporting the results away from Kenilworth, but previous leader of Stratford-on-Avon District Council, Tony Jefferson, has lost his seat! Lib Dem Roger Harding will take his place in the Stratford Welcombe ward.
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11.51am
Nothing yet to report on the Kenilworth front, but Labour has just taken the first seat at Warwick Town Council. Anthony Murphy is the new councillor for Warwick Leafield.
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11.21am
Still awaiting our first results at NAEC Stoneleigh. Down the road at Stratford the first results are in with the Lib Dems claiming the first seat of the day (Wellesbourne East and Rural).
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10.46am
Report from the Local Democracy Reporting Service earlier this week said group leaders didn't think there would be a majority party come the end of the day today.
Will this be the case?
Read more here.
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10.33am
Verification has finished for Cubbington and Leek Wootton - the count will now begin. Prospective councillors have told Nub News this ward is look "very tight".
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10.05am
We are all set up in the press room at the NAEC! Waiting for the first results to come in.
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8.45am
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