2007 Stevenage Borough Council election

← 2006

3 May 2007

2008 →

13 of the 39 seats to Stevenage Borough Council
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Conservative
Seats before	32	4	3
Seats won	11	1	1
Seats after	32	4	3
Seat change
Popular vote	10,130	6,533	4,612
Percentage	46.8%	30.2%	21.3%

Map showing the results of contested wards in the 2007 Stevenage Borough Council elections.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

Elections to Stevenage Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 2003. The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Stevenage Local Election Result 2007
	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	11	84.6	46.8	10,130	+0.4%
Conservative	1	7.7	30.2	6,533	+0.5%
Liberal Democrats	1	7.7	21.3	4,612	-0.5%
BNP	0	0	1.0	211	+1.0%
Green	0	0	0.8	172	-0.1%

Ward results

Bandley Hill

Bandley Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jackie Hollywell	805	51.8	+0.9
	Conservative	Freda Warner	474	30.5	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Knight	276	17.7	−4.6
Majority			331	21.3	−2.8
Turnout			1,555	32.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Bedwell

Bedwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liz Harrington	1,037	60.7	−6.4
	Conservative	Christine St. Leitner	430	25.2	−7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sydney Grubert	241	14.1	+14.1
Majority			607	35.5	+1.3
Turnout			1,708	36.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Chells

Chells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Howard Burrell	771	41.9	−3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Audrey Griffith	750	40.8	+7.3
	Conservative	Julie Seddon	318	17.3	−3.7
Majority			21	1.1	−10.9
Turnout			1,839	39.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Longmeadow

Longmeadow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Monika Cherney-Craw	689	41.8	−5.1
	Conservative	Matthew Hurst	645	39.2	+4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ralph Baskerville	313	19.0	+0.2
Majority			44	2.6	−10.0
Turnout			1,647	37.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Manor

Manor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Parker	1,091	54.4	+1.8
	Conservative	Susan Smith	465	23.2	−2.2
	Labour	Joseph Sherry	449	22.4	+0.4
Majority			626	31.2	+4.0
Turnout			2,005	41.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Martins Wood

Martins Wood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Patston	680	43.6	+0.2
	Conservative	Dilys Clark	608	39.0	+4.6
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Segadelli	272	17.4	−4.8
Majority			72	4.6	−4.4
Turnout			1,560	34.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Town

Old Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Downing	1,018	49.0	+3.4
	Conservative	James Fraser	700	33.7	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Latham	189	9.1	−2.6
	Green	Stuart Madgin	172	8.3	−0.9
Majority			318	15.3	+3.2
Turnout			2,079	43.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Pin Green

Pin Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Reg Smith	848	51.6	−0.8
	Conservative	Leslie Clark	378	23.0	+1.6
	BNP	Michael Green	211	12.9	+12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Griffith	205	12.5	+1.8
Majority			470	28.6	−2.4
Turnout			1,642	37.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Roebuck

Roebuck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Gardner	816	52.2	+2.2
	Conservative	Roger Gill	480	30.7	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Denise Baskerville	266	17.0	−4.2
Majority			336	21.5	+0.3
Turnout			1,562	34.7
	Labour hold		Swing

St Nicholas

St Nicholas
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ralph Raynor	742	50.8	+0.1
	Conservative	Andrew Elwell	399	27.3	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Snell	320	21.9	−1.3
Majority			343	23.5	−1.1
Turnout			1,461	33.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Shephall

Shephall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Webb	806	56.3	+1.2
	Conservative	Anita Speight	348	24.3	+5.3
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Baskerville	278	19.4	−6.5
Majority			458	32.0	+2.8
Turnout			1,432	32.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Symonds Green

Symonds Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Kissane	1,040	61.6	+7.7
	Conservative	Matthew Wyatt	470	27.8	−2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Hearmon	179	10.6	−4.9
Majority			570	33.8	+10.5
Turnout			1,689	38.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Woodfield

Woodfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Clark	818	55.3	+0.9
	Labour	Richard Rawlings	429	29.0	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Katherine Lloyd	232	15.7	−4.5
Majority			389	26.3	−2.7
Turnout			1,479	37.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

v t Council elections in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Broxbourne Borough Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Dacorum Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
East Hertfordshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Hertsmere Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2019 2023
North Hertfordshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
St Albans City and District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Stevenage Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Three Rivers District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Watford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
See also: Wards Boundary changes Middlesex County Council elections

v t (2006 ←) 2007 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2008)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils (England)	Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Berwick-upon-Tweed Blaby Blyth Valley Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Point Castle Morpeth Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chester Chester-le-Street Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Chorley Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Derwentside Dover Easington Eastbourne East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire Eastleigh East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Pendle Penwith Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Restormel Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Salisbury Scarborough Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wansbeck Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Wiltshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray Comhairle nan Eilean Siar North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian
National Assemblies and Parliament elections	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland