1991 High Peak Borough Council election

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 2 May 1991. All of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

• Labour 16
• Conservative 14
• Liberal Democrat 10
• Independent 4

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1991^[2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	16	6	1	+5	36.36
	Conservative	14	0	3	-3	31.82
	Liberal Democrats	10	3	0	+3	22.73
	Independent	4	0	5	-5	9.09

Ward results

All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Wilkinson	1159	40.1
	Labour	David Bond	1111
	Labour	Lilian Whitson	1086
	Conservative	Thomas Farnsworth	1031	35.7
	Conservative	Frank Postlethwaite	990
	Conservative	Michael Wendon	881
	Liberal Democrats	Goinden Kuppan	371	12.8
	Green	Roy Winterbottom	328	11.4
	Green	Ian Lee Webb	240
	Green	Susan Anne Ledger	240
Turnout				53.5
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Barmoor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Brian Millward	307	55.02
	Conservative	Derek Walter Udale	166	29.75
	Labour	Ian Stuart Waddell	85	15.23
Majority			141	25.26
Turnout			558	52.1
	Independent hold		Swing

Barms

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Mone	655	42.2
	Labour	Andrew Uprichard	589
	Conservative	Terence Corrigan	559	36.0
	Conservative	Margaret Mary Williams	543
	Liberal Democrats	David Allwright	180	11.6
	Green	Karen Thompson Beswick	160	10.3
	Green	Susan Mortin	120
Turnout				52.5
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Blackbrook

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Ashenden	893	46.5
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Mary Burns	641
	Conservative	Peter Coackley	617	32.2
	Conservative	Donald Gifford Crow	569
	Labour	Andrew Ayres	241	12.6
	Green	Catherine Tattersfield	168	8.8
Turnout				60.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Buxton Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joan Mary Chape	333	47.57
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Francis Bryant	254	36.29
	Green	Roger Martin Floyd	113	16.14
Turnout			700	50.7
Majority			79	11.28
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chapel East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	James Edward George Boote	439	53.28
	Labour	Trevor William Trimmer	214	25.97
	Conservative	Janice Elaine Bancroft	171	20.75
Majority			225	27.31
Turnout			824	54.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chapel West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ann Stewart Young	681	23.6
	Independent	Muriel Bertha Bradbury	590	20.4
	Independent	Frank Peter Harrison	494	17.1
	Green	Jayne Pamela Mellor	414	14.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Frank Weigold	392	13.6
	Labour	Jane Ayres	321	11.1
Turnout				49.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

College

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Jane Inglefield	749	51.1
	Conservative	Alan Keith Allman	734
	Liberal Democrats	Hillary Allwright	461	31.5
	Green	Christopher Martin Pearson	256	17.5
	Green	Justin Robert Clements	254
Turnout				50.9
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Corbar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter De Leighton Brooke	682	48.5
	Conservative	Margaret Beatrice Millican	664
	Liberal Democrats	Kenneth Rooker	262	18.6
	Labour	Valerie Mason	256	18.2
	Green	Rodney Dugdale	207	14.7
	Green	Derek Alfred Jones	173
Turnout				47.5
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cote Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Robert Leslie Loader	861	44.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Campbell Newsam	677
	Labour	Philip Mone	609	31.7
	Labour	Jane Ann McGrother	506
	Conservative	Kenneth David Graham Kirk	452	23.5
Turnout				49.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Gamesley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Francis	1045	83.2
	Labour	Richard John Cooke	957
	Independent	Elsie Sayers	110	9.1
	Green	Marie-Helene Thomas-Jones	92	7.7
Turnout				52.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hayfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert David Mellor	633	53.96
	Labour	Colin Michael Divall	312	26.60
	Green	Judith Milling	128	10.91
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Malcolm Bruce	100	8.53
Majority			321	27.37
Turnout			1173	57.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ladybower

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Albert Bingham	473	61.35
	Labour	Gillian Taylor	177	22.96
	Green	Angela Mary Ayres	121	15.69
Majority			296	38.39
Turnout			771	62.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Limestone Peak

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Evelyn May Thomlinson	361	51.28
	Liberal Democrats	Joyce Allwright	248	35.23
	Labour	Michael John Westley	95	13.49
Majority			113	16.05
Turnout			704	55.0
	Independent hold		Swing

New Mills North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Bickerton	1038	32.2
	Conservative	Dorothy May Brennand	807	28.8
	Conservative	Dorothy Mary Livesley	724
	Labour	Kevin John Worthington	717	28.8
	Labour	Sheila Elizabeth Rae	705
	Labour	Charmain Bernadette Levin	685
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Helen Redfern	668
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Michael Fieldsend	653
	Conservative	Christopher Barnes	575
	Green	Freda Kathleen Chapman	248	10.2
Turnout				61.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

New Mills South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Harry Norman Burfoot	812	49.2
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen John Herbert Dearden	696
	Labour	Marion Williams	671	42.4
	Labour	Donald Peace Rae	629
	Green	Michael John Shipley	139	8.4
	Green	Michael Jonathan Rowles	117
Turnout				52.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Peveril

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Ernest Priestley	563	62.76
	Labour	Brian Gerald Hudson	212	23.63
	Independent (politician)	Angela Helen Kellie	122	13.60
Majority			351	39.13
Turnout			897	53.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

St. Andrew's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Kathleen Holtom	962	52.5
	Labour	John Hallsworth	890
	Conservative	Olive MacKay	493	28.0
	Liberal Democrats	Lyn Edwards	345	19.6
Turnout				52.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Charles'

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Holtom	870	49.7
	Labour	Francis Walter Stubbs	845
	Conservative	Celia May Bloomer	391	21.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Colin Curzon	322	17.4
	Green	Iain Coram	219	11.8
Turnout				49.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. James'

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Patrick Garlick	895	36.2
	Labour	Arthur Harrison Gilbert	884
	Conservative	Leslie Ernest Proctor	831	33.6
	Labour	Jacqueline Margaret Wilkinson	827
	Conservative	Graham Turner Buckley	815
	Conservative	Barbara Sharpe	806
	Liberal Democrats	Marjorie Jane Chapman	400	16.2
	Green	Geoffrey Keith Oliver	347	14.0
	Green	Evelyn Lesley Wilson	283
	Green	Michael Jonathan Lindley	278
Turnout				54.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St John's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	651	64.26
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Frank Harbut	224	22.11
	Labour	Peter Roy Urquhart	138	13.62
Majority			427	42.15
Turnout			1013	56.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Simmondley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Jeffrey Sidebottom	454	37.34
	Liberal Democrats	Gerald Seymour Wood	417	34.29
	Labour	Reginald Grills	291	23.93
	Green	Diana Lilian Virgo	54	4.44
Majority			37	3.04
Turnout			1216	55.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stone Bench

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Raymond Vernon Browne	833	60.5
	Labour	James Henry Poulton	820
	Conservative	David Redford Allsop	323	23.5
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Francis Clayton	221	16.1
Turnout				45.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Tintwistle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joyce Brocklehurst	372	54.47
	Conservative	Wright Brownhill Cooper	311	45.53
Majority			61	8.93
Turnout			683	63.0
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Whaley Bridge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Constance Ann Smith	1183	27.9
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	1178	27.8
	Liberal Democrats	David William Lomax	1174
	Labour	John Bottomley	967	22.8
	Conservative	Susan Jane Wallwork	348	21.5
Turnout				56.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

References

1. "BBC NEWS | Election 2007 | Local Council Elections | High Peak council". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
2. Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003