2006 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election

2006 Kensington and Chelsea Council election

4 May 2006
All 54 seats to Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council 28 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Conservative Labour Seats won 45 9 Seat change 3 3 Popular vote 18,755 5,884 Percentage 60.4% 18.9% Swing 3.1% 7.1%
Map of the results of the 2006 Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council election. Conservatives in blue and Labour in red.
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

The 2006 Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control.^[1]

Election result

Kensington and Chelsea Local Election Result 2006^[2]^[3]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	45	3	0	3	83.3	60.4	18,755	3.1
	Labour	9	0	3	3	16.7	18.9	5,884	7.1
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.0	15.4	4,790	0.1
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	4.4	1,359	3.2
	Alliance for Green Socialism	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.7	232	New
	CPA	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	32	New

Ward results

Abingdon (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victoria Borwick	1,249	65.6
	Conservative	James Husband	1,220
	Conservative	Joanna Gardner	1,204
	Green	George Hickman	270	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Good	229	12.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Faulder	211
	Labour	Margaret Delahey	156	8.2
	Labour	John Dumont	126
	Labour	Christine Robson	116
Turnout			4,781	25.7	−1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brompton (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margot James	1,136	77.3
	Conservative	Iain Hanham	1,121
	Conservative	Shireen Ritchie	1,116
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Kingsley	177	12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rosamund Pease	170
	Labour	Caroline Tod	156	10.6
	Labour	Alexander Case	132
	Labour	Mark Twigg	121
Turnout			4,129	23.8	−3.8
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Campden (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Ahern	1,189	58.9
	Conservative	Christopher Buckmaster	1,155
	Conservative	Robert Freeman	1,113
	Green	Dylan Banks	436	21.6
	Liberal Democrats	James Crichton-Miller	263	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Florentin	232
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Orrell	145
	Labour	Robert Cook	132	6.5
	Labour	Michael O'Keefe	115
Turnout			4,780	31.4	+3.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Colville (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dez O'Neill	703	41.4
	Labour	Marianne Alapini	663
	Labour	Keith Cunningham	625
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Caruana	511	30.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Franks	431
	Liberal Democrats	Panayiotis Vardakis	373
	Conservative	Matthew Hancock	361	21.3
	Conservative	Gerard Hargreaves	352
	Conservative	Shai Hill	324
	Green	Laura Clark	122	7.2
	Green	Michael Enright	106
	Green	Hugo Charlton	75
Turnout			4,646	31.9	+4.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Courtfield (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lawrence Holt	1,025	73.6
	Conservative	Edward Cox	1,024
	Conservative	Anthony Milnes	1,008
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Somers	236	16.9
	Liberal Democrats	Carl Michel	206
	Liberal Democrats	William Somers	190
	Labour	Alexandra Huggins	132	9.5
	Labour	Marian Kearney	118
	Labour	Adolphe Bukasa	116
Turnout			4,055	23.7	+0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cremorne (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Cecil	1,167	59.9
	Conservative	Maighread Condon-Simmonds	1,138
	Conservative	Mark Daley	1,099
	Labour	Patricia Healy	465	23.9
	Labour	Lee Jameson	429
	Labour	Robert Mingay	391
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Lawrence	315	16.2
	Liberal Democrats	Julian England	295
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Pritchard	275
Turnout			5,574	35.5	+1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Earl's Court (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Barry Phelps	953	61.9
	Conservative	Terence Buxton	942
	Conservative	Thomas Fairhead	896
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Wade	320	20.8
	Liberal Democrats	Norma Peacock	302
	Liberal Democrats	John Drake	301
	Labour	Joel Bishop	266	17.3
	Labour	Andrew Howard	232
	Labour	Ghulam Lasharie	214
Turnout			4,426	25.1	−2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Golborne (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pat Mason	784	43.2
	Labour	Bridget Hoier	742
	Labour	Emma Dent Coad	737
	Conservative	Reginald Kerr-Bell	580	32.0
	Conservative	Mark Clarke	486
	Conservative	Vaneeta Saroop	425
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Edward Adams	232	12.8
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Owen	218	12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Jones	190
	Liberal Democrats	Maria Kovatzis	153
Turnout			4,547	29.7	+1.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hans Town (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Timothy Coleridge	1,352	87.6
	Conservative	Nicholas Paget-Brown	1,304
	Conservative	Mary Weale	1,285
	Labour	Michael Henry	192	12.4
	Labour	St John Adlard	190
	Labour	David Redvaldsen	167
Turnout			4,490	27.0	−2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Holland (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joan Hanham	1,111	64.3
	Conservative	Bryan Levitt	1,099
	Conservative	Warwick Lightfoot	1,082
	Liberal Democrats	Lee Clements	239	13.8
	Green	Isaac Ferry	237	13.7
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Elston	195
	Liberal Democrats	Benedict Knighton	183
	Labour	Violet Jameson	142	8.2
	Labour	Jonathan Heawood	128
	Labour	Margaret Pringle	126
Turnout			4,542	27.4	−1.8
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Norland (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julie Mills	1,203	63.0
	Conservative	David Lindsay	1,192
	Conservative	Andrew Lamont	1,183
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Banner	357	18.7
	Labour	David Perry	351	18.4
	Labour	Lesley-Anne Arnold	344
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Horner	335
	Labour	Thomas Brown	329
	Liberal Democrats	Francois Turmel	302
Turnout			5,596	32.8	+0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notting Barns (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Judith Blakeman	886	43.5
	Labour	Allah Lasharie	863
	Labour	Catherine Atkinson	857
	Conservative	Quentin Marshall	783	38.4
	Conservative	Marie-Therese Rossi	761
	Conservative	Elizabeth Rutherford	734
	Liberal Democrats	Alexandra Tatton-Brown	370	18.1
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Tuck	352
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Tatton-Brown	318
Turnout			5,973	34.0	+4.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Pembridge (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Isobel Campbell	917	55.1
	Conservative	David Campion	893
	Conservative	Doreen Weatherhead	830
	Green	Richard Blackwell-Whitehead	294	17.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Campbell	274	16.5
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Mayers	208
	Liberal Democrats	Priscilla Congreve	200
	Green	Siân Berry	180
	Labour	Maria Arana	148	8.9
	Labour	Christabel Gurney	148
	Green	Derek Wall	123
	Labour	Nigel Wilkins	121
	CPA	Andrea Erdei	32
Turnout			4,368	24.6	−2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Queens Gate (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fiona Buxton	1,112	78.0
	Conservative	Daniel Moylan	1,093
	Conservative	Andrew Dalton	1,075
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila McGuirk	200	14.0
	Liberal Democrats	Niklas Ekholm	190
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Schneider-Cullen	190
	Labour	Malcolm Grant	114	8.0
	Labour	Ben Braithwaite	103
	Labour	Stephen Johnson	90
Turnout			4,167	24.6	−1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Redcliffe (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frances Taylor	1,172	73.2
	Conservative	Elizabeth Campbell	1,127
	Conservative	Charles Williams	1,096
	Liberal Democrats	Katerina Porter	249	15.6
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Woodthorpe-Browne	204
	Liberal Democrats	Juan-Pablo Raymond	193
	Labour	John Atkinson	180	11.2
	Labour	Norma Morris	178
	Labour	Anthony Price	161
Turnout			4,560	25.0	+0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Royal Hospital (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Corbet-Singleton	1,326	78.6
	Conservative	Ian Donaldson	1,323
	Conservative	Jeremey Edge	1,289
	Liberal Democrats	Penelope Pocock	243	13.6
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Ford	229
	Liberal Democrats	Nan Maitland	217
	Labour	Christine Henry	131	7.8
	Labour	Richard Chute	122
	Labour	David MacFarlane	118
Turnout			4,998	31.9	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Charles (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Palmer	942	44.8
	Conservative	Dominic Johnson	862
	Conservative	Rock Feilding-Mellen	842
	Labour	Stephen Hoier	791	37.6
	Labour	Rima Horton	776
	Labour	John Atkinson	758
	Liberal Democrats	Ellen Kelly	370	17.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jacob Thorne	259
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Etoe	254
Turnout			5,854	34.6	+6.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Stanley (3)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Merrick Cockell	1,177	75.2
	Conservative	Priscilla Frazer	1,175
	Conservative	Paul Warrick	1,137
	Liberal Democrats	Moya Denman	233	14.9
	Liberal Democrats	George Herford	197
	Labour	Gina Coles	155	9.9
	Labour	Leslie Austin	140
	Labour	Philip Jones	123
Turnout			4,337	30.2	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. "Local elections: Kensington & Chelsea". BBC News Online. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
2. "Local Election Results 2006 - Kensington and Chelsea". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
3. "Local elections results 4 May 2006". The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.