St Cleer (electoral division)

St Cleer
Former ward Cornwall Council.
Boundary of St Cleer in from 2013-2021.
County	Cornwall
2013 (2013)–2021 (2021)
Number of councillors	One
Replaced by	St Cleer and Menheniot
Created from	St Cleer
2009 (2009)–2013 (2013)
Number of councillors	One
Replaced by	St Cleer
Created from	Council created

St Cleer (Cornish: Sen Kler)^[1] was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council between 2009 and 2021. It was abolished at the 2021 local elections, being succeeded by the St Cleer and Menheniot division.

Councillors

Election	Member		Party
2009		Derris Watson	Liberal Democrat
2013
2017		Philip Eddy
2021	Seat abolished

Extent

St Cleer represented the villages of St Neot, Darite, Crow's Nest, St Cleer and the hamlets of Warleggan, Redgate, Common Moor, Higher Tremarcoombe, Tremar Coombe, Tremar and Rosecraddoc. The village of Mount was shared with the Lanivet and Blisland division.^[2]

The division was nominally abolished during boundary changes at the 2013 election, but remained largely unaffected. Both before and after the boundary changes in 2013, it covered 10,686 hectares.^[2][3]

Election results

2017 election

2017 election: St Cleer^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Eddy	829	51.5	19.5
	Conservative	Clive Sargeant	520	32.3	12.4
	Labour	Martin Menear	140	8.7	New
	UKIP	David Lucas	117	7.3	16.8
Majority			309	19.2	11.2
Rejected ballots			4	0.2	0.1
Turnout			1610	44.2	4.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

2013 election

2013 election: St Cleer^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Derris Watson	463	32.0	13.0
	UKIP	David Lucas	348	24.1	3.8
	Independent	Len Clark	341	23.6	New
	Conservative	Lisa Sargeant	288	19.9	14.1
Majority			115	8.0	3.0
Rejected ballots			5	0.3	0.3
Turnout			1445	39.7	7.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

2009 election

2009 election: St Cleer^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Derris Watson	774	45.0
	Conservative	Sharon Hancock	585	34.0
	UKIP	David Lucas	350	20.3
Majority			189	11.0
Rejected ballots			11	0.6
Turnout			1720	47.2
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

References

1. "Henwyn Tyller A-Z". Akademi Kernewek. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
2. "E05 Electoral Ward/Division St Cleer E05009249". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
3. "E05 Electoral Ward/Division St Cleer E05008287". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
4. "Election results for St Cleer Cornwall Council elections - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
5. "Election results for St Cleer Cornwall Council elections - Thursday, 2nd May, 2013". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
6. "Election results for St Cleer Cornwall Council elections - Thursday, 4th June, 2009". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 25 April 2021.