Local Election Results 2011
West Somerset
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. One Conservative councillor was elected unopposed.
Other results for West Somerset:
2003
2007
2015
By-elections for West Somerset (may be incomplete): 7th July 2005 (Old Cleeve)
— 1st May 2008 (Alcombe E.)
— 16th April 2009 (Minehead S.)
— 23rd March 2017 (Dunster & Timberscombe)
— 4th May 2017 (Minehead N.)
— 22nd February 2018 (Minehead S.)
— 21st June 2018 (Alcombe)
Results for Somerset county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
7095 |
43.9% |
19 |
| Independent |
5141 |
31.8% |
7 |
| Green Party |
1885 |
11.7% |
0 |
| Labour |
1548 |
9.6% |
2 |
| Liberal Democrat |
479 |
3.0% |
0 |
| Ian Melhuish |
Ind |
409 |
32.8% |
| Paul Grierson |
C |
357 |
28.7% |
| Andrew Lewis |
Lab |
280 |
22.5% |
| Venetia Moore |
Grn |
200 |
16.1% |
| Keith Turner |
C |
456 |
74.3% |
| Nick Moore |
Ind |
158 |
25.7% |
| Timothy Taylor |
C |
382 |
66.3% |
| William Butcher |
Ind |
194 |
33.7% |
| Anthony Trollope-Bellew |
C |
373 |
54.8% |
| Roy Harbour |
Ind |
178 |
26.1% |
| James Robertson |
Grn |
130 |
19.1% |
| Keith Ross |
Ind |
736 |
57.5% |
| Bruce Heywood |
C |
543 |
42.5% |
| David Lungley |
Ind |
450 |
|
| Kathleen Smith |
C |
434 |
|
| Alec Chick |
C |
336 |
57.9% |
| Nicola Gibbard |
Grn |
166 |
28.6% |
| Gary Miele |
Ind |
78 |
13.4% |
| Andrew Hadley |
Ind |
588 |
37.5% |
| Mandy Chilcott |
C |
543 |
34.7% |
| Richard Lillis |
C |
349 |
|
| Stephen Grice |
Ind |
302 |
|
| Lesley Culverhouse |
Lab |
298 |
19.0% |
| Ernest Taylor |
Ind |
247 |
|
| John Clyde-Smith |
Ind |
146 |
|
| Caitlin Collins |
Grn |
137 |
8.7% |
| Simon Gibbard |
Grn |
127 |
|
| David Ross |
Ind |
471 |
41.4% |
| David Sanders |
C |
448 |
39.4% |
| Stephen Pickard |
Ind |
220 |
|
| Katherine Attwater |
Grn |
218 |
19.2% |
| Leslie Smith |
C |
520 |
31.8% |
| Maureen Smith |
Lab |
520 |
31.8% |
| Tristan Tonks |
C |
365 |
|
| Sandra Slade |
Ind |
335 |
20.5% |
| David Taylor |
Grn |
259 |
15.9% |
| Kate Kravis |
C |
523 |
50.0% |
| Martin Dewdney |
C |
423 |
|
| Judith Johnson-Smith |
Grn |
304 |
29.1% |
| Ian Galloway |
LD |
219 |
20.9% |
| David Latimer |
Grn |
178 |
|
| Karen Mills |
C |
683 |
53.6% |
| Jonathan Freeman |
Ind |
591 |
46.4% |
| Nicholas Messarra |
C |
414 |
|
| Chris Morgan |
C |
521 |
54.6% |
| Susan Goss |
C |
442 |
|
| Paul Tipney |
Ind |
434 |
45.4% |
| David Westcott |
C |
669 |
34.4% |
| Anthony Knight |
C |
637 |
|
| Peter Murphy |
Lab |
450 |
23.1% |
| Ann Snelling |
C |
327 |
|
| Sarah Silvester |
Grn |
297 |
15.3% |
| Loretta Whetlor |
Ind |
269 |
13.8% |
| Anthony Bowden |
LD |
260 |
13.4% |
| Donald Scott |
Grn |
259 |
|
| John Richards |
Ind |
238 |
|
| Geoffrey Dowding |
C |
417 |
70.6% |
| Reyna Robertson |
Grn |
174 |
29.4% |
| Hugh Davies |
Ind |
700 |
68.4% |
| Edwin May |
Ind |
425 |
|
| Rose Woods |
C |
324 |
31.6% |
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