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By on Tuesday 5th June 2007 18:29 / 1 comment

 

With thanks to Cllr John Ward, I have found what I had spent three months this year trying to find – by accident!

Trawling through his past results service, trying to research other results – going back to 1997 – I managed to find the results of the elections which both my parents fought on the 1st May 1997.

Probably the most interesting thing that these results show is how few people get involved in local Politics – with my dad standing as a paper candidate alongside 2007 Twydall candidate and former Councillor Diana Lawrence and my mum standing as a serious candidate, 32 votes ahead of 2007 elected Rainham Central candidate Barry Kemp and 50 votes away from victory.

Thanks, Cllr Ward!

Candidates

Party

Votes
Gillingham North
2 seats		    
Robert Maurice Adcock
ADCOCK		 Liberal Democrat ?
 993
Paul William Collins
COLLINS		 Conservative 492
Diana Marion Lawrence
LAWRENCE		 Conservative 426
Adam Robert William Price
PRICE
 Labour 1046
Paulene Rixen
RIXEN		 Labour 830
Terrence Loye Woolley
WOOLLEY		 Liberal Democrat 869

One Labour, one Liberal Democrat win.

St Margarets
2 seats		    
Vincent Gregory Brown
BROWN		 Conservative 1565
Theresa Anne Collins
COLLINS		 Conservative 1600
Ermanna Maria Collinson
COLLINSON
 Liberal Democrat
 1823
Barry Joseph Kemp
KEMP		 Conservative 1568
Lynn Korff
KORFF		 Labour 1058
John William Lloyd
LLOYD		 Labour 1208
Christine Anne Murphy
MURPHY		 Labour 1035
Yvonne Mary Phillips
PHILLIPS
 Liberal Democrat
 1649
James Braddock Russel
RUSSEL
 Liberal Democrat
 1718

Three Liberal Democrat wins.

 

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1 Comment

  1. Councillor John Ward says:
    Tuesday 12th June 2007 at 06:25

    I am pleased you found the info useful. I set up my website to be a resource (as you’ll find if you look around) and — after a long period of trying — I eventually managed to get hold of the official election returns for 1997. The council website itself has only the latest results and (buried in there somewhere!) those for 2003.

    In case you were wondering: the reason for the question mark by Robert Adcock (Gillingham North, reproduced in your ‘blog entry) is that he was Labour when I was first elected, and I haven’t found any evidence that he had changed party, so was unsure whether he really was a LibDem in 1997.

 
 

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