2015 East Devon District Council election

The 2015 East Devon District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of East Devon District Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

Ward Results

Axminster Rural, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian L. Hall	1,065
	Labour	Jerry Walden	403
Turnout			1,468	72.1	−
	Conservative hold

Axminster Town, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Andrew T Moulding	1,105
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas R. Hull	910
	East Devon Alliance	Paul G. Hayward	819
	Conservative	Stephanie C. Jones	580
	UKIP	Lindy Bailhache	450
	Liberal Democrats	Martin D. Spurway	352
	Independent	Chris Tipping	298
Turnout			2,480	70.5
	Conservative hold
	Liberal Democrats hold

Broadclyst, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher Pepper	1,799
	Conservative	Maria Hale	1,657
	Independent	Paul Newman	1,519
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen W. Schlich	1,504
Turnout			3,758	72.6
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Budleigh Salterton 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Hall	1,841
	Conservative	Alan Dent	1,817
	Conservative	Tom Wright	1,681
	East Devon Alliance	Les Cotton	1,525
	Green	Nick Barton	1,244
Turnout			3,754	77.1	−
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Coly Valley, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Helen E. Parr	1,478
	Conservative	Graham S. Godbeer	1,478
	East Devon Alliance	Sheila M. Smith	1,159
	East Devon Alliance	Paul Arnott	1,133
Turnout			2,765	74.6
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Dunkeswell, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin Brown	595
		Bob Buxton	450
Turnout			1,045	65.6
	Conservative hold

Exe Valley, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon P. Grundy	624
	East Devon Alliance	Erin B. Whitcroft	573
Turnout			1,197	77.1
	Conservative hold

Exmouth Brixington, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Maddy Chapman	1,644
	Conservative	David Chapman	1,599
	Conservative	Cherry Nicholas	1,511
	East Devon Alliance	Mark O. Daughtrey	1,281
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew J. Toye	855
	Labour	Stuart N. Fegan	733
Turnout			3,447	70.0
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Independent

Exmouth Halsdon, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jill M. Elson	1,644
	East Devon Alliance	Megan Armstrong	1,631
	Conservative	Pauline A. Scott	1,539
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Dumper	1,419
	Conservative	Emma V. Gibbons	1,418
	Labour	Hattie Ajderian	983
Turnout			3,730	72.3
	Conservative hold
	East Devon Alliance gain from Conservative
	Conservative hold

Exmouth Littleham, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alison Greenhalgh	1,667
	Conservative	John T. Humphreys	1,636
	Conservative	Mark Williamson	1,489
	East Devon Alliance	Robert Crick	1,224
	Liberal Democrats	Daphne A. Fensom	1,170
	UKIP	Tim Davey	1,164
	Green	Mike Rosser	1,102
Turnout			3,912	67.9
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Exmouth Town, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen Elizabeth Wragg	1,069
	Liberal Democrats	Pat Graham	970
	Conservative	Bill Nash	865
	Conservative	Paul M. Dean	856
	Green	Robert N. Masding	804
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Bourgein	737
	Labour	Ray Davison	714
	Conservative	Jeff Trail	711
Turnout			2,860	62.6
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Brenda O. Taylor	1,317
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Gazzard	1,239
	Conservative	Brian A. Bailey	1,181
	Conservative	Richard Scott	1,028
	Liberal Democrats	Brian J. Toye	1,004
	Conservative	Brian J. Youle	940
	Green	Ben Jones	804
Turnout			3,282	64.4
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Liberal Democrats hold
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Feniton & Buckerell, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Susie Bond	1,048
	Conservative	John Z. Zarczynski	288
Turnout			1,336	74.7
	Independent gain from Conservative

Honiton St. Michael`s, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Foster	1,400
	Conservative	Mike Allen	1,390
	Conservative	Phil Twiss	1,304
	UKIP	Ashley Alder	734
	East Devon Alliance	Jackie Wadsworth	723
	Independent	John B. Taylor	690
	UKIP	Brian Smith	636
	UKIP	Bernard Walker	599
Turnout			3,247	64.4
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Honiton St. Paul`s, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John O'Leary	915
	Conservative	Dean Barrow	910
	Labour	Henry F. Brown	641
	UKIP	Roy E. Coombes	598
	Independent	Roger W. Boote	558
	UKIP	Leslie Smith	475
Turnout			2,509	69.0
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Newbridges, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Iain Chubb	1,014
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Foster	661
Turnout			1,675	85.6
	Conservative hold

Newton Poppleford and Harpford, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	East Devon Alliance	Val Ranger	764
	Conservative	Pasty Hayman	486
Turnout			1,250	73.3
	East Devon Alliance gain from

Otterhead, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David RA Key	817
		Graham G. Long	554
Turnout			1,371	77.6
	Conservative hold

Ottery St. Mary Rural, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	East Devon Alliance	Matt Coppell	1,507
	Conservative	Paul R. Carter	1,255
	East Devon Alliance	Crawford IP Winlove	1,226
	Conservative	Alasdair S. Bruce	896
Turnout			2,731	81.6
	East Devon Alliance gain from Independent
	Conservative hold

Ottery St. Mary Town, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Roger Giles	2,087
	Independent	Peter H. Faithfull	987
	Conservative	Tim Venner	763
	Conservative	Nick Partridge	561
	Labour	Andrew V. Blackwell	513
Turnout			2,810	73.4
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Conservative

Raleigh, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	East Devon Alliance	Geoff Jung	950
	Conservative	Ray Bloxham	525
Turnout			1,475	89.0
	East Devon Alliance hold

Seaton, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Marcus Hartnell	1,856
	Conservative	Jim Knight	1,399
	Liberal Democrats	Peter W. Burrows	1,329
	Conservative	Jenni Brown	1,124
	East Devon Alliance	Martin Shaw	1,068
	UKIP	Stephen Lee	828
	UKIP	John Walker	817
	Liberal Democrats	Mark A. Fisher	680
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan WR Underwood	649
	Independent	Jeffrey K. Packman	493
Turnout			4,122	70.0
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Liberal Democrats hold

Sidmouth Rural, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	David S. Barratt	813
	Conservative	Christine E. Drew	609
Turnout			1,428	77.2
	Independent gain from Conservative

Sidmouth Sidford, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stuart Hughes	1,779
	East Devon Alliance	Dawn Manley	1,479
	East Devon Alliance	Marianne P. Rixon	1,327
	Conservative	Ian J. McKenzie-Edwards	1,145
	East Devon Alliance	Debbie Tallis	1,115
	Conservative	Graham M. Troman	1,022
	Independent	Jack Brokenshire	898
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis S. Ragbourn	526
Turnout			3,895	72.8
	Conservative hold
	East Devon Alliance hold
	East Devon Alliance hold

Sidmouth Town, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	East Devon Alliance	Matthew Booth	1,832
	East Devon Alliance	Cathy Gardner	1,704
		John GT Dyson	1,495
	Conservative	Sheila R. Kerridge	1,114
	Conservative	Francis I. Newth	1,068
	Conservative	Peter Sullivan	904
Turnout			3,353	75.1
	East Devon Alliance gain from Conservative
	East Devon Alliance gain from Conservative
	Independent gain from Conservative

Tale Vale, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Skinner	992
	Independent	Andrew EJ Dinnis	486
Turnout			1,478	77.2
	Conservative hold

Whimple, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter N. Bowden	792
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Gammell	673
Turnout			1,465	79.9
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Woodbury & Lympstone, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	East Devon Alliance	Ben Ingham	1,841
	East Devon Alliance	Rob Longhurst	1,526
	Conservative	David G. Atkins	1,013
Turnout			2,599	75.8
	East Devon Alliance gain from Independent
	East Devon Alliance gain from Conservative

Yarty, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Paul A. Diviani	776
	East Devon Alliance	Steve Horner	473
	Green	Colin Boyd	168
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Jordan	154
Turnout			1,571	81.5
	Conservative hold

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References

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "Declaration of Results" (PDF). East Devon District Council. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2019.

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[2] "Declaration of Results" (PDF). East Devon District Council. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2019.

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Devon County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
East Devon District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
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North Devon District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Plymouth City Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
South Hams District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
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Torbay Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
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