2011 North Norfolk District Council election

The 2011 North Norfolk District Council election to the North Norfolk District Council took place on Thursday 5 May 2011.

There were 48 seats up for election, all councillors from all wards. The results of the election produced a majority for the Conservatives who gained overall control of the council for the first time, replacing the Liberal Democrats.

Election result

North Norfolk District Council Election, 2011

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	28	11	0	11
	Labour	0	0	0	0
	Liberal Democrats	18	0	12	12
	Green	0	0	0	0
	Labour Co-op	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	1	1	0	1
	Independent	1	1	0	1

Ward results

Astley Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Julia Margaret Bird	134
	Liberal Democrats	Ben James Bix	257
	Labour	Ann Poberefsky	156
	Conservative	Russell John Gregory Wright	359
Majority			102
Turnout
			Swing

Briston Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Lynette Elizabeth Comber	116
	Conservative	Jenny English	300
	Green	Sharon Suzanne Harvey	45
	Labour Co-op	Aubrey Poberefsky	164
	Liberal Democrats	John Andrew Wyatt	310
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Chaucer Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Terry Comber	134
	Green	Anne Hilary Hood	59
	Conservative	Alistair James MacKay	335
	Labour	Ruth Evelyn Smith	116
	Liberal Democrats	Anthea Caroline Sweeney	428
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Corpusty Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Barbara Coppard	73
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Lesley Dovey	114
	Labour	Joseph Flack	130
	Conservative	John Perry-Warnes	505
	UKIP	David James Ramsbotham	370
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Cromer Town Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Benjie Cabbell-Manners	509
	Liberal Democrats	John Andrew Frosdick	312
	Labour	Phil Harris	332
	Conservative	Keith Edward Johnson	476
	Labour	David Pritchard	286
	Green	Brigid Warner	154
	Liberal Democrats	Andy Yiasimi	367
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

ErpinghamWard (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Jez Fredenburgh	124
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Holmes	352
	Conservative	Norman Robert Smith	455
	Labour	Sebastian John Sutcliffe	149
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Gaunt Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Peter Alan Crouch	138
	Labour	Paul David Dark	158
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Robert Jones	668
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Glaven Valley Ward(1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruth Bartlett	95
	Conservative	Lindsay Mary Brettle	500
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Gent	232
	UKIP	Irene Ramsbotham	83
	Green	Rupert Graham Hillard Rosser	84
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Happisburgh Ward(1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barry Charles Hester	185
	Liberal Democrats	Lee Walker	720
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

High Heath Ward(1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sam Cooper	111
	Green	Rosalind Redfern	159
	Liberal Democrats	David Alan Young	581
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Holt Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Michael John Morton Baker	946
	Green	Paula Mary D'Attoma	113
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Wesley High	819
	Green	Peter Ian Morrison	96
	Labour	Jono Read	237
	Labour	Tom Shirley	93
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Ena Young	260
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Hoveton Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Anthony Cullingham	159
	Conservative	Nigel David Dixon	554
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Stephen Gent	215
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Lancaster North Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Annie Claussen-Reynolds	423
	Labour	Brenda Mary Coldrick	258
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Colin Mears	402
	Labour	Tony Pope	197
	Conservative	Roy Reynolds	420
	Liberal Democrats	Lisa Claire Smerdon	356
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Lancaster South Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Frances Lee Collinson	130
	Labour	Pam Cowburn	217
	Liberal Democrats	Gloria Lisher	326
	Liberal Democrats	John Lisher	308
	Conservative	Jeremy Nicholas Punchard	509
	Labour	Allan Peter Rands	254
	Conservative	Steven David Ward	447
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Mundesley Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Tony Ashford	140
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Cass	590
	Conservative	Wyndham James Northam	921
	Labour	Martyn George Morgan Sloman	203
	Conservative	Barry Smith	728
	Labour	Daniel Edward Spencer	206
	Liberal Democrats	Spencer Toby Whalley	332
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

North Walsham East Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Bernard Burke	363
	Labour	Jeanne Henrietta Heal	409
	Liberal Democrats	Peter William Moore	881
	Green	Jo Todd	210
	Liberal Democrats	Vivienne Frances Uprichard	723
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

North Walsham North Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liz Cornwall	329
	Labour	Tom Cornwall	256
	Green	Penny Day	196
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Paul Lloyd	767
	Liberal Democrats	Eric George Seward	712
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

North Walsham West Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Virginia Ruth Gay	910
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Margaret Moore	834
	Labour	David Gregory Spencer	431
	Labour	Brenda West	366
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Poppyland Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angie Fitch-Tillett	542
	Green	Alicia Jane Hull	122
	UKIP	Stephen Scott-Fawcett	152
	Labour	Julie Tracy Spencer	185
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Priory Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Sally Amesbury	131
	UKIP	Derek Anthony Baxter	217
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Peter Curtis	233
	Labour	Cathy Gates	229
	Labour	Mike Gates	268
	Conservative	Jonathan David Savory	748
	Independent	Peter Andrew Terrington	617
	Liberal Democrats	Joyce Trett	515
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Roughton Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Arnold	451
	Labour	Timothy John Bartlett	134
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Payne Harbord	267
	Green	Jim Spiller	93
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Scottow Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Trevor Charles Colin Ivory	335
	Labour	James Allan Mannering	131
	Liberal Democrats	Granville Malcolm Yaxley	309
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Sheringham North Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gerry Burns	345
	Independent	Noel Christopher Gant	298
	Liberal Democrats	Brian John Hannah	708
	Green	Colin Millen	122
	Labour	Alex Pritchard	151
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Haydn Smith	396
	Labour	David James Thompson	150
	UKIP	David Nathaniel Wilson	149
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Sheringham South Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Richard John Robert Amies	195
	Liberal Democrats	Penny Bevan Jones	504
	Green	Marianne Isabelle Coleman	89
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Phyllis Moss	414
	Conservative	Rhodri Oliver	587
	Labour	Callum Edward Ringer	311
	Labour	Samuel Rushworth	321
	Conservative	Richard Christopher Shepherd	655
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

St. Benet Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Alexandra McGoun	678
	UKIP	Roger Philip Parkes	148
	Labour	Clive William Sellick	148
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Stalham and Sutton Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sheila Ann Cullingham	449
	Liberal Democrats	Pauline Millicent Grove-Jones	589
	Liberal Democrats	Jean Partridge	427
	Labour	David Edwin Russell	277
	Conservative	Robert Douglas Mark Stevens	501
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Suffield Park Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Crampsie	201
	Labour	Scott Easwood	370
	Liberal Democrats	Neale Grearson	266
	Labour	Greg Hayman	405
	Conservative	John Henry Auburn Lee	647
	UKIP	Bob Russell	168
	Conservative	Hilary Thompson	791
	Green	Ruby Warner	138
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

The Raynhams Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Robert Callaby	242
	Conservative	Becky Palmer	345
	Labour	Trevor Raymond Potter	171
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

The Runtons Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Margaret Crane	188
	Conservative	Helen Eales	757
	Green	Rupert Sandino Eris	58
	Labour	Iain Munro Manson	122
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Walsingham Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Fitzpatrick	359
	Labour	Desmond Hewitt	135
	Liberal Democrats	Hugh Christopher Lanham	301
Majority			58
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Waterside Ward (2 Councillors)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael John French	311
	Conservative	Ben Jarvis	773
	UKIP	Jeff Parkes	318
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Partridge	752
	Conservative	Sue Rhodes	553
	Labour	Nicholas Edward Webb	220
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

Waxham Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denise Lesley Burke	289
	Green	Anne Patricia Filgate	165
	Conservative	Richard Carey Price	405
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Wensum Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Caroline Craske	152
	Green	Tim Doncaster	94
	Conservative	Ann Rosemary Green	468
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Ann Howe	247
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Worstead Ward (1 Councillor)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Glyn Williams	465	46.7	−13.4
	Conservative	Peter John Fitch	287	28.8	−11.1
	Labour	Cameron Thomas Lugton	159	16.0	n/a
	Green	Mandy McKenna	84	8.4	n/a
Majority			178	17.9	−2.3
Turnout			998	53.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-1.2