Ashburton (ward)

Ashburton
Former ward for Croydon Council
Boundary of Ashburton in Croydon from 2002 to 2018.
County	Greater London
1978 (1978)–2018 (2018)
Number of councillors	Three
Replaced by	Addiscombe East
UK Parliament constituency	Croydon Central

Ashburton was a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, in London in the United Kingdom. The ward covered the Ashburton area, as well as covering the main retail area of Addiscombe, the Stroud Green, Tollgate and Longheath Garden estates, and large parts of northern Shirley. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 14,721.

The ward formed part of the Croydon Central constituency, which is one of the most marginal in the country, 165 votes separating the Conservatives and Labour at the 2015 General Election.

The ward returned three councillors every four years to Croydon Council. At the 2014 London local elections Maddie Henson, Stephen Mann, and Andrew Rendle were elected to the council achieving a 9% swing. All of them were running as Labour Party candidates.

Ward result

Croydon Council Election 2010: Ashburton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edwin S. Arram	3,175
	Conservative	Avril E.M. Slipper	2,974
	Conservative	Adam Kellett	2,866
	Labour	Mark Justice	2,234
	Labour	Madelaine R. Goulder	2,206
	Labour	Shorish Barzinji	1,979
	Liberal Democrats	Peter S. Ladanyi	1,290
	Green	Bernice C. Goldberg	647
	UKIP	David M. Aina	557
	BNP	Tony L. Martin	419
	Green	Tim Fernandes-Bonnar	407
	Green	Sergio M. Petro	385
Turnout			7,056	66.6%	23.9%
Registered electors			11,774
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Croydon Council Election 2006: Ashburton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lindsay Frost	2,513
	Conservative	Eddy Arram	2,431
	Conservative	Avril Slipper	2,390
	Labour	Rona MacDonald	1,057
	Labour	Peter Spalding	971
	Labour	Jitinder Singh	904
	Green	Bernice Golberg	628
	Liberal Democrats	Nirma Ramful	550
	UKIP	Jeanette Nathan	336
Turnout			4,324	42.7%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

External links

• Council Elections 2006 results – Ashburton
• Conservative Councillors for Croydon.
• London Borough of Croydon map of wards.