Bensham Manor (ward)

Bensham Manor
ward for Croydon Council
Boundary of Bensham Manor in from 2018.
County	Greater London
Current ward
Created	1964 (1964)
Councillor	Jamie Audsley (Labour)
Councillor	Alison Butler (Labour)
Councillor	Humayun Kabir (Labour)
Number of councillors	Three
UK Parliament constituency	Croydon North

Bensham Manor is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, covering part of the Thornton Heath area of London in the United Kingdom. The ward extends from Thornton Heath railway station westwards and is largely residential with a retail or industrial core. The population of the Ward at the 2011 Census was 16,201.

The ward currently forms part of Steve Reed MP's Croydon North constituency.

The ward returns three councillors every four years to Croydon Council. At the 2006 Croydon Council election, Raj Rajendran, Paula Shaw, and Greta Sohoye were elected to the council. All of them were running as Labour Party candidates. Councillor Shaw resigned in 2007 triggering a by-election on 18 February 2007 which was won by Labour's Alison Butler.

The former Bensham Manor ward (red) shown within Croydon North constituency (orange) and the London Borough of Croydon (yellow)

List of Councillors

Election	Councillor		Party	Councillor		Party	Councillor		Party
1964	Ward created
1964	style="background-color: Template:Residents Association/meta/color" |	F.C. Emmerson	Residents	style="background-color: Template:Residents Association/meta/color" |	H.A. Steward	Residents	style="background-color: Template:Residents Association/meta/color" |	Ronald J. Bowker	Residents
1971	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	G.P. Belcher	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mrs S.E. Lord	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	A. Devesar	Labour
1972 By-election	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mrs W.M. Holt	Labour
1974	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ronald J. Bowker	Conservative	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Arthur Bourne	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	J.V. Simpson	Conservative
1977 By-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Christopher B. Wesson			Conservative
1980 By-election	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |				Ian Smedley	Labour
1982	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Joan M. Goodman	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Julia A. Wood	Conservative
1986	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Graham A. Dean	Labour	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Paul R. Mee	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Hillary A. Key	Labour
1988 By-election	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Helen S. Salmon			Labour
1990	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Alison J. Roberts	Labour
1996 By-election	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Paula M. Shaw	Labour
1998	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Alexander Burridge			Labour
2002	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |				Greta Sohoye	Labour
2004 By-election	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Nanoo Rajendran			Labour
2007 By-election	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Alison Butler	Labour
2010	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |				Donna Gray	Labour
2014	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Jamie Audsley	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Humayun Kabir	Labour

Ward Result

Croydon Council Election 2018: Bensham Manor (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alison Jane Butler	2,665	25.05
	Labour	Jamie Audsley	2,652	24.93
	Labour	Humayun Kabir	2,546	23.93
	Conservative	Alan James Bowden	726	6.82
	Conservative	Kumari Anupama	568	5.34
	Conservative	Jebun Quadir	472	4.44
	Green	Varyl Robert Thorndycraft	367	3.45
	Green	Pravina Ellis	332	3.12
	Green	Raj Mehta	311	2.92
Majority			1,820	17.11
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Bensham Manor (3) - 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Raj Rajendran	1,846
	Labour	Paula Shaw	1,805
	Labour	Greta Sohoye	1,670
	Conservative	Roger Taylor	1,117
	Conservative	John Tooze	861
	Conservative	Alan Winborn	774
	Green	Susan Parsons	531
	UKIP	James Feisenberger	305
Turnout			3,407	32.9%

External links

• Croydon Council Bensham Manor Ward Profile
• Metropolitan Police Crime Mapping
• Safer Neighbourhoods Team Priorities
• Council Elections 2006 results - Bensham Manor
• Labour Councillors for Croydon.
• London Borough of Croydon map of wards.