Greens on the march in Rugby after excellent votes!

Rugby Green Party achieved some excellent results at the recent Rugby Borough Council Election. With such positive votes in the town, where do you start?

Well, Phil Godden (306 votes) gained more votes than one of the Tory candidates in the Eastlands Ward and was only 11 and 35 votes from beating the other two Tories in the ward and being chief challenger to the Lib Dems.

Steve Wright in Benn Ward (252 Votes) also nearly became runner up, this time to Labour – with just a whisker of 7 votes away from beating all three Tories in the ward and easily beating the three Lib Dems candidates in this formerly strong ward for them.

David Wolfskehl (280 votes) came within 20 votes of beating one of Cameron's Tories in Paddox Ward.

Kate Crowley beat all Three Lib Dems in Admirals and Cawston and so helping the Greens to become the 3^rd party in this ward.

Adam Bastock polled an impressive 20% vote share in the Coton and Boughton ward, Roy Sandison 16% in New Bilton also did well as did Ellie Roderick (15%) in Wolston and The Lawfords ward.

With the Lib Dems forced to retreat (due their unpopularity) to their supposedly stronger wards in the town, the Greens would have surely beaten this party of Government in other wards in Rugby!

Despite a fairly negative campaign (with exceptions) fought against the anti cuts Greens by the small TUSC group they failed to gain anywhere near the support that the Green Party enjoyed when they stood against us and always finished at the bottom of the poll – except in one case where they beat the Lib Dems in Benn ward but still a long distance behind us.

All the Green Candidates received at least 10% with the average being 14% across the Borough with 2634 votes cast for the Green Party in Rugby. In other countries with a fairer electoral system Rugby would now have at least 4 Green Party Councillors.

Finally, our candidates were inspired by the support we received at the ballot box and will be doubling our efforts to gain a Green Councillor in Rugby, just like our colleagues further north in Nuneaton have achieved with the election of the first Green Party Councillor in Keith Kondakor in Warwickshire.

ADMIRALS AND CAWSTON WARD

Conservative Party - 709 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 691 - ELECTED

Conservative Party 685 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 641

Labour Party - 617

Labour Party - 571

KATE CROWLEY - Green Party – 179 (11%)

Liberal Democrats - 102

Liberal Democrats - 100

Liberal Democrats - 91

Turnout - 30.16 per cent

BENN WARD

Labour Party - 824 – ELECTED

Labour Party - 820 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 819 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 258

Conservative Party - 256

Conservative Party - 255

Steve WRIGHT - Green Party – 252 (14.9%)

Liberal Democrats - 180

TUSC - 177

Liberal Democrats - 175

Turnout - 26.53 per cent

COTON AND BOUGHTON WARD

Conservative Party - 647 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 535 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 512 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 484

ADAM BASTOCK - Green Party – 287 (20.2%)

Turnout - 23.62 per cent

EASTLANDS WARD

Liberal Democrats - 810 - ELECTED

Liberal Democrats - 722 - ELECTED

Liberal Democrats - 567 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 497

Conservative Party - 340

Conservative Party - 326

Phil GODDEN - Green Party – 306 (14%)

Conservative Party - 300

TUSC - 223

Turnout - 27.92 per cent

NEW BILTON WARD

Labour Party - 709 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 683 – ELECTED

Labour Party - 630 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 406

 Conservative Party - 390

Conservative Party – 334

ROY SANDISON - Green Party – 241 (16% * Calc based on top GP vote – see below)

PETER REYNOLDS - Green Party - 195

TUSC - 141

Turnout - 25.52 per cent

NEWBOLD AND BROWNSOVER WARD

Labour Party - 649 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 628 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 576 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 467

Conservative Party – 465

Conservative Party - 415

LORNA DUNLEAVY - Green Party – 173 (12.6% * Calc based on top GP vote – see below)

JAMES BRYANS - Green Party – 155

TUSC - 145

Turnout - 25.53 per cent

PADDOX WARD

Liberal Democrats - 1231 – ELECTED

Liberal Democrats - 1164 - ELECTED

Liberal Democrats - 1077 - ELECTED

Labour Party - 480

Conservative Party - 396

Conservative Party - 340

Conservative Party - 299

DAVID WOLFSKEHL - Green Party – 280 (11.7%)

Turnout - 37.69 per cent

ROKEBY AND OVERSLADE WARD

Labour Party - 615 – ELECTED

Conservative Party - 613 - ELECTED

Conservative Party - 612 - ELECTED

Labour Party – 564

Conservative Party – 557

Liberal Democrats - 504

Labour Party - 496

Liberal Democrats - 491

Liberal Democrats - 372

Laurence GOODCHILD - Green Party – 205 (10%)

TUSC WEEKES - 125

Turnout - 37.49 per cent

WOLSTON AND THE LAWFORDS WARD

Conservative Party - 939 – ELECTED

Conservative Party - 894 – ELECTED

Conservative Party - 833 - ELECTED

Labour Party – 489

ELLIE RODERICK - Green Party – 361 (15%)

Pat Wyatt Independent - 324

TUSC - 289

 Turnout - 33.76 per cent

*For those who are interested, the standard calculation method for multiple vacancy contests is to use the highest vote of a candidate of each Party (rather than the average). This is the method used by the noted election academics Profs Thrasher and Rallings.