Worthing Borough Council election, 2018

The 2018 Worthing Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Worthing Borough Council.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. A third of the council was up for election, meaning a total of 13 councillors were elected from all of the council's wards.

Despite suffering a net loss of two seats, the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.

Council results

Worthing^[1]
Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	№	Net %
	Conservative	13	8	1	3	-2	61.5	45.9	13,150
	Labour	13	4	4	0	+4	30.8	34.5	9,869
	Liberal Democrat	13	1	0	0	±0	7.7	13.4	3,826
	Green	8	0	0	1	-1	0.0	4.1	1,181
	UKIP	6	0	0	1	-1	0.0	2.2	617

Ward results

Broadwater ward

Broadwater
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Margaret Howard	1,026	47.6	+21.2
	Conservative	Steve McKeown	836	38.8	+2.7
	Liberal Democrat	John Apsey	229	10.6	-0.1
	Green	Kate Sweeny	147	6.8	-1.7
Majority			190	8.8
Turnout			2,155	31.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Castle ward

Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Karen Harman	864	41.8	+9.5
	Liberal Democrat	Martin McCabe	531	25.7	+9.1
	Labour	Samuel Theodoridi	453	21.9	+4.6
	UKIP	Heba Saraway	123	5.9	-24.7
	Green	Julian Warwick	97	4.7	-0.5
Majority			333	16.1
Turnout			2,069	30.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.5

Central ward

Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Deen	1,534	56.7	+30.1
	Conservative	Harvey Robinson	777	28.7	+0.5
	Green	James Doyle	202	7.5	-11.0
	Liberal Democrat	Christine Brown	184	6.8	-3.0
Majority			757	28.0
Turnout			2,706	35.2
	Labour gain from Green		Swing

Durrington ward

Durrington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles James	791	57.0	+21.8
	Labour	Jillian Guest	296	21.3	+9.3
	Liberal Democrat	Emma Norton	295	21.3	+0.5
Majority			495	35.7
Turnout			1,387	31.0
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing

Gaisford ward

Gaisford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kevin Jenkins	1,002	41.9	+3.5
	Labour	Joseph Thornton	950	39.7	+14.7
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Martin	222	9.3	-2.5
	Green	Stephen Carleysmith	211	8.8	-0.8
Majority			52	2.2
Turnout			2,390	34.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Goring ward

Goring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Nicola Waight	1,625	60.0	+8.3
	Labour	Jane Cropper	561	20.7	+6.1
	Liberal Democrat	Cyril Cannings	192	7.1	+1.1
	Green	David Aherne	184	6.8	-0.7
	UKIP	Richard Bater	144	5.3	-14.8
Majority			1,064	39.3
Turnout			2,709	39.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Heene ward

Heene
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Mulholland	1,029	45.3	+12.5
	Conservative	Diane Guest	964	42.4	+6.0
	Green	Joseph Pearce	139	6.1	-1.6
	Liberal Democrat	Christine Allen	134	5.9	-0.1
Majority			65	2.9
Turnout			2,273	35.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Marine ward

Marine
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Edward Crouch	1,460	50.6	+5.4
	Labour	Samuel Baeza	1,136	39.3	+19.8
	Liberal Democrat	Caroline Griffiths	194	6.7	-3.5
	UKIP	Barry Pinchen	94	3.3	-13.1
Majority			324	11.2
Turnout			2,888	43.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Northbrook ward

Northbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sean McDonald	497	51.1	+23.4
	Labour	John Martin	268	27.5	+9.3
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Sunderland	133	13.7	-8.8
	UKIP	Stuart Field	75	7.7	-22.9
Majority			229	23.5
Turnout			973	22.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Offington ward

Offington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Louise Murphy	1,452	63.8
	Labour	Bernard Eustice	496	21.8
	Liberal Democrat	Antony Brown	231	10.1
	UKIP	John Strange	93	4.1
Majority			956	42.0
Turnout			2,276	35.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Salvington ward

Salvington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Heather Mercer	1,396	62.5
	Labour	Helen Silman	461	20.6
	Liberal Democrat	Jacqueline Cranefield	356	15.9
Majority			935	41.9
Turnout			2,233	30.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Selden ward

Selden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michael Barrett	1,162	49.2
	Conservative	Callum Buxton	963	40.8
	Liberal Democrat	Yvonne Leonard	134	5.7
	Green	Constantine de Goguel	95	4.0
Majority			199	8.4
Turnout			2,360	37.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Tarring ward

Tarring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Smytherman	991	44.9
	Conservative	Steven Peck	523	23.7
	Labour	Pauline Fraser	497	22.5
	Green	Joanna Ponto	106	4.8
	UKIP	Adrian Price	88	4.0
Majority			468	21.2
Turnout			2,207	34.1
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

References

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