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Kim keeps his Bidford seat

8:28am Friday 2nd May 2008

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By Tony Donnelly »

INDEPENDENT Kim James swept to victory in the Bidford and Salford ward in yesterday's Stratford District Council elections, taking the seat by almost 200 votes from his nearest rival.

He polled 903 votes, leaving Liberal Democrat Rona Fitzpatrick in second place with 718 votes and Labour's Alec Brown a distant third with 116 votes.

Nineteen of the council's 53 seats were up for election and the final results gave the Conservatives a total of 32 seats, Lib Dems 19, with two Independents.

The full results were: Alcester: Susan Adams (Con) 1139, Michael Gerrard (Lab) 73, Carol Lane (Lib Dem) 856; Aston Cantlow: John Bicknell (Lib Dem) 194, Sir William Lawrence (Con) 524; Bardon: Valerie Hobbs (Con) 537, John Insoll (Lib Dem) 198; Bidford and Salford: Alec Brown (Lab) 116, Rona Fitzpatrick (Lib Dem) 718, Kim James (Ind) 903; Burton Dassett: Alan Hill (Lib Dem) 174, Simon Jackson (Con) 647; Claverdon: John Horner (Con) 684, Jeanne Lowe (Lib Dem) 144; Ettington: Darryl Armstrong (Ind) 116, Izzi Seccombe (Con) 597, Christian Senior (Lib Dem) 165; Harbury: Peter Barton (Con) 850, Beverley Mann (Lib Dem) 861; Henley: Brett Parsons (UKIP) 184, Karyl Rees (Lib Dem) 215, Stephen Thirlwell (Con) 1172; Kineton: Vivien Purdy (Lib Dem) 420, Susan Wixey (Con) 979; Shipston: Richard Cheney (Lib Dem) 934, Jeffrey Kenner (Lab) 64, Trevor Russel (Con) 921; Southam: Angela Adkins (Lib Dem) 380, John Appleton (Con) 853, Peter Thomas (Lab) 404; Stratford Alveston: Ralph Berry (UKIP) 222, Lynda Organ (Con) 1088, Kate Rolfe (Lib Dem) 1264; Stratford Avenue and New Town: Trevor Honeychurch (Lib Dem) 991, Juliet Short (Con) 957, Matthew Stephens (Lab) 132; Stratford Guild and Hathaway: Hugh Chatwin (Green) 183, Ron Cockings (Lib Dem) 1141, Geirge Hathaway (Lab) 134, Michael Perry (Con) 956; Stratford Mount Pleasant: Karen Parnell (Con) 317, David Talbot (Lab) 80, Joyce Taylor (Lib Dem) 798; Studley: Jacqueline Abbott (Lab) 100, Paul Beaman (Lib Dem) 1083, Jon Vale (Con) 652; Tanworth: George Atkinson (Con) 1140, Sally Hinchley (Lib Dem) 176; Wellesbourne: Susan Main (Con) 1209, Michala Piotrowski (Lib Dem) 1204.


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