{"id":49,"date":"2005-05-06T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-04-09T07:33:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T07:33:35","slug":"election-results-may-5th-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/election-results-may-5th-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Results May 5th 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were two parliamentary elections and five county council elections in Rochford District on May 5th &#8211; here are the results:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Comes Second in the County Council Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The result for Rayleigh North:<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Castle Conservative           3815  (44%)<br \/>\nChris Black  Liberal Democrat         2908  (34%)<br \/>\nLabour                                             1382  (16%)<br \/>\nGreens                                               432     (5%) <\/p>\n<p>Our vote was up by 593, even though the Greens stood<br \/>\nOur share of the vote was up by 2%<br \/>\nThe Tory vote was down to only 44% &#8211; only10% ahead of us now!<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing is that Rayleigh North is no longer a &#8220;safe&#8221; Tory Division &#8211; hopefully that means the Conservatives will pay a bit more attention to the needs of local people.<br \/>\n<em>Chris would like to thank everyone for their support, help and kindness during the<br \/>\ncampaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Keith Budden Comes Second too&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keith came second in the County Council elections for Rayleigh South. We&#8217;d like to thank everyone who helped  him in the campaign &#8211; and indeed everyone who voted for him!  Although the Conservative candidate won by a fairly big margin, that was only because the anti-Conservative vote was split fairly evenly between ourselves and Labour. <\/p>\n<p>The figures were:<\/p>\n<p>Mavis Webster  Conservative           4180  (54%)<br \/>\nKeith Budden  &#8211; Liberal Democrat   1617  (21%)<br \/>\nLabour                                            1577   (20%)<br \/>\nGreen Party                                      376   (5%)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sid Cumberland increases our share of the vote in the Parliamentary Election<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Francois was re-elected as the Tory MP for Rayleigh &#8211; but Sid did manage to slightly increase our share of the vote. The figures were:<br \/>\nMark Francois     Conservative               25,609  (55.4 % +5.3 %)<br \/>\nJulian Ware-Lane Labour                      10,883  (23.6 %  -7.1 %)<br \/>\nSid Cumberland Liberal Democrat          7,406  (16.0 %) +0.5 %<br \/>\nJanet Davies UK Independence Party     2,295  (5.0 %)   +1.3 %<br \/>\nMajority                                                 14,726 (31.9%)<br \/>\nTurnout 46,193  ( 64.2% of the electorate , up by +3.7%) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Elsewhere in Rochford we came third<\/strong><br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t have the manpower to fight big campaigns for the County Seats in Rochford North , Rochford South and Rochford West but got respectable third places each time.In fact Vic Leach nearly came second in Rochford North .<br \/>\nIn each of the elections the Tories held their seats, with Labour second, ourselves third and the Greens fourth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big increase in Lib Dem vote in Rochford and Southend East<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham Longley did well for us in the other parliamentary election in our district:<\/p>\n<p>James Duddridge   Conservative        17,874  (45.3  -8.3 %)<br \/>\nFred Grindrod         Labour                 12,380  (31.4 &#8211; 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