Maidstone Borough Council elections explained

Elections to Maidstone Borough Council in Kent, United Kingdom are held each year to elect one-third of its members, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes in 2002, 55 councillors have been elected from 26 wards.^[1] From 2023 onwards, the format of elections will change, with all 55 councillors being elected once every 4 years.

Council elections

• 1973 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1976 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1979 Maidstone Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)^[2]
• 1980 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1982 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1983 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1984 Maidstone Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[3]
• 1986 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1987 Maidstone Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[4]
• 1988 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1990 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1991 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1992 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1994 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1995 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1996 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1998 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 1999 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2000 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2002 Maidstone Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)^{[5] [6]}
• 2003 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2004 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2006 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2007 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2008 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2010 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2011 Maidstone Borough Council election (Some new ward boundaries)^[7]
• 2012 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2015 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2016 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2018 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2019 Maidstone Borough Council election
• 2021 Maidstone Borough Council election (postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)^[8]
  • 2022 Maidstone Borough Council election 2023 Maidstone Borough Council election (last elections held under old format)
• 2024 Maidstone Borough Council election (first election under 4-year cycle)
• 2028 Maidstone Borough Council election

By-elections

1994-1998

Yalding Ward By-Election 1 May 1997^[9]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=				1,000	44.44%	+12.1%
bgcolor=		align=left width="150"			643	28.58%	-15.2%
bgcolor=				607	26.98%	+7.3%
align=left colspan=3	Total	2,250	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Loose Ward By-Election 3 July 1997^[10]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		align=left width="150"			283	59.08%	-13.8%
bgcolor=				117	24.43%	+8.2%
bgcolor=				79	16.49%	+5.5%
align=left colspan=3	Total	479	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	25.4%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats hold

High Street Ward By-Election 13 November 1997^[11]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		align=left width="150"			350	39.64%	-3.0%
bgcolor=				310	35.11%	-5.8%
bgcolor=				123	13.93%	+0.1%
		Maidstone First	73	8.27%	+8.3%
bgcolor=				27	3.06%	+0.4%
align=left colspan=3	Total	883	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	19.8%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour

1998-2002

Allington Ward By-Election 29 October 1998^[12] ^[13]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Cynthia Elizabeth Robertson		744	72.16%	+5.2%
bgcolor=		Margaret Helen June Taylor		159	15.42%	-0.3%
bgcolor=		Helen Violet Mortimer		128	12.42%	+2.8%
align=left colspan=3	Total	1,031	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers	0
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued	1,031
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	18.5%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats hold

Boxley Ward By-Election 29 October 1998^[14] ^[15]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Michael Ian Yates		630	63.25%	+23.1%
bgcolor=		John Brian Doherty		201	20.18%	+6.1%
bgcolor=		Stephen Gibson		165	16.57%	-25.5%
align=left colspan=3	Total	996	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers	2
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued	998
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	14.1%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Conservative gain from Independent

Hollingbourne Ward By-Election 29 October 1998^[16] ^[17]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Tracy Ann Helen Warner		198	48.29%	-12.0%
bgcolor=		Paul Geoffrey Begg		193	47.07%	+25.1%
bgcolor=		Jeanne Mary Gibson		19	4.63%	-13.1%
align=left colspan=3	Total	410	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers	0
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued	410
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	35.3%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Conservative hold

2002-2006

Marden & Yalding Ward By-Election 27 November 2003^[18] ^[19]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Paddy C. J. Germain		726	49.83%	-12.5%
bgcolor=		Carol A. Jacques		535	36.72%	+18.4%
bgcolor=		John M. Hughes		153	10.50%	-4.0%
bgcolor=		Brian Hogg		43	2.95%	-1.8%
align=left colspan=3	Total	1,457	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	24.4%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Conservative hold

Downswood & Otham Ward By-Election 13 October 2005^[20] ^[21]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
	David Marchant		314	61.33%	+15.0%
bgcolor=		Timothy M. Crockford		184	35.94%	+17.2%
bgcolor=		Audrey D. Gardner		14	2.73%	+2.3%
align=left colspan=3	Total	512	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	24.4%
	align=left colspan=6	Independent hold

2006-2010

Parkwood Ward By-Election 30 November 2006^[22] ^[23]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Robert Field		347	57.64%	+23.5%
bgcolor=		Wesley Mason		130	21.59%	-13.3%
bgcolor=		Scott Hahnefeld		125	20.76%	-10.1%
align=left colspan=3	Total	602	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers	2
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued	604
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	19.3%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour

Shepway South Ward By-Election 6 December 2007^[24] ^[25]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Sheena Williams		251	35.96%	-9.7%
bgcolor=		Gill Annan		240	34.38%	+34.4%
bgcolor=		Bryan Charles Vizzard		173	24.79%	-22.0%
bgcolor=		Stephen Fraser Muggeridge		34	4.87%	-2.6%
align=left colspan=3	Total	698	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	16.1%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Conservative gain from Labour

Fant Ward By-Election 1 October 2009^[26]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Fran Smith		702	46.37%	+18.8%
bgcolor=		Paul Butcher		393	25.96%	-7.4%
bgcolor=		Stuart Jeffery		317	20.94%	+4.9%
bgcolor=		Bruce Heald		102	6.74%	-16.3%
align=left colspan=3	Total	1,514	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	23.6%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats hold

2010-2014

A by-election was held in Allington Ward following the death of Malcolm Robertson on 10 August 2012.^{[27] [28]}

Allington Ward By-Election 18 October 2012^[29]
align=left colspan=2	Candidate !	Party	Votes	%	±%
bgcolor=		Belinda Janet Watson		885	52.37%
bgcolor=		Barry Stephen Ginley		434	25.68%
bgcolor=		Marianna Romeojuliet Poliszczuk		179	10.59%
bgcolor=		Gareth Anthony Kendall		162	9.59%
bgcolor=		Jill Shepherd		30	1.78%
align=left colspan=3	Total	1,690	100.00%
align=left colspan=3	Rejected Ballot Papers	9
align=left colspan=3	Ballot Papers Issued	1,699
align=left colspan=3	Registered Electors	5,604
align=left colspan=3	Turnout	30.32%
bgcolor=		align=left colspan=6	Liberal Democrats hold

2018-2022

External links

• Maidstone Borough Council

Notes and References

1. Web site: Becoming a councillor. Maidstone Borough Council. 3 March 2011. https://archive.today/20121228210709/http://www.maidstone.gov.uk/council_and_democracy/becoming_a_councillor.aspx. 28 December 2012. dead.
2. The Borough of Maidstone (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976
3. The Maidstone and Swale (Areas) Order 1983
4. legislation.gov.uk - The Kent (District Boundaries) Order 1987. Retrieved on 6 November 2015.
5. News: Maidstone . 2009-10-03 . BBC News Online.
6. legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Maidstone (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
7. legislation.gov.uk - The Maidstone (Electoral Changes) Order 2008. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
8. Electoral Commission - Statement on the UK Government's decision to postpone May's polls. Retrieved on 11 April 2021
9. Web site: Maidstone BC, Yalding. Local Authority Byelection Results.
10. Web site: Maidstone BC, Loose. Local Authority Byelection Results.
11. Web site: Maidstone BC, High Street. Local Authority Byelection Results.
12. Web site: Result of Poll. Maidstone Borough Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20020625092657/http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk/councils/election/result-all.php. 25 June 2002.
13. Web site: Maidstone BC, Allington. Local Authority Byelection Results.
14. Web site: Result of Poll. Maidstone Borough Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20010719071142/http://digitalmaidstone.co.uk/councils/election/result-box.php. 19 July 2001.
15. Web site: Maidstone BC, Boxley. Local Authority Byelection Results.
16. Web site: Result of Poll. Maidstone Borough Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20010719071958/http://digitalmaidstone.co.uk/councils/election/result-hol.php. 19 July 2001.
17. Web site: Maidstone BC, Hollingbourne. Local Authority Byelection Results.
18. Web site: Vote 2003 - By-Election. Maidstone Borough Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20040103090315/http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk/cgi-bin/buildpage.pl?mysql=877. 3 January 2004.
19. Web site: Maidstone BC, Marden and Yalding. Local Authority Byelection Results.
20. Web site: Vote 2005 - By-Election. Maidstone Borough Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20060117124322/http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk/digitalmaidstone/Default.aspx?page=4035. 17 January 2006.
21. Web site: Maidstone BC, Downswood & Otham. Local Authority Byelection Results.
22. Web site: Result of Poll. Maidstone Borough Council.
23. Web site: Maidstone BC, Parkwood. Local Authority Byelection Results.
24. Web site: Result of Poll. Maidstone Borough Council. 2012-08-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120722034426/http://www.maidstone.gov.uk/pdf/071206_election_shepwaysouth.pdf. 2012-07-22. dead.
25. Web site: Maidstone BC, Shepway South. Local Authority Byelection Results.
26. Web site: Maidstone BC, Fant. Local Authority Byelection Results.
27. News: Town's longest serving councillor dies. Kent Messenger. 10 August 2012.
28. News: Kilpatrick. Dean. Kent councillor Malcom Robertson dies aged 67. KOS Media. 10 August 2012.
29. Web site: Election results for Allington Ward. 18 October 2012 . Maidstone Borough Council.