Vale Election Results

I went to see the votes counted yesterday and I expect most people will have seen the results of the Vale of White Horse District elections. If not, the results can be found here and here. I did not stand in this election, but Sue Marchant was re-elected as one of the three district councillors for Grove.

Sad to see some of my Vale colleagues lose their seats... by just a few votes in a number of cases. This was an unusal election held alongside the AV referendum, but the result is that the Vale council now comprises 31 Conservative councillors, 19 Lib Dem councillors and 1 Labour councillor. In the last (2007) local election, the result was 33 Lib Dem and 18 Conservative councillors .... so we now have a reversal of fortunes and a Conservative controlled council for the next four years. I hope they work hard to meet the challenges that Grove and Wantage will undoubtedly face.