Local Government Reorganisation and Local Elections 2026
Full council, 14 January 2026: a named vote.
For 43, Against 0, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (43)
- Andrew Rayner Jennings (Conservative)
- Charlotte Ann Lowe (Conservative)
- David Norman Keane (Conservative)
- Eric Richard Butler (Conservative)
- Ian Derek Gardener (Conservative)
- Jeff Clarke (Conservative)
- Jon Neish (Conservative)
- Jonathan Alexander Gray (Conservative)
- Kevin Paul Gulson (Conservative)
- Marge Lawrie Beuttell (Conservative)
- Ross Martin (Conservative)
- Simon Bywater (Conservative)
- Stephen Cawley (Conservative)
- Stephen John Corney (Conservative)
- Steve Criswell (Conservative)
- Tim Alban (Conservative)
- Brett Alistair Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Catherine McIntyre Gleadow (Liberal Democrats)
- Clare Hannah Tevlin (Liberal Democrats)
- Dave John Shaw (Liberal Democrats)
- Debbie Lydia Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Douglas Bernard Dew (Liberal Democrats)
- James Roger Catmur (Liberal Democrats)
- Joanna Elizabeth Harvey (Liberal Democrats)
- Nathan James Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Sally Ann Howell (Liberal Democrats)
- Sarah Joanne Conboy (Liberal Democrats)
- Lara Davenport-Ray (Green)
- Ann Blackwell (not matched to a member)
- Barry Sidney Banks (not matched to a member)
- Barry Stephen Chapman (not matched to a member)
- Ben Michael Pitt (not matched to a member)
- Doug Terry (not matched to a member)
- Dr Marcus Pickering (not matched to a member)
- Julie Elizabeth Kerr (not matched to a member)
- Marion Kadewere (not matched to a member)
- Michael John Burke (not matched to a member)
- Patrick Kadewere (not matched to a member)
- Richard Andrew Slade (not matched to a member)
- Sam Wakeford (not matched to a member)
- Stephen William Ferguson (not matched to a member)
- Steve Richard McAdam (not matched to a member)
- Tom Sanderson (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Martin Andrew Hassall (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
or abstained from a vote on Recommendation A – to recommend to Government that HDC agrees to maintain current plans to deliver District Council elections in May 2026 alongside work to progress LGR – For (43) – Councillors Alban, Banks, Beuttell, Blackwell, Burke, Butler, Bywater, Catmur, Cawley, Chapman, Clarke, Conboy, Corney, Criswell, Davenport-Ray, Dew, Ferguson, Gardener, Gleadow, Gray, Gulson, Harvey, Howell, Hunt, Jennings, Kadewere M, Kadewere P, Keane, Kerr, Lowe, Martin, McAdam, Mickelburgh B, Mickelburgh D, Neish, Pickering, Pitt, Sanderson, Shaw, Slade, Terry, Tevlin, Wakeford Against (0) – None Abstentions (1) – Councillor Hassall Following conclusion of the vote, and it being previously moved and seconded, upon being put to the vote, it was RESOLVED a) that HDC recommend to Go
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.