Appointment of the Leader of the Council
Full council, 27 May 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 22, Against 26, Abstained 3.
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 (22)
- Alison Jay (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrea Luxford Vaughan (Liberal Democrats)
- Catherine Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- David King (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Cory (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Goss (Liberal Democrats)
- Natalie Sommers (Liberal Democrats)
- Sam McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Appleton (Liberal Democrats)
- Venessa Moffat (Liberal Democrats)
- Claire Osborne (Labour)
- Dave Harris (Labour)
- Fay Smalls (Labour)
- Julie Young (Labour)
- Kayleigh Rippingale (Labour)
- Lee Scordis (Labour)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
- Richard Bourne (Labour)
- Tim Young (Labour)
- Amy Kirkby-Taylor (Green)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
Against (26)
- Carl Powling (Conservative)
- Darius Laws (Conservative)
- David Linghorn-Baker (Conservative)
- Dennis Willetts (Conservative)
- Jeremy Hagon (Conservative)
- Kevin Bentley (Conservative)
- Leigh Tate (Conservative)
- Lewis Barber (Conservative)
- Martin Parsons (Conservative)
- Paul Dundas (Conservative)
- Rhys Smithson (Conservative)
- Robert Davidson (Conservative)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Sue Lissimore (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
- Will Calverley (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Andrew Harding (Reform UK)
- Daryl Swain (Reform UK)
- James Child (Reform UK)
- Mike Saunders (Reform UK)
- Sue Ettritch (Reform UK)
- Chris Pearson (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Martyn Warnes (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Sam McLean (Progressive Independents Alliance)
Abstained (3)
- Paul Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Sean Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Ellis (Conservative)
From the minutes
nd THREE ABSTAINED from voting) A named vote was requested by Councillor Rowe, supported by two councillors, pursuant to the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 15(2), and the voting was as follows: FOR: Councillors Appleton, Bourne, Cory, Çufoglu, Goacher, Goss, Harris, Jay, King, Kirkby-Taylor, Luxford Vaughan, Lilley, McCarthy, Moffat, Osborne, Rippingale, Scordis, Smalls, Sommers, Spindler, J. Young and T. Young. AGAINST: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Calverley, Child, Davidson, Dundas, Ettritch, Hagon, Harding, Laws, Linghorn-Baker, Lissimore, McLean, Naylor, Parsons, Pearson, Powling, Rowe, Saunders, Scott-Boutell, Smithson, Sunnucks, Swain, Tate, Warnes and Willetts. ABSTAINED: Councillor Kelly, the Deputy Mayor (Smith) and the Mayor (Ellis). On being put to the vote the substantive motion was lost (EIGHTEEN voted FOR, TWENTY-NINE voted AGAINST and FOUR ABSTAINED from voting). A named vot
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