Election of Leader
Full council, 17 May 2023: a named vote.
For 44, Against 0, Abstained 0.
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.
Only one side of this vote could be read from the minutes. The others may be recorded in a form that couldn't be read, or not at all.
For (44)
- Angela Harrison (Labour)
- Angie Valls (Labour)
- Ashley Shiel (Labour)
- Ashley Wise (Labour)
- Charlie Miller (Labour)
- Hayden Brawn (Labour)
- Karen Watson (Labour)
- Kieran Golding (Labour)
- Mark Last (Labour)
- Shelley Cheesman (Labour)
- Simon Clark (Labour)
- Tim Gibson (Labour)
- Tony Winckless (Labour)
- Andy Booth (Conservative)
- James Hunt (Conservative)
- Julien Speed (Conservative)
- Ken Ingleton (Conservative)
- Lee-Anne Moore (Conservative)
- Lloyd Bowen (Conservative)
- Mark Tucker (Conservative)
- Mike Whiting (Conservative)
- Pete Neal (Conservative)
- Peter Marchington (Conservative)
- Roger Clark (Conservative)
- Tara Noe (Conservative)
- Ann Cavanagh (Swale Independents)
- Chris Palmer (Swale Independents)
- Derek Carnell (Swale Independents)
- Elliott Jayes (Swale Independents)
- James Hall (Swale Independents)
- Mike Baldock (Swale Independents)
- Monique Bonney (Swale Independents)
- Paul Stephen (Swale Independents)
- Richard Palmer (Swale Independents)
- Sarah Stephen (Swale Independents)
- Tom Nundy (Swale Independents)
- Alastair Gould (Green)
- Rich Lehmann (Green)
- Terry Thompson (Green)
- Ben J Martin (Liberal Democrats)
- Claire Martin (Liberal Democrats)
- Hannah Perkin (Liberal Democrats)
- White (not matched to a member)
- Williams (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
ibson as Leader of SBC. This was seconded by Councillor Angela Harrison. There were no other nominations. In accordance with Procedure Rule 3.1.19 a recorded vote was taken and voting was as follows: For: Councillors Baldock, Bonney, Booth, Bowen, Brawn, Carnell, Cavanagh, Cheesman, R Clark, S Clark, Gibson, Golding, Gould, Hall, Harrison, Hunt, Ingleton, Jayes, Last, Lehmann, Marchington, B J Martin, C Martin, Miller, Moore, Neal, Noe, Nundy, C Palmer, R Palmer, Perkin, Shiel, Speed, P Stephen, S Stephen, Thompson, Tucker, Valls, Watson, White, Whiting, Williams, Winckless and Wise. Total equals 44. Against: Total equals none. Abstain: Total equals none. Following his election as Leader, Councillor Gibson said it was an honour and a privilege. He stressed the importance of effective debate and said t
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