Electoral Review: Council Size
Full council, 6 October 2021: a named vote on the amendment.
For 19, Against 20, 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 (19)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
- Lucy Willis (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
Against (20)
- Bill Hills (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Patrick Thomson (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Seán Holden (Conservative)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Poile (Liberal Democrats)
- Wendy Fitzsimmons (Liberal Democrats)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- Dr Hall (not matched to a member)
- Matthew Bailey (not matched to a member)
Abstained (3)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- Andrew Hickey (Independent)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
From the minutes
· All wards would be three-member in future, ward work could be shared. · Tunbridge Wells was over-represented compared to other similar authorities. The Mayor took a recorded vote on the amendment. Members who voted for the amendment: Councillors Allen, Bland, Britcher-Allan, Dawlings, Everitt, Fairweather, Goodship, Hamilton, Hayward, D. Hill, Knight, Lewis, March, McDermott, Pound, Scott, Warne, Willis and Woodward. (19) Members who voted against the amendment: Councillors Atkins, Backhouse, Bailey, Barrington-King, Chapelard, Fitzsimmons, C. Hall, Dr Hall, B. Hills, Holden, Lidstone, Ms Palmer, Patterson, Poile, Rands, Rutland, Scholes, Simmons, Thomson and Wormington. (20) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Atwood, Hickey and Pope. (3) AMENDMENT NOT CARRIED Debate returned to the original motion (keeping the number of members at 48): · No further comments. The Mayor took a reco
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.