Whole Council Elections
Full council, 6 October 2021: a named vote on the motion, lost.
For 18, Against 21, 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.
For (18)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Patrick Thomson (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Seán Holden (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Matthew Bailey (not matched to a member)
Against (21)
- 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)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
- Lucy Willis (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Bill Hills (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Britcher-Allen (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
of fewer public contacts, fewer by-elections, easier ballot counting and the maintenance of knowledge in election officials. · Preferred option in public consultation. The Mayor took a recorded vote. Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Allen, Atwood, Backhouse, Bailey, Bland, Barrington-King, Dawlings, Fairweather, Goodship, Hamilton, Holden, March, McDermott, Scholes, Scott, Simmons, Thomson and Woodward. (18) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Atkins, Britcher-Allen, Chapelard, Everitt, Fitzsimmons, C. Hall, Hayward, D. Hill, B. Hills, Knight, Lewis, Lidstone, Patterson, Poile, Pope, Pound, Rands, Rutland, Warne, Willis and Wormington. (21) Members who abstained for voting: Councillor Dr Hall, Hickey and Ms Palmer. (3) MOTION NOT CARRIED
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.