Appointment of the Deputy Mayor
Full council, 29 May 2024: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 20, Against 14, 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 (20)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Brendon Le Page (Liberal Democrats)
- Corinna Keefe (Liberal Democrats)
- Courtney Souper (Liberal Democrats)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Jamie Johnson (Liberal Democrats)
- Joe Opara (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Brice (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Fox (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Lowe (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Hall (Christopher) (not matched to a member)
Against (14)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Christian Robert Atwood (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Hill (Dianne) (not matched to a member)
- Somer (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
me and she would make an admirable candidate for Deputy Mayor. Thus a separate vote was carried for each nominee. Councillor Dawlings requested a recorded vote. Recorded votes for Councillor Osborne: Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Brice, Chapelard, Ellis, Fox, Hall (Christopher), Johnson, Keefe, Kent, Le Page, Lidstone, Lowe, Munday, Opara, Osborne, Patterson, Rutland, Souper, Warne, Wilkinson and Wormington (20) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Atwood, Britcher-Allan, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Hayward, Hill (Dianne), Jones, knight, Neville, Palmer, Pound, Sankey, Sharratt and Somer. (15) Members who abstained from voting: None. Recroded votes for Councillor Ms Palmer:
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.