Appointment of Leader of the Council
Full council, 15 May 2024: a named vote, lost.
For 16, Against 25, 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 (16)
- Chris Howorth (Conservative)
- Dolsie Clarke (Conservative)
- Jaz Mavi (Conservative)
- John Furey (Conservative)
- Jonathan Hulley (Conservative)
- Jonathan Wilson (Conservative)
- Mark Nuti (Conservative)
- Peter Snow (Conservative)
- Pippa Tucker-Brown (Conservative)
- Scott Lewis (Conservative)
- Shannon Saise-Marshall (Conservative)
- Tom Gracey (Conservative)
- Vanda Cunningham (Conservative)
- Carl Mann (Ind (party))
- M.D. Cressey (not matched to a member)
- M.K. Cressey (not matched to a member)
Against (25)
- Abby King (Labour)
- Cai Parry (Labour)
- Eliza Kettle (Labour)
- Mark Williams (Labour)
- Paul Gahir (Labour)
- Rhys Davies (Labour)
- Ricky Milstead (Labour)
- Robert King (Labour)
- Don Whyte (Liberal Democrats)
- Karin Rowsell (Liberal Democrats)
- Ken Graham (Liberal Democrats)
- Kevin Lee (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Sylvia Whyte (Liberal Democrats)
- Elaine Gill (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Geeta Moudgil (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Isabel Mullens (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Linda Gillham (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Margaret Harnden (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Sam Jenkins (Runnymede Independent Residents' Group)
- Manu Singh (Green)
- Priya Mehta (Green)
- Steve Ringham (Green)
- Andrea Berardi (Ind (party))
- Trevor Gates (Ind (party))
From the minutes
ed as the sole Leader of the Council. Following the debate a named vote was requested on the proposal to appoint Councillor Gillham as the sole Leader of the Council. The voting was noted as follows: For (16): Councillors Clarke, M.D. Cressey, M.K. Cressey, Cunningham, Furey, Gracey, Howorth, Hulley, Lewis, Mann, Mavi, Nuti, Saise-Marshall, Snow, Tucker-Brown, Wilson. Against (25): Councillors Gill, Harnden, Berardi, Davies, Gahir, Gates, Gillham, Graham, Jenkins, Kettle, A. King, R. King, Lee, Mehta, Milstead, Moudgil, Mullens, Parry, Ringham, Rowsell, Singh, Smith, D. Whyte, S. Whyte, Williams. Abstentions (0): - The proposal to appoint Councillor Gillham as the sole Leader of the Council FELL. The substantive motion, to appoint Councillors Gillham, R. King, Ringham and D. Whyte as Co-Leaders, was therefore put to the vote.
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.