Election of Leader of the Council
Full council, 22 May 2025: a named vote.
For 18, Against 0, Abstained 12.
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)
- John Doran (Labour)
- Jon Button (Labour)
- Med Buck (Labour)
- Rebecca Geach (Labour)
- Sean Beatty (Labour)
- Sue Doran (Labour)
- Tony Burrell (Labour)
- Chris Bateson (Liberal Democrats)
- Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats)
- John Turner (Liberal Democrats)
- Jolyon Caplin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kathy Grant (Liberal Democrats)
- Lawrence Nichols (Liberal Democrats)
- Sandra Dunn (Liberal Democrats)
- Joanne Sexton (ISG)
- Katherine Rutherford (ISG)
- Michelle Arnold (ISG)
- Malcolm Beecher (Green)
Abstained (12)
- Anant Mathur (Conservative)
- Buddhi Weerasinghe (Conservative)
- Darren Clarke (Conservative)
- John Boughtflower (Conservative)
- Karen Howkins (Conservative)
- Mary Bing Dong (Conservative)
- Matthew Lee (Conservative)
- Maureen Attewell (Conservative)
- Naz Islam (Conservative)
- Simon Bhadye (Conservative)
- Sinead Mooney (Conservative)
- Denise Saliagopoulos (INDCon)
From the minutes
ed by Councillor Bateson and seconded by Councillor Williams that Councillor Sexton be appointed Leader of the Council for the Municipal Year 2025-26. Councillor Boughtflower requested a record vote. For Councillors J Doran, Dunn, Arnold, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Boparai, Buck, Burrell, Button, Caplin, S Doran, Geach, Grant, Nichols, Rutherford, Sexton, Turner, Williams – 19 Votes Against 0 Abstain Councillors Attewell, Bhadye, Bing Dong, Boughtflower, Clarke, Howkins, Islam, Lee, Mathur, Mooney, Saliagopoulos, Weerasinghe, Woodward – 13 Votes Council resolved that Councillor Sexton be appointed as Leader of Spelthorne Borough Council for the Municipal Year 2025-26.
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.