1987 Guildford Borough Council election

The fifth full elections for Guildford Borough Council took place on 1 May 1987.^[1] The Conservatives retained control of the council winning 30 of the 45 seats on the council. This represented one net loss for the Conservatives, relative to the 1983 council elections. Labour retained its 6 councillors. The SDP-Liberal Alliance won 9 seats, a net gain of two seats on the 1983 council elections. No independents were elected to the council, one had been elected in 1983.

Three wards partly or wholly changed hands in the 1987 council elections relative to the 1983 council elections. The SDP-Liberal Alliance gained one councillor from the Conservatives in Stoughton and gained a further councillor from the Conservatives in Normandy.

The Conservatives gained one councillor in Tillingbourne from an independent.

In 1982, the Local Government Boundary Commission recommended the transfer of the southern part of Send parish to West Clandon parish.^[2] This measure was implemented by Statutory Instrument 1984 No 411 known as the Guildford Parishes Order, which adjusted the ward boundaries at the same time. That Order also produced a number of minor changes to other Guildford parish boundaries the most significant of which, other than the Send-Clandon boundary change, was the transfer of the easterly part of Shalford parish to St Martha's parish in Tillingbourne ward.

Results

Ash^[3] (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Ades	1699
	Conservative	Rosemary Hall	1524
	Conservative	Michael Cole	1518
	Alliance	Alan Hillier	1459
	Alliance	George Dowdell	1318
	Alliance	Angela Pink	1228
	Labour	Kevin Jenkinson	281
	Labour	Peter Green	279
	Labour	Geoffery Smith	276
Majority			59
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ash Vale (top 2 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joan Golding	1166
	Conservative	Kary Lloyd-Jones	1114
	Alliance	Janet Dallison	981
	Alliance	George Walsh	980
	Labour	Brian Mountain	175
	Labour	Bryan Rogers	133
Majority			133
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Christchurch (top 2 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Andrew Hodges	1444
	Conservative	Rodger Marjoribanks	1384
	Alliance	Gordon Hall	531
	Alliance	Kate Mercer	529
	Labour	Peter Waterhouse	88
	Labour	Mary Wu	81
Majority			853
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clandon & Horsley (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jennifer Powell	2474
	Conservative	Douglas May	2453
	Conservative	Gillian Drakeford	2349
	Alliance	Peter Webb	789
	Alliance	Alan Ridler	750
	Alliance	Roland Boissevain	701
	Labour	Meriel Beynon	190
	Labour	Joan Haimes	176
	Labour	Keith Parfitt	140
Majority			1560
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Effingham (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Antony Page	673
	Alliance	Frank Oxford	205
	Labour	John Rowley	55
Majority			468
	Conservative hold		Swing

Friary & St. Nicolas (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Alliance	Richard Marks	1788
	Alliance	Robert Blundell	1773
	Alliance	Jay Mercer	1645
	Conservative	Leonard Boxall	972
	Conservative	Philip Hooper	957
	Conservative	Lewis Short	933
	Labour	Sheila Barbour	311
	Labour	Angela Gunning	305
	Labour	Brenda Ecclestone	301
Majority			673
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Alliance hold		Swing

Holy Trinity (top 2 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Elizabeth Cobbett	1196
	Conservative	Tony Allenby	1147
	Alliance	Gordon Bridger	1079
	Alliance	Graham Maynard	965
	Labour	Martin Ecclestone	115
	Labour	Diane O'Keefe	112
Majority			68
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lovelace (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jon Catten	521
	Alliance	John Hartley	426
	Labour	June Shepperd	65
Majority			95
	Conservative hold		Swing

Merrow & Burpham (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Paul Johnson	2409
	Conservative	Timothy Hargrave	2379
	Conservative	Jennifer Jordan	2345
	Alliance	Paul Green	1535
	Alliance	Margaret Fricker	1504
	Alliance	Julie Schoefield	1433
	Labour	Michael Hornsby-Smith	437
	Labour	Malcolm Hill	413
	Labour	Margaret Rogers	367
Majority			810
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Normandy (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Alliance	Wendy Gardiner	630
	Conservative	John Lockyer-Nibbs	618
	Labour	Phelim Brady	59
Majority			12
	Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing

Onslow (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Alliance	Lynda Strudwick	1356
	Alliance	Tony Philips	1295
	Conservative	Bernard Parke	1151
	Alliance	Braith Harris	1113
	Conservative	Kenneth Johns	954
	Conservative	Mary Johns	896
	Labour	Carmel Rodgers	410
	Labour	Joseph Bullock	385
	Labour	Florence Flynn	377
Majority			38
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Pilgrims (top 2 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Derek Pinks	1031
	Conservative	Malcolm Williamson	1006
	Alliance	Nicolette Clark	373
	Alliance	Evelyn Mellor	341
	Labour	Estelle Margereson	104
	Labour	Richard Rogers	95
Majority			633
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Pirbright (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Catherine Cobley	520
	Alliance	Mary Laker	362
	Labour	Cecilia Brindle	21
Majority			158
	Conservative hold		Swing

Send (top 2 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Keith Taylor	910
	Conservative	Geoffrey Smith	888
	Alliance	Gloria Henson	499
	Alliance	Anne Lambe	483
	Labour	Alan Barnes	110
	Labour	Barbara Dinnage	87
Majority			389
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Shalford (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Sarah Stewart	922
	Alliance	Leonard Grugeon	712
Majority			210
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stoke (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Bill Bellerby	2039
	Labour	Sallie Thornberry	1471
	Labour	Heather Tipton	1320
	Conservative	Robert Gregory	555
	Conservative	Paul Fleming	476
	Conservative	Amelia Harris	470
	Alliance	David Hopkins	359
	Alliance	Brian Johnston	317
	Alliance	John Hutt	289
Majority			765
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Stoughton (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Alliance	Christopher Fox	1552
	Alliance	Sue Fox	1401
	Alliance	Jayne Holder	1386
	Conservative	Ralph Jordan	1086
	Conservative	Shelia Knight	943
	Conservative	Rosemary Safford	901
	Labour	Michael Belford	373
	Labour	Michael Gunn	366
	Labour	William Saunders	352
Majority			300
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Alliance hold		Swing
	Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing

Tillingbourne (top 2 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Barbara Pattman	1498
	Conservative	Nicholas Brougham	1295
	Labour	Prosper Dowden	516
Majority			779
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Tongham (only 1 candidate elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Percy Davies	316
	Alliance	Gilbert Molkenthin	237
	Labour	Elizabeth Bullock	64
Majority			79
	Conservative hold		Swing

Westborough (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Doreen Bellerby	1491
	Labour	Jack Patrick	1344
	Labour	John Woodhatch	1202
	Alliance	Peter Anderson	586
	Alliance	Norman Needham	580
	Conservative	Michael Fisher	565
	Conservative	Anthony Horne	562
	Alliance	Helen Beckett	538
Majority			616
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Worplesdon (top 3 candidates elected)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Clare Griffin	1862
	Conservative	Shirley Lloyd	1730
	Conservative	Roy Price	1723
	Alliance	Arthur Crocker	1562
	Alliance	Margaret Scott	1557
	Alliance	Trevor Stables	1327
	Independent	Bill Williams	606
	Labour	Jeffrey Brindle	162
	Labour	Harold Richards	128
	Labour	Thomas Walder	127
Majority			161
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ Results were published in the Surrey Advertiser 8 May 1987 edition.
^ See p22 Local Government Commission for England Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Guildford in Surrey, September 1998
^ Gains and losses are shown here relative to the 1983 election. Alan Hillier, the SDP-Liberal Alliance candidate, held one of these Ash seats going into the election following an earlier by election victory. If gains and losses were displayed relative to the position entering the election this seat would show a gain for the Conservative , plus 2 Conservative holds, rather than the 3 Conservative holds shown here. Ash is the only ward, in the 1987 elections, where the gain, loss and hold figures differ depending on whether you measure them from the previous full council election in 1983 or from the parties position going into the election.

[1] Results were published in the Surrey Advertiser 8 May 1987 edition.

[2] See p22 Local Government Commission for England Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Guildford in Surrey, September 1998

[3] Gains and losses are shown here relative to the 1983 election. Alan Hillier, the SDP-Liberal Alliance candidate, held one of these Ash seats going into the election following an earlier by election victory. If gains and losses were displayed relative to the position entering the election this seat would show a gain for the Conservative , plus 2 Conservative holds, rather than the 3 Conservative holds shown here. Ash is the only ward, in the 1987 elections, where the gain, loss and hold figures differ depending on whether you measure them from the previous full council election in 1983 or from the parties position going into the election.

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