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Holditch & Chesterton

7th May 2026

Council

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Results2026

1	Ref	Wayne Barber	566	27.3%
2	Ref	Jon Lee Chamberlain	554	26.7%
3	Lab	David Peter Grocott	369	17.8%	▼ 17.9
4	Lab	Precious Idowu Osode	315	15.2%	▼ 20.5
5	Con	Ken Owen	168	8.1%	▼ 9.9
6	Con	Kevin John Robinson	105	5.1%	▼ 12.9

How is this scored?

Up to 15 points per contest:

1 point for each candidate that finishes in the top 3 (regardless of where you placed them)
5 / 3 / 1 bonus for getting 1st / 2nd / 3rd exactly right
1 point for each pair you got the order of (e.g. you said A above B, and A finished above B)

Previous Results

5 May 2022

Lab	David Peter Grocott ★	621	35.7%
Lab	Sue Beeston ★	532	30.6%
Con	Ken Owen	314	18.0%
Con	Adam John Bagguley	274	15.7%

12 December 2019

Lab	David Peter Grocott ★	902	42.7%
Con	Peter James Hailstones	762	36.1%
Ind	Lilian Barker	376	17.8%
LD	Aidan Mark Jenkins	72	3.4%

21 March 2019

Ind	Ken Owen ★	282	40.3%
Lab	Peter Radford	268	38.3%
UKI	Mark Harry Barlow	86	12.3%
Con	Lawrence James Whitworth	49	7.0%
SDP	Carol Lovatt	14	2.0%

3 May 2018

Lab	Emily Imogen Savita Horsfall ★	566	30.1%
Lab	Chris Spence ★	528	28.1%
Ind	Ken Owen	186	9.9%
Con	David Charles Cooper	166	8.8%
Con	Thomas David Cooper	144	7.7%
UKI	Paul William Daniels	105	5.6%
UKI	Gordon Davies	75	4.0%
LD	Chris Moore	61	3.2%
LD	Arthur Bryn Richards	47	2.5%

How is this scored?

Up to 15 points per contest:

1 point for each candidate that finishes in the top 3 (regardless of where you placed them)
5 / 3 / 1 bonus for getting 1st / 2nd / 3rd exactly right
1 point for each pair you got the order of (e.g. you said A above B, and A finished above B)