Mayor Dave Hodgson has been re-elected as Mayor of Bedford Borough, for a further four year term. His victory with an increased percentage of the vote was also reflected in an excellent result for The Liberal Democrats, who won seats from Labour and the Conservatives and, with 6 gains, are now the largest party on the council.
Thanks to all the hard work by our team, we have also regained seats on Southwell Town Council!! Sadly Keith was the only one of us not to get elected but here are the votes: Southwell West Peter H 544 Steve 478 Karen 500 Peter Scorer 482 Sally Reynolds Independent was also elected with 408 North Malcolm 448 Lyn 493 Also elected were Penny Rainbow 502 (Con), Paul Handley 424 (Con) and Beryl Prentice (Independent) 469 East Martin 392 Stuart 386 Also elected were Roger Blaney 319, (Con) Michael Jeffrey 332 (Con) and David Martin (Independent) 336. Keith had 313 votes and so lost by 7 votes.
. Malcolm Brock and Peter Harris were elected on to the District Council, Penny Rainbow (Con) was also elected and Stuart Thompstone, unfortunately was 4th so not elected.
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Seven New Liberal Democrat Councillors Appologies it's taken a while to post news of yesterday's elections. The count in Sevenoaks went on to 7.30 on Friday night, with our last gains in the final minutes. You now have seven new Lib Dem councillors. Many thanks to all who have helped along the way!