- Ashburton (ward)
Ashburton is a ward in the
London Borough of Croydon , inLondon in theUnited Kingdom . The ward is wider than the Ashburton area, covering the main retail area ofAddiscombe , the Stroud Green, Tollgate and Longheath Garden estates, and large parts of northern Shirley.The ward currently forms part of the Croydon Central constituency, which is one of the most marginal in the country, 75 votes separating the Conservatives and Labour.
The ward returns three councillors every four years to Croydon Council. At the
London local elections 2006 Lindsay Frost, Eddy Arram, and Avril Slipper were elected to the council. All of them were running as Conservative Party candidates.Ward result
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Lindsay Frost
votes = 2,513
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Eddy Arram
votes = 2,431
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Avril Slipper
votes = 2,390
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Rona MacDonald
votes = 1,057
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Peter Spalding
votes = 971
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Jitinder Singh
votes = 904
percentage =
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party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate =Bernice Golberg
votes = 628
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Nirma Ramful
votes = 550
percentage =
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party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Jeanette Nathan
votes = 336
percentage =
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votes = 4,324
percentage = 42.7%
change =External links
* [http://www.croydon.gov.uk/democracy/dande/elections/results/local/ashburton Council Elections 2006 results - Ashburton]
* [http://www.croydonconservatives.com/councillors.asp Conservative Councillors for Croydon.]
* [http://www.croydon.gov.uk/content/departments/570770/570872/wardmap.pdf London Borough of Croydon map of wards.]
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