1995 West Somerset District Council election

The 1995 West Somerset District Council election took place on 4 May 1995 to elect members of West Somerset District Council in Somerset, England. The whole council was up for election and Independents lost overall control of the council to no overall control.^[1]

Election result

West Somerset local election result 1995^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Independent	12	0	5	-5	37.5	19.9	3,763
Conservative	9	2	2	0	28.1	22.7	4,295
Labour	8	5	0	+5	25.0	32.5	6,148
Liberal Democrats	2	2	2	0	6.3	22.1	4,178
Ind. Conservative	1	0	0	0	3.1	2.7	517

Alcombe (3 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	B Blackmore	635
	Labour	B Furney	594
	Labour	I Grady	504
	Conservative	E Griffiths	431
	Liberal Democrats	G Godsell	272
Turnout			2,436	31.0	−33.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Aville Vale^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	G Burnell	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Carhampton and Withycombe^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	J Dyer	416	74.2	+12.0
	Independent	J Butterworth	145	25.8	−12.0
Majority			271	48.3	+23.9
Turnout			561	56.0	−10.9
	Independent hold		Swing

Crowcombe and Stogumber^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	V Brewer	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Dunster^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	A Cave-Browne-Cave	215	69.4	+25.8
	Labour	J Dore	95	30.6	+30.6
Majority			120	38.7	+34.9
Turnout			310	43.0	−14.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

East Brendon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	G Day	131	55.7
	Liberal Democrats	T Cave-Browne-Cave	56	23.8
	Labour	D Burchell	48	20.4
Majority			75	31.9
Turnout			235	42.0
	Independent hold		Swing

Exmoor^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	S Pugsley	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Haddon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	M Scott	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Holnicote^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	D Dyer	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Minehead North (3 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	M Lyons	464
	Independent	C Gibbons	449
	Labour	D Ross	394
	Conservative	J Walker	359
	Labour	J McGee	346
	Labour	M Kravis	318
	Liberal Democrats	B Barrow	201
	Liberal Democrats	M Foster	194
Turnout			2,725	66.0	+11.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Old Cleeve (2 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	A Morgan	398
	Liberal Democrats	I Galloway	284
	Liberal Democrats	J Nethercott	250
	Independent	P Jackson	223
Turnout			1,155	45.0	−2.3
	Independent hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Porlock and Oare (2 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	E Purvis	394
	Conservative	J David	382
	Liberal Democrats	G Perkins	348
	Liberal Democrats	P Humber	270
Turnout			1,394	58.7
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Quantock Vale (2 seats)^[2]
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	K Turpin	unopposed
Conservative	W Lovell	unopposed
Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
Conservative hold		Swing

Quarme^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	F Rawle	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Watchet (3 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	D Banks	529
	Labour	I Aldridge	500
	Conservative	E Woods	463
	Conservative	N Edwards	458
	Independent	J Richards	395
	Liberal Democrats	A Bowden	346
	Conservative	G Horobin	302
	Liberal Democrats	M Carter	191
	Liberal Democrats	G Bevan	171
Turnout			3,355	48.0
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Quantock^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	S Pearce	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Minehead South by-election 14 November 1996^[3]
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	502	36.6
	Liberal Democrats	499	36.4
	Labour	370	27.0
Majority		3	0.2
Turnout		1,371	43.5	−3.8
	Conservative gain from Ind. Conservative	Swing

Quantock Vale by-election 17 July 1997^[3]
Party		Votes	%
	Independent	324	74.0
	Labour	114	26.0
Majority		213	48.2
Turnout		441
	Independent gain from Conservative	Swing

Minehead North by-election 23 April 1998^[3]
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	388	42.7	+11.9
	Labour	270	29.7	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	251	27.6	+14.3
Majority		118	13.0
Turnout		909	36.0	−3.4
	Conservative gain from Independent	Swing

Porlock and Oare by-election 22 October 1998^[3]
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Independent	336	62.8	+62.8
	Independent	199	37.2	+37.2
Majority		137	25.6
Turnout		535
	Independent gain from Conservative	Swing

^ "The local elections of May 1995 Research Paper 95/59 10 May 1995" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t "West Somerset District Council Election Results 1973-2011" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Local Authority Byelection Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2017.