Sompting & North Lancing (electoral division)

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Sompting & North Lancing
Sompting & North Lancing
Shown within West Sussex
District: Adur
UK Parliament Constituency: East Worthing & Shoreham
Ceremonial county: West Sussex
Electorate (2009): 8609
County Councillor
George Barton (Conservative)

Sompting & North Lancing is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on the West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the neighbourhoods of North Lancing and Sompting, and the hamlets of Coombes and Sompting Abbotts. It also includes Lancing College.

It comprises the following Adur district wards: Cokeham Ward, the north part of Manor Ward, and Peverel Ward; and the following civil parishes: Coombes, the north part of Lancing, and Sompting.

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

Sompting & North Lancing
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UKIP Lionel Parsons 1,144 45.5 +20.9
Conservative Carson Albury 773 30.7 −14.6
Labour Alun Jones 368 14.6 +2.4
Green Simon Williams 124 4.9 +4.9
Liberal Democrats Patricia Izod 107 4.3 −13.7
Majority 371 14.8 +14.8
Turnout 2,516 28.9 −6.4
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing 17.8% Con to UKIP

2009 Election

Results of the election which took place on 4 June 2009:

Sompting & North Lancing
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Simmons 1,376 45.3 n/a
UKIP Reuben Whiting 747 24.6 n/a
Liberal Democrats Richard Burt 546 18.0 n/a
Labour Barry Mear 370 12.2 n/a
Majority 629 20.7 n/a
Turnout 3,039 35.3 n/a
Conservative win (new seat)

References

Election Results - West Sussex County Council


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