GBC Election – New Wards, New Voter ID, Council Responsibilities, Plus Full Candidate List

Published on: 7 Apr, 2023
Updated on: 8 Apr, 2023

By Emily Coady-Stemp local democracy reporter

and Martin Giles

Local elections in Guildford are being held on May 4, as they are at the district and borough councils across Surrey.

GBC’s new ward boundaries (as from 2023) with the number of seats for each ward shown. Cilck on image to enlarge.

New ward boundaries have been brought in in the borough, and it will also be the first election where voters need photo ID in order to cast their ballot.

There are 48 members of Guildford Borough Council, with the authority led by a Liberal Democrat and Residents for Guildford and Villages (R4GV) coalition. The parties have shared the leader role between them over most of the four-year term.

The number of councillors for each party currently is: 17 Liberal Democrats, 14 R4GV, eight Conservatives, four Guildford Greenbelt Group, two Labour, one Green and two Independents. 24 seats are required to form a majority administration.

All seats are up for election in the new wards.

The borough council is responsible for:

• rubbish collection
• recycling collection
• council tax collection
• housing
• planning and processing planning applications
• budgeting
• its own administration, including customer services and complaint handling

Full list of candidates

In brackets after the ward name is the number of councillors that will be elected to represent that ward.

Ash South (Two)

• Philip John Buckley – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Elburn – Liberal Democrats
• Carl Kevin Flynn – Conservative Party
• David Shaw – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• George Edward Wrycroft – Conservative Party
• Sue Wyeth-Price – Residents for Guildford and Villages

Ash Vale (Two)

• Richard Charles Lucas – Liberal Democrats
• Nigel Manning – Conservative Party
• Carla Jane Morson – Liberal Democrats
• Marsha Jayne Moseley – Conservative Party

Ash Wharf (Two)

• Philip Edward Bellamy – Liberal Democrats
• Mick Gallagher – Labour Party
• Wendy Felicity Pritchard – Conservative Party
• John Kenneth Tonks – Conservative Party
• Fiona Jean White – Liberal Democrats
• Claire Whitehouse – Green Party

Bellfields & Slyfield  (Two)

• Amanda Creese – Labour Party
• Philip Matthew Simon Hooper – Conservative Party
• Steve Isaacs – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Suleman Miah – Conservative Party
• Nicholas David Strugnell – Liberal Democrats
• Linda Christina Serena Tillett – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Wendy Dawn Wakeling – Liberal Democrats
• James Lawrence Walsh – Labour Party

Burpham (Two)

• Ian Michael Creese – Labour Party
• Adam Stewart Heilbron – Conservative Party
• Christian John Holliday – Conservative Party
• Liz Hyland – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• George Matthew Potter – Liberal Democrats
• Jane Tyson – Liberal Democrats
• Charles Alistair Wilce – Residents for Guildford and Villages

Castle (Three)

• Paul Edward Canning – Independent
• Geoff ​​Davis – Conservative Party
• Ciaran Pol Doran – Liberal Democrats
• Sara Caroline Gillingham – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Allen Mills – Conservative Party
• Joan Anne May O’Byrne – Labour Party
• Alex Perestaj De Gusmao Fiuza – Conservative Party
• John Willem Edwin Redpath – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Maddy Redpath – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• John David Rigg – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Matthew Philip Smith – Labour Party
• Sean Paul Sussex – Labour Party

Clandon & Horsley (Three)

• Dawn Bennett – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Ian Douglas Bond – The Conservative Party
• Ruth Brothwell – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Stephen James Cullens – The Conservative Party
• Toni Hourahane – The Conservative Party
• Liam Francis O’Keeffe – Liberal Democrats
• David William Roe – Liberal Democrats
• Wendy Anne Ross – Liberal Democrats
• Dan Symonds – Labour Party
• Catherine Anne Young – Residents for Guildford and Villages

Effingham (One)

• Lulu Boder – The Conservative Party
• Shek Shahanoor Rahman – Labour Party
• Merel Astrid Rehorst-Smith – Liberal Democrats

Merrow (Three)

• Joss Bigmore – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Dennis George William Booth – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Stuart Raymond Zane Brown – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Nathan Cassidy – Labour Party
• Yves De Contades – Liberal Democrats
• Graham Thomas Ellwood – Independent
• David Ian Humphries – Conservative Party
• Christopher Howard Jay – Conservative Party
• Katie Jane Lotte Lam – Conservative Party
• Jo Shaw – Liberal Democrats

Normandy & Pirbright (Two)

• David John Bilbé – Conservative Party
• Geoff Doven – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Jane Rosemary Hill – Independent
• Ken Howard – Liberal Democrats
• Gina Redpath – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Simon Schofield – Labour Party
• Keith Francis Witham – Conservative Party

Onslow (Three)

• Shamsul Alam – Conservative Party
• Nick Bragger – Labour Party
• Lynsey Marie Brown – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Adrian Stuart Chandler – Conservative Party
• Sam Church – Trade Unionist And Socialist Coalition
• Adam Goktug Ekinci – Conservative Party
• Angela Marie Goodwin – Liberal Democrats
• James Heaphy – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• James Owen Ashton Jones – Liberal Democrats
• Steven Lee – Liberal Democrats
• James Albert Josef Lewis – Trade Unionist And Socialist Coalition
• Howard Frederick Moss – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Hannah Mary Elizabeth Rich – Labour Party
• Vlad Stoiana-Mois – Labour Party

Pilgrims (Two)

• Sallie Anne Barker – Conservative Party
• Toni Belcher – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Matt ​​Furniss – Conservative Party
• Malcolm Piers Hill – Labour Party
• Stephen Philip Mallet – Liberal Democrats
• John Richard Price – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Amy Maude Rogers – Liberal Democrats

Send & Lovelace (Three)

• Basil Kais Bahrani – Liberal Democrats
• Jordan James Baker – Labour Party
• Pete Bennett – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• James Anthony Brooker – Guildford Greenbelt Group
• Jason Michael Fenwick – Guildford Greenbelt Group
• Anna Elizabeth Griffiths – The Conservative Party
• Duncan Stevenson Mcmillan – Liberal Democrats
• Dale Margaret Miller – Liberal Democrats
• Justin Phillip Andrew Offord – The Conservative Party
• Pat Oven – Guildford Greenbelt Group
• Geraldine Lindsay Powell – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Alexander Stewart-Clark – The Conservative Party
• Rob Woof – Labour Party

Shalford (Two)

• Jonathan Fremaux – Conservative Party
• Catherine Susan Houston – Liberal Democrats
• Nigel Roy Keane – Guildford Greenbelt Group
• Peter Edmund Lockhart – Labour Party
• Ramsey Nagaty – Guildford Greenbelt Group
• Nicholas James Watts – Conservative Party
• Dominique Louise Williams – Liberal Democrats

St Nicolas (One)

• Nikki Ackerley – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Marisa Roxanne Goldsborough – The Conservative Party
• Tom Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Chris Pegman – Labour Party

Stoke (Three)

• Brian Jeffrey Creese – Labour Party
• Sue Hackman – Labour Party
• Stephen James Hives – Liberal Democrats
• Annelize Kidd – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Vanessa Louise King – Liberal Democrats
• Harriet Jane Kittermaster – Labour Party
• Arjun Raj Lakhani – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Julian David Sinclair Lyon – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Sam Elliot Cordero Peters – Green Party
• Cait Lucy Taylor – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Tough – Conservative Party
• Brett Eamonn Edward Vorley – Conservative Party
• Stuart Zissman – Conservative Party

Stoughton North (Two)

• Andy Giess – Labour Party
• Shelley Grainger – Labour Party
• Lizzie Griffiths – Liberal Democrats
• Gillian Michelle Harwood – Liberal Democrats
• Neda Moghaddam – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• David James Quelch – Conservative Party
• Stephen Charles Rowden – Conservative Party
• Bill Stokoe – Residents for Guildford and Villages

Stoughton South (Two)

• Alex Dinc – Conservative Party
• George Dokimakis – Labour Party
• Andre Stewart Hester – Conservative Party
• Tom Kenneth Johnston – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Masuk Miah – Liberal Democrats
• John Hugh Morris – The Peace Party – Nonviolence, Justice, Environment
• Zoë Nash-Williams – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Anne Catherine Rouse – Labour Party
• Katie Steel – Liberal Democrats

Tillingbourne (Two)

• Paul Francis Abbey – Liberal Democrats
• Lucy Emma Howard – Green Party
• Bob Hughes – The Conservative Party
• John Edward Marsh – Labour Party
• Danielle Newson – Liberal Democrats
• Lynette Judaea Schoen Nusbacher – The Conservative Party
• Jim Wynn – Labour Party

Westborough (Three)

• Shailja Lal – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Shivendra Lal – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Sandy Lowry – Liberal Democrats
• Julia Maureen Mcshane – Liberal Democrats
• Mike Parsons – Conservative Party
• Syed Fozlul Houque Selim – Conservative Party
• Howard Daniel Smith – Labour Party
• Paul Michael Spooner – Conservative Party
• James Harry Alfred Steel – Liberal Democrats

Worplesdon (Three)

• Brigitte Valerie Ahier – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Bill Akhtar – Conservative Party
• Janet Ashton – Independent
• Honor Jean Brooker – Conservative Party
• Philip Naylor Brooker – Conservative Party
• Jon Edwards – Liberal Democrats
• John Paul Damien Hawthorne – Labour Party
• Bob Mcshee – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Marilyn Merryweather – Liberal Democrats
• Robert Frederick Pidgeon – Residents for Guildford and Villages
• Nick Trier – Labour Party
• Sinclair Aubrey Webster – Liberal Democrats

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