Margate Salmestone

Margate Salmestone was a ward of Margate Municipal District prior to 1973. When the Municipal District was included in the Thanet Borough in 1974, Salmestone ward elected 3 councillors to the new Borough, but following the boundary changes of 1979 this was reduced to two councillors.

Elections

1973 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D Knott	1,085	%
	Labour	J Lane	1,031	7.7%
	Conservative	W Beerling	1,028	%
	Labour	Mrs M Knott	1,023	7.7%
	Conservative	A Stokes	959	%
	Conservative	K Waddington	902	%
Majority			62,8,5
Turnout			2,123	49.3%	4,302

1976 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	W Leadbetter (Ratepayers)	788	%
	Independent	M Layton (Ratepayers)	771	%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	718	%
	Independent	J Gibson (Ratepayers)	675	42.3%
	Conservative	R Ward	686	%
	Conservative	J Turner	656	%
	Labour	Mrs M Lowe	334	%
	Labour	P Stark	322	%
	Labour	Charles Young	376	%
Majority			102,85,32
Turnout			2,124	50.8%	4,181

1979 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	W Leadbetter (Ratepayers)	932	%
	Independent	P Coleman	935	%
	Labour	R Ward	881	%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	848	%
	Conservative	J Chart	774	%
	Labour	Charles Young	732	%
	Liberal	S Pankhurst	153	%
	Liberal	A Taylor	139	%
Majority			54,51
Turnout			2,817	69.8%	4,034

1983 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	630	%
	Labour	Charles Young	620	%
	Conservative	T Purser	547	%
	Labour	Kenneth Fry	518	%
	Liberal	John Sherwell	468	%
	Liberal	Norma Sherwell	441	%
Majority			83,73
Turnout			1,718	44.4%	3,867

1987 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	747	%
	Conservative	Gordon Mynard	613	%
	Labour	Charles Young	526	%
	Labour	Kenneth Fry	435	%
	Liberal	John Sherwell	351	%
	Liberal	Norma Sherwell	314	%
Majority			221,87
Turnout			1,624	41.6%	3,904

1991 Election

3,736 38.5% 1,438

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	656	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	554	%
	Independent	Frederick Twyman	500	%
	Conservative	Cyril Cook	334	%
	Conservative	Gordon Mynard	311	%
	Green	Roalph Reed	118	%
Majority			156,54
Turnout			1,428	38.5%	3,726

1995 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	798	%
	Labour	Charles Young	787	%
	Independent	Frederick Twyman	377	%
	Independent	A Brown	234	%
	Conservative	M Brooman	180	%
	Liberal	A Cordell	91	%
	Independent	K Pettitt (NLP)	32	%
Majority			421,410
Turnout			1,370	38.1%	3,596

1999 Election

3,657 23.3% 852

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	533	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	504	%
	Conservative	Alan Patridge	282	%
Majority			251,222
Turnout			852	23.3%	3,657

2003 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	411	%
	Conservative	Bowen Fuller	407	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	396	%
	Conservative	Lisa Wright	364	%
Majority			15,11
Turnout			858	22.9%	3,743

2007 Election

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Scobie	562	%
	Labour	Ela Lodge-Pritchard	562	%
	Conservative	James Maskell	455	%
	Conservative	Bill Pankhurst	422	%
Majority			107,107
Turnout			1,079	28.6%	3,772