2006 Local Elections

UKIP Worthing West fielded three candidates in separate wards for the 2006 elections to Worthing Borough Council held on May 4th. Our Chaiman, Phil Ruddock stood in Marine ward, Richard Bater stood in Goring and Christopher Woodward stood in Tarring. The results were as follows:

Goring
Christine Allen (Lib Dem)	546
Richard Bater (UKIP)	372
Steven Waight (Con)	1807
Turnout - 41.16%

Marine
Chris Baker (Lib Dem)	383
Philip Ruddock (UKIP)	166
Barrie Slater (Lab) - 173	173
Tracey Thompson (Green)	271
Tom Wye (Con)	1489
Turnout - 38.33%

Tarring
David Ide (Con)	618
Bob Smytherman (Lib Dem)	1149
Sidney Wells (Lab)	174
Christopher Woodward (UKIP)	180
Turnout 33.53%

Previously, on 20th April 2006, Janet Penn stood in a by-election for Arun District Council. The results for her election were:

Conservative	769
Lib Dem	581
UKIP (Janet Penn)	277
Labour	115

Hopefully you will have noticed that UKIP beat Labour in both Tarring and the Arun District Council by-election. We wish to thank everyone who helped us achieve these results. Thank you to everyone who helped out leafletting for Janet's and Richard's campaigns. Thank you to everyone who voted UKIP.