Watford Election Results

Watford Parliamentary Constituency covers all of the Watford Borough Council area and a part of Three Rivers District Council. The Liberal Democrats currently control both Watford Borough Council and Three Rivers District Council with substantial majorities.

In 2002, Dorothy Thornhill was elected as the first directly elected Mayor of Watford, and re-elected in 2006 with over 50% of the vote.

At the 2005 General Election, Liberal Democrat Sal Brinton came within 1,100 of unseating the Labour MP and becoming MP for Watford.

The Liberal Democrats continue to campaign across Watford for local people, and with more Councillors than Labour and the Conservatives combined across the area, are the clear challengers in Watford Constituency at the next General Election whenever it is called.

2009 Elections

On 4th June 2009, there will be elections to Hertfordshire County Council and the European Parliament.

In the last County elections in 2005, the Liberal Democrats increased their vote in every county division covered by the Watford Constituency. The Liberal Democrats won three of the six seats in Watford Borough, and narrowly missed out on two other seats.

In the last European elections in 2004, the Liberal Democrats polled more votes than any other party in the Watford constituency.

2008 Elections

Three Rivers District Council Election Results - 1 May 2008.

Watford Borough Election Results - 1 May 2008.

2007 Elections

Three Rivers District Council Election Results - 3 May 2007.

Watford Borough Election Results - 3 May 2007.

2006 Elections

Dorothy Thornhill: re-elected Mayor of Watford

Liberal Democrat Dorothy Thornhill re-elected as Watford Borough Mayor, and both Labour and Conservatives continued to lose seats to Lib Dems.

Dorothy Thornhill added another first to her list of historic achievements. Not only is she Watford Borough's first Elected Mayor, the first Liberal Democrat Elected Mayor and the only woman serving as an Elected Mayor but she also became the first Elected Mayor to be re-elected with more than 50% of first preference votes.

The decline of Watford Labour party continued with the loss of two further Borough Council seats, leaving them with one Borough Councillor, one County Councillor and the Member of Parliament as their only remaining elected representatives in the Constituency.

The Conservatives faired little better. In the postponed election in the Watford Borough Ward of Nascot they lost to the Lib Dems, as was also the case in the Three Rivers Carpenders Park Ward. In the Watford Borough Park Ward they retained their seat by just three votes.

Lib Dems now held 29 of the 37 seats on Watford Borough Council (including that of the elected Mayor). Greens and Tories have three each, with Labour and Independent with just one each. Across the whole Constituency, Lib Dems now held 42 of the 51 Borough and District Council seats, Tories 4, Greens 3 and Labour and Independent 1.

Watford Mayoral Election Result - 4 May 2006.

Three Rivers District Council Election Results - 4 May 2006.

Watford Borough Election Results - 4 May 2006.

Watford Borough Nascott Ward By-election Result - 15 June 2006.

2005 Elections

Sal Brinton: Within 1,100 of becoming the new MP for Watford

Liberal Democrats Sal Brinton came within 1,100 votes of winning the Watford Parliamentary seat at the General Election, and the Liberal Democrats topped the poll in the Hertfordshire County Council elections held the same day.

At the General Election, Liberal Democrat Sal Brinton leapt from third place in 2001 to second just 2.3% behind Labour's Claire Ward. The votes for both Labour and the Conservatives fell as the Liberal Democrats achieved a massive 13% swing - one of the highest in the country. Watford becomes the third most vulnerable Labour seat to a Lib Dem swing in the entire country.

On the same day, the Liberal Democrats won three of the six County seats in Watford Borough and 38.3% of the vote, up 11.1% on the 2001 elections. They held Central Watford and Oxhey and Woodside/Stanborough with increased majorities, while Audrey Oaten held her by-election gain in Meriden Tudor. The Liberal Democrats came within 220 votes of ousting Conservative County education boss and this year Civic Chairman, Rob Gordon, in Nascot Park.

Maria Green, narrowly failed in Vicarage Hollywell to beat Labour by just 360 votes.

Paul Goggins easily held the Abbots Langley division which largely falls in the Wafford constituency while Pam Hames for the Lib Dems saw a 10% increase in her vote in Oxhey Park, an area that covers both Oxhey Hall and Carpenders Park in Watford constituency and the Conservative heartland of Moor Park and Eastbury.

The Liberal Democrats increased their vote in every county division covered by the Watford Constituency.

Watford Constituency General Election Result - 5 May 2005.

Hertfordshire County Council Election Results - 5 May 2005.

2004 Elections

The Liberal Democrats won 15 of the 17 Three Rivers and Watford council seats in the Watford constituency, gaining seats from Labour and the Conservatives. The Conservatives lost five of the six council seats they were defending, including former strongholds.

In the European elections the Liberal Democrats also polled more votes than any other party in the Watford constituency.

European Election Results - 10 June 2004.

Three Rivers District Council Election Results - 10 June 2004.

Watford Borough Election Results - 10 June 2004.

2003 Elections

In the 2003 local elections, the Liberal Democrats gained seven seats - five from Labour and two from the Conservatives. Across the Watford Constituency, the Liberal Democrats held a total of 31 seats on Watford Borough Council and Three Rivers District Council. In addition, Lib Dems held 16 of the 21 Parish Council seats within the borders of Watford Constituency.

The Lib Dems won over 50% of the votes cast and more than 60% of the District and Borough Councillors within the Constituency.

In Watford Borough, five of the six seats being defended by Labour, and the previous Tory stronghold of Park Ward, were lost to the Lib Dems.

Three Rivers District Council has five Wards in the Constituency, and Lib Dems comfortably held the three they were defending, as well as gaining Carpenders Park Ward from the Conservatives.

Three Rivers District Council Election Results - 1 May 2003.

2002 Elections

Watford Mayoral Election Result - 2 May 2002.

Hertfordshire County Council Meriden Tudor By-election Result - 28 November 2002.

2001 Elections

Watford Constituency General Election Result - 7 June 2001.

Hertfordshire County Council Election Results - 7 June 2001.