Sompting & North Lancing (electoral division)

Coordinates: 50°50′59″N 0°19′57″W / 50.84974°N 0.33259°W / 50.84974; -0.33259
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50°50′59″N 0°19′57″W / 50.84974°N 0.33259°W / 50.84974; -0.33259

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Election Results - West Sussex County Council

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