East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood (electoral division)

Coordinates: 51°06′47″N 0°00′28″W / 51.11317°N 0.00790°W / 51.11317; -0.00790

East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Mid Sussex
UK Parliament Constituency:	Mid Sussex
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	8711
County Councillor
John O'Brien (Con)

East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the southern part of the town of East Grinstead and the village of Ashurst Wood, and it came into existence as the result of a boundary review recommended by the Boundary Committee for England, the results of which were accepted by the Electoral Commission in March 2009.

It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: Ashurst Wood Ward, East Grinstead Herontye Ward and the southern part of East Grinstead Town Ward; and of the following civil parishes: of Ashurst Wood and the southern part of East Grinstead.

Election Results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John O'Brien	1,066	43.8	-0.7
	UKIP	Tony Armstrong	562	23.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Howard Evans	461	18.9	-22.0
	Green	Gary Hogman	188	7.7	-4.2
	Labour	David Boot	158	6.5	-3.9
Majority			504	20.7	+17.1
Turnout			2,435	27.5	-13.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

2009 Election

Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:

East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Lee Quinn	1,599	44.5
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Collins	1,469	40.9
	Green	Paul Brown	429	11.9
	Labour	Peter Lamb	94	2.6
Majority			130	3.6
Turnout			3,591	41.2
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

Election Results - West Sussex County Council

External links

Electoral Divisions in West Sussex

Conservative	Angmering and Findon Arundel and Wick Billingshurst Bognor Regis West & Aldwick Bramber Castle Broadwater Burgess Hill East Burgess Hill Town Chichester North Chichester South Chichester West Cissbury Chichester East Cuckfield and Lucastes East Grinstead Meridian East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood East Preston and Ferring Fernhurst Fontwell Goring Hassocks and Victoria Haywards Heath East Haywards Heath Town Henfield Holbrook Hurstpierpoint & Bolney Imberdown Kingston Buci Lindfield and High Weald Maidenbower Petworth Pound Hill and Worth Pulborough Roffey Rustington Shoreham Southwater and Nuthurst Southwick Storrington The Witterings Tilgate and Furnace Green Warnham and Rusper Worth Forest Worthing East Worthing Pier Worthing West

UKIP	Bersted Bourne Durrington and Salvington Felpham Lancing Middleton Nyetimber Saltings Selsey Sompting and North Lancing

Liberal Democrats	Bognor Regis East Horsham Hurst Horsham Riverside Horsham Tanbridge & Broadbridge Heath Littlehampton East Littlehampton Town Northbrook Tarring

Labour	Bewbush and Ifield West Broadfield Gossops Green and Ifield East Langley Green and West Green Northgate and Three Bridges Southgate and Crawley Central

Independent	Midhurst

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