East Preston & Ferring (electoral division)

Coordinates: 50°48′28″N 0°27′52″W / 50.80767°N 0.46452°W / 50.80767; -0.46452

East Preston & Ferring
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Arun
UK Parliament Constituency:	Worthing West
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	9762
County Councillor
Peter Evans (Con)

East Preston & Ferring is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. The current County Councillor, Peter Evans, is also Cabinet Member for Public Protection.

Extent

The division covers the villages of East Preston, Ferring and Kingston Gorse.

It comprises the following Arun District wards: East Preston with Kingston Ward, and Ferring Ward; and of the following civil parishes: East Preston, Ferring and Kingston.

Election results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

East Preston & Ferring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Peter Evans	1,804	49.3	-16.7
	UKIP	Phil Ruddock	1,142	31.2	N/A
	Labour	Ed Miller	527	14.4	+5.7
	Liberal Democrat	Trevor Richards	187	5.1	-9.4
Majority			662	18.1	-33.4
Turnout			3,660	36.6	-9.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

2009 Election

The latest election took place on 4 June 2009:

East Preston & Ferring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Peter Evans	2,956	66.0	+8.8
	Liberal Democrat	Christine Brown	649	14.5	-7.7
	English Democrat	Clive Maltby	482	10.8	N/A
	Labour	Ed Miller	390	8.7	-6.7
Majority			2,307	51.5	+16.5
Turnout			4,477	45.9	-23.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

2005 Election

Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:

East Preston & Ferring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mr P C Evans	3,781	57.2
	Liberal Democrat	Mr J M Richards	1,464	22.2
	Labour	Mr H E Miller	1,015	15.4
	UKIP	Mr P V Skinner	348	5.3
Majority			2,317	35.0
Turnout			6,608	69.8
	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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