Worth Forest (electoral division)

Coordinates: 51°05′02″N 0°07′57″W / 51.08390°N 0.13252°W / 51.08390; -0.13252

Worth Forest
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Mid Sussex
UK Parliament Constituency:	Horsham, Mid Sussex
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	9356
County Councillor
Bill Acraman (Con)

Worth Forest 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 villages of Ardingly, Balcombe, Copthorne, Handcross, Pease Pottage and Turners Hill.

It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: Ardingly & Balcombe Ward, Copthorne & Worth Ward, and the south part of Crawley Down & Turners Hill Ward; and the following civil parishes: Ardingly, Balcombe, the north part of Slaugham, Turners Hill and the west part of Worth.

Election Results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

Worth Forest
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bill Acraman	1,200	44.1	-17.1
	UKIP	Vivienne Etherton	815	30.0	N/A
	Labour	Alan Rew	338	12.4	+6.0
	Green	Gillian Maher	198	7.3	-7.5
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Dennis	168	6.2	-11.4
Majority			385	14.1	-29.5
Turnout			2,719	29.1	-8.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

2009 Election

Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:

Worth Forest
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bill Acraman	2,147	61.2	+7.8
	Liberal Democrat	Nick Dennis	617	17.6	-4.5
	Green	Barrie Weller	518	14.8	+7.3
	Labour	Frank Thomson	225	6.4	-10.6
Majority			1,530	43.6	+12.3
Turnout			3,507	37.5	-31.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

2005 Election

Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:

Worth Forest
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mr W E Acraman	3,208	53.4
	Liberal Democrat	Mr G E Knight	1,327	22.1
	Labour	Mr R M Burgess	1,025	17.0
	Green	Mr M B Weller	452	7.5
Majority			1,881	31.3
Turnout			6,012	68.5
	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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