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 is also the first Elected Mayor to be re-elected
with more than 50% of first preference votes.
The decline of the once all powerful
Watford Labour party continued with the loss of two
further Borough Council seats. This leaves 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 have 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 hold 42 of the 51 Borough and District Council
seats, Tories 4, Greens 3 and Labour and Independent
1.
