St Columb Minor and Colan (electoral division): Difference between revisions

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|[[2025 Cornwall Council election|2025]]

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|rowspan=”1″|Christine Parsonage||rowspan=”1“|[[Reform UK]]

|rowspan=”1″|Christine Parsonage||rowspan=””|[[Reform UK]]

|December 2025 by-election

|Heinz Glanville

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===2025 election===

{{Election box begin | title = [[2025 Cornwall Council election|2025 election]]: St Columb ~~Major, St Mawgan~~ and ~~St Wenn~~<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for St Columb Minor and Colan – Cornwall Council elections – Thursday, 1st May, 2025 |url=https://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=866 |website=[[Cornwall Council]] |access-date=18 August 2025}}</ref>}}

{{Election box begin | title = [[2025 Cornwall Council election|2025 election]]: St Columb and <ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for St Columb Minor and Colan – Cornwall Council elections – Thursday, 1st May, 2025 |url=https://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=866 |website=[[Cornwall Council]] |access-date=18 August 2025}}</ref>}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Reform UK

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Parsonage, who lives in [[Torpoint]], {{convert|40|mile}} from her division, was a [[paper candidate]] for [[Reform UK]] and did not expect to be elected.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Warren Wilkins |title=Reform UK councillor admits she was a paper candidate and did not expect to get elected |url=https://www.voicenewspapers.co.uk/news/reform-uk-councillor-admits-she-was-a-paper-candidate-and-did-not-expect-to-get-elected-820261 |website=[[Newquay Voice]] |access-date=18 August 2025 |date=7 August 2025}}</ref> This led to criticism from independent councillors about her ability to represent the division; Parsonage said that living outside of the division “means I don’t have any conflict of interest, so I can speak unencumbered”.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Trewhela |title=Reform UK members in Cornwall defend living miles from the areas they represent |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reform-uk-members-cornwall-defend-10203468 |website=Cornwall Live |access-date=18 August 2025 |date=21 May 2025}}</ref> In August 2025, [[Newquay|Newquay Town Council]], which covers part of the division, wrote to Parsonage asking her to attend town council meetings due to members’ concerns about her “continued absence”.<ref name=CL25 /> Parsonage responded that due to her work as a nurse, she could not attend town council meetings in Newquay but highlighted that she attended Cornwall Council meetings and answered correspondence.<ref name=CL25>{{cite web |author1=Lee Trewhela |title=Continually absent Reform UK councillor in Cornwall is asked to attend meetings |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/continually-absent-reform-uk-councillor-10427603?int_source=nba |website=Cornwall Live |access-date=18 August 2025 |date=18 August 2025}}</ref> In September 2025, it was reported that Parsonage had taken a [[leave of absence]] in order to “concentrate on her wellbeing”.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Trewhela |title=Cornwall Reform councillor has leave of absence after criticism |url=https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/25473461.cornwall-reform-councillor-leave-absence-criticism/ |website=[[Falmouth Packet]] |access-date=14 November 2025 |date=17 September 2025}}</ref> She resigned in October 2025 due to health reasons, triggering a by-election.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Trewhela |title=Controversial former Reform UK councillor resigns from Cornwall Council |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/controversial-former-reform-uk-councillor-10611848 |website=Cornwall Live |access-date=14 November 2025 |date=31 October 2025}}</ref>

===2025 by-election===

{{Election box begin | title = 18 December 2025 by-election: St Columb Minor and Colan<ref>{{cite web |title=Declaration of result of poll – St Columb Minor & Colan, 18 December 2025 |url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/lgrehusj/declaration-of-result-of-poll-st-columb-minor-colan-electoral-division-18-december-2025-1.pdf |website=[[Cornwall Council]] |access-date=20 December 2025}}</ref>}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Reform UK

|candidate = Heinz Glanville

|votes = 408

|percentage = 31.7

|change = -4.1

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Independent politician

|candidate = John Fitter

|votes = 325

|percentage = 25.2

|change = -4.1

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)

|candidate = Geoff Brown

|votes = 296

|percentage = 23.0

|change = +14.7

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Green Party of England and Wales

|candidate = Frances Williamson

|votes = 173

|percentage = 13.43

|change=””New”

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Mark Formosa

|votes = 73

|percentage = 5.7

|change = -11.1

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Labour Party (UK)

|candidate = Stuart Hinde

|votes = 9

|percentage = 0.7

|change = -7.8

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Independent politician

|candidate = Nigel May

|votes = 3

|percentage = 0.2

|change = -0.9

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 83

|percentage = 6.4

|change = -0.2

}}

{{Election box rejected|

|votes = 0

|percentage = 0.0

|change = -0.2

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1288

|percentage = 27.7

|change = -2.5

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 4658

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Reform UK

|swing =

}}

==References==

Electoral division of Cornwall in the UK

St Columb Minor and Colan
Boundary of St Columb Minor and Colan in Cornwall from 2021.
County	Cornwall
Created	2021 (2021)
Councillor	Vacant
Number of councillors	One

St Columb Minor and Colan is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returns one member to sit on Cornwall Council. It was created at the 2021 local elections. At the 2025 election it was won by Christine Parsonage, a member of Reform UK, who subsequently left Reform UK before resigning as a councillor.^[1]

The division includes the villages of St Columb Minor, Colan and Quintrell Downs, as well as the hamlets of Whipsiderry, Lane, Mountjoy, Trebarber. The division also includes most of the hamlets of Tregurrian and White Cross, which are shared with St Columb Major, St Mawgan and St Wenn and St Dennis and St Enoder respectively.^[2]^[3]

Parsonage, who lives in Torpoint, 40 miles (64 km) from her division, was a paper candidate for Reform UK and did not expect to be elected.^[6] This led to criticism from independent councillors about her ability to represent the division; Parsonage said that living outside of the division “means I don’t have any conflict of interest, so I can speak unencumbered”.^[7] In August 2025, Newquay Town Council, which covers part of the division, wrote to Parsonage asking her to attend town council meetings due to members’ concerns about her “continued absence”.^[8] Parsonage responded that due to her work as a nurse, she could not attend town council meetings in Newquay but highlighted that she attended Cornwall Council meetings and answered correspondence.^[8] In September 2025, it was reported that Parsonage had taken a leave of absence in order to “concentrate on her wellbeing”.^[9] She resigned in October 2025 due to health reasons, triggering a by-election.^[10]

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