KEN Pollock has been re-elected to Worcestershire County Council for Tenbury.
He was the beneficiary of a very good poll for the Conservatives nationally and in Worcestershire.
After the elections, Ken Pollock is one of 40 Conservative councillors, an increase of 10 providing a comfortable majority.
He received more than 60 per cent of the votes cast with 1,772 people putting the cross against his name.
In second place was Labour’s Jonathan Morgan, a long-serving member of Tenbury Town Council with 551 votes, representing a very respectable return in an area where his party has never done well.
Liberal Democrat Elaine Drage was third with 255 votes, a disappointing result in a division where they might have expected to at least come second.
The Green Party candidate Stephen Mann got 192 votes just 12 ahead of UKIP’s Malcolm Delingpole for whom, in line with the national picture, it was a bad day.
Now Ken Pollock, who had an economic development role in the last administration, will have to see if he is given a portfolio.
Another local Conservative with cause to celebrate is Phil Grove, who shares his time between Malvern Hills District Council, where he represents Tenbury and is leader and Worcestershire County Council.
The former policeman was returned to the county council as member Hallow.
Phil Grove finds himself very much back in the Conservative fold at County Hall after, at one time, falling out with the party leadership when, as member of the Fire Authority, he refused to support a decision to remove the second fire engine from Tenbury.
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