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Ashford Borough Council

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

199 of 274 Councils

Councillors

47

Overall

80%

Average

77%

Median

82%

Perfect (100%)

4

Below 75%

17

Attendance trend by party

Conservative
Green Party
Ashford Independent
Labour
Independent
100%90%80%70%60%50%3 Years2 YearsCurrent Year79%77%72%75%76%80%91%90%89%83%81%81%67%65%64%

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Conservative(16)
72%
Green Party(11)
80%
Ashford Independent(9)
89%
Labour(8)
81%
Independent(3)
64%

Attendance distribution

90-100%
14
80-89%
13
70-79%
6
60-69%
5
Below 60%
9

Highest attendance

  1. 100%
  2. 2

    Cllr Aline Hicks

    Conservative

    100%
  3. 3

    Cllr Guy Pullen

    Green Party

    100%

Lowest attendance

  1. 1

    Cllr Pam Smith

    Conservative

    27%
  2. 2
    42%
  3. 3

    Cllr Ben Townend

    Ashford Independent

    43%

All councillors

Showing 47 of 47 councillors

#NamePartyMeetingsAttendanceStatus
1Cllr Tania Gauder
Labour
8/8
100%
Good
2Cllr Aline Hicks
Conservative
8/8
100%
Good
3Cllr Guy Pullen
Green Party
3/3
100%
Good
4Cllr Lyn Suddards
Labour
7/7
100%
Good
5Cllr Simon Betty
Ashford Independent
33/34
97%
Good
6Cllr Linda Harman
Ashford Independent
37/38
97%
Good
7Cllr Noel Ovenden
Ashford Independent
29/30
97%
Good
8Cllr Steve Campkin
Green Party
22/23
96%
Good
9Cllr Paul Bartlett
Conservative
18/19
95%
Good
10Cllr Jessamy Blanford
Conservative
15/16
94%
Good
11Cllr David Ledger
Ashford Independent
22/24
92%
Good
12Cllr Winston Michael
Ashford Independent
22/24
92%
Good
13Cllr Euan Anckorn
Labour
9/10
90%
Good
14Cllr Alan Pickering
Conservative
9/10
90%
Good
15Cllr Kate Leavey
Green Party
8/9
89%
Fair
16Cllr Yvonne Roden
Conservative
14/16
88%
Fair
17Cllr Charles Suddards
Labour
13/15
87%
Fair
18Cllr Bernard Heyes
Conservative
19/22
86%
Fair
19Cllr Geoff Meaden
Green Party
19/22
86%
Fair
20Cllr Liz Wright
Green Party
18/21
86%
Fair
21Cllr Sally Gathern
Labour
16/19
84%
Fair
22Cllr Peter Feacey
Conservative
19/23
83%
Fair
23Cllr Katrina Giles
Green Party
20/24
83%
Fair
24Cllr Alan Dean
Green Party
14/17
82%
Fair
25Cllr Ray McGeever
Ashford Independent
22/27
81%
Fair
26Cllr Clive Hallett
Labour
8/10
80%
Fair
27Cllr Diccon Spain
Labour
16/20
80%
Fair
28Cllr Heather Hayward
Ashford Independent
19/24
79%
Fair
29Cllr Jo Gambling
Green Party
10/13
77%
Fair
30Cllr Johnny Shilton
Conservative
12/16
75%
Fair
31Cllr Kayleigh Brunger-Randall
Independent
10/14
71%
Low
32Cllr Nathan Iliffe
Conservative
5/7
71%
Low
33Cllr Katy Pauley
Ashford Independent
5/7
71%
Low
34Cllr Ken Mulholland
Conservative
11/16
69%
Low
35Cllr Brendan Chilton
Labour
23/34
68%
Low
36Cllr Al Arnold
Green Party
9/14
64%
Low
37Cllr Bill Barrett
Independent
7/11
64%
Low
38Cllr Dawnie Nilsson
Green Party
12/19
63%
Low
39Cllr Clair Bell
Conservative
8/14
57%
Low
40Cllr Neil Bell
Conservative
9/16
56%
Low
41Cllr Andrew Buchanan
Independent
6/11
55%
Low
42Cllr John Link
Conservative
4/9
44%
Poor
43Cllr Thom Pizzey
Green Party
4/9
44%
Poor
44Cllr Larry Krause
Conservative
6/14
43%
Poor
45Cllr Ben Townend
Ashford Independent
3/7
43%
Poor
46Cllr Matthew Forest
Conservative
5/12
42%
Poor
47Cllr Pam Smith
Conservative
3/11
27%
Poor