Bedford 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

40 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

87%

Average

87%

Median

89%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Independent

Green Party

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

Attendance by party

Conservative(15)

83%

Labour(12)

86%

Liberal Democrats(11)

91%

Independent(3)

83%

Green Party(2)

97%

Green(2)

92%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Councillor Lucy Bywater
Green Party
100%
2
Councillor Paul Edmonds
Green
100%
3
Councillor Michael Headley
Liberal Democrat
100%

Lowest attendance

1
Councillor Mohammed Mahboob Din
Independent
52%
2
Councillor Alison Foster
Conservative
66%
3
Councillor Graeme Coombes
Conservative
68%

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#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Councillor Lucy Bywater	Green Party	44/44	100%	Good
2	Councillor Paul Edmonds	Green	17/17	100%	Good
3	Councillor Michael Headley	Liberal Democrat	21/21	100%	Good
4	Councillor Henry Vann	Liberal Democrat	20/20	100%	Good
5	Councillor Jonathan Abbott	Liberal Democrats	29/30	97%	Good
6	Councillor Wendy Rider MBE	Liberal Democrats	28/29	97%	Good
7	Councillor Nicola Gribble	Independent	26/27	96%	Good
8	Councillor Mohammed Masud	Labour	24/25	96%	Good
9	Councillor Robert Rigby	Conservative	48/50	96%	Good
10	Councillor Max Royden	Liberal Democrats	24/25	96%	Good
11	Councillor Fouzia Zamir Atiq	Labour	19/20	95%	Good
12	Councillor Doug McMurdo	Independent	33/35	94%	Good
13	Councillor Caroline White	Green Party	33/35	94%	Good
14	Councillor Leigh Coombs	Liberal Democrats	27/29	93%	Good
15	Councillor Zara Layne	Labour	27/29	93%	Good
16	Councillor Christine McHugh	Liberal Democrats	35/38	92%	Good
17	Councillor David Sawyer	Liberal Democrats	24/26	92%	Good
18	Councillor Sharan Sira	Conservative	23/25	92%	Good
19	Councillor Sue Abood	Liberal Democrats	31/34	91%	Good
20	Councillor Hilde Hendrickx	Liberal Democrats	31/34	91%	Good
21	Councillor Martin Towler	Conservative	39/43	91%	Good
22	Councillor Carl Meader	Labour	19/21	90%	Good
23	Councillor Jane Walker	Conservative	35/39	90%	Good
24	Councillor Marc Frost	Conservative	31/35	89%	Fair
25	Councillor Nesreen Akhtar	Labour	21/24	88%	Fair
26	Councillor Colleen Atkins	Labour	30/34	88%	Fair
27	Mayor Tom Wootton	Conservative	26/30	87%	Fair
28	Councillor Harish Thapar	Labour	27/31	87%	Fair
29	Councillor Tim Caswell	Liberal Democrats	19/22	86%	Fair
30	Councillor Ben Foley	Green	18/21	86%	Fair
31	Councillor Dylan Simmons	Conservative	37/43	86%	Fair
32	Councillor James Weir	Conservative	34/40	85%	Fair
33	Councillor Charles Royden	Liberal Democrats	16/19	84%	Fair
34	Councillor Andrea Spice	Conservative	48/57	84%	Fair
35	Councillor Jon Gambold	Conservative	30/36	83%	Fair
36	Councillor James Valentine	Labour	25/30	83%	Fair
37	Councillor Sue Oliver	Labour	27/33	82%	Fair
38	Councillor Abu Sultan	Labour	20/25	80%	Fair
39	Councillor John Wheeler	Conservative	24/30	80%	Fair
40	Councillor Mohammed Nawaz	Labour	21/27	78%	Fair
41	Councillor Ralley Rahman	Labour	18/23	78%	Fair
42	Councillor Phillippa Martin-Moran-Bryant	Conservative	19/25	76%	Fair
43	Councillor Dean Crofts	Liberal Democrats	14/20	70%	Low
44	Councillor Sarah Gallagher	Conservative	33/47	70%	Low
45	Councillor Graeme Coombes	Conservative	26/38	68%	Low
46	Councillor Alison Foster	Conservative	19/29	66%	Low
47	Councillor Mohammed Mahboob Din	Independent	13/25	52%	Low