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West Suffolk 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

129 of 274 Councils

Councillors

65

Overall

84%

Average

82%

Median

86%

Perfect (100%)

8

Below 75%

16

Attendance trend by party

Conservative
Labour
Independent
West Suffolk Independents
Reform UK
100%90%80%70%3 Years2 YearsCurrent Year84%84%86%85%85%88%82%81%78%82%82%82%86%86%83%

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

Attendance by party

Conservative(25)
86%
Labour(15)
88%
Independent(11)
78%
West Suffolk Independents(7)
82%
Reform UK(3)
83%
Unknown(2)
78%

Attendance distribution

90-100%
24
80-89%
17
70-79%
12
60-69%
6
Below 60%
6

Highest attendance

Lowest attendance

  1. 38%
  2. 2

    Councillor Michael Anderson

    West Suffolk Independents

    50%
  3. 53%

All councillors

Showing 65 of 65 councillors

#NamePartyMeetingsAttendanceStatus
1Councillor Peter Armitage
Labour
17/17
100%
Good
2Councillor Sarah Broughton
Conservative
11/11
100%
Good
3Councillor Carol Bull
Conservative
25/25
100%
Good
4Councillor Pat Hanlon
Labour
12/12
100%
Good
5Councillor Gerald Kelly
Independent
18/18
100%
Good
6Councillor Joe Mason
Conservative
14/14
100%
Good
7Councillor Cliff Waterman
Labour
17/17
100%
Good
8Councillor Adrian Whittle
Reform UK
3/3
100%
Good
9Councillor Mike Chester
Conservative
25/26
96%
Good
10Councillor Susan Glossop
Conservative
23/24
96%
Good
11Councillor Andrew Smith
Conservative
24/25
96%
Good
12Councillor David Taylor
West Suffolk Independents
22/23
96%
Good
13Councillor Sara Mildmay-White
Conservative
19/20
95%
Good
14Councillor Indy Wijenayaka
Labour
19/20
95%
Good
15Councillor Jon London
Liberal Democrats
17/18
94%
Good
16Councillor Richard O'Driscoll
Labour
17/18
94%
Good
17Councillor Janne Jarvis
Labour
13/14
93%
Good
18Councillor Frank Stennett
Independent
13/14
93%
Good
19Councillor Charlie Lynch
Conservative
11/12
92%
Good
20Councillor Margaret Marks
Conservative
11/12
92%
Good
21Councillor Patrick Chung
Conservative
10/11
91%
Good
22Councillor Kevin Yarrow
Labour
10/11
91%
Good
23Councillor Tony Brown
Independent
9/10
90%
Good
24Councillor Victor Lukaniuk
West Suffolk Independents
19/21
90%
Good
25Councillor Jo Rayner
Conservative
8/9
89%
Fair
26Councillor Jools Savage
Independent
8/9
89%
Fair
27Councillor Roger Dicker
West Suffolk Independents
22/25
88%
Fair
28Councillor Diane Hind
Labour
15/17
88%
Fair
29Councillor Ian Shipp
Independent
15/17
88%
Fair
30Councillor Donna Higgins
Labour
20/23
87%
Fair
31Councillor Ian Houlder
Reform UK
20/23
87%
Fair
32Councillor John Griffiths MBE
Conservative
6/7
86%
Fair
33Councillor Sarah Pugh
Conservative
6/7
86%
Fair
34Councillor David Smith
Labour
18/21
86%
Fair
35Councillor Sarah Stamp
Conservative
6/7
86%
Fair
36Councillor Beccy Hopfensperger
Conservative
10/12
83%
Fair
37Councillor Andrew Martin
Labour
9/11
82%
Fair
38Councillor Marion Rushbrook
Conservative
9/11
82%
Fair
39Councillor Liz Smith
Labour
9/11
82%
Fair
40Councillor Birgitte Mager
Conservative
13/16
81%
Fair
41Councillor Andy Drummond
Conservative
8/10
80%
Fair
42Councillor Richard Alecock
Unknown
11/14
79%
Fair
43Councillor Richard Alecock
Independent
11/14
79%
Fair
44Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones
Unknown
14/18
78%
Fair
45Councillor Andy Neal
Independent
18/23
78%
Fair
46Councillor Marilyn Sayer
Labour
18/23
78%
Fair
47Councillor Phil Wittam
West Suffolk Independents
14/18
78%
Fair
48Councillor Don Waldron
Reform UK
20/26
77%
Fair
49Councillor Rowena Lindberg
Labour
9/12
75%
Fair
50Councillor John Augustine
Conservative
8/11
73%
Low
51Councillor Mick Bradshaw
West Suffolk Independents
5/7
71%
Low
52Councillor Nick Clarke
Conservative
5/7
71%
Low
53Councillor Richard Rout
Conservative
5/7
71%
Low
54Councillor Jim Thorndyke
Independent
18/26
69%
Low
55Councillor Andrew Speed
Conservative
5/8
63%
Low
56Councillor Luke Halpin
Labour
8/13
62%
Low
57Councillor Karen Richardson
Conservative
8/13
62%
Low
58Councillor Dawn Dicker
West Suffolk Independents
6/10
60%
Low
59Councillor Aaron Luccarini
Independent
6/10
60%
Low
60Councillor Paul Firman
Independent
4/7
57%
Low
61Councillor Karen Soons
Conservative
4/7
57%
Low
62Councillor Julia Wakelam
Green Party
7/13
54%
Low
63Councillor Rachel Hood
Conservative
10/19
53%
Low
64Councillor Michael Anderson
West Suffolk Independents
4/8
50%
Low
65Councillor Tracy Whitehand
Independent
5/13
38%
Poor