Faversham Town Council has its first Labour councillor for 11 years.

There will be some new faces on the council, which is now made up of 13 Conservatives and lone Labour man Trevor Payne.

He will replace Lloyd Hobbard-Mitchell who lost his seat.

The town stuck to its guns with no change to the political makeup of Swale Borough Council’s Faversham seats.

A total of 40.6% of people turned out to vote for their local councillors.

The Conservatives held onto all their seats for the area, as did Liberal Democrat Mike Henderson.

Overall the Borough Council will stay blue.

The council is made up of 32 Conservatives, a loss of one seat, there are now 13 Labour councillors, which is a gain of three seats.

The Swale Lib Dems, matched the national picture and took a bit of a battering with only one councillor left standing for the party, having lost two of their seats.

One independent councillor remains.

Swale Borough Council Faversham results:

Watling - David Simmons (Con) 979, Ted Wilcox (Con) 941 - Con hold

Turn out - 47.6%

Teynham and Lynsted - Rick Barnicott (Con) 857, Lloyd Bowen (Con) 940 - Con hold

Turn out - 42.4%

St Ann’s - Mike Cosgrove (Con) 906, John Coulter (Con) 854 - Con hold

Turn out - 47.5%

Davington Priory - Mike Henderson (Lib Dem) 360 - Lib Dem hold

Turn out - 44.1%

East Downs - Colin Prescott (Con) 731 - Con hold

Turn out - 53.3%

Boughton and Courtenay - George Bobbin (Con) 1187, Andrew Bowles (Con) 1291 - Con hold

Turn out - 49.1%

Abbey - Bryan Mulhern (Con) 759, Anita Walker (Con) 682 - Con hold

Turn out - 40.1%

Faversham Town Council results:

Davington - Andy Culham (Con) 388, Jane Hawkins (Con) 389

St Ann’s - Trevor Abram (Con) 818, John Coulter (Con) 938, Tom Gates (Con) 970, Nigel Kay (Con) 780

Watling - Sheil Campbell (Con) 944, Cindy Davis (Con) 1117, David Simmons (Con) 1039, Ted Wilcox (Con) 1031

Abbey - Michael Gates (Con) 829, Bryan Mulhern (Con) 783, Trevor Payne (Lab) 742, Anita Walker (Con) 752

See next week's Faversham News for full report and reaction.