Bedford Borough Council

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- Data is scraped periodically from council websites.
- Current data covers 23 February 2025 to 23 February 2026.
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Council Ranking

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Councillors

Overall

86%

Average

86%

Median

88%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Independent

Liberal Democrat

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)

85%

Liberal Democrats(11)

90%

Independent(3)

83%

Liberal Democrat(2)

98%

Green(2)

91%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Henry Vann
Liberal Democrat
100%
2
Paul Edmonds
Green
100%
3
Wendy Rider MBE
Liberal Democrats
97%

Lowest attendance

1
Alison Foster
Conservative
55%
2
Mohammed Mahboob Din
Independent
60%
3
Graeme Coombes
Conservative
71%

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#	Councillor	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Henry Vann Liberal Democrat	21/21	100%	Good
2	Paul Edmonds Green	17/17	100%	Good
3	Wendy Rider MBE Liberal Democrats	30/31	97%	Good
4	Jonathan Abbott Liberal Democrats	32/33	97%	Good
5	Robert Rigby Conservative	44/46	96%	Good
6	Michael Headley Liberal Democrat	24/25	96%	Good
7	Max Royden Liberal Democrats	25/26	96%	Good
8	Lucy Bywater Green Party	41/43	95%	Good
9	Caroline White Green Party	31/33	94%	Good
10	Zara Layne Labour	30/32	94%	Good
11	Doug McMurdo Independent	34/36	94%	Good
12	Christine McHugh Liberal Democrats	37/40	93%	Good
13	Mohammed Masud Labour	25/27	93%	Good
14	Sharan Sira Conservative	25/27	93%	Good
15	Sue Abood Liberal Democrats	35/38	92%	Good
16	Carl Meader Labour	22/24	92%	Good
17	Martin Towler Conservative	43/47	91%	Good
18	Fouzia Zamir Atiq Labour	19/21	90%	Good
19	Dylan Simmons Conservative	40/45	89%	Fair
20	Jane Walker Conservative	34/38	89%	Fair
21	Hilde Hendrickx Liberal Democrats	31/35	89%	Fair
22	Harish Thapar Labour	31/35	89%	Fair
23	Nicola Gribble Independent	24/27	89%	Fair
24	James Weir Conservative	35/40	88%	Fair
25	Nesreen Akhtar Labour	23/26	88%	Fair
26	David Sawyer Liberal Democrats	23/26	88%	Fair
27	Mayor Tom Wootton Conservative	26/30	87%	Fair
28	James Valentine Labour	26/30	87%	Fair
29	Tim Caswell Liberal Democrats	20/23	87%	Fair
30	Leigh Coombs Liberal Democrats	25/29	86%	Fair
31	Marc Frost Conservative	32/37	86%	Fair
32	Ben Foley Green	22/26	85%	Fair
33	Sue Oliver Labour	27/33	82%	Fair
34	Andrea Spice Conservative	47/57	82%	Fair
35	Ralley Rahman Labour	22/27	81%	Fair
36	Charles Royden Liberal Democrats	17/21	81%	Fair
37	John Wheeler Conservative	24/30	80%	Fair
38	Phillippa Martin-Moran-Bryant Conservative	22/28	79%	Fair
39	Colleen Atkins Labour	29/37	78%	Fair
40	Jon Gambold Conservative	28/36	78%	Fair
41	Mohammed Nawaz Labour	20/26	77%	Fair
42	Abu Sultan Labour	21/28	75%	Fair
43	Sarah Gallagher Conservative	33/45	73%	Low
44	Dean Crofts Liberal Democrats	16/22	73%	Low
45	Graeme Coombes Conservative	29/41	71%	Low
46	Mohammed Mahboob Din Independent	15/25	60%	Low
47	Alison Foster Conservative	17/31	55%	Low