With the May 2nd Local Elections for Scarborough Borough Council just around the corner, now seems like a good time to review Councillor meeting attendance figures for the current four year term (2015-2019). The Councillors are listed in order of the largest percentage absence. All data taken from the SBC website.
Column 1: Name of Councillor
Column 2: Name of Party
Column 3: Standing in Ward 2019 (Blank – Standing Down)
Column 4: Number of Meetings Expected
Column 5: Number of Meetings Apologies Received
Column 6: Number of Meetings Absent
Column 7: Percentage of Meetings Absent
| COUNCILLOR | PARTY | 2019 WARD | EXP | APOL | # AB | % AB |
| Roxanne Murphy | Independent | Seamer | 49 | 14 | 26 | 53% |
| Norman Murphy | Independent | Northstead | 58 | 19 | 31 | 53% |
| Alf Abbott | Conservative | Whitby West Cliff | 65 | 28 | 33 | 51% |
| Luke Backhouse | Conservative | 44 | 18 | 20 | 45% | |
| Colin Haddington | Independent | Filey | 78 | 30 | 35 | 45% |
| Callum Walsh | Conservative | Weaponness & Ramshill | 48 | 16 | 18 | 38% |
| David Billing | Labour | Derwent Valley & Moor | 110 | 34 | 35 | 32% |
| Steve Siddons | Labour | Weaponness & Ramshill | 121 | 33 | 39 | 32% |
| Andrew Backhouse | Conservative | Burniston & Cloughton | 44 | 12 | 17 | 31% |
| David Jeffels | Conservative | Derwent Valley & Moor | 94 | 25 | 26 | 28% |
| Jonathan Dodds | Independent | 96 | 19 | 26 | 27% | |
| Mark Vesey | Green | 46 | 12 | 12 | 26% | |
| David Chance | Conservative | Mayfield | 100 | 23 | 24 | 24% |
| John Ritchie | Labour | 55 | 12 | 14 | 24% | |
| Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff | Independent | Hunmanby | 46 | 5 | 11 | 24% |
| Paul Cross | Labour | 55 | 6 | 12 | 22% | |
| Phil Trumper | Conservative | Esk Valley | 88 | 17 | 19 | 22% |
| Gerald Dennett | Labour | Mayfield | 68 | 12 | 14 | 21% |
| Sam Cross | Independent | Filey | 61 | 9 | 12 | 20% |
| Eric Broadbent | Labour | Northstead | 88 | 13 | 16 | 18% |
| Guy Coulson | Conservative | Esk Valley | 55 | 9 | 10 | 18% |
| Rob Barnett | Labour | 45 | 6 | 8 | 18% | |
| Godfrey Allanson | Conservative | Hunmanby | 118 | 18 | 20 | 17% |
| Liz Colling | Labour | Falsgrave & Stepney | 59 | 9 | 10 | 17% |
| Marion Watson | Conservative | Danby & Mulgrave | 35 | 4 | 5 | 14% |
| Tony Randerson | Labour | Eastfield | 59 | 8 | 8 | 14% |
| Richard Moody | Labour | Woodlands | 95 | 8 | 12 | 13% |
| John Warburton | Labour | 60 | 4 | 7 | 12% | |
| Andrew Jenkinson | Conservative | 78 | 7 | 9 | 12% | |
| Neil Price | Labour | Northstead | 132 | 16 | 16 | 12% |
| Derek Bastiman | Conservative | Scalby | 80 | 9 | 9 | 11% |
| Lynn Bastiman | Conservative | Newby | 63 | 6 | 7 | 11% |
| Joe Plant | Conservative | 73 | 7 | 7 | 10% | |
| Simon Green | Conservative | Cayton | 112 | 7 | 11 | 10% |
| Dily Cluer | Green | 97 | 9 | 10 | 10% | |
| Janet Jefferson | Independent | Castle | 50 | 5 | 5 | 10% |
| Tom Fox | Conservative | Weaponness & Ramshill | 65 | 6 | 6 | 9% |
| Vanda Inman | Independent | 74 | 4 | 7 | 9% | |
| Sandra Turner | Conservative | Streonshalh | 84 | 7 | 7 | 8% |
| Hazel Lynskey | Conservative | Scalby | 99 | 7 | 7 | 7% |
| Carl Maw | Labour | Castle | 35 | 2 | 2 | 6% |
| Mike Cockerill | Independent | Filey | 77 | 4 | 4 | 5% |
| Bill Chatt | Independent | Woodlands | 81 | 2 | 4 | 5% |
| Clive Pearson | Conservative | Danby & Mulgrave | 131 | 7 | 7 | 5% |
| Jane Mortimer | Conservative | Fyingdales & Ravenscar | 132 | 7 | 7 | 5% |
| Heather Phillips | Conservative | Derwent Valley & Moor | 69 | 3 | 3 | 4% |
| Helen Mallory | Conservative | Seamer | 83 | 3 | 3 | 4% |
| Martin Smith | Conservative | Northstead | 129 | 5 | 5 | 4% |
| John Nock | Conservative | Whitby West Cliff | 99 | 3 | 3 | 3% |
| Roberta Swiers | Conservative | Cayton | 118 | 3 | 3 | 3% |
