West Oxfordshire: Grassroots politics won the day in west Oxfordshire when Harriet Ryley took a seat on a single issue - the fight to stop a superstore developing Witney's Marriotts Close.
Harriet Ryley celebrates
She said: "This vindicates the strength of feeling in the town.
"I'm delighted and will follow this through within the council."
Although the Tories lost two other seats to the Lib Dems, they held on to control of the council, with a reduced margin of nine.
In Chipping Norton, Labour's Eve Coles managed to hold her seat, while her fellow candidates elsewhere were less successful.
The Greens put up nine candidates, including one in each of the five Witney wards, but without success. Richard Dossett-Davies, who polled 208 votes in Witney North, said: "We're pleased with the showing in some areas. "
A third of the council's 49 seats went to the polls, contested by 53 candidates. Conservatives won 9, Liberal Democrats 4, Independent 2, Labour 1. The Conservative now hold 29 seats, Lib Dems 12, Independent 6 , Labour 2.
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