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The 2003 Castle Point Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes increased the number of seats by 2.[1] The Conservative party gained overall control of the council from the Labour party.[2]
Election result
[edit]The Conservatives took control of the council after gaining 22 seats to have 39 of the 41 councillors.[3] Meanwhile, Labour was reduced to only 2 councillors after losing 19 seats.[3] Overall turnout at the election was 26.8%, down from 32% at the 1999 election.[4]
Among the Labour councillors to be defeated were the leader of the council Dave Wells and the mayor Charles Smith.[5]
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 39 | +22 | 95.1 | 60.8 | 31,753 | ||||
Labour | 2 | -19 | 4.9 | 37.6 | 19,641 | ||||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 621 | ||||
Independent | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0.3 | 178 | ||||
Socialist Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 47 |
Ward results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Eugene Egan | 864 | |||
Conservative | Pamela Freeman | 840 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Skipp | 830 | |||
Labour | Michael Gamble | 615 | |||
Labour | John Trollope | 587 | |||
Labour | Lorna Trollope | 566 | |||
Turnout | 4,302 | 30.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Wendy Goodwin | 1,069 | |||
Conservative | Gail Boland | 1,039 | |||
Conservative | Christopher Freeman | 1,014 | |||
Labour | John Hart | 390 | |||
Labour | Frank Callow | 380 | |||
Labour | Gilian Wilson | 372 | |||
Turnout | 4,264 | 28.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blackwell | 621 | |||
Conservative | Jane King | 586 | |||
Labour | Terry Blackwell | 584 | |||
Conservative | Laurence Martin | 578 | |||
Conservative | Terry Sessions | 556 | |||
Labour | Barry Dixie | 551 | |||
Turnout | 3,476 | 22.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Coates | 655 | |||
Conservative | Shirley Coates | 633 | |||
Conservative | Lionel Hart | 629 | |||
Labour | Jackie Reilly | 593 | |||
Labour | Mark Reilly | 561 | |||
Labour | Sarah Beales | 542 | |||
Green | Christopher Keene | 135 | |||
Turnout | 3,748 | 25.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Matthew Howard | 560 | |||
Conservative | Patricia Haunts | 511 | |||
Conservative | Heather Searle | 510 | |||
Labour | John Payne | 449 | |||
Labour | William Deal | 448 | |||
Labour | Kenneth Finch | 433 | |||
Turnout | 2,911 | 20.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mark Howard | 855 | |||
Conservative | Sylvia Waymark | 818 | |||
Conservative | Jeffrey Stanley | 791 | |||
Labour | Mike Curham | 477 | |||
Labour | Adrian Fletcher | 457 | |||
Labour | Lynne Fletcher | 447 | |||
Green | Clifford Hughes | 152 | |||
Turnout | 3,997 | 27.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Raymond Howard | 902 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Belford | 769 | |||
Labour | Christine Andrews | 190 | |||
Labour | Heidi Cox | 182 | |||
Green | Irene Willis | 75 | |||
Turnout | 2,118 | 29.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Norman Bambridge | 575 | |||
Conservative | Dorothy Best | 563 | |||
Conservative | Lance Munt | 517 | |||
Labour | Katie Curtis | 373 | |||
Labour | Jane David | 366 | |||
Labour | William Green | 355 | |||
Independent | Norman Garnett | 178 | |||
Socialist Alliance | Robert Chapman | 47 | |||
Turnout | 2,974 | 20.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Burch | 967 | |||
Conservative | Norman Smith | 931 | |||
Conservative | Norman Ladzrie | 914 | |||
Labour | Jennifer Howlett | 434 | |||
Labour | George Wilson | 418 | |||
Labour | Charles Smith | 416 | |||
Turnout | 4,080 | 30.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jacqueline Govier | 720 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Cole | 689 | |||
Conservative | Terence Turpin | 653 | |||
Labour | Joseph Cooke | 642 | |||
Labour | David Wells | 626 | |||
Labour | Roy English | 606 | |||
Turnout | 3,936 | 28.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tony Thomas | 964 | |||
Conservative | Godfrey Isaacs | 884 | |||
Conservative | W Sharp | 799 | |||
Labour | John West | 361 | |||
Labour | Godfrey Harris | 352 | |||
Labour | Harry Brett | 345 | |||
Green | Douglas Copping | 259 | |||
Turnout | 3,964 | 28.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kathleen Meager | 764 | |||
Conservative | Lisa Preston | 734 | |||
Conservative | David Cross | 719 | |||
Labour | Brian Wilson | 715 | |||
Labour | Anthony Wright | 686 | |||
Labour | Daniel Regan | 685 | |||
Turnout | 4,303 | 29.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Dick | 948 | |||
Conservative | Pamela Challis | 924 | |||
Conservative | Beverley Egan | 912 | |||
Labour | John Hawkins | 564 | |||
Labour | Matthew Thomas | 508 | |||
Labour | Adrian Hobden | 481 | |||
Turnout | 4,337 | 29.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Riley | 868 | |||
Conservative | Clifford Brunt | 861 | |||
Conservative | Enid Isaacs | 838 | |||
Labour | Frederick Jones | 433 | |||
Labour | Robert Peters | 427 | |||
Labour | Philip Brunt | 403 | |||
Turnout | 3,830 | 29.1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ^ "Election Results - English Councils". The Times. NewsBank. 2 May 2003. p. 17.
- ^ a b Johnston, Philip (3 May 2003). "Tories back in charge in former true-blue towns: Conservatives". The Daily Telegraph. NewsBank.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Castle Point Borough Council election results May 2003" (PDF). Castle Point Borough Council. Political Science Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ^ "South Essex: It's a blue day as Tories run riot". Essex County Publications. NewsBank. 2 May 2003.
- ^ "Election results". Financial Times. NewsBank. 2 May 2003. p. 4.