Gedling Borough Council election, 2003

May 2003

All 50 seats to Gedling Borough Council 26 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Seats won	21	21	7

	Fourth party

Party	Independent
Seats won	1

Map of the results of the 2003 Gedling council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independent in grey.

The 2003 Gedling Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Gedling Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 reducing the number of seats by 7.^[1] The Conservative party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.^[2]

Background

At the last election in 1999 the Conservatives gained control of the council from the Labour Party with 29 seats, compared to 18 for Labour, 7 Liberal Democrats and 3 independents.^[3]

Boundary changes between 1999 and 2003 reduced the number of seats from 57 to 50.^[3] The changes included removing the wards of Cavendish, Conway and Priory, while creating new wards of Daybrook and Valley.^[4]

Election result

Overall turnout in the election was 32.4%, down from 35.0% in 1999.^[3]

Following the election a power sharing agreement was reached with the Conservative and Labour parties agreeing to share the post of leader of the council.^[5]

Gedling Local Election Result 2003^[6]^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	21			-8	42.0	42.9	29,511
	Labour	21			+2	42.0	41.1	28,321
	Liberal Democrat	7			0	14.0	11.3	7,777
	Independent	1			-1	2.0	4.6	3,160
	Green	0			0	0	0.1	73

Ward results

Bestwood Village^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denis Beeston	306	70.3
	Conservative	Thomas Roach	129	29.7
Majority			177	40.7
Turnout			435	33.5

Bonington (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stella Lane	748
	Labour	Stephen Rigby	735
	Labour	Vivienne McCrossen	703
	Conservative	Terence Pepper	567
	Conservative	Robert Tait	560
	Conservative	Balraj Johal	499
Turnout			3,812	25.9

Burton Joyce & Stoke Bardolph (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patricia Blandamer	551
	Conservative	Alan Bexon	515
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Berry	449
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Ellwood	362
	Labour	Jeanette Johnson	331
	Labour	Brigitte Maguire	301
Turnout			2,509	43.9

Calverton (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Calverton First Independents	William Peet	808
	Labour	James Woodward	786
	Labour	Gareth Griffiths	785
	Calverton First Independents	William Mellors	761
	Labour	Alan Woodward	730
	Calverton First Independents	Grant Withers	716
	Conservative	Mark Winter	383
	Conservative	Simon Massey	314
Turnout			5,283	35.0

Carlton (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Day	712
	Conservative	Wendy Golland	691
	Conservative	Richard Goodwin	681
	Labour	Cheryl Hewlett	653
	Labour	Damian Belshaw	623
	Labour	Barbara Miller	611
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Sowter	299
Turnout			4,270	28.6

Carlton Hill (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Darrell Pulk	942
	Labour	Paul Feeney	939
	Labour	Seamus Creamer	938
	Conservative	Susan Jakeman	601
	Conservative	Peter Foulkes	594
	Conservative	Thomas Butcher	592
Turnout			4,606	29.7

Daybrook (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Barnes	731
	Labour	Sandra Barnes	713
	Conservative	Lorraine Beaumont	308
	Conservative	Michael Smedley	298
Turnout			2,050	28.4

Gedling (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Tunniclife	1,067
	Liberal Democrat	Marguerite Wright	1,060
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Dunkin	970
	Conservative	Edward Godfrey	508
	Conservative	Andrew Bell	489
	Conservative	Kevin Alcock	461
	Labour	Jennifer Hollingsworth	317
	Labour	Allan Leadbeater	303
	Labour	James O'Riordan	269
Turnout			5,444	36.2

Killisick^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harvey Maddock	280	52.7
	Liberal Democrat	Anthony Turner	92	17.3
	Conservative	Derek Smith	86	16.2
	Green	Henry Wheeler	73	13.7
Majority			188	35.4
Turnout			531	28.6

Kingswell (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rodney Kempster	845
	Conservative	Vernon Bradley	749
	Labour	Martin Hall	374
	Labour	Julia Buckby	335
	Independent	Edna Hindle	214
	Independent	Clifford Hindle	179
Turnout			2,696	37.1

Lambley^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roland Spencer	417	74.3
	Labour	Marjorie Paling	144	25.7
Majority			273	48.7
Turnout			561	34.5

Mapperley Plains (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Veronica Pepper	1,013
	Conservative	John Parr	989
	Conservative	Gerald Clarke	979
	Labour	Peter Crossley	607
	Labour	Nicola Brooks	606
	Labour	Alan Hardy	592
Turnout			4,786	28.0

Netherfield & Colwick (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Albert Clarke	768
	Labour	William Clarke	760
	Labour	Christina Lockett	728
	Conservative	Anthony Morris	397
	Conservative	Judith Nicholson	368
	Conservative	Richard Smedley	362
Turnout			3,383	23.3

Newstead^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John McCauley	265	50.1
	Conservative	Bruce Andrews	264	49.9
Majority			1	0.2
Turnout			529	32.9

Phoenix (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ivan Gollop	539
	Liberal Democrat	Raymond Poynter	519
	Labour	Arthur Turney	501
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Hughes	471
	Conservative	Ann Collin	187
	Conservative	Colin Blandamer	186
Turnout			2,403	33.6

Porchester (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Tanner	907
	Conservative	Donald Pycroft	892
	Conservative	Jennifer Spencer	854
	Labour	John Truscott	832
	Labour	Paul Barton	811
	Labour	Leslie Nourse	779
Turnout			5,075	34.0

Ravenshead (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Grainger	1,226
	Conservative	Thambithurai Chandran	1,098
	Conservative	Mark Spencer	1,085
	Labour	Gwilym Griffith	582
	Labour	John Kendrick	564
	Labour	Barrie Bowker	404
Turnout			4,959	37.7

St. James (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Anthony Gillam	654
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Pratt	598
	Conservative	Eric Collin	351
	Conservative	Elaine Goodwin	325
	Labour	Gary Gregory	257
	Labour	Paul Wilkinson	234
Turnout			2,419	25.1

St. Marys (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jennifer Cole	794
	Labour	Grace Millar	779
	Labour	Stewart Ragsdale	762
	Conservative	Magdalen Roach	689
	Conservative	Paul Beaumont	647
	Conservative	Mavis Gunson	639
Turnout			4,310	29.0

Valley (2)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Dunkin	404
	Labour	Christopher Preston	379
	Labour	Daniel Taylor	368
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Swift	353
	Conservative	Wesley Bleakley	208
	Conservative	Bernard Leaper	205
Turnout			1,917	30.6

Woodborough^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Glass	485	79.6
	Labour	Liz Delaney	124	20.4
Majority			361	59.3
Turnout			609	40.0

Woodthorpe (3)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Suzanne Prew-Smith	1,216
	Conservative	Richard Nicholson	1,206
	Conservative	Francis Boot	1,183
	Labour	Ronald McCrossen	613
	Labour	Christine Russell	576
	Labour	Philip Miller	500
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Swift	479
	Independent	Christine Hindle	266
	Independent	David Hindle	216
Turnout			6,255	39.7

References

↑ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
1 2 "Local council election results". The Daily Telegraph. 3 May 2003. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
1 2 3 "Gedling Borough Council elections summary" (PDF). Gedling Borough Council. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Council Elections May 2003". Gedling Borough Council. Archived from the original on 21 April 2003. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Parties Share Power". Gedling Borough Council. Archived from the original on 23 May 2003. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
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