Harlow District Council election, 2002

Map of the results of the 2002 Harlow District Council election. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Labour in red.

The 2002 Harlow District Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 9.^[1] The Labour party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.^[2]

Background

Before the election Labour controlled the council with 25 councillors, compared to 8 each for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, while there was 1 independent councillor.^[3] Boundary changes took effect for the 2002 election, reducing the number of councillors from 42 to 33 and the number of wards from 16 to 11 and meaning that the whole council was to be elected.^[3]

11 Labour and 1 Conservative councillors stood down at the election, including the Labour assistant leader Derek Fenny and a former council chairman Terry Abel.^[4]

Election result

Labour were reduced by 16 seats and thereby lost overall control of the council.^[5] Overall turnout at the election was 36.84%.^[6]

Following the election the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders, Andrew Johnson and Lorna Spenceley, made an agreement to be joint leaders of the council.^[7]

Harlow local election result 2002^[2]^[6]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	12			+4	36.4	31.8	19,201	-4.2%
	Liberal Democrat	12			+4	36.4	29.7	17,943	+3.5%
	Labour	9			-16	27.3	37.7	22,752	+1.5%
	Socialist Alliance	0			0	0	0.6	363	+0.6%
	Independent	0			-1	0	0.2	118	+0.2%

Ward results

Bush Fair (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Eleanor Macy	1,086
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Robins	1,082
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Millington	1,071
	Labour	David Cameron	868
	Labour	Alan Jones	845
	Labour	John Sullivan	838
	Conservative	Kevin Bailey	224
	Conservative	David Carter	219
	Conservative	Simon O’Connor	215
	Socialist Alliance	Peter Brown	87
Turnout			6,535	40

Church Langley (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samantha Warren	1,164
	Conservative	Simon Carter	1,125
	Conservative	Anthony Hall	1,110
	Labour	Tina Baker	340
	Labour	Grace Matthews	273
	Labour	Jacqueline Sully	268
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Clements	192
	Liberal Democrat	Zena Faccini	175
	Liberal Democrat	Kuzna Jackson	158
Turnout			4,805	28

Great Parndon (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Jolles	894
	Conservative	Edward Johnson	892
	Conservative	Patrick McClarnon	892
	Labour	Edmund Gray	725
	Labour	Robert Eschle	696
	Labour	Feroz Khan	656
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Glendenning	281
	Liberal Democrat	Lesley Rideout	274
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Tinsley	257
Turnout			5,567	36

Harlow Common (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Hulcoop	947
	Labour	Gregory Peck	867
	Labour	Mark Wilkinson	863
	Conservative	Nora Arnott	760
	Conservative	Pamela Norton	736
	Conservative	Richard Glover	699
	Liberal Democrat	Audrey Curran	341
	Liberal Democrat	Stanley Curran	323
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Mabey	321
Turnout			5,857	39

Little Parndon and Hare Street (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Leslie Bayliss	911
	Labour	John Jesse	884
	Labour	John Cave	859
	Conservative	Charles Ross	446
	Conservative	Sandra Crame	426
	Conservative	Vivien Ross	410
	Liberal Democrat	David Cholerton	390
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Lawton	350
	Liberal Democrat	Marion Dyer	311
	Socialist Alliance	John Hobbs	175
Turnout			5,162	34

Mark Hall (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Steer	1,098
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Shepherd	1,091
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Macy	1,075
	Labour	Edith Morris	791
	Labour	Sean Folan	782
	Labour	Caroline Carter	772
	Conservative	Judith Carter	276
	Conservative	Nicholas Carter	269
	Conservative	Emma Thomas	255
Turnout			6,409	42.5

Netteswell (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Thurston	1,066
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Jackson	1,060
	Liberal Democrat	James Pailing	1,041
	Labour	Suzanne Ennifer	683
	Labour	Sandra Rootsey	653
	Labour	Valerie Sear	643
	Conservative	Alan Johnstone	242
	Conservative	Eileen Johnstone	234
	Conservative	Matthew Warren	206
	Socialist Alliance	Anthony Sullivan	101
Turnout			5,929	37.5

Old Harlow (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Garnett	963
	Conservative	Christopher Ford	945
	Conservative	Sue Livings	878
	Labour	Charles Cochrane	735
	Labour	Paul Bellairs	645
	Labour	Patricia Larkin	645
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Barton	273
	Liberal Democrat	Simon MacNeill	272
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Westlake	205
Turnout			5,561	41

Staple Tye (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Lorna Spenceley	869
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Lawton	867
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Faccini	823
	Labour	Godfrey Hocking	329
	Labour	Jenny Holland	324
	Labour	Philip Liddle	305
	Conservative	Guy Mitchinson	245
	Conservative	Patricia Rauch	237
	Conservative	Robert Rauch	225
Turnout			4,224	28

Sumners and Kingsmoor (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nicholas Churchill	742
	Conservative	Mark Gough	714
	Conservative	Andrew Johnson	700
	Labour	Derek Eardley	634
	Labour	Valerie Clark	626
	Labour	Robert Long	623
	Liberal Democrat	Pauline Bell	232
	Liberal Democrat	Harry Ackland-Snow	208
	Liberal Democrat	Clive Enders	189
	Independent	Christopher Hill	118
Turnout			4,786	30

Toddbrook (3 seats)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Collyer	947
	Labour	Kevin Brooks	897
	Labour	Robert Davis	878
	Conservative	Muriel Jolles	643
	Conservative	Andrew Shannon	620
	Conservative	Craig Thomas	595
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Cayford	339
	Liberal Democrat	Molly White	330
	Liberal Democrat	David Wright	293
Turnout			5,542	36

References

↑ "Harlow". BBC News Online. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
1 2 "Election results - Local Elections". The Times (NewsBank). 3 May 2002. p. 6. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 "Harlow Council election preview". Greater London, Kent, and Surrey Counties Publications (NewsBank). 1 May 2002. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "Councillors on the move". Greater London, Kent, and Surrey Counties Publications (NewsBank). 16 April 2002. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ McSmith, Andy; Britten, Nick (3 May 2002). "Brown's Budget saves seats for Labour in its heartland". The Daily Telegraph (NewsBank). |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Results of Harlow District Council election -2nd May 2002". Harlow District Council. Archived from the original on 13 January 2003. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
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Council elections in Essex

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Braintree District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

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Castle Point Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

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