Ipswich Borough Council election, 2003

Elections for Ipswich Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Ipswich Local Election Result 2003
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	7	0	4	-4	43.8	32.5	9,272	-8.6%
	Conservative	6	3	0	+3	37.5	39.2	11,171	+1.8%
	Liberal Democrat	3	1	0	+1	18.8	25.8	7,368	+5.1%
	Christian Peoples	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	400	+0.8%
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	0.8	217	+0.6%
	Save Broomhill Pool	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	88	+0.3%

Ward results

Alexandra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Chambers	807	42.9
	Labour	John Cook	649	34.5
	Conservative	Maureen Springle	321	17.0
	Green	Jane Scott	106	5.6
Majority			158	8.4
Turnout			1,883
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Bixley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Barker	1,097	46.4
	Liberal Democrat	John Rivett	711	30.1
	Labour	Martyn Green	403	17.0
	Christian Peoples	Dave Cooper	155	6.6
Majority			386	16.3
Turnout			2,366
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Smart	611	43.1
	Conservative	Duncan Titchmarsh	491	34.7
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Jacob	315	22.2
Majority			120	8.4
Turnout			1,417
	Labour hold		Swing

Castle Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Goldsmith	1,205	58.0
	Labour	James Adams	443	21.3
	Liberal Democrat	Dennis Day	431	20.7
Majority			762	36.7
Turnout			2,079
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gainsborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Don Edwards	712	45.8
	Conservative	Adam Ramsey	454	29.2
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Chambers	304	19.6
	Christian Peoples	Jonathan Barnes	83	5.3
Majority			258	16.6
Turnout			1,553
	Labour hold		Swing

Gipping
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Gardiner	652	44.5
	Conservative	Nadia Cenci	464	31.7
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Blue	348	23.8
Majority			188	12.8
Turnout			1,464
	Labour hold		Swing

Holywells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Harsant	882	55.1
	Labour	Robert Daines	429	26.8
	Liberal Democrat	Robin Whitmore	290	18.1
Majority			453	28.3
Turnout			1,601
	Conservative hold		Swing

Priory Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dali Jabbar	509	38.3
	Conservative	Sarah Dodwell	446	33.6
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine French	286	21.5
	Save Broomhill Pool	Sally Wainman	88	6.6
Majority			63	4.7
Turnout			1,329
	Labour hold		Swing

Rushmere
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eileen Smith	991	43.2
	Labour	Richard Kirby	749	32.7
	Liberal Democrat	Roberta Kerslake	391	17.1
	Christian Peoples	Stephen Bloomfield	162	7.1
Majority			242	10.5
Turnout			2,293
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Sprites
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Le Grys	700	41.6
	Conservative	Robert Hall	693	41.2
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Stafford	288	17.1
Majority			7	0.4
Turnout			1,681
	Labour hold		Swing

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil MacDonald	778	39.2
	Conservative	Stephen Ion	684	34.4
	Liberal Democrat	Louise Gooch	413	20.8
	Green	Janet Phipps	111	5.6
Majority			94	4.8
Turnout			1,986
	Labour hold		Swing

St Margaret's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Cooper	1,211	46.0
	Conservative	David Brown	1,079	41.0
	Labour	Jane Shaw	341	13.0
Majority			132	5.0
Turnout			2,631
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Stoke Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Cook	723	41.6
	Labour	Keith Rawlingson	635	36.5
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Brown	380	21.9
Majority			88	5.1
Turnout			1,738
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Westgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Cook	568	40.8
	Conservative	Julie Schubert	467	33.5
	Liberal Democrat	Kenneth Toye	358	25.7
Majority			101	7.3
Turnout			1,393
	Labour hold		Swing

Whitehouse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	George King	555	39.4
	Labour	Christopher Newbury	435	30.9
	Conservative	Colin Morgan	417	29.6
Majority			120	8.5
Turnout			1,407
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing

Whitton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sandra Doyle	757	44.7
	Labour	Carole Jones	658	38.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jill Atkins	280	16.5
Majority			99	5.9
Turnout			1,695
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References

2003 Ipswich election result

Council elections in Suffolk

Suffolk County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013

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

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

Ipswich Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

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

St Edmundsbury Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

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

Waveney District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2015

East Suffolk County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished

West Suffolk County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished

See also: Wards Boundary changes

(2002 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2003 (→ 2004)

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York

District councils (England)	Adur Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Berwick-upon-Tweed Blaby Blyth Valley Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chester Chester-le-Street Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Chorley Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Derwentside Dover Durham Easington East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Pendle Penwith Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Salisbury Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale Royal Wansbeck Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest

Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian

National Assembly elections	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.