2003 Amber Valley Borough Council election

2003 UK local government election December 2023 December 2013 thumb|300px|right|Map of the results of the 2003 Amber Valley council election. Conservatives in blue and Labour in red. Wards in grey were not contested in 2003. Elections to Amber Valley Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party held overall control of the council. After the election, the composition of the council was: Conservative 25 Labour 20 Election result Amber Valley local election result 2003 Conservative Party (UK) 12 -1 80.0 53.2 9,734 +16.1% Labour Party (UK) 3 +1 20.0 37.0 6,770 -15.5% Liberal Democrats (UK) 0 0 0 7.6 1,386 +2.0% Independent (politician) 0 0 0 2.2 411 -2.2% Ward results Alfreton Labour Party (UK) Gillian Dolman 716 54.1 Conservative Party (UK) David Wilson 450 34.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) Paul Gibbons 158 11.9 266 20.1 1,324 Alport Conservative Party (UK) Deborah Biss 629 70.4 Labour Party (UK) Tony Munro 142 15.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Peter Handscombe 123 13.8 487 54.5 894 Belper Central Conservative Party (UK) Peter Makin 711 59.0 Labour Party (UK) Brenda Remington 494 41.0 217 18.0 1,205 Belper East Conservative Party (UK) Leslie Dorey 553 49.1 +2.5 Labour Party (UK) Alan Broughton 411 36.5 -7.1 Liberal Democrats (UK) Timothy Clark 162 14.4 +14.4 142 12.6 +9.6 1,126 Belper North Conservative Party (UK) Simon Hitchcock 660 52.2 Labour Party (UK) Peter Shepherd 364 28.8 Liberal Democrats (UK) Roger Shelley 147 11.6 Independent (politician) Margaret Jackson 94 7.4 296 23.4 1,265 Belper South Conservative Party (UK) Peter Arnold 614 56.3 +6.3 Labour Party (UK) Ronald Buzzard 476 43.7 -6.3 138 12.6 +12.5 1,090 Crich Conservative Party (UK) Glyn Hartshorne 450 62.8 Labour Party (UK) Kenneth Armstrong 134 18.7 Liberal Democrats (UK) Catherine Smith 132 18.4 316 44.1 716 Duffield Conservative Party (UK) Anthony Woodings 851 57.3 -2.8 Labour Party (UK) Patrick Mountain 318 21.4 -18.5 Liberal Democrats (UK) Deena Smith 316 21.3 +21.3 433 35.9 +15.7 1,485 Heage and Ambergate Labour Party (UK) Maurice Gent 739 51.3 Conservative Party (UK) Juliette Blake 559 38.8 Liberal Democrats (UK) Anthony Cooper 142 9.9 180 12.5 1,440 Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook Conservative Party (UK) Albert Hall 845 47.2 +5.6 Labour Party (UK) Susan Reaney 741 41.4 -2.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Jeremy Benson 206 11.5 -2.6 104 5.8 +3.1 1,792 Ripley Conservative Party (UK) Kathleen Brown 890 50.2 Labour Party (UK) Walter Fryer 882 49.8 8 0.4 1,772 Ripley and Marehay Labour Party (UK) Geoffrey Carlile 627 53.1 Conservative Party (UK) Patricia Bowmar 404 34.2 Independent (politician) Alex Stevenson 150 12.7 223 18.9 1,181 South West Parishes Conservative Party (UK) John Cunningham 750 85.4 Labour Party (UK) Diana Hancock 128 14.6 622 70.8 878 Swanwick Conservative Party (UK) Stephen Hayes 733 55.9 -6.2 Labour Party (UK) Paul Smith 411 31.4 -6.5 Independent (politician) John Pidcock 167 12.7 +12.7 322 24.5 1,311 Wingfield Conservative Party (UK) Valerie Thorpe 635 77.3 Labour Party (UK) Graham Naylor 187 22.7 448 54.6 822 External links BBC report of 2003 Amber Valley election result Amber Valley Borough Council election 2003 Amber Valley Borough Council election, 2003