2000 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election

2000 UK local government election December 2013 October 2019 The 2000 Oldham Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from the Labour Party. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk_politics/vote2000/locals/81.stm Oldham 10 April 2010 BBC News Online After the election, the composition of the council was: Liberal Democrat 31 Labour 25 Conservative 2 Green 2 Election results: local councils The Times 4 5 May 2000 Campaign Before the election Labour ran the council with 32 seats compared to 25 for the Liberal Democrats who were the main opposition party on the council. Alan Pike Poll fears linger, despite Blair's pat on the back: Doubts over its heartland vote mean that Labour faces real concerns in next week's local elections. Financial Times 6 27 April 2000 However the 1999 election had seen the Liberal Democrats win more votes than Labour, 42.5% compared to 38%, and they were confident of at least depriving Labour of a majority on the council in the election. Issues in the election included crime, education, employment, health and litter. Battlground Oldham: Disillusionment and defection may be deciders Financial Times 6 5 May 2000 Unemployment was down at around 5%, but still above the national average and was much higher in some of the inner city areas. In the week before the election Labour suffered a blow when a councillor, Margaret Kelly, defected to the Green Party. She had been a Labour member for 30 years, but said that the national Labour government was not what she had fought for in opposition. Election result The results saw the Liberal Democrats gain control of the council from the Labour party. Russell Jenkins Lib Dems jubilant at taking Oldham The Times 4 5 May 2000 Labour, who had run the council for the previous 20 years, suffered a number of losses including the council leader John Battye in Failsworth East ward. Battye, who had been leader of the council for the previous 15 years, was defeated by 1,605 votes by a 23-year-old Liberal Democrat candidate Charles Glover in the most high-profile contest in the election. Caroline Cheetham Council stunned as leader Battye is defeated: Time for a change after 20-year rule Manchester Evening News 29 5 May 2000 The swing to the Liberal Democrats was over 8% since 1996, enabling them to gain control of the council for the first time. They now had an overall majority of 2, Conservative revival beats expectations: Local elections results deliver 'substantial blow to Labour morale' Financial Times 6 5 May 2000 after they gained seats in Coldhurst, Hollinwood, Royton North and Royton South in addition to Failsworth East. The Liberal Democrats also regained a seat in Crompton, where the independent Liberal Democrat councillor, Michael Hambley, stood down at the election. Meanwhile, the Conservatives doubled the number of seats they held on the council to 2, after gaining a seat in Chadderton North from Labour. The national Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy described the results in Oldham as a "fantastic result, showing the inroads that Liberal Democrats were making into Labour's heartlands". Kennedy leadership boosted by strong results; Lib Dems: Financial Times 6 5 May 2000 However the local Labour Member of Parliament Phil Woolas said that the election was down to local issues and had "nothing to do with the national political situation". Following the election there were allegations of vote rigging in the election. John Innes Eleven guilty of rigging vote in Oldham election The Scotsman 4 31 July 2001 After a police investigation, 11 people were convicted of election fraud in July 2001. They were convicted after police found evidence of voters using dead people's names to vote and impersonating other voters. The offences had taken place in the wards of the Coldhurst, St Mary's and Werneth and those convicted were both Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters. Another defendant, Liberal Democrat councillor Mohib Uddin, who had been elected in Coldhurst, was acquitted. Oldham local election result 2000 http://www.oldham.gov.uk/local-elections-2000.htm Oldham Council 2000 Local Elections 10 April 2010 Oldham Council https://web.archive.org/web/20081122124640/http://www.oldham.gov.uk/local-elections-2000.htm 22 November 2008 dead Liberal Democrats (UK) 12 6 0 +6 60.0 50.6 27,077 +8.1% Labour Party (UK) 7 0 6 -6 35.0 32.1 17,191 -5.9% Conservative Party (UK) 1 1 0 +1 5.0 15.5 8,298 -2.8% Green Party of England and Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 433 +0.8% Independent (politician) 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 333 +0.6% British National Party 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 229 +0.4% Independent Liberal Democrat 0 0 1 -1 0 0 0 – Ward results Alexandra Labour Party (UK) Riaz Ahmad 1,171 52.6 -1.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Angela Farrell 629 28.2 -4.1 Independent (politician) Robert Anderson 333 14.9 +14.9 Green Party of England and Wales Susannah Roney 95 4.3 +4.3 542 24.3 +2.7 2,228 31.8 +1.8 Labour Party (UK) Chadderton Central Labour Party (UK) Tony Brownridge 906 41.9 -9.2 Conservative Party (UK) Edward Bennett 639 29.5 +3.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Joyce Mercer 618 28.6 +5.9 267 12.3 -12.6 2,163 25.9 -0.1 Labour Party (UK) Chadderton North Conservative Party (UK) John Curran 1,087 42.3 +3.8 Labour Party (UK) Leonard Quinn 1,032 40.2 -5.1 Liberal Democrats (UK) Steven Farrimond 451 17.5 +1.3 55 2.1 2,570 32.1 +0.1 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Chadderton South Labour Party (UK) David Heyes 761 46.0 -16.5 Liberal Democrats (UK) Philip Renold 450 27.2 +11.1 Conservative Party (UK) Marie Curran 444 26.8 +5.5 311 18.8 -22.4 1,655 22.5 -2.5 Labour Party (UK) Coldhurst Liberal Democrats (UK) Mohib Uddin 1,571 47.2 +38.7 Labour Party (UK) Kevin Leyden 1,337 40.2 -20.0 Conservative Party (UK) Keith Whitehead 421 12.6 -2.6 234 7.0 3,329 42.7 +4.6 Liberal Democrats (UK) Labour Party (UK) Crompton Liberal Democrats (UK) Philomena Dillon 1,589 61.9 +2.2 Conservative Party (UK) David Dunning 615 23.9 +2.8 Labour Party (UK) Joseph Fitzpatrick 365 14.2 -5.0 974 37.9 -0.7 2,569 30.0 -1.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Independent (politician) Failsworth East Liberal Democrats (UK) Charles Glover 2,335 73.7 +39.4 Labour Party (UK) John Battye 730 23.1 -42.6 Conservative Party (UK) Graham Drinkwater 102 3.2 +3.2 1,605 50.7 3,167 38.6 +16.5 Liberal Democrats (UK) Labour Party (UK) Failsworth West Labour Party (UK) John Johnson 1,034 62.1 -12.8 Liberal Democrats (UK) David Stanton 631 37.9 +12.8 403 24.2 -25.6 1,665 22.5 -0.2 Labour Party (UK) Hollinwood Liberal Democrats (UK) Stephen Barrow 1,367 58.0 +7.4 Labour Party (UK) Ian Thompson 704 29.9 -19.5 British National Party William Lockett 229 9.7 +9.7 Green Party of England and Wales Kevin Moores 57 2.4 +2.4 663 28.1 +26.9 2,357 36.0 -1.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Labour Party (UK) Lees Liberal Democrats (UK) Valerie Sedgwick 1,346 54.7 +2.5 Labour Party (UK) Bernard Fletcher 837 34.0 -5.6 Conservative Party (UK) William Lee 278 11.3 +3.1 509 20.7 +8.1 2,461 33.8 -2.2 Liberal Democrats (UK) Royton North Liberal Democrats (UK) Karen Evans 2,226 66.6 +41.2 Labour Party (UK) Tony Larkin 760 22.7 -20.7 Conservative Party (UK) Barbara Jackson 358 10.7 -20.4 1,466 43.8 3,344 40.2 +11.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) Labour Party (UK) Royton South Liberal Democrats (UK) Dolores Phelan 1,280 41.6 -5.8 Labour Party (UK) Philip Harrison 1,164 37.8 +10.6 Conservative Party (UK) Joseph Farquhar 634 20.6 -4.8 116 3.8 -16.3 3,078 38.5 +3.1 Liberal Democrats (UK) Labour Party (UK) Saddleworth East Liberal Democrats (UK) Brian Mather 2,759 64.3 +15.5 Conservative Party (UK) Richard Postle 944 22.0 -13.3 Labour Party (UK) Harold Neild 588 13.7 -2.2 1,815 42.3 +28.8 4,291 41.4 -1.6 Liberal Democrats (UK) Saddleworth West Liberal Democrats (UK) Christine Wheeler 1,904 58.6 +12.9 Conservative Party (UK) Pam Byrne 742 22.8 -5.6 Labour Party (UK) Jack Schofield 602 18.5 -7.4 1,162 35.8 +18.5 3,248 36.5 +1.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Shaw Liberal Democrats (UK) Rod Blyth 1,413 66.5 -4.6 Conservative Party (UK) David Bentley 388 18.3 +6.4 Labour Party (UK) Gertrude Hewitt 323 15.2 -1.7 1,025 48.3 -5.9 2,124 26.6 -1.5 Liberal Democrats (UK) St James Liberal Democrats (UK) Roger Hindle 1,100 72.3 -7.4 Labour Party (UK) Norman Bennett 299 19.6 +4.2 Conservative Party (UK) Eileen Hulme 123 8.1 +3.3 801 52.6 -11.7 1,522 24.5 -6.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) St Mary's Labour Party (UK) Mohammed Masud 1,607 50.0 +13.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Bronwyn Thackery 1,327 41.3 -10.2 Conservative Party (UK) David Atherton 279 8.7 -3.1 280 8.7 3,213 44.2 -1.6 Labour Party (UK) St Paul's Labour Party (UK) John Crowther 881 34.1 -0.3 Conservative Party (UK) John Hudson 820 31.8 -6.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) John McCann 681 26.4 -1.3 Green Party of England and Wales John Roney 199 7.7 +7.7 61 2.4 2,581 33.6 -2.8 Labour Party (UK) Waterhead Liberal Democrats (UK) Kay Knox 2,015 74.7 +3.8 Labour Party (UK) Christopher Jones 472 17.5 -6.2 Conservative Party (UK) Kenneth Middleton 211 7.8 +2.3 1,543 57.2 +10.0 2,698 29.2 -0.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) Werneth Labour Party (UK) Shaob Akhtar 1,618 49.1 +7.1 Liberal Democrats (UK) Kenneth Stocks 1,385 42.0 -8.0 Conservative Party (UK) Raymond Walmsley 213 6.5 +2.5 Green Party of England and Wales Peter Robbie 82 2.5 +2.5 233 7.1 3,298 44.8 +0.5 Labour Party (UK) References Category:2000 English local elections 2000 Category:2000s in Greater Manchester