2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election

2004 UK local government election March 2025 November 2013 thumb|Results of the 2004 South Tyneside Council election The 2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by 6. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/vote2004/locals/html/3761.stm South Tyneside council 2010-02-21 BBC News The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council. Ballot box The Times London 26 2004-06-12 Campaign Before the election, South Tyneside was seen as one of Labour's safest councils in the north east of EnglandLabour having 49 of the 60 councillors; they were expected to remain in control of the council. Paul Linford Ross Smith Mowing the PM's grass roots The Journal 3 2004-05-05 The Boundary Committee for England had made changes in South Tyneside's wards since the 2003 election and these meant there would be 54 councillors elected from 18 wards, instead of the previous 60 councillors from 20 wards. Labour rumbles on after dispute The Journal 16 2004-05-28 The changes abolished All Saints and Rekendyke wards and new ward names included Biddick and All Saints, Hebburn North and Simonside and Rekendyke. http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/DRIVE-TO-PUSH-UP-VOTING.791813.jp https://archive.today/20130202083510/http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/DRIVE-TO-PUSH-UP-VOTING.791813.jp dead 2013-02-02 Drive to push up voting numbers 2010-02-22 2004-05-14 Shields Gazette Labour was the only party which contested all 54 seats that were up for election, with the other candidates being made up of 23 Conservatives, 22 Liberal Democrats, 13 independents, 12 Progressives, 3 British National Party and 1 each from the Green Party and the National Front. Seaside borough's vote battle Evening Chronicle 8 2004-05-20 http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Race-is-on-to-win.790691.jp https://archive.today/20130202045914/http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Race-is-on-to-win.790691.jp dead 2013-02-02 Race is on to win over voters 2010-02-22 2004-05-14 Shields Gazette The independent candidates included 4 former Labour councillors who had quit the party to stand as independents, Mervyn Owen, Tom Defty, Jim Caine and Allen Branley, as well as Allen Branley's wife Jane Branley. The election was held with all postal voting, but delays relating to the printers meant that many voters received their ballot papers almost a week late. http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Print-delay-hits-council-election.797978.jp https://archive.today/20130202052038/http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Print-delay-hits-council-election.797978.jp dead 2013-02-02 Print delay hits council election 2010-02-22 2004-05-27 Shields Gazette Election result The results saw Labour defend a reduced majority on the council after winning 35 of the 54 seats. Neil McKay Trouble and strife at South Tyneside The Journal 32 2004-06-12 The independents and Progressives were jointly the largest opposition groups after the election after winning 6 seats each, with the Progressive leader, Jim Capstick, saying that the boundary changes had helped them to win all of the seats in Harton and West Park wards. The gains for the independents included the former Labour councillors, Tom Defty, who defeated the mayor and wife of the council leader, Linda Waggott, Mayor set to lose her chains of office Evening Chronicle 4 2004-06-12 in Bede ward, and Allen Braley in Westoe ward, who was elected along with his wife Jane. Meanwhile, the Conservatives had 3 councillors after the election, the most for decades, after winning all 3 seats in Cleadon and East Boldon ward at the expense of the Liberal Democrats. Among the Liberal Democrats who failed to be elected in Cleadon and East Boldon was the leader of the party on the council, Jim Selby, but the party did gain one seat in Biddick & All Saints ward. South Tyneside local election result 2004 http://www.southtyneside.info/localdemocracy/elections/results/LocalGovernment.aspx?id=1 Elections: 11 Jun 2004 Local Government Election 2010-02-21 South Tyneside Council October 2010 H3llBot Labour Party (UK) 35 -14 64.8 45.5 49,457 -3.5% Independent (politician) 6 +4 11.1 11.2 12,220 +2.2% Progressive 6 +3 11.1 10.9 11,829 +2.4% Liberal Democrats (UK) 4 -1 7.4 16.6 18,022 -0.2% Conservative Party (UK) 3 +2 5.6 14.5 15,783 -1.4% British National Party 0 0 0 0.8 889 +0.0% Green Party of England and Wales 0 0 0 0.3 315 +0.3% British National Front 0 0 0 0.2 262 +0.2% Ward results Beacon & Bents (3) Election 2004 results - South Tyneside The Journal 32 2004-06-12 Labour Party (UK) John Wood 908 Labour Party (UK) Audrey McMillan 898 Labour Party (UK) John Anglin 863 Liberal Democrats (UK) Susan Troupe 569 Liberal Democrats (UK) Jennifer Burke 561 Liberal Democrats (UK) David Selby 542 Independent (politician) Robert Growcott 541 Conservative Party (UK) George Smith 447 Conservative Party (UK) Edward Russell 438 Conservative Party (UK) Christopher Taylor 394 British National Party James Hills 371 Green Party of England and Wales Bryan Atkinson 315 6,847 41.7 Bede (3) Labour Party (UK) Thomas Hanson 1,118 Labour Party (UK) Agnes Stewart 1,089 Independent (politician) Thomas Defty 1,054 Labour Party (UK) Linda Waggott 929 Conservative Party (UK) Mary Golightly 367 4,557 38.9 Biddick & All Saints (3) Labour Party (UK) Joseph Kidd 986 Liberal Democrats (UK) William Troupe 845 Labour Party (UK) Stephen Forster 804 Labour Party (UK) Olive Punchion 738 British National Front Charles Schmidt 262 3,635 32.6 Boldon Colliery (3) Labour Party (UK) Joanne Bell 1,404 Labour Party (UK) William Lynch 1,368 Labour Party (UK) Alison Strike 1,316 Liberal Democrats (UK) Frederick Taylor 860 Liberal Democrats (UK) Terence Branthwaite 806 Conservative Party (UK) Gerald Brebner 662 6,416 40.9 Cleadon & East Boldon (3) Conservative Party (UK) Philip Parkinson 1,649 Conservative Party (UK) Donald Wood 1,569 Conservative Party (UK) David Potts 1,500 Liberal Democrats (UK) Christopher Johnson 1,456 Liberal Democrats (UK) James Selby 1,177 Liberal Democrats (UK) Henry Grainger 1,176 Labour Party (UK) Mary Purvis 495 Labour Party (UK) David Wood 423 Labour Party (UK) Terence Fairley 414 9,859 51.6 Cleadon Park (3) Labour Party (UK) Alexander Donaldson 802 Independent (politician) George Elsom 761 Labour Party (UK) James Foreman 751 Labour Party (UK) Anne Walsh 732 Progressive Arthur Morton 718 Progressive John Williams 527 Progressive Gunther Keller 497 4,788 37.2 Fellgate & Hedworth (3) Labour Party (UK) Paul Waggott 1,116 Labour Party (UK) Moira Smith 1,071 Labour Party (UK) Edith Battye 1,011 Conservative Party (UK) Sandra Jackson 647 3,845 35.8 Harton (3) Progressive James Capstick 1,585 Progressive Gordon Finch 1,540 Progressive Lawrence Nolan 1,535 Labour Party (UK) Robert Dix 1,111 Labour Party (UK) Wilhelmina Moad 994 Labour Party (UK) Wallace Hobson 863 7,628 44.4 Hebburn North (3) Liberal Democrats (UK) Joseph Abbott 1,266 Liberal Democrats (UK) John McKie 1,230 Liberal Democrats (UK) Joseph Atkinson 1,131 Labour Party (UK) John Hodgson 916 Labour Party (UK) John Drynan 669 Labour Party (UK) Gladys Hobson 609 Conservative Party (UK) Stewart Jackson 159 5,980 38.9 Hebburn South (3) Independent (politician) John McCabe 1,678 Labour Party (UK) Henry McAtominey 1,113 Labour Party (UK) Nancy Maxwell 1,047 Labour Party (UK) John Watson 824 Liberal Democrats (UK) Constance Ridgway 776 Liberal Democrats (UK) Jeffrey Harling 618 Conservative Party (UK) John Coe 313 6,369 48.1 Horsley Hill (3) Labour Party (UK) Arthur Meeks 1,056 Labour Party (UK) Iain Malcolm 1,033 Labour Party (UK) Eileen Leask 908 Conservative Party (UK) Patricia Pigott 862 Conservative Party (UK) Martin Anderson 812 Conservative Party (UK) Cheryl Anderson 767 Independent (politician) Mervyn Owen 634 Liberal Democrats (UK) Yvonne Carlin-Page 465 Liberal Democrats (UK) Carol Selby 412 British National Party Christine Richardson 287 7,236 47.2 Monkton (3) Labour Party (UK) Joan Lewis 984 Labour Party (UK) Alan Kerr 960 Labour Party (UK) James Sewell 929 Liberal Democrats (UK) Rosalind Slater 756 Liberal Democrats (UK) Sheila Bennett 666 Liberal Democrats (UK) Muriel Coe 624 Conservative Party (UK) John Cameron 425 Independent (politician) Derek Wagstaffe 351 Independent (politician) John Bissett 203 5,898 39.5 Primrose (3) Labour Party (UK) James Perry 1,065 Labour Party (UK) Barrie Scorer 1,036 Labour Party (UK) Emma Lewell-Buck 972 Conservative Party (UK) Walter Armstrong 634 3,707 34.0 Simonside & Rekendyke (3) Labour Party (UK) Edward Malcolm 1,004 Labour Party (UK) Michael Clare 915 Labour Party (UK) Joan Meeks 896 Liberal Democrats (UK) Jean Turner 609 Progressive Robert Burdon 556 Progressive David Maxwell 540 Progressive Raymond Evans 495 5,015 34.6 West Park (3) Progressive Enid Hetherington 1,315 Progressive Marjorie Robinson 1,279 Progressive Kenneth Hickman 1,242 Labour Party (UK) Scott Duffy 800 Labour Party (UK) Kenneth Stephenson 702 Labour Party (UK) Jane Carter 698 6,036 40.1 Westoe (3) Independent (politician) Allen Branley 1,561 Independent (politician) Jane Branley 1,488 Labour Party (UK) Ronald Reynolds 807 Conservative Party (UK) George Wilkinson 787 Liberal Democrats (UK) Derek Brown 751 Conservative Party (UK) Quintin Smith 651 Conservative Party (UK) Karl Arthur 612 Labour Party (UK) Henry Williams 544 Labour Party (UK) Thomas Pigott 536 7,737 47.8 Whitburn & Marsden (3) Labour Party (UK) Tracey Dixon 1,019 Labour Party (UK) Shirley Stratford 949 Labour Party (UK) Peter Boyack 897 Independent (politician) James Caine 726 Liberal Democrats (UK) Peter Carlin-Page 726 Conservative Party (UK) Jeffrey Milburn 683 Conservative Party (UK) John Fettis 642 Conservative Party (UK) Ralph Robson 623 6,265 45.5 Whiteleas (3) Independent (politician) John Haram 1,296 Labour Party (UK) Ernest Gibson 1,178 Labour Party (UK) William Brady 1,126 Labour Party (UK) Mavis Brady 1,061 Independent (politician) Joanne Burns 978 Independent (politician) Stephen Pattison 949 British National Party David Richardson 231 Conservative Party (UK) Barbara Surtees 140 6,959 44.5 References South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election 2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, 2004