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2003 Gedling Borough Council election
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2003 Gedling Borough Council election England Parliamentary no yes 1999 Gedling Borough Council election 1999 2007 Gedling Borough Council election 2007 All 50 seats to Gedling Borough Council 26 May 2003 Conservative Party (UK) 21 Labour Party (UK) 21 Liberal Democrats (UK) 7 Independent (politician) 1 thumb|300px|right|Map of the results of the 2003 Gedling council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Independent in grey.
An election was held on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Gedling Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 reducing the number of seats by 7.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2003/locals/html/117.stm Local elections BBC News 21 August 2011 The Conservative Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1429056/Local-council-election-results.html Local council election results 3 May 2003 The Daily Telegraph 21 August 2011
Background
At the last election in 1999 the Conservatives gained control of the council from the Labour Party with 29 seats, compared to 18 for Labour, 7 Liberal Democrats and 3 independents.http://www.gedling.gov.uk/borough_elections_history-2.pdf Gedling Borough Council elections summary Gedling Borough Council 21 August 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073937/http://www.gedling.gov.uk/borough_elections_history-2.pdf 27 September 2011
Boundary changes between 1999 and 2003 reduced the number of seats from 57 to 50. The changes included removing the wards of Cavendish, Conway and Priory, while creating new wards of Daybrook and Valley.http://www.gedling.gov.uk/index/ac-home/ac-news-home/ac-news-elections2003.htm Council Elections May 2003 Gedling Borough Council 21 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20030421093353/http://www.gedling.gov.uk/index/ac-home/ac-news-home/ac-news-elections2003.htm 21 April 2003
Election result
Overall turnout in the election was 32.4%, down from 35.0% in 1999.
Following the election a power sharing agreement was reached with the Conservative and Labour parties agreeing to share the post of leader of the council.http://www.gedling.gov.uk/ Parties Share Power Gedling Borough Council 21 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20030523142612/http://www.gedling.gov.uk/ 23 May 2003
Gedling local election result 2003http://www.gedling.gov.uk/borough_council_election_results_03-2.pdf Borough Council Elections 1 May 2003 Gedling Borough Council 21 August 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073958/http://www.gedling.gov.uk/borough_council_election_results_03-2.pdf 27 September 2011
Conservative Party (UK)
21
-8
42.0
42.9
29,511
Labour Party (UK)
21
+2
42.0
41.1
28,321
Liberal Democrats (UK)
7
0
14.0
11.3
7,777
Independent (politician)
1
-1
2.0
4.6
3,160
Green Party of England and Wales
0
0
0
0.1
73
Ward results
Bestwood Village
Labour Party (UK)
Denis Beeston
306
70.3
Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas Roach
129
29.7
177
40.6
435
33.5
Bonington (3)
Labour Party (UK)
Stella Lane
748
Labour Party (UK)
Stephen Rigby
735
Labour Party (UK)
Vivienne McCrossen
703
Conservative Party (UK)
Terence Pepper
567
Conservative Party (UK)
Robert Tait
560
Conservative Party (UK)
Balraj Johal
499
3,812
25.9
Burton Joyce & Stoke Bardolph (2)
Conservative Party (UK)
Patricia Blandamer
551
Conservative Party (UK)
Alan Bexon
515
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Richard Berry
449
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Andrew Ellwood
362
Labour Party (UK)
Jeanette Johnson
331
Labour Party (UK)
Brigitte Maguire
301
2,509
43.9
Calverton (3)
Calverton First Independents
William Peet
808
Labour Party (UK)
James Woodward
786
Labour Party (UK)
Gareth Griffiths
785
Calverton First Independents
William Mellors
761
Labour Party (UK)
Alan Woodward
730
Calverton First Independents
Grant Withers
716
Conservative Party (UK)
Mark Winter
383
Conservative Party (UK)
Simon Massey
314
5,283
35.0
Carlton (3)
Conservative Party (UK)
Robert Day
712
Conservative Party (UK)
Wendy Golland
691
Conservative Party (UK)
Richard Goodwin
681
Labour Party (UK)
Cheryl Hewlett
653
Labour Party (UK)
Damian Belshaw
623
Labour Party (UK)
Barbara Miller
611
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Andrew Sowter
299
4,270
28.6
Carlton Hill (3)
Labour Party (UK)
Darrell Pulk
942
Labour Party (UK)
Paul Feeney
939
Labour Party (UK)
Seamus Creamer
938
Conservative Party (UK)
Susan Jakeman
601
Conservative Party (UK)
Peter Foulkes
594
Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas Butcher
592
4,606
29.7
Daybrook (2)
Labour Party (UK)
Peter Barnes
731
Labour Party (UK)
Sandra Barnes
713
Conservative Party (UK)
Lorraine Beaumont
308
Conservative Party (UK)
Michael Smedley
298
2,050
28.4
Gedling (3)
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Gordon Tunniclife
1,067
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Marguerite Wright
1,060
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Margaret Dunkin
970
Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Godfrey
508
Conservative Party (UK)
Andrew Bell
489
Conservative Party (UK)
Kevin Alcock
461
Labour Party (UK)
Jennifer Hollingsworth
317
Labour Party (UK)
Allan Leadbeater
303
Labour Party (UK)
James O'Riordan
269
5,444
36.2
Killisick
Labour Party (UK)
Harvey Maddock
280
52.7
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Anthony Turner
92
17.3
Conservative Party (UK)
Derek Smith
86
16.2
Green Party of England and Wales
Henry Wheeler
73
13.7
188
35.4
531
28.6
Kingswell (2)
Conservative Party (UK)
Rodney Kempster
845
Conservative Party (UK)
Vernon Bradley
749
Labour Party (UK)
Martin Hall
374
Labour Party (UK)
Julia Buckby
335
Independent (politician)
Edna Hindle
214
Independent (politician)
Clifford Hindle
179
2,696
37.1
Lambley
Conservative Party (UK)
Roland Spencer
417
74.3
Labour Party (UK)
Marjorie Paling
144
25.7
273
48.6
561
34.5
Mapperley Plains (3)
Conservative Party (UK)
Veronica Pepper
1,013
Conservative Party (UK)
John Parr
989
Conservative Party (UK)
Gerald Clarke
979
Labour Party (UK)
Peter Crossley
607
Labour Party (UK)
Nicola Brooks
606
Labour Party (UK)
Alan Hardy
592
4,786
28.0
Netherfield & Colwick (3)
Labour Party (UK)
Albert Clarke
768
Labour Party (UK)
William Clarke
760
Labour Party (UK)
Christina Lockett
728
Conservative Party (UK)
Anthony Morris
397
Conservative Party (UK)
Judith Nicholson
368
Conservative Party (UK)
Richard Smedley
362
3,383
23.3
Newstead
Labour Party (UK)
John McCauley
265
50.1
Conservative Party (UK)
Bruce Andrews
264
49.9
1
0.2
529
32.9
Phoenix (2)
Labour Party (UK)
Ivan Gollop
539
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Raymond Poynter
519
Labour Party (UK)
Arthur Turney
501
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Paul Hughes
471
Conservative Party (UK)
Ann Collin
187
Conservative Party (UK)
Colin Blandamer
186
2,403
33.6
Porchester (3)
Conservative Party (UK)
John Tanner
907
Conservative Party (UK)
Donald Pycroft
892
Conservative Party (UK)
Jennifer Spencer
854
Labour Party (UK)
John Truscott
832
Labour Party (UK)
Paul Barton
811
Labour Party (UK)
Leslie Nourse
779
5,075
34.0
Ravenshead (3)
Conservative Party (UK)
William Grainger
1,226
Conservative Party (UK)
Thambithurai Chandran
1,098
Conservative Party (UK)
Mark Spencer (British politician)
1,085
Labour Party (UK)
Gwilym Griffith
582
Labour Party (UK)
John Kendrick
564
Labour Party (UK)
Barrie Bowker
404
4,959
37.7
St. James (2)
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Anthony Gillam
654
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Christopher Pratt
598
Conservative Party (UK)
Eric Collin
351
Conservative Party (UK)
Elaine Goodwin
325
Labour Party (UK)
Gary Gregory
257
Labour Party (UK)
Paul Wilkinson
234
2,419
25.1
St. Marys (3)
Labour Party (UK)
Jennifer Cole
794
Labour Party (UK)
Grace Millar
779
Labour Party (UK)
Stewart Ragsdale
762
Conservative Party (UK)
Magdalen Roach
689
Conservative Party (UK)
Paul Beaumont
647
Conservative Party (UK)
Mavis Gunson
639
4,310
29.0
Valley (2)
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Andrew Dunkin
404
Labour Party (UK)
Christopher Preston
379
Labour Party (UK)
Daniel Taylor
368
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Andrew Swift
353
Conservative Party (UK)
Wesley Bleakley
208
Conservative Party (UK)
Bernard Leaper
205
1,917
30.6
Woodborough
Conservative Party (UK)
John Glass
485
79.6
Labour Party (UK)
Liz Delaney
124
20.4
361
59.2
609
40.0
Woodthorpe (3)
Conservative Party (UK)
Suzanne Prew-Smith
1,216
Conservative Party (UK)
Richard Nicholson
1,206
Conservative Party (UK)
Francis Boot
1,183
Labour Party (UK)
Ronald McCrossen
613
Labour Party (UK)
Christine Russell
576
Labour Party (UK)
Philip Miller
500
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Margaret Swift
479
Independent (politician)
Christine Hindle
266
Independent (politician)
David Hindle
216
6,255
39.7
References
Category:2003 English local elections
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