Fenland District Council election, 2003

Map of the results of the 2003 Fenland council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and independent in grey.

The 2003 Fenland District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Fenland District Council in Cambridgeshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999.^[1] The Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.^[2]

Election result

The results saw the Conservatives easily stay in control of the council taking 36 of the 40 seats, with Conservative candidates having been unopposed in 11 wards.^[3] The only ward where any other group won all of the seats was in Waterlees in Wisbech, where Labour took both seats.^[3]

Fenland Local Election Result 2003^[4]^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	36			+7	90.0	67.5	13,088
	Labour	3			-4	7.5	21.7	4,209
	Independent	1			-2	2.5	6.7	1,306
	Liberal Democrat	0			-1	0	2.9	567
	Green	0			0	0	1.1	223

14 Conservative candidates were unopposed at the election.^[4]

Ward results

Bassenhally^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kenneth Mayor	unopposed

Benwick, Coates and Eastrea (2)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Thomas Butcher	unopposed
	Conservative	Pamela Potts	unopposed

Birch^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alan Melton	304	66.5
	Labour	David Biggs	153	33.5
Majority			151	33.0
Turnout			457	28.7

Clarkson^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Carol Cox	245	64.6
	Labour	Ann Purt	134	35.4
Majority			111	29.3
Turnout			379	23.9

Delph^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Denise Laws	unopposed

Doddington^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Geoffrey Harper	unopposed

Elm and Christchurch (2)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Malcolm Cotterell	550
	Conservative	Evelyn Green	486
	Independent	Phillip Webb	368
Turnout			1,404	27.2

Hill (2)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon King	621
	Conservative	Henry Wegg	574
	Labour	Lewis Purt	258
Turnout			1,453	25.4

Kingsmoor^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Martin Curtis	239	57.6
	Labour	Douglas Costain	176	42.4
Majority			63	15.2
Turnout			415	32.1

Kirkgate^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Leslie Sims	245	66.9
	Labour	Ronald Harris	121	33.1
Majority			124	33.9
Turnout			366	21.6

Lattersey^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Stephen Garratt	unopposed

Manea^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Paul Jolley	unopposed

March East (3)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Bernard Keane	805
	Conservative	Frederick Yeulett	674
	Labour	Barry Howlett	672
	Labour	Barry Wales	662
	Conservative	Leon Hyde	624
	Labour	Martin Field	509
	Green	Christopher Bennett	223
Turnout			4,169	29.0

March North (3)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Patricia Brewin	716
	Conservative	Trevor Quince	641
	Conservative	John West	633
	Conservative	Kimberley French	612
Turnout			2,602	24.1

March West (3)^[4]
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Janet French	unopposed
Conservative	Christopher Owen	unopposed
Conservative	Peter Skoulding	unopposed

Medworth^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Jonathon Farmer	unopposed

Parson Drove and Wisbech St Mary (2)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Cyril Bellamy	683
	Conservative	Clifford Edwards	630
	Labour	John Cook	264
Turnout			1,577	29.7

Peckover^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Carlisle	295	77.2
	Labour	Simon Massen	87	22.8
Majority			208	54.5
Turnout			382	22.9

Roman Bank (3)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Michael Humphrey	851
	Conservative	Brian Hardy	849
	Conservative	Peter Ward	810
	Labour	Richard Hibbert	329
Turnout			2,839	27.8

Slade Lode^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Dickinson	165	39.4
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Howes	129	30.8
	Labour	Grant Osbourn	125	29.8
Majority			36	8.6
Turnout			419	25.6

St Andrews^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Ronald Speechley	unopposed

St Marys^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Ursula Cuffe	unopposed

Staithe^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Green	unopposed

The Mills^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Albert German	360	61.9
	Independent	Stephen Wilson	222	38.1
Majority			138	23.7
Turnout			582	31.1

Waterlees^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Stephen Cawthorne	317
	Labour	Avis Gilliatt	297
	Conservative	Yvonne Lawrence	230
	Conservative	Susanah Farmer	192
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Clapp	162
Turnout			1,198	17.7

Wenneye^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Murphy	353	56.1
	Liberal Democrat	Florence Newell	276	43.9
Majority			77	12.2
Turnout			629	35.1

Wimblington^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jillian Tuck	417	79.9
	Labour	Claire Osbourn	105	20.1
Majority			312	59.8
Turnout			522	37.4

References

↑ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
1 2 "Local council election results". The Daily Telegraph. 3 May 2003. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
1 2 "Fenland District Council results 2003". BBC News Online. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 "Election Results". Fenland District Council. Political Science Resources. Retrieved 12 September 2011.

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