Harlow District Council election, 2002
The 2002 Harlow District Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 9.[1] The Labour party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.[2]
Background
Before the election Labour controlled the council with 25 councillors, compared to 8 each for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, while there was 1 independent councillor.[3] Boundary changes took effect for the 2002 election, reducing the number of councillors from 42 to 33 and the number of wards from 16 to 11 and meaning that the whole council was to be elected.[3]
11 Labour and 1 Conservative councillors stood down at the election, including the Labour assistant leader Derek Fenny and a former council chairman Terry Abel.[4]
Election result
Labour were reduced by 16 seats and thereby lost overall control of the council.[5] Overall turnout at the election was 36.84%.[6]
Following the election the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders, Andrew Johnson and Lorna Spenceley, made an agreement to be joint leaders of the council.[7]
Harlow local election result 2002[2][6] | ||||||||||
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | ||
Conservative | 12 | +4 | 36.4 | 31.8 | 19,201 | -4.2% | ||||
Liberal Democrat | 12 | +4 | 36.4 | 29.7 | 17,943 | +3.5% | ||||
Labour | 9 | -16 | 27.3 | 37.7 | 22,752 | +1.5% | ||||
Socialist Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 363 | +0.6% | ||||
Independent | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0.2 | 118 | +0.2% | ||||
Ward results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Eleanor Macy | 1,086 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Robins | 1,082 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Millington | 1,071 | |||
Labour | David Cameron | 868 | |||
Labour | Alan Jones | 845 | |||
Labour | John Sullivan | 838 | |||
Conservative | Kevin Bailey | 224 | |||
Conservative | David Carter | 219 | |||
Conservative | Simon O’Connor | 215 | |||
Socialist Alliance | Peter Brown | 87 | |||
Turnout | 6,535 | 40 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samantha Warren | 1,164 | |||
Conservative | Simon Carter | 1,125 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Hall | 1,110 | |||
Labour | Tina Baker | 340 | |||
Labour | Grace Matthews | 273 | |||
Labour | Jacqueline Sully | 268 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Richard Clements | 192 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Zena Faccini | 175 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Kuzna Jackson | 158 | |||
Turnout | 4,805 | 28 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joshua Jolles | 894 | |||
Conservative | Edward Johnson | 892 | |||
Conservative | Patrick McClarnon | 892 | |||
Labour | Edmund Gray | 725 | |||
Labour | Robert Eschle | 696 | |||
Labour | Feroz Khan | 656 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Robert Glendenning | 281 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Lesley Rideout | 274 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Robert Tinsley | 257 | |||
Turnout | 5,567 | 36 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Margaret Hulcoop | 947 | |||
Labour | Gregory Peck | 867 | |||
Labour | Mark Wilkinson | 863 | |||
Conservative | Nora Arnott | 760 | |||
Conservative | Pamela Norton | 736 | |||
Conservative | Richard Glover | 699 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Audrey Curran | 341 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Stanley Curran | 323 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Mabey | 321 | |||
Turnout | 5,857 | 39 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Leslie Bayliss | 911 | |||
Labour | John Jesse | 884 | |||
Labour | John Cave | 859 | |||
Conservative | Charles Ross | 446 | |||
Conservative | Sandra Crame | 426 | |||
Conservative | Vivien Ross | 410 | |||
Liberal Democrat | David Cholerton | 390 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Paul Lawton | 350 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Marion Dyer | 311 | |||
Socialist Alliance | John Hobbs | 175 | |||
Turnout | 5,162 | 34 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Jane Steer | 1,098 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Matthew Shepherd | 1,091 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Nicholas Macy | 1,075 | |||
Labour | Edith Morris | 791 | |||
Labour | Sean Folan | 782 | |||
Labour | Caroline Carter | 772 | |||
Conservative | Judith Carter | 276 | |||
Conservative | Nicholas Carter | 269 | |||
Conservative | Emma Thomas | 255 | |||
Turnout | 6,409 | 42.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Robert Thurston | 1,066 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Ian Jackson | 1,060 | |||
Liberal Democrat | James Pailing | 1,041 | |||
Labour | Suzanne Ennifer | 683 | |||
Labour | Sandra Rootsey | 653 | |||
Labour | Valerie Sear | 643 | |||
Conservative | Alan Johnstone | 242 | |||
Conservative | Eileen Johnstone | 234 | |||
Conservative | Matthew Warren | 206 | |||
Socialist Alliance | Anthony Sullivan | 101 | |||
Turnout | 5,929 | 37.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Garnett | 963 | |||
Conservative | Christopher Ford | 945 | |||
Conservative | Sue Livings | 878 | |||
Labour | Charles Cochrane | 735 | |||
Labour | Paul Bellairs | 645 | |||
Labour | Patricia Larkin | 645 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Barton | 273 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Simon MacNeill | 272 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Paul Westlake | 205 | |||
Turnout | 5,561 | 41 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Lorna Spenceley | 869 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Susan Lawton | 867 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Michael Faccini | 823 | |||
Labour | Godfrey Hocking | 329 | |||
Labour | Jenny Holland | 324 | |||
Labour | Philip Liddle | 305 | |||
Conservative | Guy Mitchinson | 245 | |||
Conservative | Patricia Rauch | 237 | |||
Conservative | Robert Rauch | 225 | |||
Turnout | 4,224 | 28 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nicholas Churchill | 742 | |||
Conservative | Mark Gough | 714 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Johnson | 700 | |||
Labour | Derek Eardley | 634 | |||
Labour | Valerie Clark | 626 | |||
Labour | Robert Long | 623 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Pauline Bell | 232 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Harry Ackland-Snow | 208 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Clive Enders | 189 | |||
Independent | Christopher Hill | 118 | |||
Turnout | 4,786 | 30 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Collyer | 947 | |||
Labour | Kevin Brooks | 897 | |||
Labour | Robert Davis | 878 | |||
Conservative | Muriel Jolles | 643 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Shannon | 620 | |||
Conservative | Craig Thomas | 595 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Susan Cayford | 339 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Molly White | 330 | |||
Liberal Democrat | David Wright | 293 | |||
Turnout | 5,542 | 36 | |||
References
- ↑ "Harlow". BBC News Online. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- 1 2 "Election results - Local Elections". The Times. NewsBank. 3 May 2002. p. 6.
- 1 2 "Harlow Council election preview". Greater London, Kent, and Surrey Counties Publications. NewsBank. 1 May 2002.
- ↑ "Councillors on the move". Greater London, Kent, and Surrey Counties Publications. NewsBank. 16 April 2002.
- ↑ McSmith, Andy; Britten, Nick (3 May 2002). "Brown's Budget saves seats for Labour in its heartland". The Daily Telegraph. NewsBank.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Results of Harlow District Council election -2nd May 2002". Harlow District Council. Archived from the original on 13 January 2003. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "Joint leaders". Greater London, Kent, and Surrey Counties Publications. NewsBank. 21 May 2002.