Guildford Borough Council election, 2003
The 2003 elections for Guildford Borough Council were the first, and as of 2011 the only, full election for Guildford Borough Council conducted by an all postal ballot.[1] The result saw the Conservatives win a majority of seats on Guildford Borough Council for the first time since losing their majority in the 1991 election.
Boundary changes
In September 1998, the Local Government Commission for England published their "Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Guildford in Surrey".[2] The recommendations in this report formed the basis for the redrawing of ward boundaries in Guildford increasing the number of wards from 21 to 22; and increasing the number of councillors from 45 to 48. The 2003 council election was the first contested under these new ward boundaries.[3]
The new ward boundaries differed from the old ones as follows:
- 13 of the 21 wards in Guildford saw their boundaries alter to some degree or other;
- 8 wards were left unaltered namely - Clandon & Horsley, Effingham, Lovelace, Normandy, Pirbright, Send, Tillingbourne and Worplesdon;
- Merrow & Burpham ward, which previously had elected 3 councillors, was split in two. In its place was created a new Merrow ward with 3 councillors and a new Burpham ward with 2 councillors.[4]
- the three wards representing Ash and Tongham, prior to the 2003 boundary changes, had been named Ash, Ash Vale and Tongham. Between them they had been represented by 6 councillors. They were replaced by three substantially redrawn wards with the names Ash South & Tongham, Ash Vale and Ash Wharf, which between them had 7 councillors. The new Ash Vale ward covered a significantly smaller geographical area than the previous ward known as Ash Vale;
- the boundary line between the Pilgrims ward and the Shalford ward was altered so that the Shalford ward would now include the areas of Artington and Compton which had previously been part of Pilgrims. This change saw the number of councillors representing Shalford increase from 1 to 2 and the number of councillors representing Pilgrims decline from 2 to 1;
- the dividing line between the Stoughton ward and the Westborough ward was redrawn;
- the various dividing lines between the following wards in Guildford town were redrawn: Christchurch, Friary & St Nicolas, Holy Trinity, Onslow, and Stoke; and
- the number of councillors representing Holy Trinity increased from 2 to 3 and the number of councillors representing Stoke decreased from 3 to 2.
Voter Turnout
Average voter turnout increased throughout Guildford Borough Council from 36.2%, in 1999, to 53.4%, in 2003.[5]
Summary of election results
Going into the 2003 election the net position was as follows. (The net position includes the defection of one of the Liberal Democrat councillors for Worplesdon first to the independents, in 1999, and then, in 2002, to the Conservatives).[6]
Party | Seats | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 18 | |
Labour | 6 | |
Liberal Democrats | 19 | |
Independent | 2 |
After the election the position was as follows.
Party | Seats | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 26 | |
Labour | 2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 19 | |
Independent | 1 |
- The Conservatives made a net gain of eight seats, gaining nine and losing one;
- The Liberal Democrats retained the same number of seats; gaining four and losing four;
- The Labour Party lost four seats;
- The number of independents on Guildford Borough Council reduced from two to one.
Conservative seat changes
In the May 2003 elections, the Conservatives gained 6 seats in Guildford town itself (4 in the Merrow and Burpham area, 1 in Holy Trinity Ward and 1 in Onslow ward); 2 seats in the Ash and Tongham area, towards the west of the borough of Guildford; and 1 seat in Tillingbourne, the rural district towards the south east of Guildford borough.
The Liberal Democrats retook from the Conservatives the 1 Worplesdon seat which the Liberal Democrats had lost as a result of a defection during the 1999-2003 session.
Liberal Democrat seat changes
In May 2003, the Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats from the Labour Party in Westborough ward, towards the west of Guildford town. The Liberal Democrats retook from the Conservatives the Worplesdon seat which the Liberal Democrats had lost as a result of a defection during the 1999-2003 session.
The Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats to the Conservatives three in Guildford town itself (2 losses in the Merrow & Burpham areas and 1 in Onslow ward) and one in the rural Tillingbourne ward.
Labour seat changes
The Labour Party lost 3 seats to the Liberal Democrats in Westborough. Additionally the Labour Party lost 1 seat in Stoke ward, towards the north of Guildford town as a result of boundary changes and a reduction in the number of councillors representing that ward from 3 to 2.
By election changes
Subsequent to the May 2003 elections, the Liberal Democrats gained a seat from the Conservatives in Merrow ward, in a by election in July 2003, increasing the number of Liberal Democrat seats on the council from 19 to 20 and reducing the number of Conservative seats from 26 to 25.
May 2003 Results[8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Grenville Ades | 1691 | 56.2 | ||
Conservative | Stuart James Carter | 1395 | 46.4 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas John Sutcliffe | 1356 | 45.1 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Alan Richard Hilliar | 1035 | 34.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Susan Gail Elizabeth Spencer | 985 | 32.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Carolyn Elisabeth Ruth Hilliar | 967 | 32.2 | ||
Labour | Rosa Katherine Pawsey | 276 | 9.2 | ||
Labour | Donald Bennett Hirsch | 262 | 8.7 | ||
Labour | Alan Duthie Roy | 243 | 8.1 | ||
Majority | 321 | 10.7 | |||
Turnout | 3007[9] | 49.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nigel Manning | 1085 | 56.3 | ||
Conservative | Marsha Jayne Moseley | 1037 | 53.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Denise Jacqueline Smith | 581 | 30.2 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Craig Victor Pickets | 562 | 29.2 | ||
Labour | Lynne Janice MacDonald | 176 | 9.1 | ||
Labour | Amanda Elizabeth Emily Reed | 159 | 8.3 | ||
Majority | 456 | 23.7 | |||
Turnout | 1926 | 45.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jayne Hewlett | 1048 | 47.9 | ||
Conservative | Steven Thomas Evans | 1028 | 47.0 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Christine Valerie Frampton | 762 | 34.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Richard Frampton | 743 | 34.0 | ||
Labour | Kevin Eric Jenkinson | 269 | 12.3 | ||
Labour | Kazimierz Mieczyslaw Jasinski | 239 | 10.9 | ||
Majority | 266 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 2187 | 48.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Edward Patrick Mayne | 1015 | 45.5 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas Dominic Leonard Brougham | 966 | 43.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Rupert John Kinnaird Sheard | 927 | 41.6 | ||
Conservative | Julie Jean Perry | 916 | 41.1 | ||
Labour | Adrian Charles Newton | 240 | 10.8 | ||
Labour | Malcolm Piers Hill | 196 | 8.8 | ||
Majority | 39 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 2230 | 55.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew John Edward Hodges | 1312 | 50.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Vivienne Natalie Johnson | 1154 | 44.5 | ||
Conservative | David Hunter | 1151 | 44.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Tom Sharp | 968 | 37.3 | ||
Green | John Michael Pletts | 180 | 6.9 | ||
Labour | Celia Anne Lindsay | 148 | 5.7 | ||
Labour | Tim David Wolfenden | 118 | 4.5 | ||
Majority | 3 | 0.1 | |||
Turnout | 2596 | 67.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jennifer Eleri Powell | 2761 | 72.4 | ||
Conservative | Jenny Mary Wicks | 2563 | 67.3 | ||
Conservative | Andrew John French | 2521 | 66.2 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Ronald James Harman | 720 | 18.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Philip John Palmer | 597 | 15.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Teresa Thorne | 524 | 13.7 | ||
Labour | Meriel Anne Beynon | 389 | 10.2 | ||
Labour | Julie Roxburgh | 377 | 9.9 | ||
Labour | John Virgo Brown | 364 | 9.6 | ||
Majority | 1801 | 47.3 | |||
Turnout | 3811 | 58.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Elizabeth Irene Hogger | 700 | 52.3 | ||
Conservative | James Louie Nicholls | 572 | 42.7 | ||
Labour | Fanny Lines | 32 | 2.4 | ||
Majority | 128 | 9.6 | |||
Turnout | 1339 | 68.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Richard George Marks | 1694 | 57.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Robert Evelyn Blundell | 1684 | 57.6 | ||
Liberal Democrat | David John Goodwin | 1642 | 56.2 | ||
Conservative | Michael John Gorman | 628 | 21.5 | ||
Conservative | Elizabeth Ann Hooper | 621 | 21.2 | ||
Conservative | Philip Matthew Simon Hooper | 571 | 19.5 | ||
Labour | Helen Mary Ayscough | 325 | 11.1 | ||
Labour | James Heaphy | 292 | 10.0 | ||
Labour | Alexander Dominic Robin Ayscough | 261 | 8.9 | ||
Trinity | Michel Wayne Harper | 225 | 7.7 | ||
Trinity | Raschid Michael Abdullah | 205 | 7.0 | ||
Majority | 1014 | 34.7 | |||
Turnout | 2924 | 46.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Tamsy Katharine Baker | 1509 | 47.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Gordon Alfred Bridger | 1390 | 44.0 | ||
Conservative | Sarah Kathleen Creedy | 1337 | 42.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Slade | 1237 | 39.1 | ||
Conservative | David Anthony Ellis Williams | 1187 | 37.5 | ||
Conservative | Vivien Mary Sale | 1179 | 37.3 | ||
Green | Barbara Kathleen Edwards | 392 | 12.4 | ||
Labour | Barry Hall | 214 | 6.8 | ||
Labour | Frank Gunning | 192 | 6.1 | ||
Labour | Alexander Hamilton MacDonald | 170 | 5.4 | ||
UKIP | Robert Alexander McWhirter | 106 | 3.4 | ||
Majority | 100 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 3162 | 55.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Richard Garrett | 629 | 59.2 | ||
Labour | Carol Hayton | 204 | 19.2 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Charles Arthur Julian Thorne | 179 | 16.9 | ||
Majority | 425 | 40.0 | |||
Turnout | 1062 | 57.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Anthony William Bays | 1580 | 46.5 | ||
Conservative | Jennifer Jordan | 1572 | 46.2 | ||
Conservative | Sheridan Nicholas Westlake | 1569 | 46.1 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Anne Lee | 1434 | 42.2 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Margaret Rachael Stanley | 1419 | 41.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Merilyn Gail Spier | 1399 | 41.1 | ||
Labour | Michael Peter Hornsby-Smith | 337 | 9.9 | ||
Labour | Geoffrey Robert Balls | 314 | 9.2 | ||
Labour | Graham Redvers Gosling | 289 | 8.5 | ||
Majority | 135 | 4.0 | |||
Turnout | 3401 | 58.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Diana Lockyer-Nibbs | 923 | 61.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Richard Henry Vincent Charman | 365 | 24.4 | ||
Labour | Kathleen Brady | 172 | 11.5 | ||
Majority | 558 | 37.3 | |||
Turnout | 1497 | 62.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Lynda Strudwick | 1115 | 42.2 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Tony Phillips | 1094 | 41.4 | ||
Conservative | Sheila Ann Kirkland | 984 | 37.3 | ||
Conservative | Adrian Stuart Chandler | 960 | 36.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Steven Christopher Freeman | 920 | 34.8 | ||
Conservative | Michael Andrew Chambers | 893 | 33.8 | ||
Labour | Joseph Ian Bullock | 541 | 20.5 | ||
Labour | Florence Flynn | 382 | 14.5 | ||
Labour | Raymond Thomas Rogers | 310 | 11.7 | ||
Green | Richard William Stephens | 310 | 11.7 | ||
Majority | 24 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 2641 | 41.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Anthony Rooth | 750 | 67.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Philip Scott Mellor | 231 | 20.8 | ||
Labour | Kathleen Parfitt | 85 | 7.7 | ||
Majority | 519 | 46.8 | |||
Turnout | 1108 | 58.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael George William Nevins | 606 | 63.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Rebecca Charlotte Marie Healy | 206 | 21.7 | ||
Labour | Peter Paul Newmark | 98 | 10.3 | ||
Majority | 400 | 42.2 | |||
Turnout | 948 | 50.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Keith Charles Taylor | 1262 | 67.6 | ||
Conservative | Terence Dickson Patrick | 1049 | 56.2 | ||
Labour | Sheila Bean | 386 | 20.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Madeline Amelia Clements | 309 | 16.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Rupert Emerson | 285 | 15.3 | ||
Labour | Sally Carrol Tiffin | 186 | 10.0 | ||
Majority | 663 | 35.5 | |||
Turnout | 1868 | 58.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Vasilis Alexandros Kapsalis | 1348 | 55.4 | ||
Conservative | Neil Ward | 1152 | 47.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat | David Vyvyan Orchard | 863 | 35.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat | David Thomson | 768 | 31.6 | ||
Labour | Michael Stanley Jeram | 266 | 10.9 | ||
Labour | Susan Pauline Gomm | 180 | 7.4 | ||
Majority | 289 | 11.9 | |||
Turnout | 2432 | 59.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian Keith Chesterton | 994 | 43.8 | ||
Labour | Angela Gunning | 989 | 43.6 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Thibault-Charles Jamme | 651 | 28.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Stephen John Wright | 584 | 25.7 | ||
Conservative | Michael David Catton | 436 | 19.2 | ||
Conservative | Kenneth Henry Johns | 336 | 14.8 | ||
BNP | Francis Samuel McAllister | 187 | 8.2 | ||
Majority | 338 | 14.9 | |||
Turnout | 2268 | 49.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Pauline Ann Searle | 1367 | 47.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Jayne Diana Marks | 1352 | 46.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Fiona Jean White | 1087 | 37.7 | ||
Independent | Anthony James Ferris | 670 | 23.2 | ||
Conservative | David James Quelch | 657 | 22.8 | ||
Conservative | Andrew Nicholas Whitby-Collins | 548 | 19.0 | ||
Conservative | Charlotte Helen Louise Keys | 428 | 14.8 | ||
Labour | Carole Jean Barber | 333 | 11.6 | ||
Labour | Ian Stuart Mather | 328 | 11.4 | ||
Labour | William McCulloch Scott | 319 | 11.1 | ||
Trinity | Nigel Herbert Foreman | 307 | 10.6 | ||
Trinity | Michael George Pooley | 165 | 5.7 | ||
Majority | 417 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 2883 | 47.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Keith Childs | 1559 | 60.6 | ||
Conservative | David Alan Wright | 1435 | 55.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Clive Montgomery Wicks | 811 | 31.5 | ||
Labour | Carolyn Fiddes | 238 | 9.3 | ||
Majority | 624 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 2572 | 62.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Valerie Jean Hazelwood | 1292 | 41.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Olaf Eugen Kolassa | 1233 | 39.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Marilyn Merryweather | 1192 | 38.1 | ||
Labour | Michael Joseph Hassell | 1075 | 34.3 | ||
Labour | Martin Phillips | 1056 | 33.7 | ||
Labour | David Vaughan Hide | 969 | 30.9 | ||
Conservative | Mary Johns | 576 | 18.4 | ||
Conservative | Pamela Anne Parke | 566 | 18.1 | ||
Conservative | John Marshall | 544 | 17.4 | ||
Pacifist Party | John Hugh Morris | 133 | 4.2 | ||
Majority | 117 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 3132 | 46.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Jill Margaret Chan | 1586 | 45.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Terence Nigel King | 1565 | 45.1 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Victor John Searle | 1519 | 43.8 | ||
Conservative | Alexander Nigel Sutcliffe | 1496 | 43.1 | ||
Conservative | Sheila Gladys Knight | 1418 | 40.9 | ||
Conservative | Christine Margaret Stacy | 1402 | 40.4 | ||
Labour | Kerry Jane James | 302 | 8.7 | ||
Labour | Norma Patricia Hedger | 296 | 8.5 | ||
Labour | Edward John Boys Pawsey | 258 | 7.4 | ||
Majority | 23 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | 3469 | 54.4 | |||
References
- ↑ See http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/85232_postal_power_puts_voting_back_in_poll_position An all postal ballot was used in one subsequent Guildford ward by-election - the Friary and St Nicolas ward by-election for Guildford Borough Council held on 25 March 2004. For further details see para 5 at http://www.guildford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/40CE1851-7BB3-438B-A633-DAF9E954C275/4276/Item7AllPostalBallotReview2272004.pdf
- ↑ http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/document-summary?assetid=12939
- ↑ The Borough of Guildford (Electoral Changes) Order 1999, SI 1999 No. 2475
- ↑ There had been a significant degree of new housing and consequent population increase in parts of Burpham and in the Merrow Park area since the previous ward boundaries had been drawn up in time for the 1976 Guildford local elections.
- ↑ See para 2.3 at http://www.guildford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/40CE1851-7BB3-438B-A633-DAF9E954C275/4276/Item7AllPostalBallotReview2272004.pdf
- ↑ For 1999 election results see Surrey Advertiser 14 May 1999. For councillor Nigel Sutcliffe resigning from the Liberal Democrats in July 1999 see: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/82138_former_leader_quits_lib_dem_group_after_row . For Nigel Sutcliffe standing as a Conservative in 2003 see Guildford BC election results 2003: http://www.guildford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/BB4B28EA-357B-41CA-AD67-E1DB1B563AC4/0/BoroughCouncilResults2003.PDF
- ↑ Guildford BC election results 2003: http://www.guildford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/BB4B28EA-357B-41CA-AD67-E1DB1B563AC4/0/BoroughCouncilResults2003.PDF
- ↑ Guildford BC election results 2003
- ↑ The turnout figures given herein are the published figures for the number of ballot papers. All percentages whether related to the percentage vote per candidate; the percentage majority; or the percentage turnover are calculated using this figure for the number of ballot papers.