2003 Ashfield District Council election

The 2003 Ashfield District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Ashfield District Council in Nottinghamshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999.[1] The Labour party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.[2]

Map of the results of the 2003 Ashfield council election. Labour in red, Independent in grey, Greens in green and Conservatives in blue.

Election result

The results saw Labour lose their majority on the council after independents gained 12 seats and Labour lost 15 seats.[3]

Ashfield Local Election Result 2003[4][5]
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	16	-15	48.5	52.0	17,551
Independent	14	+12	42.4	34.8	11,763
Green	2	+2	6.1	4.5	1,518
Conservative	1	+1	3.0	7.3	2,473
BNP	0	0	0	1.4	472

7 Labour candidates were unopposed.[5]

Ward results

Hucknall Central (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Trevor Locke	848
	Labour	Charles Short	831
	Conservative	Gordon Riley	784
Turnout			2,463	30.5

Hucknall East (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kenneth Creed	708
	Independent	Geoffrey Thorpe	624
	Labour	Yvonne White	588
Turnout			1,920	26.3

Hucknall North (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Robert Gow	841
	Labour	John Wilmott	774
	Conservative	Michael Murphy	739
	Labour	Patrick Wren	620
Turnout			2,974	32.3

Hucknall West (3)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Blagden	1,088
	Labour	Simon Harris	1,005
	Conservative	Brian Connor	950
	Labour	John Knight	807
	BNP	Barry Hodgson	472
Turnout			4,322	28.7

Jacksdale[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edward Holmes	495	76.2
	Independent	Frank Wood	155	23.8
Majority			340	52.3
Turnout			650	25.8

Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Antony Brown	952
	Independent	Rachel Madden	888
	Labour	Alan Butler	530
	Labour	Peter Thorpe	370
	Green	Andrew Finlayson	188
Turnout			2,928	32.4

Kirky-in-Ashfield East (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Wendy Harvey	610
	Independent	Harold Greasley	586
	Labour	Jean Tomlinson	357
	Labour	Warren Nuttall	325
Turnout			1,878	22.4

Kirky-in-Ashfield West (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Baird	955
	Independent	David Spalding	774
	Labour	Glennis Thierry	387
	Labour	Beverly Meszaros	320
Turnout			2,436	26.1

Selston (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Beverley Turner	750
	Independent	Petro Clarke	708
	Labour	Christopher Bonam	596
	Labour	Elaine Bonam	570
Turnout			2,624	27.1

Sutton-In-Ashfield Central (3)[5]
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Lesley Matthews	unopposed
Labour	Alan Price	unopposed
Labour	Margaret Thorpe	unopposed

Sutton-In-Ashfield East (3)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	May Barsby	1,091
	Independent	George Toy	1,009
	Labour	Derek Young	962
	Labour	David Parker	952
Turnout			4,014	24.0

Sutton-In-Ashfield North (3)[5]
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Beryl Anthony	unopposed
Labour	John Bennett	unopposed
Labour	Jessie Parker	unopposed

Sutton-In-Ashfield West (3)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ramon Buttery	1,020
	Independent	Terence Keetley	977
	Independent	Roy Adkins	914
	Labour	David Shooter	824
	Labour	Kier Barsby	717
	Labour	Hilda Holmes	616
Turnout			5,068	23.5

Underwood[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Mays	unopposed

Woodhouse (2)[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Justin Smith	687
	Green	Mark Harrison	643
	Labour	Martin Carey	633
	Labour	Christopher Davidson	537
Turnout			2,500	25.7

References

"Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
"Election results". Financial Times. 3 May 2003. p. 8.
"Labour loses historic vote". BBC News Online. 2 May 2003. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
"English councils". The Times. 3 May 2003. p. 47.
"Local Elections - May 2003 Results". Ashfield District Council. Archived from the original on 22 June 2003. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

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