2003 Ryedale District Council election

Elections to Ryedale District Council were held on 1 May 2003 in the United Kingdom. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by 7. The council stayed under no overall control.

Election result
Ryedale Local Election Result 2003
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 13 +2 43.3 40.6 8,862
  Liberal Democrats 8 +3 26.7 27.5 6,006
  Independent 7 +1 23.3 21.1 4,601
  Liberal 2 +2 6.7 3.5 762
  Labour 0 -1 0 7.4 1,605

1 Conservative candidate was unopposed.

Ward results
Amotherby
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Pamela Anderson 318 66.9
Liberal Democrats Florence Ford 157 33.1
Majority 161 33.8
Turnout 475 33.8
Ampleforth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Bailey 366 66.8
Liberal Democrats Anne Carter 182 33.2
Majority 184 33.6
Turnout 548 42.8
Cropton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Clark 368 54.6
Conservative Gregory White 306 45.4
Majority 62 9.2
Turnout 674 55.8
Dales
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Nelly Trevelyan 394 59.4
Conservative Charles Scott 269 40.6
Majority 125 18.8
Turnout 663 58.3
Derwent (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brian Cottam 603
Conservative David Clarkson 510
Liberal Democrats Ronald King 419
Turnout 1,532 36.2
Helmsley (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Murray-Wells 633
Conservative Christopher Parkin 597
Independent Edward Wardle 557
Turnout 1,787 44.2
Hovingham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Charles Wainwright 562 90.4
Labour David Fearnhead 60 9.6
Majority 502 80.8
Turnout 622 45.1
Kirkbymoorside (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Cussons 677
Conservative Valerie Arnold 549
Labour Garfield Hobbs 545
Labour Susan Balf 417
Turnout 2,188 43.9
Malton (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Lindsay Burr 589
Liberal Democrats Stephen Preston 537
Liberal Democrats Paul Andrews 417
Independent Ann Hopkinson 400
Conservative Martin Dales 385
Conservative Patricia Moore 378
Conservative Anne Edwards 338
Turnout 3,098 30.7
Norton East (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Shields 407
Liberal Democrats Howard Keal 290
Conservative Stephen Shaw 186
Labour Ann Beaumont 112
Labour Stephen Langton 87
Turnout 1,082 22.9
Norton West (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Allin Jenkins 456
Liberal Democrats Dinah Keal 456
Liberal Democrats Stuart Collins 296
Labour James Urquhart 99
Turnout 1,227 27.1
Pickering East (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Joan Taylor 486
Liberal Democrats Arthur Aslett 466
Conservative Angela Huggan 360
Labour Judith Dixon 165
Labour Jill Murkett 120
Turnout 1,597 35.2
Pickering West (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Linda Cowling 528
Independent Natalie Warriner 475
Liberal Democrats Krystina Meinardi 290
Turnout 1,293 30.2
Rillington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Brian Maud 384 69.6
Conservative James Robinson 168 30.4
Majority 216 39.2
Turnout 552 40.5
Ryedale South West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Keith Knaggs 448 77.5
Liberal Democrats Barbara Kerrison 130 22.5
Majority 318 55.0
Turnout 578 44.7
Sherburn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Raper 298 54.2
Liberal Democrats Percy Spaven 252 45.8
Majority 46 8.4
Turnout 550 38.0
Sheriff Hutton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Alan Farnaby 621 84.4
Conservative James Cleary 115 15.6
Majority 506 68.8
Turnout 736 54.3
Sinnington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Phillip Huntington 419 68.4
Liberal Democrats Adrian Bishop 194 31.6
Majority 225 36.8
Turnout 613 45.4
Thornton Dale (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Wilfred Garbutt 660
Liberal Democrats Helen Schroeder 579
Conservative Ronald Haigh 411
Liberal Democrats Allan Monkhouse 345
Turnout 1,995 43.5
Wolds
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Allan Howard unopposed
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