2003 Bolsover District Council election

The 2003 Bolsover District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Bolsover District Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]

Map of the results of the 2003 Bolsover District Council election. Labour in red, independents in light grey and Whitwell Residents Association in grey.

Election result

Labour won 31 of the 37 seats on the council to keep a 25-seat majority on the council.[2] Of the other 6 seats, 4 were won by independents, while the remaining 2 seats were taken by the Whitwell Residents Association, which won both seats in Whitwell ward.[2] Overall turnout at the election was about 30%, reaching a high of 42.4% in Elmton-with-Creswell.[2]

Bolsover local election result 2003[3]
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	31	-1	83.8	53.9	11,568
Independent	4	0	10.8	31.6	6,791
Whitwell Residents Association	2	+1	5.4	6.4	1,373
Conservative	0	0	0	7.2	1,544
BNP	0	0	0	0.5	101
Socialist Alliance	0	0	0	0.5	97

Ward results

Barlborough (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Shaw	unopposed
	Labour	Eion Watts	unopposes

Blackwell (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Clive Moesby	710
	Labour	Alan Tomlinson	631
	Independent	Sally Gray	517
Turnout			1,858

Bolsover North West (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Keith Bowman	unopposed
	Labour	Thomas Rodda	unopposed

Bolsover South (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jennie Bennett	unopposed
	Labour	Alan Hodkin	unopposed

Bolsover West (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rosemary Bowler	unopposed
	Labour	Bran Huddless	unopposed

Clowne North (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Brian Hendry	415
	Labour	Sidney Patrick	373
	Labour	Duncan Haywood	306
	Independent	Andrew Patterson	272
Turnout			1,366

Clowne South (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Paul Hendry	435
	Labour	James Smith	375
	Labour	Peter Linley	372
Turnout			1,182

Elmton-with-Creswell (3 seats)[2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Duncan McGregor	1,002
	Independent	James Clifton	883
	Labour	Rita Turner	777
	Independent	Shaun Wass	766
	Labour	Enid Glassey	656
	Independent	Shirley Staniforth	575
	Independent	Robert Davis	261
Turnout			4,920	42.4

Pinxton (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Mary Dooley	534
	Labour	Dennis Kelly	476
	Independent	Leonard Worrall	386
Turnout			1,396

Pleasley (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pauline Bowmer	unopposed
	Labour	Ann Syrett	unopposed

Scarcliffe (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Sandra Peake	688
	Labour	Malcolm Crane	591
	Independent	Celso Sabido	530
	BNP	Mark Stringfellow	101
	Socialist Alliance	Raymond Holmes	97
Turnout			2,007

Shirebrook East[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Murray-Carr	unopposed

Shirebrook Langwith[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kenneth Walker	unopposed

Shirebrook North West[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Dawkins	unopposed

Shirebrook South East[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hazel Ward	unopposed

Shirebrook South West[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Fritchley	unopposed

South Normanton East (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Terry Cook	448
	Labour	Malcolm Hodges	396
	Conservative	Anne Smith	218
	Conservative	Keith Smith	190
Turnout			1,252

South Normanton West (3 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Trevor Lane	496
	Labour	Joan Morley	484
	Labour	John Phelan	470
	Conservative	Susan Curry	425
	Independent	John Hudson	404
	Conservative	David Blythe	378
	Conservative	Paul Smith	333
Turnout			2,990

Tibshelf (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Michael Coupe	734
	Labour	Alison Beckett	622
	Independent	Raymond Heffer	613
	Labour	Graham Parkin	360
Turnout			2,329

Whitwell (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whitwell Residents Association	George Webster	755
	Whitwell Residents Association	Vivienne Mills	618
	Labour	Dennis Reynolds	428
	Labour	Kenneth Stevenson	373
Turnout			2,174

References

"Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
"Cruising back into power". Derbyshire Times. 8 May 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
"District Council Election Results 2003". Bolsover District Council. Archived from the original on 29 August 2004. Retrieved 20 July 2014.

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