2003 Castle Point Borough Council election

The 2003 Castle Point Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes increased the number of seats by 2. The Conservative party gained overall control of the council from the Labour party.

Election result

The Conservatives took control of the council after gaining 22 seats to have 39 of the 41 councillors. Meanwhile, Labour was reduced to only 2 councillors after losing 19 seats. Overall turnout at the election was 26.8%, down from 32% at the 1999 election.

Among the Labour councillors to be defeated were the leader of the council Dave Wells and the mayor Charles Smith.

Castle Point local election result 2003
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	39	+22	95.1	60.8	31,753
Labour	2	-19	4.9	37.6	19,641
Green	0	0	0	1.2	621
Independent	0	-1	0	0.3	178
Socialist Alliance	0	0	0	0.1	47

Ward results

Appleton (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Eugene Egan	864
	Conservative	Pamela Freeman	840
	Conservative	Thomas Skipp	830
	Labour	Michael Gamble	615
	Labour	John Trollope	587
	Labour	Lorna Trollope	566
Turnout			4,302	30.1

Boyce (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Wendy Goodwin	1,069
	Conservative	Gail Boland	1,039
	Conservative	Christopher Freeman	1,014
	Labour	John Hart	390
	Labour	Frank Callow	380
	Labour	Gilian Wilson	372
Turnout			4,264	28.4

Canvey Island Central (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Blackwell	621
	Conservative	Jane King	586
	Labour	Terry Blackwell	584
	Conservative	Laurence Martin	578
	Conservative	Terry Sessions	556
	Labour	Barry Dixie	551
Turnout			3,476	22.7

Canvey Island East (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Coates	655
	Conservative	Shirley Coates	633
	Conservative	Lionel Hart	629
	Labour	Jackie Reilly	593
	Labour	Mark Reilly	561
	Labour	Sarah Beales	542
	Green	Christopher Keene	135
Turnout			3,748	25.5

Canvey Island North (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Matthew Howard	560
	Conservative	Patricia Haunts	511
	Conservative	Heather Searle	510
	Labour	John Payne	449
	Labour	William Deal	448
	Labour	Kenneth Finch	433
Turnout			2,911	20.0

Canvey Island South (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mark Howard	855
	Conservative	Sylvia Waymark	818
	Conservative	Jeffrey Stanley	791
	Labour	Mike Curham	477
	Labour	Adrian Fletcher	457
	Labour	Lynne Fletcher	447
	Green	Clifford Hughes	152
Turnout			3,997	27.2

Canvey Island West (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Raymond Howard	902
	Conservative	Anthony Belford	769
	Labour	Christine Andrews	190
	Labour	Heidi Cox	182
	Green	Irene Willis	75
Turnout			2,118	29.5

Canvey Island Winter Gardens (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Norman Bambridge	575
	Conservative	Dorothy Best	563
	Conservative	Lance Munt	517
	Labour	Katie Curtis	373
	Labour	Jane David	366
	Labour	William Green	355
	Independent	Norman Garnett	178
	Socialist Alliance	Robert Chapman	47
Turnout			2,974	20.5

Cedar Hall (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Burch	967
	Conservative	Norman Smith	931
	Conservative	Norman Ladzrie	914
	Labour	Jennifer Howlett	434
	Labour	George Wilson	418
	Labour	Charles Smith	416
Turnout			4,080	30.3

St Georges (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Govier	720
	Conservative	Andrew Cole	689
	Conservative	Terence Turpin	653
	Labour	Joseph Cooke	642
	Labour	David Wells	626
	Labour	Roy English	606
Turnout			3,936	28.5

St James (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tony Thomas	964
	Conservative	Godfrey Isaacs	884
	Conservative	W Sharp	799
	Labour	John West	361
	Labour	Godfrey Harris	352
	Labour	Harry Brett	345
	Green	Douglas Copping	259
Turnout			3,964	28.2

St Marys (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kathleen Meager	764
	Conservative	Lisa Preston	734
	Conservative	David Cross	719
	Labour	Brian Wilson	715
	Labour	Anthony Wright	686
	Labour	Daniel Regan	685
Turnout			4,303	29.0

St Peters (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Dick	948
	Conservative	Pamela Challis	924
	Conservative	Beverley Egan	912
	Labour	John Hawkins	564
	Labour	Matthew Thomas	508
	Labour	Adrian Hobden	481
Turnout			4,337	29.6

Victoria (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin Riley	868
	Conservative	Clifford Brunt	861
	Conservative	Enid Isaacs	838
	Labour	Frederick Jones	433
	Labour	Robert Peters	427
	Labour	Philip Brunt	403
Turnout			3,830	29.1

References

"Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
"Election Results - English Councils". The Times. NewsBank. 2 May 2003. p. 17.
^ Johnston, Philip (3 May 2003). "Tories back in charge in former true-blue towns: Conservatives". The Daily Telegraph. NewsBank.
^ "Castle Point Borough Council election results May 2003" (PDF). Castle Point Borough Council. Political Science Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
"South Essex: It's a blue day as Tories run riot". Essex County Publications. NewsBank. 2 May 2003.
"Election results". Financial Times. NewsBank. 2 May 2003. p. 4.

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