2003 Woking Borough Council election

2003 UK local government election

The 2003 Woking Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Woking Borough Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Background

The election saw 13 seats being contested with the contest in Brookwood ward being a by-election after the previous Conservative councillor, Mark Pritchard, resigned his seat on the council. Three long standing councillors also stood down at the election, Alf Stranks in Byfleet ward, Gordon Brown in Horsell East and Woodham and Rosemary Johnson in Old Woking. As well as candidates from the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour, there were also 3 from the United Kingdom Independence Party, 2 independents and 1 from the Green Party.

Election result

No party won a majority in the election with the council remaining under no overall control as it had been since the 1998 election. The only party to have more seats after the election than before was Labour after they gained Old Woking from the Liberal Democrats by 26 votes. Meanwhile, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats each gained one seat from the other, with the Conservatives taking Byfleet by 27 votes and the Liberal Democrats winning Brookwood by 7 votes. Overall turnout in the election was 33.66%.

The failure by the Conservatives to gain the two seats they needed to have a majority on the council was described as disappointing by commentators, in a year when the party gained seats nationally.

Woking Local Election Result 2003
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	6	1	1	0	46.2	46.7	8,780	+1.3%
Liberal Democrats	4	1	2	-1	30.8	35.4	6,653	-4.1%
Labour	3	1	0	+1	23.1	13.1	2,463	-0.7%
Independent	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	461	+1.8%
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	1.9	362	+0.8%
Green	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	76	+0.4%

Ward results

Brookwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Goldenberg	358	44.1	+13.8
	Conservative	Justin Boorman	351	43.2	−19.7
	Green	Sandra Simkin	76	9.4	+9.4
	Labour	Eric Kennedy	27	3.3	−3.5
Majority			7	0.9
Turnout			812	43.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Byfleet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Hutton	1,026	46.0	−2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Roberts	999	44.8	+5.1
	Labour	Brian Cozens	207	9.3	−2.9
Majority			27	1.2	−7.2
Turnout			2,232	41.0	+4.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Goldsworth East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geoff Smith	727	52.2	+2.4
	Conservative	Jeremy Yates	457	32.8	+2.3
	Labour	Christopher Martin	210	15.1	−4.6
Majority			270	19.4	+0.1
Turnout			1,394	25.8	−3.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Hermitage and Knaphill South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tina Liddington	540	52.6
	Conservative	Hilary Addison	349	34.0
	Labour	Graeme Carman	137	13.4
Majority			191	18.6
Turnout			1,026	25.6	−5.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Horsell East and Woodham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Anne Murray	814	58.7
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Leach	333	24.0
	UKIP	Michael Harvey	183	13.2
	Labour	Michael Roberts	56	4.0
Majority			481	34.7
Turnout			1,386	40.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Horsell West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jim Armitage	1,129	50.1	+7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ann-Marie Barker	935	41.5	−6.6
	Labour	Audrey Worgan	121	5.4	+0.0
	UKIP	Timothy Shaw	69	3.1	−0.5
Majority			194	8.6
Turnout			2,254	42.2	−4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kingfield and Westfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Martin	498	43.5
	Conservative	Norma Gruselle	321	28.1
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Davies	215	18.8
	UKIP	Paul Davey	110	9.6
Majority			177	15.4
Turnout			1,144	28.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Knaphill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Neville Hinks	977	47.8	+4.3
	Conservative	Catherine Fisher	950	46.5	+1.3
	Labour	Chanchal Kapoor	117	5.7	−5.6
Majority			27	1.3
Turnout			2,044	30.5	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Maybury and Sheerwater
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elizabeth Evans	593	40.8	−18.3
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Wilson	397	27.3	+13.2
	Conservative	David Roe	289	19.9	+1.7
	Independent	Michael Osman	174	12.0	+3.5
Majority			196	13.5	−27.4
Turnout			1,453	22.2	−2.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Woking
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Ford	304	42.6	+13.5
	Liberal Democrats	Derek McCrum	278	39.0	−13.9
	Conservative	Colin Kemp	131	18.4	+0.4
Majority			26	3.6
Turnout			713	37.2
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Pyrford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Ankers	1,285	72.3
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Grimshaw	442	24.9
	Labour	Richard Cowley	50	2.8
Majority			843	47.4
Turnout			1,777	44.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Johns and Hook Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Cundy	899	72.9	+3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Kremer	266	21.6	−3.3
	Labour	John Bramall	69	5.6	−0.4
Majority			633	51.3	+7.1
Turnout			1,234	35.2	0.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Byfleet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mehala Gosling	779	58.7	−12.9
	Independent	Richard Wilson	287	21.6	+21.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hough	186	14.0	−7.8
	Labour	Michael Byrne	74	5.6	−1.0
Majority			492	37.1	−12.7
Turnout			1,326	33.8	−3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

"Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
^ "Election Results". The Times. 2 May 2003. p. 17.
^ "Shake up of council as three bow out". getbracknell. 3 April 2003. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
^ "Council is hung for fifth year". getsurrey. 8 May 2003. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
^ "Election various wards Thursday 1 May 2003: Results" (PDF). Woking Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
Johnston, Philip (2 May 2003). "Labour loses cities as war backlash bites: Analysis". The Daily Telegraph. p. 9.
"Nationwide gains enough to save IDS leadership". Evening Standard. 2 May 2003. p. 6.

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