2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election

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Map of the results of the 2000 Amber Valley council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Independent in grey. Amber Valley UK local election 2000 map.svg
Map of the results of the 2000 Amber Valley council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Independent in grey.

The 2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Amber Valley Borough Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by 2. [1] The Conservative Party gained control of the council from the Labour Party. [2]

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Election result

Overall turnout in the election was 31.6%, [3] with a trial in 2 wards seeing a 115% increase in postal voting after anyone was allowed to apply. [4]

Amber Valley Local Election Result 2000 [3] [5]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 32+2171.150.727,044
  Labour 12-2026.742.422,604
  Independent 1+12.22.01,041
  Liberal Democrats 0004.92,604

Ward results

Alfreton (3) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kathryn Salt692
Labour Gillian Dolman676
Independent Colin Thornton657
Labour Steven Daley546
Conservative Jill Ratcliffe359
Conservative Simon Hitchcock346
Liberal Democrats Paul Gibbons297
Turnout 3,57322.0
Alport [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mary Fletcher55367.4
Labour Keith Wharam13716.7
Liberal Democrats Peter Handscombe13116.0
Majority41650.7
Turnout 82139.4
Belper Central (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Nelson805
Conservative Robert Hailsworth722
Labour Joyce Sanders502
Labour Alan Broughton495
Liberal Democrats Fiona Read88
Liberal Democrats Colin Thompson73
Turnout 2,68535.5
Belper East (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Handley546
Conservative Martin Thomlinson530
Labour Nalda Boyes-Jackson441
Labour Ashley Welch421
Turnout 1,93822.6
Belper North (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alan Cox882
Conservative Benjamin Miller847
Labour Robert Janes398
Labour Kenneth Armstrong299
Turnout 2,42633.5
Belper South (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Arnold673
Conservative Chris Short638
Labour Ronald Buzzard514
Labour Peter Sheperd502
Turnout 2,32731.0
Codnor & Waingroves (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher Emmas-Williams558
Conservative David Cattermole529
Conservative Michael Mumby483
Labour Ian Fisher480
Turnout 2,05027.7
Crich [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Glyn Hartshorne45951.3
Labour Philip Whitney30634.2
Liberal Democrats Roger Shelley13014.5
Majority15317.1
Turnout 89547.0
Duffield (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Woodings897
Conservative Murray Charmichael-Smith858
Labour Diana Hancock341
Labour Jean Minion293
Liberal Democrats Deena Gillat275
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Benson191
Turnout 2,85539.0
Heage & Ambergate (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Albert Wilde711
Conservative June Emmott709
Labour Maurice Gent699
Labour Michael Missett475
Liberal Democrats Anthony Cooper183
Turnout 2,77738.3
Heanor & Loscoe (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Bailey514
Labour John Moon484
Conservative Christine Storr423
Conservative Sally West387
Turnout 1,80823.7
Heanor East (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Francis Bulkeley-Kirkham459
Labour Glynne Cato451
Labour Harry Soar438
Conservative Enid Trusswell431
Turnout 1,77923.7
Heanor West (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Celia Cox477
Labour Paul Jones451
Conservative Janet MacDonald384
Conservative Linda Edwards-Milsom379
Liberal Democrats Andrew Healy323
Liberal Democrats Judith Woolley323
Turnout 2,33728.1
Ironville & Riddings (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jack Brown788
Conservative George Cope614
Labour David Griffiths552
Labour Pamela Cope535
Liberal Democrats Keith Falconbridge101
Turnout 2,59032.7
Kilburn, Denby & Holbrook (3) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Charles Bull870
Conservative Albert Hall846
Conservative Alan Warner788
Labour Richard Massey749
Labour Timothy Benson710
Labour Brenda Remington704
Liberal Democrats Jane Benson249
Turnout 4,91629.9
Langley Mill & Aldercar (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wendy Grace524
Labour Stephanie Ward485
Independent Denis Woolley210
Conservative Terrence Thorpe206
Turnout 1,42521.3
Ripley (3) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Patricia Parkin875
Conservative Patricia Turner858
Conservative Kathleen Brown774
Labour Charles Cutting704
Labour David Neilson665
Labour Stephen Freeborn634
Liberal Democrats Janet Thompson240
Turnout 4,75026.9
Ripley & Marehay (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Linda Cope562
Conservative Patricia Bowmar559
Labour Geoffrey Carlile549
Labour Janis Gregory491
Turnout 2,16133.0
Shipley Park, Horsley & Horsley Woodhouse (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Jeffery682
Conservative Gregory MacDonald676
Labour Eric Lancashire611
Labour Owen Gray481
Independent Leslie Foster174
Turnout 2,62433.0
Somercotes (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McCabe690
Labour Alan Stringer648
Conservative Geoffrey Brailsford468
Conservative David Beeston412
Turnout 2,21826.4
South West Parishes [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Cunningham70982.0
Labour Patrick Mountain15618.0
Majority55364.0
Turnout 86540.0
Swanwick (2) [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Hayes885
Conservative Allen King792
Labour David Harry476
Labour Pauline Griffiths461
Turnout 2,61432.2
Wingfield [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Valerie Thorpe67078.0
Labour Peter Hare18922.0
Majority48156.0
Turnout 85946.0

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  2. ↑ "Local council results". Financial Times . 6 May 2000. p. 6.
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  4. ↑ Wainwright, Martin (15 May 2000). "Making it easy: Experiments to improve the turnout in local elections have had an impact, although some voters still want to use a polling station". The Guardian . p. 17.
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