2000 Cherwell District Council election

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The 2000 Cherwell District Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Cherwell District Council in Oxfordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no overall control. [1]

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The results saw the Conservatives gain 7 seats, 6 of them from the Labour Party, to win a majority on the council for the first time since 1995. [2] Conservative gains came mainly in the Banbury and Bicester areas, with the biggest name Labour councillor to lose in the election being the former mayor, John Hanna. [3] One of the Conservative winners in the election was Mary Young, who won in South East Kidlington ward to become a councillor for the first time at the age of 81. [4] Turnout in the election varied from a high of 53% in Ruscote to a low of 11% in Neithrop. [3]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Cherwell Local Election Result 2000 [5]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 1570+783.351.59,848
  Labour 206-611.129.25,587
  Liberal Democrats 112-15.619.33,702

Ward results

Adderbury [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Harper59073.9
Liberal Democrats David Puckering20826.1
Majority38247.8
Turnout 79838.1
Conservative hold Swing
Ambrosden [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Markham33163.4
Liberal Democrats Claire Brown19136.6
Majority14026.8
Turnout 52219.4
Conservative hold Swing
Ardley [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Catharine Fulljames45480.5
Liberal Democrats Ralph Rookwood11019.5
Majority35461.0
Turnout 56421.6
Conservative hold Swing
Bicester East [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rose Stratford1,07350.8
Labour John Hanna66731.6
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Yardley37417.7
Majority40619.2
Turnout 2,11427.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Bicester South [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Diana Edwards48361.4
Labour Di Pettifer30438.6
Majority17922.8
Turnout 78724.7
Bicester West [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Norman Bolster1,13047.4
Labour Les Sibley93739.3
Liberal Democrats Kay Brown31513.2
Majority1938.1
Turnout 2,38230.9
Bodicote [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ann Graham53465.8
Liberal Democrats Peter Davis27734.2
Majority25731.6
Turnout 81147.9
Conservative hold Swing
Calthorpe [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elizabeth Macleod85360.5
Labour Roy Mold37926.9
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Fisher17912.7
Majority47433.6
Turnout 1,41120.2
Easington [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hilary Smith95259.2
Liberal Democrats Daphne Nash42326.3
Labour Andrew Beere23214.4
Majority52932.9
Turnout 1,60731.7
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Gosford [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Maurice Billington23046.6
Liberal Democrats Anne Parsley21844.1
Labour Joyce Ruiz469.3
Majority122.5
Turnout 49447.7
Conservative hold Swing
Grimsbury [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sandra Mold64453.1
Conservative Thomas Greeves56846.9
Majority766.2
Turnout 1,21218.4
Labour hold Swing
Hardwick [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elsie Milne61761.5
Labour Balbiz Dhesi38738.5
Majority23023.0
Turnout 1,00419.1
Conservative hold Swing
Hornton [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Lorna Mansell23154.9
Labour Elizabeth Gatliff13532.1
Liberal Democrats Mervyn Probert5513.1
Majority9622.8
Turnout 42140.7
Conservative hold Swing
Kidlington North West [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Christopher Pack85260.2
Labour Andrew Hornsby-Smith56439.8
Majority28820.4
Turnout 1,41631.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing
Kidlington South East [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mary Young53342.8
Labour Anthony Chinn43534.9
Liberal Democrats Devena Rae27722.2
Majority987.9
Turnout 1,24528.2
Launton [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Evans47480.7
Liberal Democrats Derek Turner11319.3
Majority36161.4
Turnout 58734.9
Conservative hold Swing
Neithrop [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Richard Doy47058.1
Conservative Christopher Mills33941.9
Majority13116.2
Turnout 80911.5
Labour hold Swing
Ruscote [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Keith Strangwood45647.8
Labour Wendy Humphries38740.6
Liberal Democrats Anthony Burns11011.5
Majority697.2
Turnout 95353.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

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