2000 Pendle Borough Council election

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The 2000 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

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After the election, the composition of the council was:

Background

Before the election, the Liberal Democrats held 23 seats, compared to 19 for Labour and 8 Conservatives, while one seat was vacant. [3] Seventeen seats were being contested, with two seats being up for election in Waterside ward after Labour councillor Ann Doult resigned from the council due to ill health. [3] The Liberal Democrats only contested 13 of the 17 seats, saying "we're concentrating our resources where we think it's best". [3]

Election result

The results saw no party win a majority on the council, but the Labour party gained 4 seats. [4]

Pendle local election result 2000 [5] [6]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 1140+461.136.48,490-4.3%
  Conservative 421+122.230.27,052+9.2%
  Liberal Democrats 305-516.732.57,587-5.7%
  Independent 000000.9203+0.9%
 An Independent Green000000.1240.0%

Ward results

Barrowford [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Beckett81345.4+6.8
Liberal Democrats Michael Simpson69138.6+5.5
Labour Robert Oliver28616.0−12.3
Majority1226.8+1.2
Turnout 1,79037.6+5.2
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Boulsworth [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Josephine Belbin75756.2+1.6
Conservative Harold Ryder30422.6−1.5
Labour Robert Parsons28721.3−0.1
Majority45.333.6+3.1
Turnout 1,34831.9+3.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Bradley [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christine Stables77047.0−4.1
Liberal Democrats Mohammed Munir74945.7+1.4
Conservative Michael Landriau1207.3+2.7
Majority211.3−5.5
Turnout 1,63947.2−3.9
Labour hold Swing
Brierfield [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bryan Akrigg52550.4+13.3
Conservative Frank Chadwick42941.2+16.5
Liberal Democrats Doris Stanworth888.4−29.8
Majority969.2
Turnout 1,04233.0−13.7
Labour hold Swing
Clover Hill [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Neil Akrigg51958.4−10.6
Conservative Ann Jackson28532.1+9.5
Liberal Democrats David French859.6+1.2
Majority23426.3−20.1
Turnout 88926.0−2.6
Labour hold Swing
Coates [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jacqueline Taylforth93265.4+11.6
Labour John Edwards31622.2−12.5
Conservative Morris Horsfield17612.4+0.9
Majority61643.3+25.1
Turnout 1,42436.7+4.2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Craven [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Whipp93564.0+24.9
Labour Jennifer Purcell34923.9−21.9
Conservative Edward Myers17712.1−2.9
Majority58640.1
Turnout 1,46136.7+6.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Earby [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher Tennant93046.9+4.2
Liberal Democrats Timothy Haigh88444.5+3.0
Labour David Foat1718.6−7.3
Majority462.3+1.1
Turnout 1,98545.8+3.5
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Horsfield [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Colin Nightingale48449.1+6.2
Liberal Democrats Ian Wensley28428.8−14.2
Conservative Geoffrey Riley21822.1+8.0
Majority20020.3
Turnout 98628.8−2.1
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Marsden [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dorothy Ormrod62063.7+1.8
Conservative Jonathan Eyre35436.3+8.2
Majority26627.3−6.5
Turnout 97427.6−0.2
Labour hold Swing
Pendleside [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Shelagh Derwent54188.4
Labour Anthony Martin7111.6
Majority47076.8
Turnout 61250.5
Conservative hold Swing
Reedley [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Pauline McCormick1,33679.3+28.8
Labour Mohammad Tariq34820.7+6.6
Majority98858.7+43.6
Turnout 1,68446.1+10.3
Conservative hold Swing
Southfield [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mohammad Latif52454.8−1.6
Conservative Peter Wildman43345.2+24.3
Majority919.5−24.2
Turnout 95729.7−2.5
Labour hold Swing
Vivary Bridge [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Whalley59143.4−6.7
Liberal Democrats Dorothy Lord36226.6−12.0
Independent Peter Nowland20314.9+14.9
Conservative James Ilott18313.4+4.2
An Independent GreenPeter Hartley241.8−0.2
Majority22916.8+5.3
Turnout 1,36332.4−1.9
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Walverden [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Adam57240.2−11.1
Liberal Democrats Ajaz Ditta50535.5−3.2
Conservative Roger Abbiss34724.4+14.4
Majority674.7−7.8
Turnout 1,42448.1+1.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Waterside (2) [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Leonard Ormrod596
Labour Ian Tweedie517
Liberal Democrats Linda Whittle225
Liberal Democrats John Beck217
Conservative Adrian Mitchell146
Conservative Alexandra Thompson143
Turnout 1,84431.2−7.2
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Whitefield [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rashid Qadri94448.8−1.2
Liberal Democrats Liaquat Ali87345.1+0.5
Conservative Robert Holden1176.0+0.7
Majority713.7−1.7
Turnout 1,93462.1−3.9
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

By-elections between 2000 and 2002

A by-election in Horsfield ward took place on 1 March 2001 after Labour councillor Colin Nightingale resigned his seat on the council due to pressure of work. [8] The Liberal Democrats gained the seat from Labour by 429 votes, with the former mayoress of Pendle, Dorothy Lord, regaining a seat on the council after she had lost her seat in Vivary Bridge at the 2000 election. [8]

Horsfield By-Election 1 March 2001 [8] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Dorothy Lord63469.4+40.6
Labour David Foat20522.5−26.6
Conservative Alexandra Thompson748.1−14.0
Majority42946.9
Turnout 91327.0
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Pendle". BBC News. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "Local council results". Financial Times. 6 May 2000. p. 6.
  3. 1 2 3 "LibDems give up on four seats". Lancashire Telegraph . 5 April 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "Labour singing the Blues". Lancashire Telegraph . 5 May 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Election results". Pendle Borough Council. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  6. ↑ "Election results: local councils". The Times. 6 May 2000. p. 10.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Pendle election results". Lancashire Telegraph . 5 May 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  8. 1 2 3 "Former mayoress wins by-election". Lancashire Telegraph . 3 March 2001. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Local Authority Byelection Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
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