2002 Fareham Borough Council election

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2002 Fareham Borough Council election
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All 31 seats to Fareham Borough Council
16 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats before2911
Seats won17
(17 total)		14
(14 total)
Seat changeDecrease2.svg12Increase2.svg3
Popular vote29,67323,067
Percentage48%37%
SwingDecrease2.svg9.5%Increase2.svg10.3%
Fareham UK local election 2002 map.svg
Council control before election

Conservatives

Council control after election

Conservatives

The 2002 Fareham Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Fareham Borough Council in Hampshire, England. The whole council was up for election with ward boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 11. [1] The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. [2]

Contents

Candidates

All of the seats were contested after the wards had been re-organised. [3] Every ward was contested by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, with Labour standing in every ward but one, and also 1 English Independence Party candidate. [3]

Election results

The results saw the Conservatives remain in control of the council with a reduced majority on 17 seats, compared to 14 for the Liberal Democrats. [4] The Conservatives lost a number of councillors, which they blamed on the boundary changes, while the Liberal Democrats were pleased with the gains they had made. [4] The Liberal Democrat gains also saw the last 2 Labour councillors lose their seats, [4] with the Labour leader Mark Prior losing in Fareham South. [5] Overall turnout was the highest since 1996 at 35.68%. [4]

Fareham Local Election Result 2002 [6] [7]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 17-1254.848.229,673-9.5
  Liberal Democrats 14+345.237.423,067+10.3
  Labour 0-20.014.38,799-0.9
 English Independence Party000.00.183+0.1

After the previous election and immediately prior to this election, the composition of the council was:

↓
29

69.04%

11

26.19%

2 4.76%
ConservativeLiberal DemocratsLabour

After the election result, with new wards the composition of the council became:

↓
17

54.83%

14

45.16%

ConservativeLiberal Democrats

Ward results

Fareham East

Fareham East (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Donald Murray1,07048.74
Liberal Democrats Kathleen Trott919
Conservative Raymond Ellis84238.35
Conservative Peter Sandy722
Labour Simon Brown2009.11
Labour Edgar Webb195
English Independence PartyMichael Ball833.78
Turnout 4,031

Fareham North

Fareham North (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Pamela Bryant1,14158.93
Conservative John Bryant 1,130
Liberal Democrats Eve Aldridge55928.87
Liberal Democrats Peter Munday463
Labour Alan Mayes23612.19
Labour Stephen McCloskey197
Turnout 3,726

Fareham North West

Fareham North West (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Peter Davies69941.16
Liberal Democrats Catherine Hester628
Conservative Evelyn Burley60335.51
Conservative Richard Henderson595
Labour Angela Carr39623.32
Labour Nicholas Knight335
Turnout 3,256

Fareham South

Fareham South (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Leonard69340.33
Liberal Democrats Hugh Pritchard676
Conservative Dennis Steadman53531.14
Conservative Trevor Howard495
Labour Michael Prior49028.52
Labour James Carr465
Turnout 3,354

Fareham West

Fareham West (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Leslie Keeble1,47864.48
Conservative Diana Harrison1,470
Liberal Democrats Robert Cox47020.50
Labour Timothy Brewer34415.00
Liberal Democrats Luke Slough343
Labour Wilfred Phillips331
Turnout 4,436

Hill Head

Hill Head (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Arthur Mandry1,36255.52
Conservative Timothy Knight1,349
Liberal Democrats Megan Chapman83534.03
Liberal Democrats Peter Chapman828
Labour Jane Christie25610.43
Labour Janet Gay225
Turnout 4,855

Locks Heath

Locks Heath (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Godrich1,01957.15
Conservative Ruth Godrich996
Liberal Democrats Sharon Englefield47326.52
Liberal Democrats Christine Savage413
Labour Tracey Malizis29116.32
Labour Andrew Mooney262
Turnout 3,454

Park Gate

Park Gate (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brian Bayford93265.49
Conservative Marian Ellerton918
Labour Joyce Bond26118.34
Labour Brenda Caines244
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Chaloner23016.16
Liberal Democrats Anthony Smale185
Turnout 2,770

Portchester East

Portchester East (3) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Roger Price2,22261.01
Liberal Democrats Joan Eastman1,931
Liberal Democrats David Norris1,921
Conservative Robert Alexander73220.09
Conservative Eileen Green709
Labour Richard Ryan68818.89
Conservative Susan Walker644
Labour Stuart Rose616
Labour Leslie Ricketts530
Turnout 9,993

Portchester West

Portchester West (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ernest Crouch96918.89
Liberal Democrats Stephen Clark88341.51
Conservative Nicholas Walker867
Liberal Democrats Eleanor Murray794
Labour Cameron Crouchman27512.92
Labour James Webb258
Turnout 4,046

Sarisbury

Sarisbury (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sean Woodward1,30678.96
Conservative David Swanbrow1,255
Liberal Democrats Vanessa Christie34821.03
Liberal Democrats Mark Christie345
Turnout 3,254

Stubbington

Stubbington (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Dorrine Burton-Jenkins1,27653.93
Liberal Democrats James Forrest1,063
Conservative Rosemary Pockley92339.01
Conservative Gordan Coggan913
Labour Ian Christie1677.05
Labour Michael Taylor165
Turnout 4,507

Titchfield

Titchfield [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Constance Hockley1,13765.04
Conservative Francis Devonshire1,123
Labour Karen Postle31417.96
Labour Francis Allison313
Liberal Democrats Patricia Munday29716.99
Liberal Democrats Peter Rudwick257
Turnout 3,441

Titchfield Common

Titchfield Common (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Englefield87450.57
Liberal Democrats David Savage778
Conservative Keith Evans61235.41
Conservative Malcolm Harper551
Labour James Malizis24214.00
Labour Jonathan Watkins133
Turnout 3,190

Warsash

Warsash (2) [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Trevor Cartwright1,19469.86
Conservative Mary Nadolski1,151
Liberal Democrats Kevin Byrne30818.02
Liberal Democrats Alice Herron286
Labour Simon Holford20712.11
Labour Wendy Ledger163
Turnout 3,309

References

  1. ↑ "Fareham". BBC News. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Full results". Financial Times. 4 May 2002. p. 7.
  3. 1 2 "Election hopefuls named". The News. 11 April 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Fareham: Labour reach rock bottom". Southern Daily Echo . 3 May 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "Wipeout!". Southern Daily Echo . 3 May 2002. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Election Results - 2002". Fareham Borough Council. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  7. ↑ "Election results; Local Elections". The Times. 3 May 2002. p. 6.
Preceded by
2000 Fareham Council election 		Fareham local elections Succeeded by
2004 Fareham Council election
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