2002 Hyndburn Borough Council election

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2002 Hyndburn Borough Council election
←  2000 2 May 2002 2003  →
All 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
LeaderIan OrmerodPeter Britcliffe
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seatMilnshawSt Andrew's
Seats before1631
Seats won1817
Seat changeIncrease2.svg2Decrease2.svg14
Hyndburn UK local election 2002 map.svg
2002 local election results in Hyndburn. Circles represent wards where multiple seats were contested.
   Labour
   Conservative
  Not contested

Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 12. The Labour party gained overall control of the council from the Conservative party.

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Election result

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2002
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 18051.449.722,083
  Conservative 17-1248.649.421,947
  Independent 0000.8377

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election. The number of councillors was reduced from 45 to 35 but the number of wards remained similar but not exactly the same.

Ward results

Altham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Myles583
Labour Miles Parkinson577
Conservative Janet Storey449
Conservative Alison Gabryszak447
Turnout 2,056
Barnfield (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Dobson625
Labour Wendy Dwyer614
Conservative Derek Scholes582
Labour Stephen Walsh534
Turnout 2,355
Baxenden (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Griffiths808
Conservative James Dickinson807
Labour Ian Mason412
Labour Anne Ormerod367
Turnout 2,394
Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sardar Ali720
Conservative Siddique Kazi686
Labour Abdul Khan657
Conservative Alma Pilkington542
Turnout 2,605
Church (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jean Battle788
Labour John Broadley771
Conservative Edmund Hogan450
Conservative Marion Raynor434
Turnout 2,443
Clayton-Le-Moors (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Timothy O'Kane569
Labour John Burke510
Conservative Angela Taylor478
Conservative Michael Taylor476
Independent John Cooper377
Turnout 2,410
Huncoat (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Parkins859
Labour Brendan Shiel678
Conservative Patricia Scholes326
Conservative Elsbeth Mills326
Turnout 2,189
Immanuel (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sandra Hayes644
Conservative Jean Lockwood597
Labour Edwina McCormack575
Labour Dennis Baron541
Turnout 2,357
Milnshaw (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ian Ormerod805
Labour Malcolm Pritchard726
Conservative Gordon Mills637
Conservative Paul Travis612
Turnout 2,780
Netherton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mohamed Rahman684
Labour Susan Shorrock601
Conservative Keith Hargreaves551
Conservative Adele Atkinson539
Turnout 2,375
Overton (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Winifred Frankland963
Conservative Peter Clarke936
Conservative David Mason880
Labour George Slynn698
Labour William Whitaker684
Labour Brenda Haworth638
Turnout 4,799
Peel (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bernard Dawson601
Labour Graham Jones569
Conservative John Cunliffe295
Conservative Derek Barden272
Turnout 1,737
Rishton (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative June Butler1,026
Conservative Anne Scaife881
Conservative Stanley Horne813
Labour Winifred Jackson734
Labour Gerald Newton693
Labour Frances Molloy663
Turnout 4,810
St Andrew's (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Britcliffe729
Conservative Brian Walmsley705
Labour Dorothy Westell594
Labour Maurice Cowell545
Turnout 2,573
St Oswald's (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Douglas Hayes924
Conservative George Griffiths858
Conservative Brian Roberts850
Labour John McCormack639
Labour Leonard Neil559
Labour Gary Jones550
Turnout 4,380
Spring Hill (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pamela Barton696
Labour Edith Dunston649
Conservative Paul Barton401
Conservative Abdul Qayyum398
Turnout 2,144

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