2003 Dartford Borough Council election

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Results of the 2003 Dartford Borough Council election

Elections to Dartford Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries, which reduced the total number of seats from 47 to 44. The election in Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet ward was postponed following the death of Bob Dunn, one of the Conservative candidates. The delayed election returned three Conservative councillors, increasing their number to 21.

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Labour lost their majority on the council, putting it into no overall control. The Conservatives and Swanscombe & Greenhithe Residents Association subsequently formed a coalition to control the council.

Election result

Dartford Borough Council Election Result 2003
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 18+4
  Labour 17-12
  Liberal Democrats 00
  Residents 5+3
  New England 1+1
  Independent 0-2

Ward results

Bean & Darenth (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Simon Roy Bull750
Conservative David Alan Hammock737
Conservative Ian Douglas Armitt667
Labour Thomas William Cook591
Labour Samson Patrick Carey579
Labour Robert Finlay Carson454
Liberal Democrats Tanya Jane O'Rourke142
UKIP David John Kent74
Turnout 35.17%
Brent (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth James Fickling800
Conservative Sarah Karamuth781
Conservative Nancy Catherine Wightman779
Labour Michael George Dando712
Labour Margaret Anne Eaton679
Labour Rosemary Bryant678
UKIP Peter Kenneth Overy205
Turnout 36.2%
Castle (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sheila East130
Liberal Democrats Andrew Reeves127
Labour Joyce Wise57
Turnout 31.1%
Greenhithe (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Residents Martin Murphy329
Residents Brian Barry Fitzpatrick322
Conservative Conrad Broadley316
Residents Vic Openshaw290
Conservative Jan Michael Ozog234
Conservative Rebecca Florence Storey232
Labour Brian Robert Francis196
Labour Michael Leonard Mahy190
Labour Charles Prior190
UKIP Sara Reed43
UKIP Amanda Tracey Jane Fullagar23
Turnout 25.7%
Heath (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Terence Charles Harry Smith874
Conservative Kenneth Frank Martin Leadbeater847
Conservative Patricia Anne Thurlow788
Labour Patrick Kelly486
Labour Marilyn Sharon May481
Labour Jonathan Victor Kingston449
UKIP Robert Charles Howell261
Liberal Democrats Pauline Yvonne Cherek225
Liberal Democrats Matthew William John Keane224
Turnout 35.6%
Joyce Green (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Muckle321
Labour Matthew James Bryant303
UKIP Raymond Peter Day191
UKIP Mark Christopher Croucher 177
Conservative Brian Garden90
Conservative Amy Elizabeth Peters87
Turnout 24.9%
Joydens Wood (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ann Dorothy Allen1,060
Conservative Marilyn Iris Peters1,056
Conservative Jennifer Ann Rickwood1,050
Labour Valerie Maddison398
Labour Stephen John Sherrell367
Labour Julian Timothy Bryant362
UKIP Arnold Edwin Tarling126
Turnout 34.6%
Littlebrook (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Ivan Muckle321
New England Michael Terrence Tibby276
Labour Stephen Robert David de Winton271
Conservative Terrence Raymond Martin131
Conservative David Matthew Pickersgill123
UKIP Edward Llewellyn117
UKIP Gordon Thomas Patrick Mayell88
Turnout 25.9%
Newtown (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David John Baker661
Labour Austen Raymond Brooker614
Labour Graham Christopher David Steele536
Conservative Robert John Etheridge432
Conservative Andrew Ronald Lloyd415
Conservative Avtar Singh Sandhu399
UKIP Quentin Williamson157
Turnout 24.8%
Princes (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Edward May661
Labour Margaret Anne Stock614
Labour Victor William Stock595
Conservative Susan Elizabeth Martin284
Conservative David Alistair Strachan267
Conservative Edna May Oborne252
UKIP Michael Robert Wiltshire221
UKIP Suzanne Louise Wiltshire205
Turnout 25.4%
Stone (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ivor Thomas Noel Jones601
Labour Derek Ernest Lawson540
Labour Bryan Jones517
Conservative Barbara Gladys May Bell223
Conservative Doreen Edna Coleman197
Conservative Sheree Gail Mary Cox191
UKIP Jeffrey William Robert Reed100
Turnout 20.3%
Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Patrick Francis Coleman875
Conservative Anthony Robert Martin789
Labour Anne Elizabeth Burke266
Labour Jacqueline Lineham247
Turnout 35.7%
Swanscombe (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Residents Bryan Ernest Read628
Residents Leslie James Bobby528
Residents John Alfred Hayes473
Labour Howard Graham Dold455
Independent (politician)Michael Arthur Crosby419
Labour Derek Alexander Hills312
Labour Angela Margaret Mahy290
Conservative Richard Stewart Mortimer Green71
Conservative Joyce Edna Kite68
Conservative Murdo Macleod59
Turnout 27.5%
Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dharma Ramdass Appadoo244
Labour Trevor Alan Rogers239
Conservative Christopher Jon Shippam239
Conservative Gary Leigh Shippam176
Liberal Democrats Anthony Easto127
UKIP Alan John Rice75
Turnout 23.2%
West Hill (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Deborah Jane Stoate736
Labour Geoffrey Truscott Prout714
Labour Francis Gerald Byrne706
Conservative Matthew John Davis673
Conservative Josephine Anne Shippam657
Conservative Teresa Wells637
Liberal Democrats Sonia Elizabeth Keane413
Liberal Democrats Frida Melillo394
Liberal Democrats Adam Keith Gebbett388
UKIP Thomas Geoffrey Roach77
Turnout 46.6%
Wilmington (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Derek Edward Hunnisett870
Conservative Edward John Lampkin809
Labour Thomas Anthony Maddison564
Labour Christine Settle536
Turnout 46.5%