2003 Vale of White Horse District Council election

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Elections to Vale of White Horse District Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 1999. The Liberal Democrats lost seats, but stayed in overall control of the council.

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Election Result

Vale of White Horse Local Election Result 2003
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Liberal Democrats 29-456.946.125,848
  Conservative 21+641.242.223,670
  Independent 10002.00.08425
  Labour 002-209.55,326
  Green 000-01.4810

Ward results

Abingdon, Abbey and Barton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Julie Mayhew-Archer651
Liberal Democrats Anthony De Vere617
Conservative Robert Burrage310
Conservative Michael How283
Labour Leslie Clyne123
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Caldecott
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Bizzell347
Liberal Democrats Mary De Vere344
Conservative Jonathan Godwin193
Conservative Charles Parry182
Labour David Banner139
Labour Benjamin Woodham137
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Dunmore
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Janet Morgan705
Conservative Peter Jones666
Conservative Alexander Lovatt659
Liberal Democrats Mark Richmond637
Labour Clive Crowden149
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Fitzharris
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Gibson576
Conservative Monica Lovatt552
Conservative David Calvert543
Liberal Democrats Jeanette Halliday531
Labour Marjorie McLellan124
Labour Barbara Wynn122
Green Dorothy Giacomin95
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Northcourt
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats James Halliday681
Liberal Democrats Laurel Symons674
Conservative David Bowsher353
Conservative Shaun Salter337
Labour Denise Watt181
Labour Alan Downe171
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Ock Meadow
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Badcock599
Liberal Democrats Peter Green596
Liberal Democrats Samantha Bowring557
Conservative Andrew McLernan532
Labour Catherine Dallal109
Labour Brian Jeffries96
Majority
Turnout
Appleton and Cumnor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Derek Rawson1,013
Liberal Democrats Harry Dickinson886
Liberal Democrats John Woodford828
Conservative John Allen-Stevens585
Conservative Stephan Pritchard563
Conservative James Barraclough495
Green Anne-Marie Heslop270
Labour James Hutton219
Majority
Turnout
Blewbury and Upton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Farrell489
Conservative Kenneth Howard201
Labour Christopher Lakeland75
Majority
Turnout
Craven
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Yvonne Constance522
Liberal Democrats John Tamplin138
Labour James Douglas91
Majority
Turnout
Drayton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Grahame Ash34066.9
Conservative Rosemary Packer16833.1
Majority17233.8
Turnout 508
Faringdon and the Coxwells
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Matthew Barber891
Conservative Alison Thomson852
Conservative Roger Cox799
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Braithwaite719
Liberal Democrats Genevieve Webb650
Liberal Democrats Hilary Taylor592
Labour Mohammed Yaqub390
Labour Stephen Leniec360
Labour Michael Ilott350
Majority
Turnout
Greendown
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Andrew Crawford441
Conservative Anthony Hayward273
Labour Stuart Taylor106
Majority
Turnout
Grove
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Phillips787
Conservative Pamela Westwood735
Conservative Virginia Stock716
Liberal Democrats Zoe Patrick698
Liberal Democrats Susan Marchant596
Liberal Democrats Rosalind Hicks-Greene566
Labour William Ackers176
Labour Roland Bashford174
Labour Pamela Thompson135
Majority
Turnout
Hanneys
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Terence Cox489
Liberal Democrats Paul Rollings201
Labour Margaret Ward51
Majority
Turnout
Harwell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret Turner765
Conservative Richard Stone698
Liberal Democrats Angela Lawrence234
Labour Helen Walter221
Liberal Democrats David Allinson213
Majority
Turnout
Hendreds
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Terence Fraser464
Independent John Dunsdon425
Liberal Democrats Bogdan Nedelkoff406
Conservative Michael Murray374
Majority
Turnout
Kennington and South Hinksey
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jerry Patterson770
Liberal Democrats Sylvia Patterson765
Conservative Gareth Jennings480
Conservative Denis Standen426
Labour Stephanie Brown118
Majority
Turnout
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Melinda Tilley383
Liberal Democrats Catherine Chater157
Labour John Matthews53
Majority
Turnout
Longworth
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elsa Boyce480
Liberal Democrats Josephine Gaberscik117
Labour Geoffrey Beer73
Majority
Turnout
Marcham and Shippon
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jane Hanna447
Conservative Cyril Rudge320
Majority
Turnout
North Hinksey and Wytham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Briony Newport753
Liberal Democrats David Quinlan615
Conservative Eric Batts473
Conservative Ann Dykes453
Green Robert Cowley198
Majority
Turnout
Radley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Robin Johnston487
Conservative Jennifer Standen240
Labour Lisa Smyth49
Green Dominique Henderson42
Majority
Turnout
Shrivenham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Saunders632
Conservative Clare Saunders621
Liberal Democrats Bjorn Watson470
Liberal Democrats John Howson357
Majority
Turnout
Stanford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Sharp367
Labour Peter Gill225
Liberal Democrats Anthea Beszant67
Majority
Turnout
Sunningwell and Wootton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Tessa Ward816
Liberal Democrats Christopher Wise725
Conservative Guy Rogers376
Conservative Vernon Porter354
Labour Cedric Edmonds-Brown102
Majority
Turnout
Sutton Courtenay and Appleford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gervase Duffield308
Labour Edward Crask192
Liberal Democrats Patrick Wallace134
Majority
Turnout
Wantage, Charlton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Amanda Harland800
Liberal Democrats James Moley727
Conservative Edwin Goldsmith670
Conservative Carol Tomlinson657
Liberal Democrats Jean Kent595
Liberal Democrats Peter Kent593
Labour Francis Kelly229
Labour Michael Langston226
Green Kevin Harris205
Majority
Turnout
Wantage, Segsbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Hannaby468
Liberal Democrats Joyce Hutchinson395
Conservative John Humphries261
Conservative Adam Dodwell247
Labour Jean Nunn-Price240
Labour Stephen Quinton195
Majority
Turnout

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