2003 Vale of White Horse District Council election

Results of the 2003 Vale of White Horse District Council election

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.

Election result

Vale of White Horse local election result 2003

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	29			-4	56.9	46.1	25,848
	Conservative	21			+6	41.2	42.2	23,670
	Independent	1	0	0	0	2.0	0.08	425
	Labour	0	0	2	-2	0.0	9.5	5,326
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.4	810

Ward results

Abingdon, Abbey and Barton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Julie Mayhew-Archer	651
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony De Vere	617
	Conservative	Robert Burrage	310
	Conservative	Michael How	283
	Labour	Leslie Clyne	123
Majority
Turnout

Abingdon, Caldecott

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Bizzell	347
	Liberal Democrats	Mary De Vere	344
	Conservative	Jonathan Godwin	193
	Conservative	Charles Parry	182
	Labour	David Banner	139
	Labour	Benjamin Woodham	137
Majority
Turnout

Abingdon, Dunmore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Morgan	705
	Conservative	Peter Jones	666
	Conservative	Alexander Lovatt	659
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Richmond	637
	Labour	Clive Crowden	149
Majority
Turnout

Abingdon, Fitzharris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Gibson	576
	Conservative	Monica Lovatt	552
	Conservative	David Calvert	543
	Liberal Democrats	Jeanette Halliday	531
	Labour	Marjorie McLellan	124
	Labour	Barbara Wynn	122
	Green	Dorothy Giacomin	95
Majority
Turnout

Abingdon, Northcourt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	James Halliday	681
	Liberal Democrats	Laurel Symons	674
	Conservative	David Bowsher	353
	Conservative	Shaun Salter	337
	Labour	Denise Watt	181
	Labour	Alan Downe	171
Majority
Turnout

Abingdon, Ock Meadow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Badcock	599
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Green	596
	Liberal Democrats	Samantha Bowring	557
	Conservative	Andrew McLernan	532
	Labour	Catherine Dallal	109
	Labour	Brian Jeffries	96
Majority
Turnout

Appleton and Cumnor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Derek Rawson	1,013
	Liberal Democrats	Harry Dickinson	886
	Liberal Democrats	John Woodford	828
	Conservative	John Allen-Stevens	585
	Conservative	Stephan Pritchard	563
	Conservative	James Barraclough	495
	Green	Anne-Marie Heslop	270
	Labour	James Hutton	219
Majority
Turnout

Blewbury and Upton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Farrell	489
	Conservative	Kenneth Howard	201
	Labour	Christopher Lakeland	75
Majority
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Craven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Yvonne Constance	522
	Liberal Democrats	John Tamplin	138
	Labour	James Douglas	91
Majority
Turnout

Drayton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Grahame Ash	340	66.9
	Conservative	Rosemary Packer	168	33.1
Majority			172	33.8
Turnout			508

Faringdon and the Coxwells

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Barber	891
	Conservative	Alison Thomson	852
	Conservative	Roger Cox	799
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Braithwaite	719
	Liberal Democrats	Genevieve Webb	650
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Taylor	592
	Labour	Mohammed Yaqub	390
	Labour	Stephen Leniec	360
	Labour	Michael Ilott	350
Majority
Turnout

Greendown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Crawford	441
	Conservative	Anthony Hayward	273
	Labour	Stuart Taylor	106
Majority
Turnout

Grove

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Phillips	787
	Conservative	Pamela Westwood	735
	Conservative	Virginia Stock	716
	Liberal Democrats	Zoe Patrick	698
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Marchant	596
	Liberal Democrats	Rosalind Hicks-Greene	566
	Labour	William Ackers	176
	Labour	Roland Bashford	174
	Labour	Pamela Thompson	135
Majority
Turnout

Hanneys

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terence Cox	489
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Rollings	201
	Labour	Margaret Ward	51
Majority
Turnout

Harwell

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Turner	765
	Conservative	Richard Stone	698
	Liberal Democrats	Angela Lawrence	234
	Labour	Helen Walter	221
	Liberal Democrats	David Allinson	213
Majority
Turnout

Hendreds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Fraser	464
	Independent	John Dunsdon	425
	Liberal Democrats	Bogdan Nedelkoff	406
	Conservative	Michael Murray	374
Majority
Turnout

Kennington and South Hinksey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jerry Patterson	770
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Patterson	765
	Conservative	Gareth Jennings	480
	Conservative	Denis Standen	426
	Labour	Stephanie Brown	118
Majority
Turnout

Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Melinda Tilley	383
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Chater	157
	Labour	John Matthews	53
Majority
Turnout

Longworth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elsa Boyce	480
	Liberal Democrats	Josephine Gaberscik	117
	Labour	Geoffrey Beer	73
Majority
Turnout

Marcham and Shippon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Hanna	447
	Conservative	Cyril Rudge	320
Majority
Turnout

North Hinksey and Wytham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Briony Newport	753
	Liberal Democrats	David Quinlan	615
	Conservative	Eric Batts	473
	Conservative	Ann Dykes	453
	Green	Robert Cowley	198
Majority
Turnout

Radley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Johnston	487
	Conservative	Jennifer Standen	240
	Labour	Lisa Smyth	49
	Green	Dominique Henderson	42
Majority
Turnout

Shrivenham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Saunders	632
	Conservative	Clare Saunders	621
	Liberal Democrats	Bjorn Watson	470
	Liberal Democrats	John Howson	357
Majority
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Stanford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Sharp	367
	Labour	Peter Gill	225
	Liberal Democrats	Anthea Beszant	67
Majority
Turnout

Sunningwell and Wootton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tessa Ward	816
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Wise	725
	Conservative	Guy Rogers	376
	Conservative	Vernon Porter	354
	Labour	Cedric Edmonds-Brown	102
Majority
Turnout

Sutton Courtenay and Appleford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gervase Duffield	308
	Labour	Edward Crask	192
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Wallace	134
Majority
Turnout

Wantage, Charlton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amanda Harland	800
	Liberal Democrats	James Moley	727
	Conservative	Edwin Goldsmith	670
	Conservative	Carol Tomlinson	657
	Liberal Democrats	Jean Kent	595
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Kent	593
	Labour	Francis Kelly	229
	Labour	Michael Langston	226
	Green	Kevin Harris	205
Majority
Turnout

Wantage, Segsbury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Hannaby	468
	Liberal Democrats	Joyce Hutchinson	395
	Conservative	John Humphries	261
	Conservative	Adam Dodwell	247
	Labour	Jean Nunn-Price	240
	Labour	Stephen Quinton	195
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External links

• Vale of White Horse Conservatives