2004 Oxford City Council election

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Elections to Oxford City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The council is elected by halves, so one seat in each ward was up for election (except in St Clements, where both seats were contested). Labour lost majority control of the council but remained in minority administration. Overall turnout was 37.6%, with the lowest turnout (26.5%) in Carfax ward and the highest (49.5%) in Wolvercote.

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Election result

Oxford Local Election Result 2004
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Liberal Democrats 1041+340.030.212,053+4.1%
  Labour 709-928.027.410,970-11.0%
  Green 540+420.020.48,161+1.7%
  Ind. Working Class 320+212.03.61,435+2.2%
  Conservative 0000017.67,019+3.0%
  Independent 000000.83333+0.61%

Note: three Independents stood in 2004, compared with one in 2002.

The total number of seats on the Council after the election was:

Sources: BBC Oxford City Council

Results by ward

Map of the Oxford Wards Oxford wards OSM.svg
Map of the Oxford Wards

All results from Oxford City Council.

Barton and Sandhills

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Malcolm Murray49736.6%
Labour Peter Brennan41430.5%
Conservative Prudence Dailey28521.0%
Green Raymond Hitchins14910.9%
Turnout 1,35731.1

Blackbird Leys

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ind. Working Class Lee Cole494
Labour Patrick Stannard415
Liberal Democrats Ian Bearder92
Conservative Patricia Jones91
Green Donald O'Neal36
Turnout 1,12828.2

Carfax

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Sargent479
Conservative Edward Watkins236
Green Pallas Reiss185
Labour Peter Morton185
Turnout 1,09126.5

Churchill

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ind. Working Class Claire Kent386
Labour Peter Johnson376
Conservative John Young256
Liberal Democrats Sybil Dibdin202
Green Matthew Ledbury94
Turnout 1,31828.9

Cowley

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Beryl Keen616
Liberal Democrats Shakil Khan369
Green Martin Juckes323
Conservative Georgina Shomroni262
Turnout 1,57737.8

Cowley Marsh

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Sajjad-Hussain Malik584
Labour Mumtaz Fareed377
Conservative Judith Harley222
Green David Bibby179
Independent Khurshid Ahmed74
Turnout 1,44536.7

Headington

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Stephen Tall 1,061
Conservative Tarrant Anderson343
Labour Georgina Toynbee193
Green Judith Chipchase150
Turnout 1,75344.2

Headington Hill and Northway

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tony Gray451
Conservative Michael Davis434
Liberal Democrats Mohammed Altaf-Khan287
Green Katherine Wedell160
Turnout 1,33733.8

Hinksey Park

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Richard Muir869
Green Lilian Sherwood534
Liberal Democrats Christopher Bones282
Conservative Simon Mort258
Turnout 1,95644.3

Holywell

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Matthew Sellwood443
Liberal Democrats Michael Gotch385
Conservative Gregory Stafford 225
Labour Timothy Waters192
Turnout 1,26432.1

Iffley Fields

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Elise Benjamin800
Labour Richard Tarver721
Liberal Democrats Bernard Gowers195
Conservative James Hayward-Bloomfield160
Turnout 1,94645.9

Jericho and Osney

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Collins846
Labour Colin Cook721
Green Lilia Patterson332
Conservative William Wilson266
Turnout 2,17546.1

Littlemore

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Tanner539
Conservative Stuart Hand359
Green Mark Stevenson227
Liberal Democrats Nadeem Khan198
Turnout 1,33430.0

Lye Valley

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Daniel Paskins597
Liberal Democrats Nathan Pyle506
Conservative Marilyn Cox271
Green Tim Pizey141
Turnout 1,52432.9

Marston

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Caroline van Zyl749
Labour Roy Darke693
Conservative Duncan Hatfield426
Green Jeremy Poster157
Turnout 2,03046.3

North

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Clark Brundin706
Green Sushila Dhall500
Conservative Elizabeth Pryor214
Labour William Turner175
Independent John Rose*62
Turnout 1,66939.0

*John Rose stood on the platform "Local Government Reform"

Northfield Brook

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Ind. Working Class Stuart Craft555
Labour Rae Humberstone439
Conservative Mohammed Abdul-Haq90
Liberal Democrats Pamela Bones89
Green Susan Tibbles61
Turnout 1,24230.3

Quarry and Risinghurst

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Tia MacGregor953
Labour Oscar van Nooijen572
Conservative Elizabeth Mills356
Green Matthew Ormondroyd155
Turnout 2,05346.0

Rose Hill and Iffley

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Edward Turner676
Liberal Democrats David Penwarden505
Conservative Allen Mills256
Green Simon Brook185
Turnout 1,68239.2

St Clement's

Note: the top two candidates were elected
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Claire Palmer741
Green Mary-Jane Sareva597
Labour Jane Darke357
Labour Mohammed Nawaz356
Liberal Democrats Ali Hydar236
Liberal Democrats Andrew MacGregor233
Conservative Peter Leeming201
Independent David Leake197
Conservative Gareth Jennings197
Turnout 1,56433.9

Because both seats were up for election each voter had two votes (i.e. plurality-at-large). Turnout has been estimated by halving the number of votes cast.

St Margaret's

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Gwynneth Royce635
Green Christopher Goodall449
Conservative Robert Porter358
Labour James Cloyne108
Turnout 1,55938.7

St Mary's

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Sidney Phelps616
Labour Mohammed Abbasi496
Liberal Democrats Julia Goddard198
Conservative Margaret Young127
Turnout 1,44733.4

Summertown

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Anthony Hollander938
Green Thomas Lines462
Conservative Raoul Cerratti457
Labour Oliver Kempton216
Turnout 2,08244.6

Wolvercote

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Susan Roaf 828
Conservative Graham Jones669
Green Sheila Cameron485
Labour Michael Taylor162
Turnout 2,15649.5

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