2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election

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Map of the results of the 2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election. Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue. St Helens UK local election 2004 map.svg
Map of the results of the 2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election. Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue.

The 2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by six. [1] The Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control. [2]

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Background

Since the 2003 election boundary changes reduced the number of councillors from 54 to 48, while also reducing the number of wards from 18 to 16. [3]

Election result

Labour lost their majority of the council, after losing 9 seats to take exactly half of the seats on the council, with 24 councillors. [4] [5] The Labour leader of the council, Marie Rimmer held her seat in West Park after 3 recounts, while Labour councillors Terry Hanley, Jeff Molyneux and Marlene Quinn were among those to be defeated. [3] Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats to have 18 councillors and the Conservatives won 6 seats. [5] [6] Overall turnout at the election dropped to 40% from 48% in 2003, [5] despite the election being held with all postal voting as in 2003. [7]

Following the election Labour continued to run the council with all of the executive being Labour councillors, [8] after an agreement between the Labour and Conservative group leaders. [9] This saw Conservative Betty Lowe becoming the new mayor, but only after agreeing not to use her vote at full council meetings. [9]

St Helens local election result 2004 [2] [10]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 24-950.042.355,950-6.2%
  Liberal Democrats 18+337.540.052,918+6.6%
  Conservative 6012.515.620,614-1.4%
  Independent 0001.52,021+0.6%
  UKIP 0000.3429+0.3%
  BNP 0000.2328+0.2%

Ward results

Billinge and Seneley Green (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bessie Griffin1,503
Labour Alma Atherton1,492
Labour Susan Murphy1,229
Independent James Stevenson917
Conservative David Davies905
Conservative Michael Hodgson893
Conservative James Spanner878
Liberal Democrats Michael Bagot651
Liberal Democrats Gail Mills454
Liberal Democrats Katrina Young409
Turnout 9,33141.7
Blackbrook (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Bowden1,352
Labour Linda Maloney1,310
Labour Albert Smith1,305
Liberal Democrats Ruth Smith1,156
Liberal Democrats Joanne Hankinson884
Liberal Democrats Vivienne Lavery883
Conservative Joan Foster416
Turnout 7,25635.9
Bold (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Hargreaves1,107
Liberal Democrats Stephen Topping1,052
Liberal Democrats Matthew Dunn1,019
Liberal Democrats Thomas King955
Labour John Wiseman951
Labour Paul Pritchard926
Conservative Jill Jones244
Turnout 6,25434.1
Earlestown (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Leon McGuire1,214
Labour Keith Deakin1,106
Labour Charles Banks1,078
Liberal Democrats Virginia Taylor795
Liberal Democrats David Smith783
Liberal Democrats David Crowther775
Conservative Catherine Perks359
Turnout 6,11033.5
Eccleston (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Teresa Sims3,317
Liberal Democrats Shirley Evans3,030
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Pearl2,718
Conservative Kathleen Barton867
Conservative Michael Marriott687
Labour Ellen Glover645
Labour Keith Cottom617
Labour Patricia Ireland517
Turnout 12,39849.6
Haydock (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Caunce1,564
Labour William Swift1,400
Liberal Democrats Eric Sheldon1,219
Labour Janet Richardson1,177
Liberal Democrats Thomas Duffy1,148
Liberal Democrats Janet Sheldon1,129
Conservative Anthony Rigby378
Turnout 8,01537.7
Moss Bank (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Carole Kavanagh2,077
Liberal Democrats Eric Simpson1,685
Liberal Democrats Richard Ferry1,566
Labour Barbara Jakubiak1,327
Labour Brian Hart1,188
Labour Sandra Banawich1,047
Conservative William Highcock353
Turnout 9,24342.7
Newton (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Suzanne Knight2,034
Liberal Democrats Peter Astbury1,783
Liberal Democrats Neil Taylor1,654
Labour Jeanette Banks810
Labour Mark Rahaman803
Labour Stuart Hughes758
Conservative Brian Honey355
Conservative Margaret Harvey298
Turnout 8,49540.6
Parr (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Pinder1,604
Labour Keith Roberts1,236
Labour Terence Shields1,217
Liberal Democrats Paul Brown684
Liberal Democrats Ethel Clarke409
Liberal Democrats Stephen Knowles381
Conservative Madeleine Wilcock215
Turnout 5,74630.2
Rainford (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Betty Lowe2,131
Conservative John Brown2,021
Conservative John Parr1,900
Labour David Wood955
Labour Keith Aspinall898
Labour Mary Newby886
Liberal Democrats Frederick Barrett342
Liberal Democrats Malcolm Dunn310
Liberal Democrats Gary Pulfer277
Turnout 9,72051.0
Rainhill (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Doyle2,372
Labour Joseph De Asha2,153
Labour Stephen Glover1,433
Independent Neil Thompson908
Conservative Gaynor Parr793
Conservative Henry Spriggs763
Liberal Democrats Christina Duncan735
Liberal Democrats Darren Makin622
Liberal Democrats Majorie Beirne524
Turnout 10,30342.1
Sutton (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Brian Spencer1,917
Liberal Democrats Stephanie Topping1,821
Liberal Democrats Julie Jones1,756
Labour Derek Maylor983
Labour Philip Wiseman941
Labour Michael Glover935
Conservative Pauline Wilcock234
Independent Alan Brooks196
Turnout 8,78337.8
Thatto Heath (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sheila Seddon1,406
Labour Patricia Robinson1,351
Labour Richard McCauley1,139
Liberal Democrats Carol Pearl713
Liberal Democrats Noreen Knowles502
UKIP Ann Fleetwood429
Liberal Democrats Sandra Ferry380
Conservative Barbara Woodcock326
Turnout 6,24634.2
Town Centre (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Beirne1,173
Labour John Fletcher1,099
Labour Margaret McLachlan1,027
Labour Jeffrey Molyneux1,024
Liberal Democrats Mandy Stanley992
Liberal Democrats Alec Mills958
BNP Michael Pearcey328
Conservative Richard Seddon195
Turnout 6,79632.8
West Park (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Lesley Ronan1,395
Liberal Democrats David Evans1,391
Labour Marie Rimmer1,374
Labour Marlene Quinn1,312
Labour Terence Hanley1,278
Liberal Democrats Stephen Broughton1,265
Conservative Charmian Pyke451
Turnout 8,46638.7
Windle (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Wallace Ashcroft1,757
Conservative Nancy Ashcroft1,682
Conservative Kenneth Roughley1,513
Labour Geoffrey Almond1,160
Labour Jean West871
Labour Mark Arnold870
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Knowles484
Liberal Democrats Darren Jackson381
Liberal Democrats Marise Roberts330
Turnout 9,04842.5

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