2004 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election

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The 2004 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council in West Yorkshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003. [1] The Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. [2]

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Campaign

Before the election Labour held 50 of the 63 seats on the council and this was seen as being an insurmountable majority for the other parties. [3] However the Conservatives stood a full slate of 63 candidates and were hopeful of making gains due to dissatisfaction among Labour supporters. [3] The British National Party stood 12 candidates in the election, a substantial increase on the 2 they had stood in the 2003 election but not the 20 candidates the party had been hoping to stand. [4] [5] Other candidates included 19 Liberal Democrats, 18 independents, 5 Socialist Alternative, 3 from the United Kingdom Independence Party and 1 Green Party. [3] All postal voting in the election was expected to increase turnout, which was seen by analysts as making the results difficult to predict. [3]

Election result

The results saw Labour lose 7 seats but remained firmly in control of the council with 43 of the 63 seats. [6] The Conservatives gained 4 and the independents 3, with the gains for the independents in Featherstone being put down to the closure of a local swimming pool. [6] [7] The Liberal Democrats held their 3 seats in Ossett but neither they nor the British National Party made any gains. [7] Overall voter turnout was 39.6%. [8]

Labour saw the results as not being as bad as they could have been given the losses the party was suffering nationally, which was put down to improved services and listening to local people. [7] Meanwhile, the Conservatives were disappointed that they had not made more gains. [7]

Wakefield Local Election Result 2004 [8] [9]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 43-768.345.7108,222-0.4%
  Conservative 11+417.529.870,679+4.5%
  Independent 6+39.59.923,475-1.6%
  Liberal Democrats 304.88.319,719-2.9%
  BNP 0004.09,492+1.6%
  UKIP 0001.12,601-0.4%
  Socialist Alternative 0000.61,538+0.0%
  Green 0000.51,111+0.5%

Ward results

Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Allan Garbutt1,951
Labour Alan Bell1,526
Labour Linda Broom1,362
Liberal Democrats James McDougall1,259
Conservative Keith Wilson1,241
Conservative Katie Denson1,060
Conservative Sheila Scholes1,021
Independent John Evans974
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Ridgway784
Liberal Democrats Margaret Dodd725
Turnout 11,90338.6
Airedale and Ferry Fryston [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Graham Phelps2,025
Labour Yvonne Crewe1,811
Labour Stephen Groves1,751
Independent John Bird997
Liberal Democrats Paul Kirby679
Conservative Mary Barton469
Conservative Pamela Ledgard418
Conservative Rodney Williams409
Turnout 8,55934.0
Altofts and Whitwood [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Box1,993
Labour Heather Hudson1,939
Labour Darran Travis1,855
Liberal Democrats Michael Burch876
BNP William Draper701
Liberal Democrats Simon Curtis700
Conservative Allen Glendinning625
Conservative Tom Dixon584
Liberal Democrats Carey Chambers566
Conservative Jean Molloy559
Turnout 10,39838.0
Castleford Central and Glasshoughton [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Burns-Williamson 2,797
Labour Anthony Wallis2,692
Labour Denise Jeffery2,286
BNP Rita Robinson948
Conservative Stanley Hick507
Conservative Val Moorey484
Conservative Joan Revitt483
Turnout 10,19736.7
Crofton, Ryhill and Walton [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Albert Manifield1,995
Labour Maureen Cummings1,757
Labour Graham Isherwood1,729
Independent Christopher Hazell1,436
Independent Nicholas Hazell1,265
Conservative Michael Ledgard1,261
Conservative Allan Couch1,058
Conservative Alan West937
BNP Robert Jaques815
Turnout 12,25343.8
Featherstone [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Kay Binnersley2,356
Independent Pauline Guy2,143
Independent Roy Bickerton1,859
Labour Margaret Isherwood1,771
Labour David Bond1,703
Labour Robin Tuffs1,583
BNP David Lumb685
Conservative Phyllis Brake322
Conservative Jean Yarwood312
Conservative Brigid Hopkins308
Turnout 13,04241.2
Hemsworth [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Glyn Lloyd2,613
Labour Wayne Jenkins2,256
Labour Hazel Chowcat2,019
Conservative Rebecca Mullins712
Conservative Alfred Hall661
Conservative Norma Crossley654
BNP Ian Kitchen508
Turnout 9,42334.1
Horbury and South Ossett [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Janet Holmes1,724
Labour Brian Holmes1,621
Conservative Graham Smith1,578
Conservative Caroline Smith1,507
Conservative Roger Robinson1,452
Liberal Democrats Mark Goodair1,245
Labour Robert Kirk1,228
Liberal Democrats David Rowland1,176
BNP John Aveyard978
Liberal Democrats Edmund Marshall 929
Independent Mark Harrop452
Turnout 13,89045.4
Knottingley [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Graham Stokes1,946
Labour Glenn Burton1,734
Labour Patricia Doyle1,657
Conservative Christopher Burns892
BNP Mark Burton831
Conservative Michael Plumbley695
Conservative Madge Richards587
Turnout 8,34235.3
Normanton [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Barry Smith2,105
Independent Graeme Milner1,694
Labour Peter Loosemore1,627
Labour Christine Sharman1,463
Conservative Sue Mountain877
Conservative Betty Charlesworth611
Conservative John Scollan555
Turnout 8,93233.1
Ossett [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Alec Metcalfe2,312
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Knowles2,067
Liberal Democrats Peter Walker1,975
Labour Donald Hitchen1,220
Labour David Watts1,174
Labour Paul McCartan1,143
Conservative John Smith958
BNP Suzy Cass945
Conservative Jane Garfit801
Conservative Andrew Garfit791
Turnout 13,38643.1
Pontefract North [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jack Kershaw2,008
Labour Patricia Garbutt1,716
Labour Clive Tennant1,599
UKIP Stephanie Wilder994
UKIP Howard Burdon848
Conservative Geoffrey Walsh838
Conservative Eamonn Mullins838
Conservative Catherine Campbell-Reitzik783
Socialist Alternative John Gill232
Turnout 9,85635.6
Pontefract South [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Trevor Izon2,474
Conservative Philip Booth2,464
Labour James Nicholson2,374
Conservative Richard Molloy2,103
Labour Sylvia Burton2,059
Conservative David Howarth1,963
BNP David Redfearn651
Turnout 14,08846.0
South Elmsall and South Kirkby [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mollie Wright2,414
Independent Harold Mills2,162
Labour Laurie Harrison1,898
Labour John Evans1,884
BNP Linda Westwood853
Liberal Democrats Christopher Wright832
Conservative Christian l'Anson495
Conservative David Charlesworth335
Conservative Patricia Foster327
Turnout 11,20037.3
Stanley and Outwood East [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Atkinson2,156
Labour Clive Hudson1,686
Labour Jacqueline Williams1,645
Conservative Elizabeth Hick1,640
Conservative David Barton1,594
Conservative Charles Scholes1,498
Turnout 10,21936.2
Wakefield East [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Hilary Mitchell1,559
Labour Ronald Halliday1,466
Labour Olivia Rowley1,434
Independent Meherban Khan1,024
Conservative Donald Saunders874
Conservative Terence Brown763
Conservative John Berry732
BNP Michael Wain620
Socialist Alternative Michael Griffiths436
Turnout 8,90837.2
Wakefield North [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Elizabeth Rhodes1,434
Labour Melvyn Taylor1,360
Labour Keith Rhodes1,316
Conservative Jane Brown1,105
Conservative Angela Holwell1,022
Conservative Patrick Williams1,000
Liberal Democrats Douglas Dale902
UKIP Keith Wells759
Socialist Alternative Adrian O'Malley351
Socialist Alternative Diane Shepherd297
Socialist Alternative Robert Crabb222
Turnout 9,76838.6
Wakefield Rural [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Harvey2,614
Conservative Bryan Denson2,440
Conservative June Drysdale2,374
Labour Martyn Johnson1,549
Labour Matthew Morley1,448
Labour David Dagger1,354
Independent Michael Greensmith1,123
Green John Lumb1,111
Turnout 14,01342.0
Wakefield South [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Hopkins1,955
Conservative Monica Graham1,745
Independent Norman Hazell1,671
Conservative Nadeem Ahmed1,452
Independent Brian Hazell1,197
Independent Christian Hazell999
Labour Richard Hayward992
Liberal Democrats Stephen Nuthall950
Labour John Anderson878
Liberal Democrats Jack Smith793
Labour Fred Walker787
Independent Georgina Fenton317
Turnout 13,73648.8
Wakefield West [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Walker2,637
Conservative William Sanders2,586
Conservative John Colley2,491
Labour Janet Deighton1,620
Labour John Devine1,218
Labour Paul Phelps1,133
Liberal Democrats Susan Morgan949
Turnout 12,63444.0
Wrenthorpe and Outwood West [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Antony Calvert1,852
Labour Philip Dobson1,719
Labour David Lund1,552
Conservative Glenn Armitage1,496
Labour Rosaline Lund1,434
Conservative Tony Ayoade1,274
BNP Grant Rowe957
Independent Alexander Adie952
Independent Robert Baulch854
Turnout 12,09043.2

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