City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election, 2002

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Map of the results for the 2002 Bradford council election.

Elections to City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election, and it remained under no overall control. [1] [2]

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Local government body in England

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Bradford. Since 1 April 2014 it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

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Election result

Bradford Local Election Result 2002 [1]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 1414Decrease2.svg346.738.446,788+4.0%
  Conservative 1132Increase2.svg136.738.546,837-5.2%
  Liberal Democrat 410Increase2.svg113.316.620,178+1.1%
  Green 110Increase2.svg13.33.94,775+0.6%
  Independent 000Steady2.svg0.02.02,430-0.9%
  BNP 000Steady2.svg0.00.4486+0.4%
  Socialist Alliance 000Steady2.svg0.00.2257+0.1%

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

PartyPrevious councilNew council
Labour4138
Conservative3738
Liberal Democrat1112
Green12
Total9090
Working majority -8  -14 

Ward results

Baildon [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Alastair Thornton2,39948.6+2.1
Conservative Edward Ward1,94239.3-0.5
Labour Isa Khan4058.2-3.2
Green Kevin Warnes1923.9+1.7
Majority4579.2+2.6
Turnout 4,94440.5+5.5
Liberal Democrat hold Swing +1.3
Bingley [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Colin Gill2,26551.1-3.9
Labour Frank Needham1,47133.2-1.1
Liberal Democrat Alan Sykes4289.7+3.1
Green Arthur Arnold2646.0+1.9
Majority79417.9-2.8
Turnout 4,43842.0+3.3
Conservative hold Swing -1.4
Bingley Rural [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Margaret Eaton2,73362.9-3.0
Labour David Brown1,03223.7+1.9
Liberal Democrat Laura Cole3628.3-0.2
Green John Francis Love2185.0+1.3
Majority1,70139.1-4.8
Turnout 4,35037.0+5.3
Conservative hold Swing -2.4
Bolton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Allan Hillary2,31762.7+5.4
Labour Jagtar Deol77020.8-0.6
Conservative John Robertshaw60616.4-4.7
Majority1,54741.9+6.1
Turnout 3,71136.6+8.3
Liberal Democrat hold Swing +3.0
Bowling [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Anthony Niland1,68345.2-7.2
Liberal Democrat Rupert Oliver1,16331.2+19.3
Conservative Habib-Ur Rehman87623.5-4.7
Majority52014.0-10.2
Turnout 3,74731.7+10.2
Labour hold Swing -13.2
Bradford Moor [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Azhar Mahmood2,15946.6+12.0
Labour Susanne Rooney1,95242.1-14.0
Liberal Democrat Raihanna Ismail52211.3+2.0
Majority2074.5-17.0
Turnout 4,65843.7+13.3
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +13.0
Clayton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative David John Servant1,45444.1-9.3
Labour Olayemi Fagborun1,19236.1+2.9
Liberal Democrat Lorna Leeming51315.6+5.4
Green Alexander Suchi1384.2+1.0
Majority2627.9-12.2
Turnout 3,30432.4+4.1
Conservative gain from Labour Swing -6.1
Craven [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Eric Dawson2,35854.9+4.9
Labour Francis Harrison1,36431.7+12.8
Liberal Democrat Ambrose Micklem57613.4+6.3
Majority99423.1-2.7
Turnout 4,30434.5+1.5
Conservative hold Swing -3.9
Eccleshill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Dorothy Ann Wallace1,08732.9-5.2
Labour Gareth Logan1,04531.6-0.7
Conservative Richard Sheard59818.1-11.5
BNP Arthur Bentley48614.7+14.7
Independent Audrey Raistrick902.7+2.7
Majority421.3-4.5
Turnout 3,31035.9+8.2
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour Swing -2.2
Great Horton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Paul Flowers2,05155.5+14.5
Conservative Jonathan Stubbs1,12530.4-12.6
Liberal Democrat James Mangeolles3108.4-0.9
Green Derek Curtis2095.7+5.7
Majority92625.1+23.0
Turnout 3,69834.0+5.8
Labour hold Swing +13.5
Heaton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative John Stanley King2,38046.7+6.0
Labour Imran Ahmed Khan2,03239.9-7.7
Liberal Democrat Helen Wright3466.8+1.0
Green Helen Kemp2715.3-0.7
Socialist Alliance Howard Miles681.3+1.3
Majority3486.8-0.1
Turnout 5,10443.0+7.4
Conservative hold Swing +6.8
Idle [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Democrat Jeanette Sunderland2,19250.3+1.5
Conservative Philip Kirkpatrick1,22828.2-1.9
Labour Mark Fieldhouse94121.6+0.4
Majority96422.1+3.4
Turnout 4,37735.6+5.6
Liberal Democrat hold Swing +1.7
Ilkley [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Anne Hawkesworth3,04864.2-0.8
Labour Paul Dutton1,10923.4+7.1
Liberal Democrat Carsten Svensgaard58712.4-6.3
Majority1,93940.9-5.4
Turnout 4,47843.0+6.3
Conservative hold Swing -3.9
Keighley North
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Maxine Hepworth1,93347.8+8.4
Conservative Mark Startin1,66141.1-8.6
Liberal Democrat James Main45011.1+0.2
Majority2726.7-3.6
Turnout 4,05937.1+2.0
Labour hold Swing +8.5
Keighley South
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour John Prestage1,64062.4+4.2
Conservative David McKay69626.5-3.0
Liberal Democrat Edward Hallmann29211.1-1.2
Majority94435.9+7.2
Turnout 2,65329.8+4.7
Labour hold Swing +3.6
Keighley West [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Irene Ellison-Wood1,71544.7+3.1
Conservative Nancy Holdsworth1,19431.2-0.7
Independent Brian Hudson54114.1-3.7
Liberal Democrat Cristopher Campbell Brown38210.0+1.3
Majority52113.6+3.8
Turnout 3,84534.1+1.8
Labour hold Swing +1.9
Little Horton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Taj Mubarik Salam1,90350.9+0.4
Conservative Jamshed Khan1,29734.7-2.7
Liberal Democrat John Massen2737.3-0.1
Green Brian Ford1674.5-0.2
Socialist Alliance Ann Morgan962.6+2.6
Majority60616.2+3.1
Turnout 3,74536.8+10.1
Labour hold Swing +1.5
Odsal [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour James O'Neill1,92151.0+9.0
Conservative Michael Ellis1,17031.1-11.6
Liberal Democrat Brian Boulton57915.4+0.1
Socialist Alliance Ateeq Siddique932.5+2.5
Majority75120.0+19.4
Turnout 3,77632.0+7.8
Labour hold Swing +10.3
Queensbury [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Stuart Hanson1,70643.0-11.6
Labour Geoffrey Green1,60640.5+11.0
Liberal Democrat John Robert Saul42010.6+2.6
Green Eileen Allen2355.9+2.9
Majority1002.5-22.6
Turnout 3,97530.1+4.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing -11.3
Rombalds [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Christopher Greaves2,89256.8-5.0
Labour Graham Hill1,25824.7+3.2
Liberal Democrat John Hall94218.5+1.8
Majority1,63432.1-8.2
Turnout 5,10340.2+4.4
Conservative hold Swing -4.1
Shipley East
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Tony Miller1,44350.9-2.8
Conservative Derek Taylor68024.0-1.1
Liberal Democrat Ronald Craig51918.3+1.4
Green Christina Love1926.8+2.6
Majority76326.9-1.7
Turnout 2,84329.4+5.6
Labour hold Swing -0.8
Shipley West
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Green Martin Love2,25242.0+5.0
Conservative John Anthony Carroll1,60930.0-2.6
Labour Vanda Greenwood40522.5-2.6
Liberal Democrat Francis Dale2925.4+0.1
Majority64312.0+7.6
Turnout 5,36247.1+3.7
Green gain from Conservative Swing +3.8
Thornton [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Clive Richardson1,42843.1-24.4
Independent Melanie Milnes91727.7+27.7
Labour Gordon Winter66620.1+5.6
Liberal Democrat David Weston1885.7-8.1
Green Michael Anthony Rawnsley1143.4-0.7
Majority51115.4-37.5
Turnout 3,31434.9+7.0
Conservative hold Swing -26.0
Toller [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Imran Hussain3,41657.9+12.8
Conservative Amjad Hussain2,14336.3-11.2
Liberal Democrat Naveed Ilyas3455.8-1.6
Majority1,27321.6+19.2
Turnout 5,95049.2+3.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +12.0
Tong [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour John Ruding1,42462.8+12.0
Conservative J. Stead59126.1-10.0
Liberal Democrat S. Lambert25311.2-2.0
Majority83336.7+21.9
Turnout 2,26824.3+7.8
Labour hold Swing +11.0
Undercliffe [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Robert Sowman1,46742.1+11.0
Conservative Mohammad Masood1,07230.8-9.7
Liberal Democrat Brian Moore47621.4-3.0
Green Steven Schofield1965.6+1.7
Majority39511.3+2.1
Turnout 3,50234.9
Labour hold Swing +10.3
University [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Choudhary Rangzeb3,43155.6+11.2
Conservative Khadim Hussain2,12134.4-9.7
Green John Edward Robinson3275.3+0.5
Liberal Democrat Margaret Chadwick2934.7-0.0
Majority1,31021.2+20.8
Turnout 6,19443.9+12.6
Labour hold Swing +10.4
Wibsey [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Keith Thomson1,98759.9+10.9
Conservative Dorothy Craven95128.7-10.5
Liberal Democrat Beverley Beaumont38011.41-0.4
Majority1,03631.2+21.4
Turnout 3,33033.7+4.8
Labour hold Swing +10.7
Worth Valley [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Conservative Kristan Hopkins1,81041.8-1.7
Labour Mark Curtis1,27329.4+2.6
Independent David Samuels88220.3-3.6
Liberal Democrat Richard Quayle3698.5+2.7
Majority53712.4-4.3
Turnout 4,34936.5+2.8
Conservative hold Swing -2.1
Wyke [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Mark Cummins1,45546.2+12.8
Conservative John David Hardy1,04433.1-7.5
Liberal Democrat Kevin Hall40520.7-5.3
Majority41113.0+5.8
Turnout 3,16327.4+5.3
Labour hold Swing +10.1

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  2. ↑ "Vote 2012: Bradford". BBC News Online . Retrieved 2015-08-01.
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