Elections to Durham County Council took place on 5 May 2005 as part of the 2005 local elections in the United Kingdom. The election also took place on the same day as the 2005 general election. This was the council's final election before it became a unitary authority as part of changes to local government in 2009, with the first elections to the new unitary council taking place in 2008. New electoral division boundaries were introduced for this election, with 63 divisions returning one councillor each using the first past the post voting system. [1]
Durham County Council is the local authority of the non-metropolitan County Durham in North East England. Since 2009 it has been a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. From 1889 to 2009 it was a county council in a two-tier arrangement.
Labour kept control of the council with 53 seats. The Liberal Democrats were second with five seats and the Conservatives won two seats. [2] There were also three independents elected, including two from the Derwentside Independents group.
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom which has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. They presently have 11 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 96 members of the House of Lords, and one member of the European Parliament. They also have five Members of the Scottish Parliament and a member each in the Welsh Assembly and London Assembly. The party reached the height of its influence in the early 2010s, forming a junior partner in a coalition government from 2010 to 2015. It is presently led by Vince Cable.
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it is the largest in the House of Commons, with 314 Members of Parliament, and also has 249 members of the House of Lords, 18 members of the European Parliament, 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 9,008 local councillors.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 53 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 84.1% | 56.7% | 124,683 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7.9% | 20.4% | 44,878 | N/A | |
Conservative | 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3.2% | 14.7% | 32,358 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3.2% | 3.6% | 7,835 | N/A | |
Independent | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1.6% | 4.5% | 9,833 | N/A | |
Socialist (GB) | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0.0% | 0.1% | 288 | N/A | |
BNP | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0.0% | 0.1% | 119 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joseph Knox | 1,816 | 47.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Sandra Hutchinson | 799 | 20.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Beatrice Bainbridge | 630 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Lancelot Edward William Brown | 592 | 15.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rita Greener Carr | 1,946 | 49.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Russell Amor Haswell | 1,254 | 31.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Amanda Jane Hall | 745 | 18.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian David Ebbatson | 1,853 | 63.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Sean Kilkenny | 682 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Philip Clive Stevens | 378 | 12.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Brian Walker | 1,860 | 53.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Angela Mary Rae | 593 | 16.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Justin Matthew Garrod | 576 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Audrey Willis | 475 | 13.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christine Teresa Smith | 2,170 | 60.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul John Leake | 827 | 23.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Norman | 588 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Sands Cordon | 1,848 | 49.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | George Herbert Gardner | 698 | 18.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Frank Lumsden | 655 | 17.5 | N/A | |
Independent | William Laverick | 545 | 14.5 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Linda Anne Wright | 1,693 | 66.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Simon James Key | 499 | 19.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mark Anthony Watson | 349 | 13.7 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michele Hodgson | 2,119 | 70.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Gillian Raine | 623 | 20.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Julie Ann Watson | 280 | 9.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Davies | 1,250 | 40.4 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | John Joseph Healey | 866 | 27.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Bruce Neilson McCaig | 647 | 20.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Julia Carole Ross | 330 | 10.7 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Derwentside Independents | Reginald Ord | 1,578 | 45.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Eunice Wilkinson Turnbull | 1,474 | 42.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Russell Alan Ross | 385 | 11.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clive Robson | 2,120 | 61.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Owen Leighton Temple | 947 | 27.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Kenneth Hall Wilson | 395 | 11.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Haddon Marshall | 1,825 | 67.8 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | James William Harper | 450 | 16.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Denis Edwin Jackson | 279 | 10.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Judith Turner | 136 | 5.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Young | 2,178 | 56.1 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | Anthony Westgarth | 1,389 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ivy Wilson | 316 | 8.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joseph Armstrong | 1,463 | 50.9 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | Wallace Joseph Tyrie | 556 | 19.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Neil Robert Michael Shaw | 484 | 16.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Patricia Ann Adams | 374 | 12.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Forster | 1,508 | 40.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Peter Michael Carr | 797 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Derwentside Independents | Richard Young | 717 | 19.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Christine English | 713 | 19.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Derwentside Independents | Watts Stelling | 2,279 | 51.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Eric Turner | 1,663 | 37.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Andrew Adams | 495 | 11.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Claire Louise Vasey | 2,169 | 69.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | David Agutter Rolfe | 628 | 20.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jonathan Turner | 220 | 7.0 | N/A | |
BNP | Dean Kevin Frederick McAdam | 119 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edna Hunter | 2,036 | 60.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew David Curtis | 945 | 27.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Judith May Webb | 395 | 11.7 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Kenneth Holroyd | 1,768 | 52.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Patricia Margaret Johnston | 1,256 | 37.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Darren Bean | 345 | 10.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ronald Clive Rodgers | 2,593 | 61.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Maureen Jean Ann Smith | 1,629 | 38.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dennis Morgan | 2,260 | 65.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Stephen Maurice Martin | 866 | 25.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Frederick Farley | 300 | 8.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jean Kathleen Chaplow | 2,705 | 60.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Arnold Simpson | 1,357 | 30.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Alistair Tebbit | 381 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Donna Michelle Whitfield | 1,526 | 46.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Isabell Lunan | 1,429 | 43.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jennifer Duncan Wakefield | 306 | 9.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | David Robert Freeman | 2,184 | 56.8 | N/A | |
Labour | John Ashby | 925 | 24.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Christopher John Arthur | 739 | 19.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Norman Donald Parker Ross | 2,339 | 48.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Redvers Frederick Crooks | 1,952 | 40.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Patricia Wynne | 496 | 10.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Dennis James Southwell | 1,848 | 48.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Peter James Thompson | 1,763 | 45.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jeremy Richard Stocker | 226 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Nigel Martin | 2,681 | 63.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Jonathan George Alfred Roberts | 923 | 21.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Michael Drummond Moverley Smith | 601 | 14.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Frances Marnie Simmons | 2,328 | 53.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Aurelia Constance Smith | 1,569 | 36.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Helen Dorothy Osborn | 415 | 9.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Raymond Pye | 2,412 | 53.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Lesley Jane King | 1,690 | 37.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Michael James Fishwick | 385 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Cox | 2,639 | 80.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Julia Anne Welford | 655 | 19.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Fenwick | 1,717 | 79.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jacquelyn Butler | 438 | 20.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Albert Nugent | 1,921 | 74.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mark Thomas Nicholson | 361 | 14.0 | N/A | |
Socialist (GB) | Stephen Paul Colborn | 288 | 11.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Barker | 2,519 | 79.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Margaret Reid | 652 | 20.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Paul Stradling | 2,723 | 88.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mona Riley | 366 | 11.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John William Downie Maddison | 2,510 | 85.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Christopher Edward James Butler | 436 | 14.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Gordon Tennant | 1,856 | 75.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Leslie Reynolds | 404 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Roger John Nimmo Booth | 209 | 8.5 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dennis Coates | 2,276 | 85.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Hazel Lodge | 376 | 14.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ronald Meir | 2,246 | 69.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Derick Dixon | 971 | 30.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Norman Wade | 2,735 | 83.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Lucille Diana Nicholson | 538 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Morris Nicholls | 2,642 | 89.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jack Victor Seear | 297 | 10.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Leonard O'Donnell | 3,205 | 78.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Lindsay Marigold Seear | 870 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sarah Jane Iveson | 1,836 | 59.6 | N/A | |
Independent | William Maurice Blenkinsopp | 890 | 28.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Nicholas Crass | 356 | 11.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Keith Henderson | 1,859 | 53.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Terence Hogan | 991 | 28.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Joyce Mary Raine | 636 | 18.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Coulson Gray | 1,815 | 57.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Enid Marion Paylor | 956 | 30.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Patricia Margaret Waller | 412 | 12.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Porter | 2,516 | 65.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Christine Sproat | 890 | 23.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Leslie Turner | 453 | 11.7 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Magee | 2,728 | 66.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Mountford | 1,156 | 28.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Patricia Anne Whan | 243 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Robinson | 2,196 | 57.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | David Ralph Brown | 1,616 | 42.4 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dorothy Bowman | 1,968 | 53.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Gareth Michael Robinson Howe | 791 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Simon Joseph Brown | 595 | 16.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Alan Booth | 356 | 9.6 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Chapman | 1,312 | 42.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | James Garry Huntington | 1,310 | 42.5 | N/A | |
Independent | John Mayfors Smith | 337 | 10.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Marney Jane Swan | 126 | 4.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Foster | 2,413 | 57.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Kevin Thompson | 1,358 | 32.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Paul Andrew Carmedy | 431 | 10.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Trippett | 2,744 | 76.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Christine Moyle | 857 | 23.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Crowther Foster | 2,526 | 61.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Martin Thomas Brian Jones | 1,041 | 25.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Matthew Miller | 523 | 12.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Josephine Hazel Fergus | 2,423 | 57.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Fred Blackwell | 1,788 | 42.5 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Andrew Bell | 2,155 | 52.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Keith Stokeld | 1,143 | 27.6 | N/A | |
Independent | David Andrew Wearmouth | 842 | 30.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Priestley | 2,246 | 58.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Morland Richardson | 1,592 | 41.5 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kenneth Manton | 1,459 | 41.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Chris Foote-Wood | 1,042 | 29.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Colin Raine | 666 | 18.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Stephen Anthony Hare | 208 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Thomas Waggott | 145 | 4.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Philip Robert Graham | 1,616 | 59.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Thomas Taylor | 787 | 29.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Douglas David Milne | 300 | 11.1 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Trevor Carroll | 1,553 | 54.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | John Bailey | 1,314 | 45.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Pendlebury | 2,194 | 68.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | David English | 987 | 31.0 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Shuttleworth | 2,853 | 67.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Dorothy Allan | 774 | 18.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Alison Mary Hiles | 583 | 13.8 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Douthwaite | 1,619 | 52.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | John Ferguson | 1,057 | 34.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Howard Bowen-Jones | 407 | 13.2 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian Leslie Myers | 2,199 | 62.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Anne Maria Glynn | 1,309 | 37.3 | N/A | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Lethbridge | 2,119 | 67.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Winston Edward Frank Perkins | 712 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sandra J Moorhouse | 299 | 9.6 | N/A | |
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