2002 Chorley Borough Council election

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Elections to Chorley Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by one. The council stayed under no overall control.

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After the election the composition of the council was:

PartySeats  ±  
Labour 22Decrease2.svg 2
Conservative 16Increase2.svg 1
Liberal Democrat 6Decrease2.svg 1
Independent 3Increase2.svg1

Election result

Chorley Local Election Result 2002
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 22Decrease2.svg 246.845.148,637
  Conservative 16Increase2.svg 134.034.236,881
  Liberal Democrats 6Decrease2.svg 112.813.314,309
  Independent 3Increase2.svg 16.47.17,619
  UKIP 0Steady2.svg0.00.4401

Ward results

Adlington and Anderton

Adlington and Anderton (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYCatherine Hoyle1,88721.6
Labour Green check.svgYMichael Davies1,58018.1
Labour Green check.svgYFlorence Mary Molyneux1,41316.2
Conservative Ivy Leigh1,02711.8
Conservative Betty Lawson1,02011.7
Conservative William Lawson1,01411.6
Liberal Democrats Philip William Pilling7959.1
Turnout

Astley and Buckshaw

Astley and Buckshaw (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYLaura Jane Lennox87527.2
Conservative Green check.svgYMark Perks85126.5
Conservative Patricia Mary Haughton83425.9
Labour Margaret Rose Fielden65620.4
Turnout

Brindle and Hoghton

Brindle and Hoghton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYDavid Dickinson82369.5
Liberal Democrats Stephen Charlesworth18215.4
Labour Beverley Gore17515.1
Majority64154.1
Turnout 1,184

Chisnall

Chisnall (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYHarold Heaton1,02826.6
Conservative Green check.svgYEdward Malcolm Smith69918.1
Labour Jon Davies59415.3
Labour Margaret M. Lees51613.3
Independent Alan Samuel Cornwell41010.6
Liberal Democrats Glyn Jones3799.8
Liberal Democrats Linda Eubank2466.4
Turnout

Chorley East

Chorley East (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYRaymond Parr1,65824.9
Labour Green check.svgYPatricia Mary Wilson1,65124.7
Labour Green check.svgYTerence Brown1,53623.0
Independent Melville Coombes71110.7
Conservative Jacqueline C. Bettney5968.9
Liberal Democrats Jean Mellor5217.8
Turnout

Chorley North East

Chorley North East (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgY Dennis Edgerley 1,62423.1
Labour Green check.svgYAdrian Lowe1,50521.4
Labour Green check.svgYKeith Lowe1,41920.2
Conservative James Henry Fleming79511.3
Conservative Elvi Livesey6839.7
Liberal Democrats Eileen Anne Smith6408.7
UKIP John Graeme Frost4015.7
Turnout

Chorley North West

Chorley North West (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Green check.svgYRalph Snape2,97331.8
Independent Green check.svgYJoyce Snape2,61227.9
Labour Green check.svgYRobert Gordon Crabtree1,16112.4
Conservative Peter Malpas1,01110.8
Liberal Democrats Linda Norman6697.1
Conservative Peter William Higham4915.2
Conservative Elsie May Perks4494.8
Turnout

Chorley South East

Chorley South East (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYThomas McGowan1,50820.5
Labour Green check.svgYAnthony Stephen Holgate1,37718.7
Labour Green check.svgYChristopher Michael Snow1,28217.4
Conservative Geoffrey Goodspeed95913.0
Conservative Sheila Marsden93112.7
Conservative Barbara Ann Higham78810.7
Liberal Democrats David Porter5106.9
Turnout

Chorley South West

Chorley South West (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYRoy Lees1,52226.4
Labour Green check.svgYAnthony Gee1,49826.0
Labour Green check.svgYJohn Gerard Wilson1,45725.3
Conservative Dorothy Livesey65711.4
Conservative Kevan George Haughton63211.9
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods

Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYJames Eric Bell1,81620.7
Conservative Green check.svgYJohn Philip Walker1,46616.7
Conservative Green check.svgYNigel Harvey Baxter1,41816.2
Labour Sharon A. Gray90510.3
Liberal Democrats Glenda Charlesworth8699.9
Liberal Democrats Stuart Brian Harding8619.8
Labour Darren M. Woodruff7728.8
Labour George W. Harvey6737.7
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods North

Clayton-le-Woods North (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYPeter George Buckley90911.9
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYStephen John Fenn89011.7
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYWilliam Richard Mellor87511.5
Conservative Roger William Livesey87111.4
Conservative Alan Cullens86911.4
Labour Jean Elizabeth Cronshaw86111.3
Conservative Magdalene Margaret Cullens85311.2
Labour James Freeman79510.4
Labour Anthony Holden7009.2
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden

Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYLesley Elizabeth Brownlee91624.5
Conservative Green check.svgYThomas Bedford82722.1
Conservative Samuel Andrew Chapman79021.1
Labour Edward Anthony Murphy74920.0
Liberal Democrats Gail Patricia Ormston45712.2
Turnout

Coppull

Coppull (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYKenneth William Ball1,57018.8
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYStella Marie Walsh1,50318.0
Liberal Democrats Green check.svgYPatricia Cuerden1,37316.5
Labour Andrew Birchall1,31315.7
Labour John Murphy1,29415.5
Labour Peter Maddock1,29015.5
Turnout

Eccleston and Mawdesley

Eccleston and Mawdesley (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYAlan Whittaker1,79821.0
Conservative Green check.svgYMichael Iddon1,45517.0
Conservative Green check.svgYFrancis Culshaw1,42916.7
Labour Thomas Henry Titherington1,40016.4
Conservative Brian Twist1,32515.5
Labour Edward Vincent Forshaw1,15013.4
Turnout

Euxton North

Euxton North (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Green check.svgYThomas Gray1,08628.2
Labour Green check.svgYDaniel Peter Gee98925.7
Conservative Rosemary Russell77320.1
Conservative Gordon Marshall Alexander Mitchell76920.0
Liberal Democrats Mary Buckley2346.1
Turnout

Euxton South

Euxton South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYGeoffrey Russell1,05326.9
Conservative Green check.svgY Peter Goldsworthy 1,03625.5
Labour Mary Gray96524.7
Labour Marion Lowe85521.9
Turnout

Heath Charnock and Rivington

Heath Charnock and Rivington
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYMary Patricia Case73264.3
Labour June Molyneaux40735.7
Majority32528.5
Turnout 1,139

Lostock

Lostock (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Green check.svgYMargaret Ann Iddon91324.4
Conservative Green check.svgYDoreen Dickinson89423.9
Labour David Massam83622.3
Conservative George Anthony Rigby69118.5
Labour David C. Lloyd40910.9
Turnout

Pennine

Pennine
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYMarie Elizabeth Gray64555.0
Liberal Democrats Janet Ross-Mills35029.8
Labour Peter Wilson17815.2
Majority29525.2
Turnout 1,173

Wheelton and Withnell

Wheelton and Withnell (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Green check.svgYIris Elaine Smith1,13730.1
Labour Green check.svgYChristopher Howard88423.4
Conservative Simon Parkinson74619.7
Labour Paul Anthony Lowe51413.6
Liberal Democrats Shelagh Graham50213.3
Turnout

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