2004 Hull City Council election

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Map of the results of the 2004 Hull council election. Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow, Conservatives in blue, UKIP in purple, Uncontested in cream. Kingston upon Hull UK 2004 Local Election map.svg
Map of the results of the 2004 Hull council election. Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow, Conservatives in blue, UKIP in purple, Uncontested in cream.

The 2004 Hull City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was

Campaign

Before the election the Labour party formed the administration after becoming the largest party in the 2003 election. [3] Their administration however was criticised by the Audit Commission, which raised the hopes of the Liberal Democrats that could regain control of the council. [3]

Labour campaigned saying that voters should choose "order and progress" under themselves rather than the chaos they said the Liberal Democrats had brought while they were in office. [4] They hoped to expand their pilot programme of free school meals for all children to all schools within the city. [4] The Liberal Democrats however wanted to abolish the programme and pledged to establish crime prevention funds for neighbourhoods, free off-peak bus travel for pensioners and expand recycling. [4] The Liberal Democrats also pledged to keep council tax increases to the same level as rises in earnings for the 2 years after the election. [4]

20 of the 59 seats on the council were contested in the election, [4] which was conducted with all postal voting in common with councils across 4 of the English regions. [5]

Election result

The results saw the Labour party remain the largest party on the council with 27 seats but with the Liberal Democrats gaining 2 seats to hold 24 after the election. [6] As a result, the council remained hung with no party having a majority on the council. [6] The most high-profile result saw the United Kingdom Independence Party win their first local council seat after John Cornforth defeated the independent councillor, John Considine, in Derringham ward by 7 votes after 6 recounts. [6] [7] However the independents immediately said that they would mount a legal challenge to the result. [8]

Hull Local Election Result 2004
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Liberal Democrats 1020+250.037.421,774+0.1%
  Labour 811040.034.319,974-10.5%
  Conservative 10005.011.26,521+4.0%
  UKIP 110+15.07.14,130+6.4%
  Independent 003-306.94,012-0.3%
  BNP 000002.01,170+1.1%
  Green 000000.8492-0.6%
  Legalise Cannabis 000000.2109+0.1%

The independent candidate in Derringham said he would make a legal challenge to the result as the Returning Officer had said 3,540 ballot papers had been returned but that when the results were declared 140 ballot papers were missing. [9] The independents claimed that these missing papers had ended up in counting rooms for other wards. [9] They also said that people in Derringham had received ballots in the post that were intended for Marfleet ward and that no one knew how many people this had affected and were thus unable to vote. [9] [10]

The court challenge was successful with the High Court ruling that the result "may well have been affected". [11] As a result, a new vote was ordered to be held, [11] with the election set for 13 January 2005. [12] The by-election was won by Michael Rouse-Deane of the Liberal Democrats who had come fourth in the original election in Derringham. [13]

Ward results

Avenue [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Robinson 1,616 46.6 -11.3
Labour Andrew Dorton81123.4-4.9
Green James Russell49214.2+7.0
Conservative Basil Bulmer36510.5+10.5
Independent Ginette Andrew1815.2+5.2
Majority80523.2-6.4
Turnout 3,465
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Beverley [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Geraldine Gough 1,714 59.5 -1.6
Labour Daniel Brown67723.5-0.4
Conservative Andrew Forster49017.0+2.0
Majority1,03736.0-1.2
Turnout 2,881
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Boothferry [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Keith Toon 1,575 41.4 -3.1
Labour Freda Longbottom1,02026.8-13.0
UKIP Tineke Robinson66017.4+17.4
Conservative John Sharp54714.4-1.3
Majority55514.6+9.9
Turnout 3,802
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Bricknell [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Percy 1,789 60.7
Labour Brian Wadworth62621.3
Liberal Democrats Andrew Sloan53018.0
Majority1,16339.4
Turnout 2,945
Conservative hold Swing
Derringham [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP John Cornforth 945 28.5 +15.1
Independent John Considine93828.2-7.4
Labour Garry White85625.8-6.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Rouse-Deane3009.0-0.6
Conservative Zena Rowley2828.5-0.4
Majority70.3
Turnout 3,321
UKIP gain from Independent Swing
Drypool [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Adam Williams 1,414 40.0 -0.4
Labour Alan Gardiner1,11831.6-21.6
Independent Michael Kemp79722.6+22.6
Conservative John Abbott2045.8-0.6
Majority2968.4
Turnout 3,533
Liberal Democrats gain from Independent Swing
Holderness [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Nicholson 2,299 55.1 +9.9
Labour Rilba Jones1,35232.4-11.8
Conservative Albert Greendale51812.4+1.8
Majority94722.7+21.7
Turnout 4,169
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Ings [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Allen Healand 2,202 51.1 +10.6
Labour Tracy Holmes1,53135.5-16.2
Conservative James Parker3307.7-0.2
Independent John Reeve2505.8+5.8
Majority67115.6
Turnout 4,313
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing
Kings Park [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Elaine Garland 1,218 55.6 +0.0
Labour Kathryn Nicholson45120.6-7.6
BNP Paul Buckley37417.1+17.1
Conservative Sheila Airey1476.7+2.3
Majority76735.0+7.8
Turnout 2,190
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Longhill [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Hewitt 1,634 50.5 -13.3
UKIP Barbara Stark72922.5+22.5
Liberal Democrats James Morrell54016.7-3.9
Conservative Patrick Belding33410.3+0.5
Majority90528.0-15.2
Turnout 3,237
Labour hold Swing
Marfleet [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sheila Waudby 1,511 59.7 -15.6
Liberal Democrats Ann Godden64925.6+0.9
BNP Alan Siddle37314.7+14.7
Majority86234.1-16.5
Turnout 2,533
Labour hold Swing
Myton [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Daren Hale 1,415 51.6 -5.6
Liberal Democrats Anthony Sloan47817.4-6.9
UKIP Joanne Robinson45016.4+16.4
Conservative Alan Winzor2709.8+2.4
Independent Miriam Benson1294.7-1.7
Majority93734.2+1.3
Turnout 2,742
Labour hold Swing
Newington [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Katrina Peat 859 36.5 -16.6
UKIP Glenn Dickinson64927.5+27.5
Liberal Democrats Michael Johnson40017.0-20.4
Conservative David Thompson23910.1+0.6
Independent Frederick Beedle2098.9+8.9
Majority2109.0-6.7
Turnout 2,356
Labour hold Swing
Newland [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Ross 1,154 65.3 +20.7
Labour Philip Morrell35520.1-18.4
Conservative Robert Brown1488.4+0.3
Legalise Cannabis Carl Wagner1096.2+3.2
Majority79945.2+39.1
Turnout 1,766
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Orchard Park and Greenwood [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Steven Bayes 1,334 53.5 +1.5
Independent Tony Fee75430.2+11.8
Liberal Democrats Angela Simpson40716.3+10.0
Majority58023.3-10.3
Turnout 2,495
Labour hold Swing
Pickering [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pete Allen 1,122 33.8 -11.7
Liberal Democrats David Harris1,02430.8-3.6
Independent Barry Dibnah43613.1+2.7
BNP Edward Scott42312.7+12.7
Conservative Reginald Britton3199.6+2.1
Majority983.0-8.1
Turnout 3,324
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Southcoates East [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas McVie 961 60.2
Independent Harold Neilson31819.9
Liberal Democrats Danielle Martine31819.9
Majority64340.3
Turnout 1,597
Labour hold Swing
Southcoates West [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Glew 914 45.3
Liberal Democrats Martin Uzzell86843.1
Conservative Colin Baxter23411.6
Majority462.2
Turnout 2,016
Labour hold Swing
St Andrews [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Albert Penna 839 51.7
Labour John Nicholson39924.6
UKIP Peter Mawer28417.5
Conservative Robert Cook1006.2
Majority44027.1
Turnout 1,622
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Sutton [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Kalvin Neal 2,229 57.5 +11.4
Labour Anouska Clark1,02826.5-19.6
UKIP Clare Hammant41310.7+10.7
Conservative Ian Brown2055.3-2.5
Majority1,20131.0
Turnout 3,875
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

No elections were held in Bransholme East, Bransholme West and University wards.

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