2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election

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The 2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by 6. [1] The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council. [2]

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Campaign

Before the election, South Tyneside was seen as one of Labour's safest councils in the north east of England  –Labour having 49 of the 60 councillors; they were expected to remain in control of the council. [3] The Boundary Committee for England had made changes in South Tyneside's wards since the 2003 election and these meant there would be 54 councillors elected from 18 wards, instead of the previous 60 councillors from 20 wards. [4] The changes abolished All Saints and Rekendyke wards and new ward names included Biddick and All Saints, Hebburn North and Simonside and Rekendyke. [5]

Labour was the only party which contested all 54 seats that were up for election, with the other candidates being made up of 23 Conservatives, 22 Liberal Democrats, 13 independents, 12 Progressives, 3 British National Party and 1 each from the Green Party and the National Front. [6] [7] The independent candidates included 4 former Labour councillors who had quit the party to stand as independents, Mervyn Owen, Tom Defty, Jim Caine and Allen Branley, as well as Allen Branley's wife Jane Branley. [4]

The election was held with all postal voting, but delays relating to the printers meant that many voters received their ballot papers almost a week late. [8]

Election result

The results saw Labour defend a reduced majority on the council after winning 35 of the 54 seats. [9] The independents and Progressives were jointly the largest opposition groups after the election after winning 6 seats each, with the Progressive leader, Jim Capstick, saying that the boundary changes had helped them to win all of the seats in Harton and West Park wards. [9] The gains for the independents included the former Labour councillors, Tom Defty, who defeated the mayor and wife of the council leader, Linda Waggott, [10] in Bede ward, and Allen Braley in Westoe ward, who was elected along with his wife Jane. [9]

Meanwhile, the Conservatives had 3 councillors after the election, the most for decades, after winning all 3 seats in Cleadon and East Boldon ward at the expense of the Liberal Democrats. [9] Among the Liberal Democrats who failed to be elected in Cleadon and East Boldon was the leader of the party on the council, Jim Selby, but the party did gain one seat in Biddick & All Saints ward. [10]

South Tyneside Local Election Result 2004 [2] [11]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 35-1464.845.549,457-3.5%
  Independent 6+411.111.212,220+2.2%
 Progressive6+311.110.911,829+2.4%
  Liberal Democrats 4-17.416.618,022-0.2%
  Conservative 3+25.614.515,783-1.4%
  BNP 0000.8889+0.0%
  Green 0000.3315+0.3%
  National Front 0000.2262+0.2%

Ward results

Beacon & Bents (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Wood908
Labour Audrey McMillan898
Labour John Anglin863
Liberal Democrats Susan Troupe569
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Burke561
Liberal Democrats David Selby542
Independent Robert Growcott541
Conservative George Smith447
Conservative Edward Russell438
Conservative Christopher Taylor394
BNP James Hills371
Green Bryan Atkinson315
Turnout 6,84741.7
Bede (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Hanson1,118
Labour Agnes Stewart1,089
Independent Thomas Defty1,054
Labour Linda Waggott929
Conservative Mary Golightly367
Turnout 4,55738.9
Biddick & All Saints (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joseph Kidd986
Liberal Democrats William Troupe845
Labour Stephen Forster804
Labour Olive Punchion738
National Front Charles Schmidt262
Turnout 3,63532.6
Boldon Colliery (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joanne Bell1,404
Labour William Lynch1,368
Labour Alison Strike1,316
Liberal Democrats Frederick Taylor860
Liberal Democrats Terence Branthwaite806
Conservative Gerald Brebner662
Turnout 6,41640.9
Cleadon & East Boldon (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Parkinson1,649
Conservative Donald Wood1,569
Conservative David Potts1,500
Liberal Democrats Christopher Johnson1,456
Liberal Democrats James Selby1,177
Liberal Democrats Henry Grainger1,176
Labour Mary Purvis495
Labour David Wood423
Labour Terence Fairley414
Turnout 9,85951.6
Cleadon Park (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alexander Donaldson802
Independent George Elsom761
Labour James Foreman751
Labour Anne Walsh732
ProgressiveArthur Morton718
ProgressiveJohn Williams527
ProgressiveGunther Keller497
Turnout 4,78837.2
Fellgate & Hedworth (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Paul Waggott1,116
Labour Moira Smith1,071
Labour Edith Battye1,011
Conservative Sandra Jackson647
Turnout 3,84535.8
Harton (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ProgressiveJames Capstick1,585
ProgressiveGordon Finch1,540
ProgressiveLawrence Nolan1,535
Labour Robert Dix1,111
Labour Wilhelmina Moad994
Labour Wallace Hobson863
Turnout 7,62844.4
Hebburn North (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Joseph Abbott1,266
Liberal Democrats John McKie1,230
Liberal Democrats Joseph Atkinson1,131
Labour John Hodgson916
Labour John Drynan669
Labour Gladys Hobson609
Conservative Stewart Jackson159
Turnout 5,98038.9
Hebburn South (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent John McCabe1,678
Labour Henry McAtominey1,113
Labour Nancy Maxwell1,047
Labour John Watson824
Liberal Democrats Constance Ridgway776
Liberal Democrats Jeffrey Harling618
Conservative John Coe313
Turnout 6,36948.1
Horsley Hill (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Meeks1,056
Labour Iain Malcolm1,033
Labour Eileen Leask908
Conservative Patricia Pigott862
Conservative Martin Anderson812
Conservative Cheryl Anderson767
Independent Mervyn Owen634
Liberal Democrats Yvonne Carlin-Page465
Liberal Democrats Carol Selby412
BNP Christine Richardson287
Turnout 7,23647.2
Monkton (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joan Lewis984
Labour Alan Kerr960
Labour James Sewell929
Liberal Democrats Rosalind Slater756
Liberal Democrats Sheila Bennett666
Liberal Democrats Muriel Coe624
Conservative John Cameron425
Independent Derek Wagstaffe351
Independent John Bissett203
Turnout 5,89839.5
Primrose (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Perry1,065
Labour Barrie Scorer1,036
Labour Emma Lewell-Buck 972
Conservative Walter Armstrong634
Turnout 3,70734.0
Simonside & Rekendyke (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Edward Malcolm1,004
Labour Michael Clare915
Labour Joan Meeks896
Liberal Democrats Jean Turner609
ProgressiveRobert Burdon556
ProgressiveDavid Maxwell540
ProgressiveRaymond Evans495
Turnout 5,01534.6
West Park (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ProgressiveEnid Hetherington1,315
ProgressiveMarjorie Robinson1,279
ProgressiveKenneth Hickman1,242
Labour Scott Duffy800
Labour Kenneth Stephenson702
Labour Jane Carter698
Turnout 6,03640.1
Westoe (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Allen Branley1,561
Independent Jane Branley1,488
Labour Ronald Reynolds807
Conservative George Wilkinson787
Liberal Democrats Derek Brown751
Conservative Quintin Smith651
Conservative Karl Arthur612
Labour Henry Williams544
Labour Thomas Pigott536
Turnout 7,73747.8
Whitburn & Marsden (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tracey Dixon1,019
Labour Shirley Stratford949
Labour Peter Boyack897
Independent James Caine726
Liberal Democrats Peter Carlin-Page726
Conservative Jeffrey Milburn683
Conservative John Fettis642
Conservative Ralph Robson623
Turnout 6,26545.5
Whiteleas (3) [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent John Haram1,296
Labour Ernest Gibson1,178
Labour William Brady1,126
Labour Mavis Brady1,061
Independent Joanne Burns978
Independent Stephen Pattison949
BNP David Richardson231
Conservative Barbara Surtees140
Turnout 6,95944.5

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