2003 Liverpool City Council election
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33 seats were up for election (one third): one seat for each of the 33 wards 50 seats needed for a majority | ||
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Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.[1] Overall turnout was 21.7%.
After the election, the composition of the council was
Party | Seats | ± | |
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Liberal Democrats | 63 | ||
Labour | 31 | ||
Liberal | 3 | 0 | |
Independent | 2 |
Election result
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 22 | -2 | 64.7 | 49.8 | 37,194 | -0.5% | |||
Labour | 11 | +4 | 29.4 | 34.2 | 25,514 | -1.2% | |||
Liberal | 1 | +1 | 2.9 | 6.8 | 5,066 | +1.3% | |||
Liverpool Labour Community Party | 1 | -1 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 1,034 | +1.4% | |||
Conservative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 3,050 | -0.1% | |||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 2,093 | +0.8% | |||
Socialist Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 461 | +0.2% | |||
BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 242 | +0.1% | |||
Independent | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.7% |
Ward results
[edit]Abercromby
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Brant * | 953 | 61.3% | −4.5% | |
Liberal Democrats | Linda-Jane Buckle | 288 | 18.5 | +3.2 | |
Green | Peter Cranie | 230 | 14.8 | +4.0 | |
Conservative | John Creagh | 55 | 3.5 | −1.3 | |
Liberal | Arthur Carroll | 29 | 1.9 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 665 | ||||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Aigburth
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | David Antrobus * | 1,394 | 47.3% | −3.4% | |
Labour | Barbara Murray | 654 | 22.2 | −4.9 | |
Liberal | Catherine Hancox | 315 | 10.7 | +10.7 | |
Green | Alexander Rudkin | 239 | 8.1 | −0.1 | |
Conservative | Michael Bunter | 235 | 8.0 | +0.0 | |
Socialist Alliance | Mark Henzel | 111 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 740 | 25.1 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,948 | 21.1 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Allerton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Veronica Best * | 1,599 | 52.3% | −2.9% | |
Labour | Laurence Freeman | 603 | 19.7 | +0.4 | |
Conservative | Mark Bill | 536 | 17.5 | +3.1 | |
Liberal | Christopher Hulme | 185 | 6.1 | −2.0 | |
Green | Andrew Hoban | 134 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 996 | 32.6 | −3.3 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,057 | 25.2 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Anfield
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Robert Quinn | 1,162 | 47.0% | −8.5% | |
Liberal | Michael Butler | 666 | 27.0 | +27.0 | |
Labour | Sheila Murphy | 416 | 16.8 | −8.1 | |
BNP | Joseph Owens | 150 | 6.1 | +6.1 | |
Socialist Alliance | Lesley Mahmood | 47 | 1.9 | +0.0 | |
Conservative | Alistair Furze | 30 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 496 | 20.0 | −10.6 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,471 | 24.4 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Arundel
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Mirna Juarez * | 1,141 | 61.2% | +7.5% | |
Labour | Anthony Murphy | 401 | 21.5 | −7.9 | |
Green | Donald Ross | 144 | 7.7 | +0.1 | |
Socialist Alliance | Ian Foulkes | 125 | 6.7 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Ann Nugent | 53 | 2.8 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 740 | 39.7 | +15.4 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,864 | 16.7 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Breckfield
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John McIntosh | 972 | 66.4% | +2.9% | |
Liberal Democrats | James Gaskell | 314 | 21.4 | −5.0 | |
Liberal | Daniel Wood | 178 | 12.2 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 658 | 45.0 | +7.9 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,464 | 18.1 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Broadgreen
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Christopher Newby | 1,244 | 54.9% | −5.3% | |
Labour | Peter Davidson | 796 | 35.1 | +4.9 | |
Socialist Alliance | John Ralph | 79 | 3.5 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Keith Sutton | 77 | 3.4 | +0.8 | |
Liberal | Deborah Tilston | 71 | 3.1 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 448 | 19.8% | −10.2% | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,267 | 19.8% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Childwall
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Trevor Jones | 2,344 | 68.8% | ||
Labour | Janet Kent | 623 | 18.3 | ||
Conservative | George Powell | 213 | 6.3 | ||
Green | Anne Saunders | 137 | 4.0 | ||
Liberal | Francis Porter | 88 | 2.6 | ||
Majority | 1,721 | 50.5 | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,405 | 25.9 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Church
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Warren Bradley * | 3,135 | 80.1% | +6.8% | |
Labour | Robert Carney | 525 | 13.4 | −2.8 | |
Green | Eleanor Martin | 254 | 6.5 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 2,610 | 66.7 | +8.6 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,914 | 26.4% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Clubmoor
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rochne Gladden | 1,155 | 55.0% | +9.9% | |
Liberal Democrats | George Smith | 713 | 33.9 | +9.7 | |
Liberal | Paul Jones | 192 | 9.1 | −21.5 | |
Green | Eric Cartmel | 41 | 2.0 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 442 | 21.1 | +6.6 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,101 | 23.8 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
County
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Marilyn Fielding | 1,642 | 64.4% | +7.3% | |
Labour | Patrick Delahunty | 856 | 33.6 | −6.1 | |
Liberal | Roger Webb | 51 | 2.0 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 786 | 28.8 | +11.4 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,549 | 23.7% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Croxteth
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Norman Mills * | 2,070 | 66.2% | −2.7% | |
Labour | Peter Tuffley | 650 | 20.8 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Brandwood | 237 | 7.6 | +1.8 | |
Green | Ian Graham | 89 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | Barbara Pickstock | 79 | 2.5 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 1,420 | 45.4 | −1.1 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,125 | 23.6% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Dingle
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | John Coyne | 1,489 | 59.9% | ||
Labour | Jack Johhnson | 880 | 35.4 | ||
Conservative | David Patmore | 74 | 3.0 | ||
Liberal | David O'Brien | 42 | 1.7 | ||
Majority | 609 | 24.5 | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,485 | 24.4% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Dovecot
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Robert Ousby | 1,175 | 50.0% | +8.0% | |
Labour | Nicholas Small | 967 | 41.1 | −7.5 | |
Liberal | Tracey Hawksford | 134 | 5.7 | −0.8 | |
Conservative | Audrey Bowness | 75 | 3.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 208 | 8.9 | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,351 | 25.2% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Everton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sharon Sullivan | 442 | 54.6% | −0.8% | |
Liverpool Labour Community Party | Alfred Hincks | 229 | 28.3% | +5.4% | |
Liberal Democrats | Eleanore Clein | 81 | 10.0% | −2.0% | |
Green | Justine Williams | 31 | 3.8% | +0.3% | |
Conservative | Catherine Hirst | 14 | 1.7% | −2.8% | |
Liberal | Beryl Ackers | 13 | 1.6% | −0.1% | |
Majority | 213 | 26.3% | −6.2% | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 810 | 11.8% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Fazakerley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jack Spriggs | 1,432 | 70.5% | +2.1% | |
Liberal Democrats | Graham Seddon | 463 | 22.8 | −3.0 | |
Liberal | George roberts | 136 | 6.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 969 | 47.7 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,031 | 18.8% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Gillmoss
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Martin Cummins | 1,444 | 46.8% | −5.1% | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Moloney * | 1,418 | 45.9% | +7.6% | |
Conservative | Brian Jones | 103 | 3.3% | +0.7% | |
Liberal | Frances Fall | 83 | 2.7% | −2.3% | |
Green | Anne Graham | 38 | 1.2% | +1.2% | |
Majority | 26 | 0.9% | −12.7% | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,086 | 22.8% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Granby
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Dean | 694 | 56.9% | −15.1% | |
Liberal Democrats | Annette Butler | 264 | 21.7 | +6.0 | |
Socialist Alliance | Madeline Heneghan | 99 | 8.1 | +8.1 | |
Green | Jean Hill | 62 | 5.1 | −2.6 | |
Conservative | Kenneth Watkin | 53 | 4.3 | +1.6 | |
Liberal | Susan O'Brien | 47 | 3.9 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 430 | 35.2 | −21.1 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,219 | 15.3% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Grasswndale
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Gerard Scott | 2,270 | 68.3% | +0.4% | |
Labour | Catherine Dooley | 526 | 15.8 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | Carl Cross | 251 | 7.6 | −1.5 | |
Green | Jennifer Brown | 185 | 5.6 | +1.8 | |
Liberal | Karen Williams | 92 | 2.8 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 1,744 | 52.5 | +2.7 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,324 | 27.7 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Kensington
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Frank Doran * | 1,220 | 56.7% | +5.7% | |
Labour | Michael Fox | 742 | 34.5 | −9.6 | |
BNP | Michael Shell | 92 | 4.3 | +4.3 | |
Green | Faye Griffiths | 45 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | Francis Dunne | 30 | 1.4 | −1.4 | |
Liberal | James Richardson | 23 | 1.1 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 478 | 22.2 | +15.3 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,152 | 21.5% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Melrose
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Gary Booth | 1,340 | 85.2% | +25.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Clein | 180 | 11.4 | −1.9 | |
Liberal | Vivienne Woodward | 53 | 3.4 | −2.4 | |
Majority | 1,160 | 73.8 | +34.8 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,573 | 17.1 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Netherley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Marshall | 837 | 51.7% | +13.9% | |
Labour | Oliver Martins | 747 | 46.3 | −9.6 | |
Conservative | Joyce Larrosa | 22 | 1.4 | −0.2 | |
Liberal | Jean Worrall | 9 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 87 | 5.4 | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,612 | 28.5% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Old Swan
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Keith Turner | 1,404 | 68% | ||
Labour | John McCabe | 476 | 23.2 | −3.4 | |
Liberal | Edith Bamford | 100 | 4.9 | +1.3 | |
Conservative | Francis Stevens | 75 | 3.6 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 928 | 45.1 | +6.0 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,055 | 20.9% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Picton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Erica Kemp * | 1,465 | 72.0% | +8.7% | |
Labour | Angela Glanville | 413 | 20.3 | −9.6 | |
Green | Jennifer Andrew | 113 | 5.6 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Ann Temple | 43 | 2.1 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 1,052 | 51.7 | +18.3 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,034 | 19.0% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Pirrie
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Francis Cooke | 1,038 | 65% | ||
Labour | Alan Walker | 932 | 58% | ||
Liberal Democrats | Susan Lye | 210 | 13% | ||
Liberal Democrats | Kelly Woods | 177 | 11% | −18.2 | |
Conservative | Mark Cotterell | 157 | 11% | +5.3 | |
Liberal | Charles Mayes | 123 | 8% | ||
Conservative | Natalie Linnane | 113 | 7% | ||
Liberal | Irene Mayes | 109 | 7% | ||
Green | Laura Jackson | 61 | 4% | ||
Green | Gerard Quayle | 37 | 2% | ||
Majority | 828 | ||||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,957 | 16.2% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St. Mary's
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Richard Oglethorpe | 1,280 | 65.5% | +6.4% | |
Labour | Rodger Lafferty | 464 | 23.8 | −5.9 | |
BNP | Raymond Malone | 120 | 6.1 | +0.3 | |
Liberal | Michael Williams | 49 | 2.5 | −1.0 | |
Conservative | Derek Nuttall | 40 | 2.0 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 816 | 41.7 | +12.3 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,953 | 22.0% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Smithdown
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Makinson | 893 | 57.7% | +21.6% | |
Labour | Richard Keenan | 495 | 32.0 | −17.6 | |
Green | Simon Holgate | 89 | 5.7 | +3.7 | |
Liberal | John Moore | 40 | 2.6 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Grahame Harden | 32 | 2.1 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 398 | 25.7 | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,549 | 18.5 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Speke
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Doreen Knight | 651 | '51.3% | +2.1% | |
Liberal Democrats | George Smith | 600 | 47.3 | −1.3 | |
Conservative | Denise Nuttall | 18 | 1.4 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 51 | 4.0 | +3.4 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,269 | 20.6% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Tuebrook
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Christopher Lenton | 1,667 | 71.9% | +0.4% | |
Labour | Pamela Thomas | 405 | 17.5 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Woods | 188 | 8.1 | −1.1 | |
Conservative | June Brandwood | 60 | 2.6 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 1,262 | 54.4 | −1.6 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,320 | 21.0% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Valley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Francis O'Donoghue | 936 | 50.8% | −5.6% | |
Labour | Christopher Nezianya | 768 | 41.7 | +5.7 | |
Green | Vera Jones | 56 | 3.0 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Deborah Mayes | 50 | 2.7 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | Norman Coppell | 31 | 1.7 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 168 | 9.1 | −11.3 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,841 | 26.0% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Vauxhall
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liverpool Labour Community Party | Pauline Connolly * | 805 | 53.0% | +53.0% | |
Labour | Christine Norris | 633 | 41.7% | −45.8% | |
Liberal Democrats | Sean McHugh | 34 | 2.2% | −6.6% | |
Liberal | Damien Daly | 23 | 1.5% | +1.5% | |
Conservative | Alma McGing | 12 | 0.8% | −1.0% | |
Green | Anja Ploger | 12 | 0.8% | −1.0% | |
Majority | 172 | 11.3% | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 1,519 | 29.3% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liverpool Labour Community Party gain from Labour |
Warbreck
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Jean Seddon | 1,317 | 49.6% | −12.6% | |
Labour | James Gabriel | 1,029 | 38.8 | +4.0 | |
Liberal | Linda Roberts | 307 | 11.6 | +8.6 | |
Majority | 288 | 10.8 | −16.6 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 2,653 | 19.4% | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Woolton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Barbara Mace | 2,186 | 68.4% | +1.8% | |
Conservative | Stephen Fitzsimmons | 411 | 12.9 | −3.9 | |
Labour | Francis Steer | 392 | 12.3 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | Maria Langley | 112 | 3.5 | +2.4 | |
Green | Naomi Rose | 96 | 3.0 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 1,775 | 55.5 | +5.7 | ||
Registered electors | |||||
Turnout | 3,197 | 26.6 | |||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 16 December 2009.