- Chorley Council election, 2002
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Elections to Chorley 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.
Election result
Chorley Local Election Result 2002 Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/- Labour 22 -2 46.8 45.1 48,637 Conservative 16 +1 34.0 34.2 36,881 Liberal Democrat 6 -1 12.8 13.3 14,309 Independent 3 +1 6.4 7.1 7,619 UKIP 0 0 0 0.4 401 Ward results
Adlington and Anderton (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Catherine Hoyle 1,887 Labour Michael Davies 1,580 Labour Florence Molyneux 1,413 Conservative Ivy Leigh 1,027 Conservative Betty Lawson 1,020 Conservative William Lawson 1,014 Liberal Democrat Philip Pilling 795 Turnout 8,736 Astley and Buckshaw (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Laura Lennox 875 Conservative Mark Perks 851 Conservative Patricia Haughton 834 Labour Margaret Fielden 656 Turnout 3,216 Brindle and Hoghton Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative David Dickinson 823 69.5 Liberal Democrat Stephen Charlesworth 182 15.4 Labour Beverley Gore 179 15.1 Majority 641 54.1 Turnout 1,184 Chisnall (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Harold Heaton 1,028 Conservative Edward Smith 699 Labour Jon Davies 594 Labour Margaret Lees 516 Independent Alan Cornwell 410 Liberal Democrat Glyn Jones 379 Liberal Democrat Linda Eubank 246 Turnout 3,872 Chorley East (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Raymond Parr 1,658 Labour Patricia Wilson 1,651 Labour Terence Brown 1,536 Independent Melville Coombes 711 Conservative Jacqueline Bettney 596 Liberal Democrat Jean Mellor 521 Turnout 6,673 Chorley North East (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Dennis Edgerley 1,624 Labour Adrian Lowe 1,505 Labour Keith Lowe 1,419 Conservative James Fleming 795 Conservative Elvi Livesey 683 Liberal Democrat Eileen Smith 614 UKIP Graeme Frost 401 Turnout 7,041 Chorley North West (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Ralph Snape 2,973 Independent Joyce Snape 2,612 Labour Robert Crabtree 1,161 Conservative Peter Malpas 1,011 Liberal Democrat Linda Norman 669 Conservative Peter Higham 491 Conservative Elsie Perks 447 Turnout 9,364 Chorley South East (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Thomas McGowan 1,508 Labour Anthony Holgate 1,377 Labour Christopher Snow 1,282 Conservative Geoffrey Goodspeed 959 Conservative Sheila Marsden 931 Conservative Barbara Higham 788 Liberal Democrat David Porter 510 Turnout 7,355 Chorley South West (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Roy Lees 1,522 Labour Anthony Gee 1,498 Labour John Wilson 1,457 Conservative Dorothy Livesey 657 Conservative Kevan Haughton 632 Turnout 5,766 Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative James Bell 1,816 Conservative John Walker 1,466 Conservative Nigel Baxter 1,418 Labour Sharon Gray 905 Liberal Democrat Glenda Charlesworth 869 Liberal Democrat Stuart Harding 861 Labour Darren Woodruff 772 Labour George Harvey 673 Turnout 8,780 Clayton-le-Woods North (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrat Peter Buckley 909 Liberal Democrat Stephen Fenn 890 Liberal Democrat William Mellor 875 Conservative Roger Livesey 871 Conservative Alan Cullens 869 Labour Jean Cronshaw 861 Conservative Magdalene Cullens 853 Labour James Freeman 795 Labour Anthony Holden 700 Turnout 7,623 Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lesley Brownlee 916 Conservative Thomas Bedford 827 Conservative Samuel Chapman 790 Labour Edward Murphy 749 Liberal Democrat Gail Ormston 457 Turnout 3,739 Coppull (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrat Kenneth Ball 1,570 Liberal Democrat Stella Walsh 1,503 Liberal Democrat Patricia Cuerden 1,373 Labour Andrew Birchall 1,313 Labour John Murphy 1,294 Labour Peter Maddock 1,290 Turnout 8,343 Eccleston-Mawdesley (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Alan Whittaker 1,798 Conservative Michael Iddon 1,455 Conservative Francis Culshaw 1,429 Labour Thomas Titherington 1,400 Conservative Brian Twist 1,325 Labour Edward Forshaw 1,150 Turnout 8,557 Euxton North (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Thomas Gray 1,086 Labour Daniel Gee 989 Conservative Rosemary Russell 773 Conservative Gordon Mitchell 769 Liberal Democrat Mary Buckley 234 Turnout 3,851 Euxton South (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Geoffrey Russell 1,053 Conservative Peter Goldsworthy 1,036 Labour Mary Gray 965 Labour Marion Lowe 855 Turnout 3,909 Heath Charnock and Rivington Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Mary Case 732 64.3 Labour June Molyneaux 407 35.7 Majority 325 28.6 Turnout 1,139 Lostock (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Margaret Iddon 913 Conservative Doreen Dickinson 894 Labour David Massam 836 Conservative George Rigby 691 Labour David Lloyd 409 Turnout 3,743 Pennine Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Marie Gray 645 55.0 Liberal Democrat Janet Ross-Mills 350 29.8 Labour Peter Wilson 178 15.2 Majority 295 25.2 Turnout 1,173 Wheelton and Withnell (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Iris Smith 1,137 Labour Christopher Howard 884 Conservative Simon Parkinson 746 Labour Paul Lowe 514 Liberal Democrat Shelagh Graham 502 Turnout 3,783 References
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Chorley Council election 2000Chorley local elections Succeeded by
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- Chorley Council elections
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