West Wiltshire Council election, 2003

Elections to West Wiltshire District Council were held on 1 May, 2003. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost their majority, leaving the council with no overall control.

Many wards had boundary changes, and some were new.

Election Result

Election Summary Party
party = Conservative Party (UK)
seats = 19
gain =
loss =
net =
seats % = 43.2
votes % = 41.5
votes = 20,966
plus/minus = Election Summary Party
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
seats = 19
gain =
loss =
net =
seats % = 43.2
votes % = 37.9
votes = 19,185
plus/minus = Election Summary Party
party = Independent (politician)
seats = 4
gain =
loss =
net =
seats % = 9.1
votes % = 9.0
votes = 4,565
plus/minus = Election Summary Party
party = Labour Party (UK)
seats = 2
gain =
loss =
net =
seats % = 4.5
votes % = 5.6
votes = 2,856
plus/minus = Election Summary Party
party = Green Party of England and Wales
seats = 0
gain =
loss =
net =
seats % = 0
votes % = 5.9
votes = 3,006
plus/minus =

Ward results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Terrence Peter Chivers
votes = 566
percentage =
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party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Robert George Ian Elliott
votes = 209
percentage =
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party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Gregory Anthony Coombes
votes = 117
percentage = 9.5
change = Election box majority
votes = 357
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 892
percentage = 45.7
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Janet Lindsay Repton
votes = 639
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Sophie Farkas
votes = 632
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Bryan Joseph Earp
votes = 548
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Anthony Ivan Moore
votes = 445
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Susan Karen Nowell-Kelley
votes = 242
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = James Henry Joseph Tracey
votes = 226
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 84
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 40.2
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Frances Lewis
votes = 665
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Rosanna Rosemary Brown
votes = 661
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = David John Bolwell
votes = 587
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Gwendoline Mary Allison
votes = 573
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Helen Jane Rich
votes = 177
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Angela Womersley
votes = 155
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Stephen Trevor Harding
votes = 150
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 74
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 39.6
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Julian Thurstan Syndercombe Bower
votes = 695
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Linda Mary Conley
votes = 658
percentage =
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party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Alison Mary Irving
votes = 586
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = John Andrew Moody
votes = 428
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Francis Morland
votes = 392
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = David John Howells
votes = 155
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Kevan James Corcoran
votes = 152
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 72
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 39.6
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Julie Swabey
votes = 493
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Richard George Crofts
votes = 206
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Diana Kathleen Corcoran
votes = 106
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 287
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 39.4
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Duncan John Hames
votes = 485
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Philip Kevin Seager
votes = 285
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Sonja Nicolson
votes = 33
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 200
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 41.4
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Campbell Viles
votes = 817
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Judith Cunliffe-Jones
votes = 751
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Godfrey Randall Hall
votes = 455
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Simon George Allen
votes = 300
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 296
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 40.8
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Angela Betty Barker
votes = 599
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Jacqueline Wells
votes = 439
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Davina Margaret Griffin
votes = 330
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Geoffrey Alan Mitcham
votes = 283
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Hilary Jane Millichamp
votes = 122
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 109
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 24.3
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Brian Stanley Mudge
votes = 571
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = William Charles Gordon Cox
votes = 361
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Malcolm Paton
votes = 351
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Helen Bridget Osborn
votes = 254
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Lex Hepenstall
votes = 146
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 10
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 25.9
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Richard George Wiltshire
votes = 484
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Roy Sidney While
votes = 482
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Simon Rowland Fisher
votes = 211
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = John Vladimir Landell-Mills
votes = 172
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Stephen Bryan Petty
votes = 345
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 271
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 26.9
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Malcolm Jonathon Rosier
votes = 295
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Margaret Ethel White
votes = 163
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 132
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 458
percentage = 24.0
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Christopher Newbury
votes = 715
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Daniel Hurd
votes = 200
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Victoria Christine Scott Landell-Mills
votes = 33
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Karen Ann Cunningham
votes = 22
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 515
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 970
percentage = 49.0
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Trevor William Carbin
votes = 913
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Ernest Frederick Clark (Ernie Clark)
votes = 735
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Brian Cullern
votes = 642
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Marina Vassiliev
votes = 427
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Derek Frederick Thomas Stimpson
votes = 346
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 93
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 38.9
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Michael Mounde
votes = 548
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Piers Gibbon
votes = 154
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Stephen Sainsbury
votes = 79
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 394
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 39.4
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Anthony Guy Phillips
votes = 460
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Shirley Margaret Brooks
votes = 99
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Hilary Carberry
votes = 60
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 361
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes = 619
percentage = 37.0
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Virginia Fortescue
votes = 572
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Douglas Malcolm Firmager
votes = 329
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 243
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 50.4
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Nicholas Blakemore
votes = 490
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Thomas Raymond James
votes = 476
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Molly Hopkins
votes = 325
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Jennifer Jane Murrison
votes = 301
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Peter John Ezra
votes = 139
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Richard Douglas Mills
votes = 122
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 151
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 26.1
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Jeff Osborn
votes = 553
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Stephen John Squires
votes = 426
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Suzanne Yvonne Gordon
votes = 395
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Anthony Kennerdale
votes = 361
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Nigel John Pratt
votes = 126
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Geoffrey Kenneth Whiffen
votes = 88
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 31
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 26.4
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Graham David Payne
votes = 601
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Gerald Clive Burnan
votes = 488
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Grace Hill
votes = 448
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Marcus Alexander Francis, Jr.
votes = 434
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Patrick Drinkwater
votes = 153
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 40
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 25.9
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John Roland Wallace Knight
votes = 454
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Robert John Brice
votes = 453
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Graeme Stuart Hawley
votes = 446
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Joan Mary Stacey
votes = 420
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Amanda Griffiths
votes = 119
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 7
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 25.1
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Andrew James Bryant
votes = 742
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Stephen John Oldrieve
votes = 707
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Peter Fuller
votes = 670
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Derek Coop
votes = 612
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Stephen Nash
votes = 299
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Laura Michelle Pictor
votes = 156
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 37
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 32.9
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing = Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Andrew Davis
votes = 1,311
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Christopher March
votes = 1,235
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Kay Carol Whatley-Gibbs
votes = 1,019
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Giacinto Giovanni Barberio (John Barberio)
votes = 479
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Graham Thomas Hedley
votes = 377
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Roland Peter Noyce
votes = 282
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Stephen James Upton
votes = 246
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 540
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 29.6
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = John Edward Syme
votes = 791
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Martin John Baker
votes = 665
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Paul Batchelor
votes = 605
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Alvin Robert Smith
votes = 572
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William John Parks
votes = 568
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = David John Lovell
votes = 517
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Leslie George Rose
votes = 494
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Mark Houghton Brown
votes = 387
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Ashley John Cunningham
votes = 163
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 33
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 28.6
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Independent (politician)
swing =Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Liberal Democrats (UK)
swing =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John Frederick Clegg
votes = 512
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Elisha Manasseh
votes = 510
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Charles Thomas Finbow
votes = 483
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Christine Linda Mitchell
votes = 365
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = William David Charles Tout
votes = 331
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Kathryn Jennifer Toyne
votes = 141
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 27
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 24.9
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Marion Clegg
votes = 512
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Russell Mark Jonathan Hawker
votes = 496
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Horace John Prickett
votes = 493
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Gordon Ian King
votes = 482
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Stephen John Davies
votes = 108
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Michael Sutton
votes = 99
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 3
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 30.3
change =

References

*"Declaration of West Wiltshire District Council Election Results" by Jeffrey Ligo, Returning Officer, published 2 May 2003
* [http://www.westwiltshire.gov.uk/elections-resuslts-district-results-2003.pdf election result at West Wiltshire DC web site]

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