2002 Chorley Borough Council election

Elections to Chorley Borough 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.

After the election the composition of the council was:

Party Seats   ±  
Labour 22 Decrease 2
Conservative 16 Increase 1
Liberal Democrat 6 Decrease 1
Independent 3 Increase1

Election result

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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 Democrats 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

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Adlington and Anderton (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YCatherine Hoyle 1,887 21.6
Labour  YMichael Davies 1,580 18.1
Labour  YFlorence Mary Molyneux 1,413 16.2
Conservative Ivy Leigh 1,027 11.8
Conservative Betty Lawson 1,020 11.7
Conservative William Lawson 1,014 11.6
Liberal Democrats Philip William Pilling 795 9.1
Turnout
Astley and Buckshaw (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YLaura Jane Lennox 875 27.2
Conservative  YMark Perks 851 26.5
Conservative Patricia Mary Haughton 834 25.9
Labour Margaret Rose Fielden 656 20.4
Turnout
Brindle and Hoghton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YDavid Dickinson 823 69.5
Liberal Democrats Stephen Charlesworth 182 15.4
Labour Beverley Gore 175 15.1
Majority 641 54.1
Turnout 1,184

Chisnall

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Chisnall (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YHarold Heaton 1,028 26.6
Conservative  YEdward Malcolm Smith 699 18.1
Labour Jon Davies 594 15.3
Labour Margaret M. Lees 516 13.3
Independent Alan Samuel Cornwell 410 10.6
Liberal Democrats Glyn Jones 379 9.8
Liberal Democrats Linda Eubank 246 6.4
Turnout
Chorley East (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YRaymond Parr 1,658 24.9
Labour  YPatricia Mary Wilson 1,651 24.7
Labour  YTerence Brown 1,536 23.0
Independent Melville Coombes 711 10.7
Conservative Jacqueline C. Bettney 596 8.9
Liberal Democrats Jean Mellor 521 7.8
Turnout

Chorley North East

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Chorley North East (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YDennis Edgerley 1,624 23.1
Labour  YAdrian Lowe 1,505 21.4
Labour  YKeith Lowe 1,419 20.2
Conservative James Henry Fleming 795 11.3
Conservative Elvi Livesey 683 9.7
Liberal Democrats Eileen Anne Smith 640 8.7
UKIP John Graeme Frost 401 5.7
Turnout

Chorley North West

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Chorley North West (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent  YRalph Snape 2,973 31.8
Independent  YJoyce Snape 2,612 27.9
Labour  YRobert Gordon Crabtree 1,161 12.4
Conservative Peter Malpas 1,011 10.8
Liberal Democrats Linda Norman 669 7.1
Conservative Peter William Higham 491 5.2
Conservative Elsie May Perks 449 4.8
Turnout

Chorley South East

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Chorley South East (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YThomas McGowan 1,508 20.5
Labour  YAnthony Stephen Holgate 1,377 18.7
Labour  YChristopher Michael Snow 1,282 17.4
Conservative Geoffrey Goodspeed 959 13.0
Conservative Sheila Marsden 931 12.7
Conservative Barbara Ann Higham 788 10.7
Liberal Democrats David Porter 510 6.9
Turnout

Chorley South West

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Chorley South West (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YRoy Lees 1,522 26.4
Labour  YAnthony Gee 1,498 26.0
Labour  YJohn Gerard Wilson 1,457 25.3
Conservative Dorothy Livesey 657 11.4
Conservative Kevan George Haughton 632 11.9
Turnout
Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YJames Eric Bell 1,816 20.7
Conservative  YJohn Philip Walker 1,466 16.7
Conservative  YNigel Harvey Baxter 1,418 16.2
Labour Sharon A. Gray 905 10.3
Liberal Democrats Glenda Charlesworth 869 9.9
Liberal Democrats Stuart Brian Harding 861 9.8
Labour Darren M. Woodruff 772 8.8
Labour George W. Harvey 673 7.7
Turnout
Clayton-le-Woods North (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats  YPeter George Buckley 909 11.9
Liberal Democrats  YStephen John Fenn 890 11.7
Liberal Democrats  YWilliam Richard Mellor 875 11.5
Conservative Roger William Livesey 871 11.4
Conservative Alan Cullens 869 11.4
Labour Jean Elizabeth Cronshaw 861 11.3
Conservative Magdalene Margaret Cullens 853 11.2
Labour James Freeman 795 10.4
Labour Anthony Holden 700 9.2
Turnout
Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YLesley Elizabeth Brownlee 916 24.5
Conservative  YThomas Bedford 827 22.1
Conservative Samuel Andrew Chapman 790 21.1
Labour Edward Anthony Murphy 749 20.0
Liberal Democrats Gail Patricia Ormston 457 12.2
Turnout
Coppull (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats  YKenneth William Ball 1,570 18.8
Liberal Democrats  YStella Marie Walsh 1,503 18.0
Liberal Democrats  YPatricia Cuerden 1,373 16.5
Labour Andrew Birchall 1,313 15.7
Labour John Murphy 1,294 15.5
Labour Peter Maddock 1,290 15.5
Turnout
Eccleston and Mawdesley (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YAlan Whittaker 1,798 21.0
Conservative  YMichael Iddon 1,455 17.0
Conservative  YFrancis Culshaw 1,429 16.7
Labour Thomas Henry Titherington 1,400 16.4
Conservative Brian Twist 1,325 15.5
Labour Edward Vincent Forshaw 1,150 13.4
Turnout
Euxton North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour  YThomas Gray 1,086 28.2
Labour  YDaniel Peter Gee 989 25.7
Conservative Rosemary Russell 773 20.1
Conservative Gordon Marshall Alexander Mitchell 769 20.0
Liberal Democrats Mary Buckley 234 6.1
Turnout
Euxton South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YGeoffrey Russell 1,053 26.9
Conservative  YPeter Goldsworthy 1,036 25.5
Labour Mary Gray 965 24.7
Labour Marion Lowe 855 21.9
Turnout
Heath Charnock and Rivington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YMary Patricia Case 732 64.3
Labour June Molyneaux 407 35.7
Majority 325 28.5
Turnout 1,139

Lostock

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Lostock (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent  YMargaret Ann Iddon 913 24.4
Conservative  YDoreen Dickinson 894 23.9
Labour David Massam 836 22.3
Conservative George Anthony Rigby 691 18.5
Labour David C. Lloyd 409 10.9
Turnout

Pennine

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Pennine
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative  YMarie Elizabeth Gray 645 55.0
Liberal Democrats 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  YIris Elaine Smith 1,137 30.1
Labour  YChristopher Howard 884 23.4
Conservative Simon Parkinson 746 19.7
Labour Paul Anthony Lowe 514 13.6
Liberal Democrats Shelagh Graham 502 13.3
Turnout

References

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