2002 Stroud District Council election

The 2002 Stroud District Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 4.[1] The Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no overall control.[2]

Election result

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Before the election the Conservatives were the largest party on the council with 24 seats, 4 seats short of having a majority.[3] The results saw the Conservatives gain control of the council after Labour lost seats.[4] Overall turnout in the election was 39.83%.[5]

Stroud local election result 2002[5][6]
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 29 +5 56.9 41.5 26,705 -4.2
  Labour 12 -6 23.5 28.9 18,592 +2.4
  Liberal Democrats 4 -1 7.8 16.3 10,471 -3.9
  Green 4 0 7.8 10.4 6,693 +5.5
  Independent 2 -2 3.9 2.4 1,533 +0.5
  UKIP 0 0 0 0.6 365 +0.1

Ward results

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Amberley and Woodchester[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Glanfield 480 53.9
Green Sheila Macfadyen 160 18.0
Liberal Democrats Margaret Edmunds 134 15.1
Labour John Appleton 116 13.0
Majority 320 36.0
Turnout 890 50.9
Berkeley Vale (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Winter 659
Conservative Benjamin Francis 619
Labour David Shaw 600
Labour Michael Denning 572
Turnout 2,450 39.3
Bisley[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Daniel Fleming 436 49.3
Green Steven Penny 388 43.9
UKIP Anthony Gardiner 60 6.8
Majority 48 5.4
Turnout 884 50.9
Cainscross (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Eccles 961 53.4
Labour Andrew Read 815 45.3
Labour Anthony Shortt 716 39.8
Conservative Norma Rodman 384 21.3
Liberal Democrats Darren Jones 374 20.8
Liberal Democrats Graham Lloyd-Jones 334 18.6
Independent Graham Stanley 329 18.3
Liberal Democrats Hilary Howe 328 18.2
Conservative Ann Kendall 321 17.8
Conservative Ralph Kenber 282 15.7
Green Philip Williams 133 7.4
Green Martin Jakes 112 6.2
Turnout 1,800 35.4
Cam East (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Hudson 537 39.5
Labour Miranda Clifton 520 38.2
Conservative William Fearnley-Whittingstall 504 37.0
Labour William Hamilton 444 32.6
Liberal Democrats Charles Hartley 343 25.2
Liberal Democrats Keith Pearce 329 24.2
Turnout 1,361 41.2
Cam West (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Dennis Andrewartha 631 50.0
Labour John Fowles 485 38.4
Liberal Democrats John Dapling 449 35.6
Labour Daryl Matthews 372 29.5
Conservative Gail Fearnley-Whittingstall 242 19.2
Conservative Desmond Lashbrook 187 14.8
Turnout 1,263 38.4
Central[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Williams 273 52.3
Labour Ronald Nichols 148 28.4
Green David Michael 101 19.3
Majority 125 23.9
Turnout 522 37.7
Chalford (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles Fellows 941 49.6
Conservative Susan Fellows 887 46.8
Conservative Elizabeth Peters 743 39.2
Labour David Taylor 522 27.5
Liberal Democrats Barbara Brown 487 25.7
Labour Jamila Gavin 473 24.9
Green David Wood 399 21.0
Green Catherine Shuckburgh 352 18.6
Green Mark Epton 232 12.2
UKIP Leslie Banstead 192 10.1
Turnout 1,897 38.4
Coaley and Uley[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Janet Wood 574 54.2
Conservative Caroline Chisolm 352 33.2
Labour George East 71 6.7
Green Janet Griffiths 63 5.9
Majority 222 20.9
Turnout 1,060 57.6
Dursley (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Basil Allen 723 41.1
Labour Hilary Fowles 683 38.8
Conservative Loraine Patrick 600 34.1
Liberal Democrats Brian Marsh 573 32.5
Labour Paul Denney 548 31.1
Liberal Democrats Veronica Harding 528 30.0
Labour Paul Mapplebeck 525 29.8
Conservative Terence Morgan 499 28.3
Liberal Democrats Patrick Blitz 497 28.2
Turnout 1,761 38.5
Eastington and Standish[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kenneth Stephens 282 47.5
Conservative Thomas James 228 38.4
Green Valerie Hicken 84 14.1
Majority 54 9.1
Turnout 594 39.8
Farmhill and Paganhill[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Sheffie Mohammed 292 55.6
Labour Andy Treacher 82 15.6
Conservative Catherine James 74 14.1
Liberal Democrats Deborah Sutherland 55 10.5
Green Annabel Caddle 22 4.2
Majority 210 40.0
Turnout 525 30.2
Hardwicke (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graham Littleton 711 63.4
Conservative David Tomlins 641 57.2
Labour Catherine Moore 395 35.2
Turnout 1,121 31.2
Kingswood[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Hemming 408 72.7
Conservative Brenda Lock 153 27.3
Majority 255 45.5
Turnout 561 36.4
Minchinhampton (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Dorcas Binns 888 61.2
Conservative Elisabeth Bird 874 60.3
Labour Martin Alder 356 24.6
Green Oscar Hull 140 9.7
UKIP Adrian Blake 113 7.8
Labour David Griffiths 113 7.8
Green Elizabeth Cranston 111 7.7
Turnout 1,450 36.4
Nailsworth (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sybil Bruce 777 38.4
Conservative Mohammed Akhtar 716 35.3
Conservative John Jeffreys 668 33.0
Labour Keith Norbury 591 29.2
Green Sue Limb 571 28.2
Labour John Lewis 565 27.9
Labour Audrey Smith 555 27.4
Green Lydia Eeles 521 25.7
Green James Hepburn 437 21.6
Liberal Democrats Collen Rothwell 289 14.3
Turnout 2,026 41.5
Over Stroud[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Linda Durrans 240 41.0
Conservative Linda Jeffreys 236 40.3
Green Kate Corder 109 18.6
Majority 4 0.7
Turnout 585 41.0
Painswick (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Stephenson-Oliver 1,129 65.8
Conservative Barbara Tait 1,101 64.1
Green Wendy Fontaine 315 18.3
Labour Henrietta Nichols 251 14.6
Labour John Rhodes 234 13.6
Turnout 1,717 50.4
Rodborough (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graham Blackshaw 544 41.9
Conservative Nigel Cooper 488 37.6
Labour Roger Brown 436 33.6
Labour Helen Hughes 417 32.1
Green Carol Kambites 188 14.5
Liberal Democrats Andrew Fisk 183 14.1
Liberal Democrats Adrian Walker-Smith 151 11.6
Green Ewout Granberg 124 9.5
Turnout 1,299 36.7
Severn (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Jones 755 50.3
Conservative Norman Smith 725 48.3
Liberal Democrats John Howe 457 30.4
Liberal Democrats Michael Stayte 409 27.2
Labour John Greenwood 319 21.2
Labour Geoffrey Wheeler 236 15.7
Turnout 1,502 42.5
Slade[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Gwendoline Belcher 236 42.7
Labour Charles Townley 175 31.6
Conservative Laurence Carmichael 142 25.7
Majority 61 11.0
Turnout 553 33.1
Stonehouse (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Leslie Williams 1,045 58.8
Labour Mattie Ross 1,024 57.6
Labour Christopher Brine 982 55.3
Conservative Philip Bevan 559 31.5
Conservative Lawrence Hall 434 24.4
Conservative Prudence Vernon 353 19.9
Green John Harris 200 11.3
Green Sally Pickering 200 11.3
Green Pamela May 182 10.2
Turnout 1,777 31.9
The Stanleys (2)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Nigel Studdert-Kennedy 609 41.7
Conservative Raymond Apperley 556 38.0
Labour Lesley Williams 527 36.0
Liberal Democrats Phillip Herbert 405 27.7
Independent Elizabeth Stanley 194 13.3
Labour Thomas Williams 173 11.8
Green Peter Adams 152 10.4
Turnout 1,462 42.7
Thrupp[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Martin Whiteside 339 39.7
Conservative Roy Nicholas 298 34.9
Labour John Howgate 217 25.4
Majority 41 4.8
Turnout 854 47.8
Trinity[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green John Marjoram 367 69.0
Labour Marta Cock 133 25.0
Liberal Democrats Paul Hodgkinson 32 6.0
Majority 234 44.0
Turnout 532 46.7
Uplands[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Linda Townley 206 36.1
Conservative Rodger Cuddington 158 27.7
Independent Donald Peters 144 25.2
Green Henry Leveson-Gower 63 11.0
Majority 48 8.4
Turnout 571 33.1
Upton St Leonards[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Beard 444 57.4
Green Gillian Stott 175 22.6
Labour John Bell 154 19.9
Majority 269 34.8
Turnout 773 42.9
Vale[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Wride 536 77.6
Labour Stephen Turner 155 22.4
Majority 381 55.1
Turnout 691 48.1
Valley[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Tobias Green 217 37.5
Labour Charles Burling 158 27.3
Conservative Sylvia Kania 112 19.3
Liberal Democrats Barrie Pierce 92 15.9
Majority 59 10.2
Turnout 57.9 34.9
Wotton-under-Edge (3)[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats June Cordwell 1,159 62.3
Liberal Democrats Christopher Galbraith 1,077 57.9
Conservative Sidney Gowers 998 53.6
Liberal Democrats Ethel Woodhead 747 40.1
Conservative Daniel Lord 622 33.4
Conservative Sarah Munoz-Echverria 507 27.2
Turnout 1,861 37.6

References

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  1. ^ "Stroud". BBC News Online. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Full results". Financial Times. 4 May 2002. p. 7.
  3. ^ "Local Elections 2002: Complete rethink as wards change". Birmingham Post. 29 April 2002. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Bristol City Council leader unseated". BBC News Online. 3 May 2002. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "Election Results 2002". Stroud District Council. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  6. ^ "Election results; Local Election". The Times. 4 May 2002. p. 16.