2003 Dartford Borough Council election

Elections to Dartford Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries, which reduced the total number of seats from 47 to 44. The election in Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet ward was postponed following the death of Bob Dunn, one of the Conservative candidates. The delayed election returned three Conservative councillors, increasing their number to 21.

Labour lost their majority on the council, putting it into no overall control. The Conservatives and Swanscombe & Greenhithe Residents Association subsequently formed a coalition to control the council.

Election result

Dartford Borough Council Election Result 2003

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	18			+4
	Labour	17			-12
	Liberal Democrats	0			0
	Residents	5			+3
	New England	1			+1
	Independent	0			-2

Ward results

Bean & Darenth (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Roy Bull	750
	Conservative	David Alan Hammock	737
	Conservative	Ian Douglas Armitt	667
	Labour	Thomas William Cook	591
	Labour	Samson Patrick Carey	579
	Labour	Robert Finlay Carson	454
	Liberal Democrats	Tanya Jane O'Rourke	142
	UKIP	David John Kent	74
Turnout				35.17%

Brent (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth James Fickling	800
	Conservative	Sarah Karamuth	781
	Conservative	Nancy Catherine Wightman	779
	Labour	Michael George Dando	712
	Labour	Margaret Anne Eaton	679
	Labour	Rosemary Bryant	678
	UKIP	Peter Kenneth Overy	205
Turnout				36.2%

Castle (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sheila East	130
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Reeves	127
	Labour	Joyce Wise	57
Turnout				31.1%

Greenhithe (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Martin Murphy	329
	Residents	Brian Barry Fitzpatrick	322
	Conservative	Conrad Broadley	316
	Residents	Vic Openshaw	290
	Conservative	Jan Michael Ozog	234
	Conservative	Rebecca Florence Storey	232
	Labour	Brian Robert Francis	196
	Labour	Michael Leonard Mahy	190
	Labour	Charles Prior	190
	UKIP	Sara Reed	43
	UKIP	Amanda Tracey Jane Fullagar	23
Turnout				25.7%

Heath (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terence Charles Harry Smith	874
	Conservative	Kenneth Frank Martin Leadbeater	847
	Conservative	Patricia Anne Thurlow	788
	Labour	Patrick Kelly	486
	Labour	Marilyn Sharon May	481
	Labour	Jonathan Victor Kingston	449
	UKIP	Robert Charles Howell	261
	Liberal Democrats	Pauline Yvonne Cherek	225
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew William John Keane	224
Turnout				35.6%

Joyce Green (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Muckle	321
	Labour	Matthew James Bryant	303
	UKIP	Raymond Peter Day	191
	UKIP	Mark Christopher Croucher	177
	Conservative	Brian Garden	90
	Conservative	Amy Elizabeth Peters	87
Turnout				24.9%

Joydens Wood (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ann Dorothy Allen	1,060
	Conservative	Marilyn Iris Peters	1,056
	Conservative	Jennifer Ann Rickwood	1,050
	Labour	Valerie Maddison	398
	Labour	Stephen John Sherrell	367
	Labour	Julian Timothy Bryant	362
	UKIP	Arnold Edwin Tarling	126
Turnout				34.6%

Littlebrook (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Ivan Muckle	321
	New England	Michael Terrence Tibby	276
	Labour	Stephen Robert David de Winton	271
	Conservative	Terrence Raymond Martin	131
	Conservative	David Matthew Pickersgill	123
	UKIP	Edward Llewellyn	117
	UKIP	Gordon Thomas Patrick Mayell	88
Turnout				25.9%

Newtown (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David John Baker	661
	Labour	Austen Raymond Brooker	614
	Labour	Graham Christopher David Steele	536
	Conservative	Robert John Etheridge	432
	Conservative	Andrew Ronald Lloyd	415
	Conservative	Avtar Singh Sandhu	399
	UKIP	Quentin Williamson	157
Turnout				24.8%

Princes (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Edward May	661
	Labour	Margaret Anne Stock	614
	Labour	Victor William Stock	595
	Conservative	Susan Elizabeth Martin	284
	Conservative	David Alistair Strachan	267
	Conservative	Edna May Oborne	252
	UKIP	Michael Robert Wiltshire	221
	UKIP	Suzanne Louise Wiltshire	205
Turnout				25.4%

Stone (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ivor Thomas Noel Jones	601
	Labour	Derek Ernest Lawson	540
	Labour	Bryan Jones	517
	Conservative	Barbara Gladys May Bell	223
	Conservative	Doreen Edna Coleman	197
	Conservative	Sheree Gail Mary Cox	191
	UKIP	Jeffrey William Robert Reed	100
Turnout				20.3%

Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Francis Coleman	875
	Conservative	Anthony Robert Martin	789
	Labour	Anne Elizabeth Burke	266
	Labour	Jacqueline Lineham	247
Turnout				35.7%

Swanscombe (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Bryan Ernest Read	628
	Residents	Leslie James Bobby	528
	Residents	John Alfred Hayes	473
	Labour	Howard Graham Dold	455
	Independent (politician)	Michael Arthur Crosby	419
	Labour	Derek Alexander Hills	312
	Labour	Angela Margaret Mahy	290
	Conservative	Richard Stewart Mortimer Green	71
	Conservative	Joyce Edna Kite	68
	Conservative	Murdo Macleod	59
Turnout				27.5%

Town (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dharma Ramdass Appadoo	244
	Labour	Trevor Alan Rogers	239
	Conservative	Christopher Jon Shippam	239
	Conservative	Gary Leigh Shippam	176
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Easto	127
	UKIP	Alan John Rice	75
Turnout				23.2%

West Hill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Deborah Jane Stoate	736
	Labour	Geoffrey Truscott Prout	714
	Labour	Francis Gerald Byrne	706
	Conservative	Matthew John Davis	673
	Conservative	Josephine Anne Shippam	657
	Conservative	Teresa Wells	637
	Liberal Democrats	Sonia Elizabeth Keane	413
	Liberal Democrats	Frida Melillo	394
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Keith Gebbett	388
	UKIP	Thomas Geoffrey Roach	77
Turnout				46.6%

Wilmington (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Edward Hunnisett	870
	Conservative	Edward John Lampkin	809
	Labour	Thomas Anthony Maddison	564
	Labour	Christine Settle	536
Turnout				46.5%

External links

• Dartford Council Results