2003 Sedgefield Borough Council election

Elections to Sedgefield Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.

Election result

Sedgefield Local Election Result 2003

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	35			-7	70.0	56.7	29,615
	Independent	7			+3	14.0	21.2	11,096
	Liberal Democrats	7			+4	14.0	15.4	8,046
	Conservative	1			+1	2.0	4.8	2,493
	Socialist Labour	0			0	0.0	1.3	705
	BNP	0			0	0.0	0.6	313

12 Labour candidates were unopposed.

Ward results

Bishop Middleham & Cornforth (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Hodgson	unopposed
	Labour	Marie Predki	unopposed

Broom (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Morgan	874
	Labour	David Newell	872
	Labour	Brian Meek	848
	Socialist Labour	Brian Gibson	705
Turnout			3,299

Byerley (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	James Huntington	1,033
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Howe	865
	Labour	Vernon Chapman	387
	Labour	John Bowman	316
Turnout			2,601

Chilton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Avery	unopposed
	Labour	Thomas Forrest	unopposed
	Labour	Christine Potts	unopposed

Ferryhill (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kathleen Conroy	unopposed
	Labour	James Higgin	unopposed
	Labour	Ronald Patchett	unopposed

Fishburn & Old Trimdon (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Burton	unopposed
	Labour	Kester Noble	unopposed
	Labour	Terence Ward	unopposed

Greenfield Middridge (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Vincent Crosby	848
	Labour	Brian Hall	799
	Independent	June Croft	551
	Labour	Gloria Wills	545
	Independent	Kevin Cox	518
	Independent	Terence Paylor	510
Turnout			3,771

Low Spennymoor & Tudhoe Grange (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Gray	1,193
	Labour	Andrew Smith	1,130
	Labour	John Khan	1,033
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Roxby	884
Turnout			4,240

Middlestone (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Thompson	1,022
	Labour	William Waters	919
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Sproat	888
	Labour	Christine Kennedy	840
	Labour	Alexander Hawkes	741
Turnout			4,410

Neville & Simpasture (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Moran	1,021
	Labour	William Blenkinsopp	993
	Labour	John Piggott	975
	BNP	Justin Thornton	229
Turnout			3,218

New Trimdon & Trimdon Grange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lucy Howels	unopposed

Sedgefield (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	James Wayman	1,209
	Labour	John Robinson	1,024
	Conservative	David Brown	987
	Conservative	Patricia Waller	936
	Labour	Linda Byrne	879
	Labour	Maxine Robinson	861
Turnout			5,896

Shafto St Mary's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Fleming	866
	Labour	Robert Fleming	849
	Labour	Malcolm Iveson	822
	Independent	Alison Palmer	604
	Independent	Lileen Cuthbertson	541
	Independent	David Dobson	521
Turnout			4,203

Spennymoor (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Benjamin Ord	1,207
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Jones	927
	Liberal Democrats	George Scott	869
	Labour	Anne Mumford	768
	Labour	John Plews	633
	Labour	John Parkin	519
Turnout			4,923

Sunnydale (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ina Smith	930
	Independent	Lorraine Smith	863
	Labour	Allan Walker	538
	Labour	James Younghusband	456
Turnout			2,787

Thickley (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Hancock	968
	Independent	John Smith	737
	Labour	Brian Stephens	516
	Labour	Frank Timmiss	381
	BNP	Janine Thornton-Browne	84
Turnout			2,686

Tudhoe (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Graham	804
	Labour	Agnes Armstrong	790
	Liberal Democrats	Marjorie Gordon	351
	Conservative	Matthew Miller	243
Turnout			2,188

West (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Gray	723
	Independent	Enid Paylor	707
	Labour	Michael Dalton	683
	Independent	Margaret Crabtree	666
	Labour	Maud Gray	638
	Independent	Lynn Atkinson	615
Turnout			4,032

Woodham (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Gray	995
	Labour	Keith Henderson	796
	Labour	Barbara Clare	740
	Independent	Sandra Haigh	470
	Independent	Malcolm Cannings	362
	Conservative	Geoffrey Crass	327
	Independent	Alison Jewkes	324
Turnout			4,014

External links

• 2003 Sedgefield election result