2004 Newcastle City Council election
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The 2004 Newcastle City Council election was held to elect members of the Newcastle City Council on 10 June 2004, coinciding with elections to the European Parliament and other local elections. The entire complement of 78 seats in the City were contested due to major boundary changes that year. The Liberal Democrats ended thirty years of Labour control and the table below shows the composition of the council following the election.[1]
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2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberal Democrats | 19 | 24 | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Labour | 59 | 54 | 30 |
Results summary
[edit]2004 Newcastle City Council election[1][2][3] | |||||||||
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Party | Seats | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |||
Liberal Democrats | 48 | 24 | 61.5 | 42.0 | 35,452 | ||||
Labour | 30 | 24 | 38.5 | 33.5 | 28,309 | ||||
Conservative | 0 | 0.0 | 15.1 | 12,769 | |||||
Independent | 0 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 2,609 | |||||
BNP | 0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2,256 | |||||
Green | 0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1,110 | |||||
National Front | 0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1,044 | |||||
Socialist Alternative | 0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 573 | |||||
English Democrat | 0 | New | 0.0 | 0.3 | 240 | New | |||
Communist | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 49 |
Ward results
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Local election results 2004". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Newcastle City Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Election Results 2004 - Newcastle upon Tyne". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 22 February 2024.