2002 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election

The 2002 Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998.^[1] The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.^[2]

Election result

Kensington and Chelsea Local Election Result 2002^[3]^[4]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	42	3	0	+3	77.8	59.0	46,272	+6.5
Labour	12	0	3	-3	22.2	25.5	20,024	-7.4
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.0	15.0	11,769	+0.7
Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.4	327	New

Ward results

Abingdon (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Victoria Borwick	1,039
	Conservative	James Husband	1,020
	Conservative	Joanna Gardner	1,009
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Good	252
	Liberal Democrats	John Faulder	248
	Liberal Democrats	Toby Keynes	222
	Labour	Leslie Austin	207
	Labour	Ann Fitzgerald	192
	Labour	Duncan Williams	160
Turnout			4,349	26.7

Brompton (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Harland	970
	Conservative	Shireen Ritchie	966
	Conservative	Iain Hanham	948
	Labour	Bernard Hamilton	192
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Orrell	177
	Liberal Democrats	Rosamund Pease	176
	Labour	David Macfarlane	166
	Labour	Dave Perry	159
	Liberal Democrats	William Somers	146
Turnout			3,900	27.6

Campden (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher Buckmaster	1,078
	Conservative	Richard Ahern	1,059
	Conservative	Robert Freeman	1,035
	Liberal Democrats	James Crichton-Miller	243
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Townsend	226
	Liberal Democrats	John Florentin	211
	Labour	Mary Blanchet	170
	Labour	Jacob Tompkins	151
	Labour	Ben Hooberman	134
Turnout			4,307	28.1

Colville (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Dez O'Neill	701
	Labour	Marianne Alapini	656
	Labour	Keith Cunningham	629
	Conservative	Vaneeta Saroop	317
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Ritchie	306
	Conservative	William Mason	305
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Mayers	296
	Conservative	Paul Stuart-Smith	291
	Liberal Democrats	Priscilla Congreve	281
Turnout			3,782	27.0

Courtfield (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Anthony Coates	953
	Conservative	Lawrence Holt	906
	Conservative	Edward Cox	898
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Somers	230
	Liberal Democrats	Carl Michel	190
	Green	Veronica Steffen	169
	Liberal Democrats	Angele Vidal-Hall	169
	Labour	Joel Bishop	157
	Labour	Anthony Price	154
	Labour	Christabel Gurney	150
Turnout			3,807	23.3

Cremorne (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jennifer Kingsley	823
	Conservative	Steven Redman	821
	Conservative	Maighread Simmonds	784
	Labour	Timothy Boulton	721
	Labour	Alastair Wood	689
	Labour	Mohammed Khan	636
	Liberal Democrats	Julian England	232
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Lawrence	225
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Pritchard	187
Turnout			5,118	33.6

Earl's Court (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Barry Phelps	830
	Conservative	Terence Buxton	761
	Conservative	Thomas Fairhead	743
	Labour	Rosie Brennan	543
	Labour	Gavin Bailey	455
	Labour	George Stothard	455
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Wade	406
	Liberal Democrats	Vanessa Giles	320
	Liberal Democrats	Panayiotis Vardakis	291
Turnout			4,804	27.8

Golborne (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bridget Hoier	874
	Labour	Patrick Mason	838
	Labour	Stuart Shapro	762
	Conservative	Sarah Dixon-Brown	308
	Conservative	Anthony Gilbert	268
	Conservative	Jeremy Larsson	241
	Liberal Democrats	Maria Kovatzis	199
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Owen	191
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Caruana	182
Turnout			3,863	27.8

Hans Town (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Timothy Coleridge	1,155
	Conservative	Nicholas Paget-Brown	1,094
	Conservative	Mary Weale	1,051
	Labour	Angela Lambert	195
	Green	Julia Stephenson	158
	Labour	Alexander Pringle	146
	Labour	Natalie Pringle	145
	Liberal Democrats	Angela Le Franc	50
Turnout			3,994	29.4

Holland (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joan Hanham	1,109
	Conservative	Bryan Levitt	1,084
	Conservative	Warwick Lightfoot	1,064
	Liberal Democrats	Diana France	248
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Shirley	224
	Labour	Christine Robson	213
	Liberal Democrats	Hugh Venables	213
	Labour	Gus Glover	191
	Labour	Michael O'Brien	185
Turnout			4,531	29.2

Norland (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Lindsay	1,017
	Conservative	Ernest Tomlin	972
	Conservative	Brian Walker-Arnott	954
	Labour	Nicholas Gibson	467
	Labour	Lesley Arnold	432
	Labour	John Hardie	428
	Liberal Democrats	Rose Hunt	345
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Horner	280
	Liberal Democrats	Silvia Tharp	267
Turnout			5,162	32.3

Notting Barns (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Judith Blakeman	962
	Labour	Simon Blanchflower	948
	Labour	Allah Lasharie	850
	Conservative	Mark Clayton	436
	Conservative	Gerard Hargreaves	415
	Conservative	Amanda Sayers	404
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Elston	239
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Tatton-Brown	230
	Liberal Democrats	Niraj Saraf	196
Turnout			4,680	30.0

Pembridge (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Isobel Campbell	815
	Conservative	David Campion	810
	Conservative	Doreen Weatherhead	765
	Liberal Democrats	John Campbell	362
	Labour	Virginia Henley	343
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Spencer	309
	Liberal Democrats	Katerina Porter	298
	Labour	Robert Mingay	281
	Labour	John Wootten	240
Turnout			4,223	27.0

Queen's Gate (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Fiona Buxton	1,077
	Conservative	Daniel Moylan	1,047
	Conservative	Andrew Dalton	1,034
	Liberal Democrats	Edwin Brown	196
	Liberal Democrats	Sally Galsworthy	194
	Liberal Democrats	Denzil Dunnett	169
	Labour	Carolyn Butler	150
	Labour	Nigel Wilkens	127
	Labour	Malcolm Butler	121
Turnout			4,115	25.8

Redcliffe (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Frances Taylor	1,017
	Conservative	Nicholas Halbritter	991
	Conservative	Jonathan Clamp	988
	Labour	Thomas Brown	240
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Dunn	230
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Woodthorpe-Brown	225
	Liberal Democrats	Christophe Lassus-Pebord	201
	Labour	Marian Kearney	187
	Labour	Brian Thorn	185
Turnout			4,264	24.6

Royal Hospital (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Corbet-Singleton	1,261
	Conservative	Ian Donaldson	1,237
	Conservative	Jeremy Edge	1,216
	Liberal Democrats	Penelope Pocock	195
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Hutchison	193
	Labour	Margaret Delahey	160
	Liberal Democrats	David Royce	159
	Labour	Christine Henry	156
	Labour	Adolphe Bukasa	147
Turnout			4,724	30.9

St Charles (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Stephen Hoier	700
	Labour	Rima Horton	662
	Labour	John Atkinson	654
	Conservative	Matthew Palmer	617
	Conservative	Dominic Johnson	562
	Conservative	David Mathew	554
	Liberal Democrats	Gisela Peters	237
	Liberal Democrats	Alexandra Tatton-Brown	214
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Etoe	177
Turnout			4,377	28.4

Stanley (3)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Priscilla Frazer	1,065
	Conservative	Merrick Cockell	1,063
	Conservative	Paul Warrick	1,025
	Labour	Catherine Atkinson	209
	Labour	Stephen King	180
	Liberal Democrats	Dorothy Patrick	178
	Liberal Democrats	John Drake	170
	Labour	Michael Henry	169
	Liberal Democrats	George Herford	164
Turnout			4,223	27.4

References

^ "Kensington & Chelsea". BBC News. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^ "London Elections 2002 - Part 2". Evening Standard. London. 3 May 2002. p. 66.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s "Results of the Local Council Elections 2 May 2002" (PDF). Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^ "Election results; Local Elections". The Times. 3 May 2002. p. 6.

[hold-1] "Kensington & Chelsea". BBC News. Retrieved 16 April 2011.

[london-2] "London Elections 2002 - Part 2". Evening Standard. London. 3 May 2002. p. 66.

[results-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s "Results of the Local Council Elections 2 May 2002" (PDF). Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved 16 April 2011.

[local-4] "Election results; Local Elections". The Times. 3 May 2002. p. 6.

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