2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election
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All 42 seats to Bracknell Forest Borough Council
22 seats needed for a majority
Turnout31%[1] (Increase 1pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Con
Lab
LD
Leader Paul Bettison Austin McCormack N/A
Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Little Sandhurst & Wellington Ran in Wildridings & Central (lost) N/A
Last election 30 seats 10 seats 0 seats
Seats won 35 6 1
Seat change Increase 5 Decrease 4 Increase 1
Popular vote 13,621 7,774 4,121
Percentage 50.1% 28.6% 15.2%
Swing Decrease 5.1% Decrease 2.1% Increase 5.0%
Council control before election

Conservative

 Council control after election

Conservative

The 2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003, to elect all 42 councillors in 18 wards for Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections in England as part of the 2003 United Kingdom local elections. Due to a boundary review there had been a change in ward boundaries, along with an increase in size from 40 members elected in 2000. The Conservative Party secured a third term in office, increasing its majority, whilst the opposition Labour Party lost its group leader. The Liberal Democrats re-entered the council for the first time at an all-out council election since 1995, and the first at which the eurosceptic UK Independence Party stood a candidate.

Ward results

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Ascot

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Ascot (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Dorothy Andrea Susan Hayes 712 57.0
Conservative Anne Kay Haydon 708
Labour Robert Edward Draper 204 16.3
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Peter Cross 188 15.0
Liberal Democrats Ian Richard Campbell-Grant 149
Green Derek Norman Wall 146 11.7
Turnout 29.4
Registered electors 3,931
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Binfield with Warfield

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Binfield with Warfield (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terry Mills 1,159 39.1
Conservative John Bruce Harrison 1,127
Conservative Ian William Leake 1,055
Liberal Democrats Michael John Hawkins 676 22.8
Labour David John Fawcett 570 19.2
Independent Hilary Doyle 560 18.9
Independent Kevin Alan Harvey 417
Turnout 34.4
Registered electors 5,854
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Bullbrook

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Bullbrook (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Iain Alexander McCracken 715 53.4
Conservative Edward Michael Sargeant 713
Labour David George Excell 450 29.5
Labour Allan Hylton Scorer 395
Liberal Democrats Ronald Henry Hanson 230 17.2
Turnout 36.0
Registered electors 3,718
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Central Sandhurst

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Central Sandhurst (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alan Frederick Ward 631 38.9
Conservative Peter Laurie North 548
Liberal Democrats Stephen Pope 355 21.9
Labour Sylvia Maria Ruth Trevis 270 16.6
UKIP Lawrence John Alan Boxall 190 11.7
Green Teresa Marie Burchnall-Wood 177 10.9
Turnout 29.7
Registered electors 4,011
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

College Town

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College Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Cecil Edger 540 51.4
Liberal Democrats Raymond William Earwicker 510 48.6
Conservative Raymond Simonds 505
Liberal Democrats Reginald Peter John Hodge 472
Turnout 29.3
Registered electors 3,665
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Crown Wood

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Crown Wood (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Marc Brunel-Walker 725 47.4
Conservative Colin Reginald Dudley 692
Conservative Robert Charles Osborne 648
Labour Wilford Theophilus Holness 612 40.0
Labour Roy John Bailey 563
Labour Joyce Edna Still 529
Green Paul Lynton Harper 194 12.7
Turnout 25.4
Registered electors 5,829
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Crowthorne

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Crowthorne (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James George Finnie 744 53.6
Conservative Robert Hugh Wade 649
Liberal Democrats Anne Barbara Swann 382 27.5
Liberal Democrats James Jeffrey Retallic 322
Labour Graham Edward Stuart Vertigen 263 18.9
Turnout 34.3
Registered electors 3,679
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Great Hollands North

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Great Hollands North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jeananne Margaret Shillcock 498 66.6
Labour Langdon Richard Jones 490
Conservative Amanda Collette McLean 250 33.4
Conservative Nicholas Peter Skinner 228
Turnout 26.2
Registered electors 3,025
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Great Hollands South

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Great Hollands South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Michael John Adams 614 50.6
Labour John Stefan Piasecki 604
Conservative Jennifer Ann McCracken 599 49.4
Conservative Lars Fredrick Arthur Swann 552
Turnout 31.9
Registered electors 3,878
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Hanworth

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Hanworth (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles (Chas) Walter Baily 939 44.5
Conservative Gillian (Gill) Margaret Birch 871
Conservative Alan Sydney Browne 861
Labour Janet Hazel Keene 633 30.0
Labour James Lawrence Walsh 566
Green David Henry Young 306 14.5
Green David Andrew Collins 243
Liberal Democrats Evelyn May Hughes 232 11.0
Liberal Democrats Larraine Kerry De Laune 222
Green Paul Charles Bennett 205
Turnout 30.3
Registered electors 6,386
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Harmans Water

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Crown Wood (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Shelagh Rosemary Pile 1,122 67.7
Conservative Ian Christopher Douglas Mihell 1,082
Conservative Christopher Richard Martin Turrell 1,067
Labour Geoffrey Leslie Freeman 535 32.3
Labour John Kenneth Wright 500
Labour Alec Keene 494
Turnout 32.6
Registered electors 5,192
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Little Sandhurst & Wellington

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Little Sandhurst & Wellington (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul David Bettison 806 69.3
Conservative Dale Philip Birch 776
Labour John (Jack) Robert Delbridge 357 30.7
Labour Jonathan George Keen 330
Turnout 30.8
Registered electors 3,889
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Old Bracknell

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Old Bracknell (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Maureen Elizabeth Beadsley 628 44.9
Labour Michael John Beadsley 624
Conservative Isabel Margaret Mattick 565 40.4
Conservative Andrew (Andy) Duncan Blatchford 534
Liberal Democrats Lesley Marion Tooze 126 9.0
Green Gillian Annette Nicholas 79 5.7
Turnout 35.5
Registered electors 3,740
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Owlsmoor

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Owlsmoor (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David James Worrall 582 47.0
Conservative Richard Hugh Thomas 580
Liberal Democrats David Mohammed 348 28.1
Labour Brian David Wilson 309 24.9
Turnout 26.6
Registered electors 3,946
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Priestwood & Garth

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Priestwood & Garth (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony Packham 1,038 50.5
Conservative Jacqueline Doris Sylvia Ryder 1,000
Conservative Alvin Edwin Finch 935
Labour Dennis Rueben Good 780 38.0
Labour Amanda (Mandy) Jane Williams 769
Labour Colin Terence Williams 692
Liberal Democrats Aileen Moira Aveling 237 11.5
Turnout 35.6
Registered electors 5,554
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Warfield Harvest Ride

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Warfield Harvest Ride (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gareth Michael Barnard 1,078 55.4
Conservative Robert Lauchlan McLean 994
Conservative John (Cliff) Clifton Thompson 909
Liberal Democrats Martyn Jon Towle 500 25.7
Labour Marian Donald Langton 367 18.9
Labour Patricia Eira Brown 303
Turnout 27.7
Registered electors 5,442
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Wildridings & Central

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Wildridings & Central (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip Grayson[n 1] 609 53.8
Conservative Emma Catherine Duncan Barnard 603
Labour Austin John McCormack 524 46.2
Labour Richard Francis Mills 504
Turnout 35.0
Registered electors 3,356
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Winkfield & Cranbourne

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Winkfield & Cranbourne (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mary Patricia Ballin 807 61.0
Conservative Alan Harold Kendall 802
Liberal Democrats Stuart Stanley Tarrant 357 27.0
Liberal Democrats David James Maxwell 231
Labour Anthony Malcolm House 160 12.1
Turnout 34.9
Registered electors 3,721
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

By-elections

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Binfield with Warfield

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Binfield with Warfield By-Election 23 March 2006[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brenda Dorothy Wilson 921 55.5 +16.4
Liberal Democrats Michael John Hawkins 444 26.8 +4.0
Labour David John Fawcett 174 10.5 −8.7
UKIP Jeffrey Alan Newbold 119 7.2 New
Majority 477 28.7
Turnout 1,658 28
Registered electors 5,856
Conservative hold Swing

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Grayson was elected as a Labour Party candidate in 2000.

References

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  1. ^ "Borough Council Elections - Thursday, 1 May 2003". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 1 May 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Binfield with Warfield By-election - Thursday, 23 March 2006". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 23 March 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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