Craven Council election, 2002
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Elections to Craven Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 4. The council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the composition of the council was
[edit] Election result
| Craven Local Election Result 2002 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net Gain/Loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | |
| Conservative | 13 | -4 | 43.3 | 40.6 | 8,346 | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | 9 | +4 | 30.0 | 28.6 | 5,884 | ||||
| Independent | 8 | -4 | 26.7 | 29.9 | 6,140 | ||||
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 184 | ||||
3 Conservative and 3 Independent candidates were unopposed.
[edit] Ward results
| Aire Valley with Lothersdale (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mark Wheeler | 552 | |||
| Conservative | Patricia Fairbank | 480 | |||
| Conservative | Robert Greaves | 410 | |||
| Turnout | 1,442 | ||||
| Barden Fell | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Christopher Knowles-Fitton | 474 | 64.2 | ||
| Independent | Robert Heseltine | 264 | 35.8 | ||
| Majority | 210 | 28.4 | |||
| Turnout | 738 | ||||
| Bentham (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | John Pilkington | 741 | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Hurley | 488 | |||
| Independent | Manuel Camacho | 139 | |||
| Turnout | 1,368 | ||||
| Cowling | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | John Alderson | unopposed | |||
| Embsay with Eastby | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Quinn | unopposed | |||
| Gargrave and Malhamdale (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Stephen Butcher | 658 | |||
| Conservative | David Crawford | 563 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Wood | 451 | |||
| Independent | Carlton Hayes | 393 | |||
| Turnout | 2,065 | ||||
| Glusburn (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Philip Barrett | 1,086 | |||
| Independent | Peter Seward | 364 | |||
| Independent | Arthur Dixon | 335 | |||
| Conservative | Ian Bannister | 220 | |||
| Conservative | Jennifer Wood | 194 | |||
| Turnout | 2,199 | ||||
| Grassington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Peter Walbank | unopposed | |||
| Hellifield and Long Preston | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Helen Firth | unopposed | |||
| Ingleton and Clapham (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | David Ireton | unopposed | |||
| Independent | Carl Lis | unopposed | |||
| Penyghent | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Richard Welch | 393 | 54.7 | ||
| Independent | Anthony Macaulay | 326 | 45.3 | ||
| Majority | 67 | 9.4 | |||
| Turnout | 719 | ||||
| Settle and Ribblebanks (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | David Heather | 652 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Elizabeth Graham | 599 | |||
| Conservative | Terence Murray | 383 | |||
| Conservative | Charles Price | 382 | |||
| Turnout | 2,016 | ||||
| Skipton East (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Eric Jaquin | 342 | |||
| Conservative | Pamela Heseltine | 333 | |||
| Conservative | Christopher Harbron | 303 | |||
| Independent | Melvin Seward | 268 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Darren Moorby | 245 | |||
| Independent | Dennis Hall | 204 | |||
| Labour | Duncan Hall | 184 | |||
| Turnout | 1,879 | ||||
| Skipton North (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Doyle | 570 | |||
| Conservative | Marcia Turner | 569 | |||
| Conservative | Paul Whitaker | 512 | |||
| Independent | Michael Hill | 416 | |||
| Turnout | 2,067 | ||||
| Skipton South (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Solloway | 325 | |||
| Independent | Frances Cook | 285 | |||
| Independent | Andrew Cook | 252 | |||
| Conservative | Alex Bentley | 181 | |||
| Conservative | Barry Blood | 177 | |||
| Turnout | 1,220 | ||||
| Skipton West (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Pauline English | 589 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Paul English | 575 | |||
| Conservative | Margaret Spence | 279 | |||
| Conservative | Norman Spence | 261 | |||
| Turnout | 1,704 | ||||
| Sutton-in-Craven (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Stephen Place | 778 | |||
| Independent | Kenneth Hart | 585 | |||
| Conservative | Barbara Barwick-Nicholson | 216 | |||
| Conservative | Dee Pollitt | 122 | |||
| Turnout | 1,701 | ||||
| Upper Wharfedale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Sayer | 481 | 58.4 | ||
| Independent | Kenneth Luty | 233 | 28.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | James Monksfield | 109 | 13.2 | ||
| Majority | 248 | 30.1 | |||
| Turnout | 823 | ||||
| West Craven | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Binns | 267 | 43.6 | ||
| Independent | Robert Mason | 212 | 34.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Rankine | 134 | 21.9 | ||
| Majority | 55 | 9.0 | |||
| Turnout | 613 | ||||
[edit] References
| Preceded by Craven Council election, 2000 |
Craven local elections | Succeeded by Craven Council election, 2003 |
