Oxford Council election, 2002

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Elections to Oxford Council were held on 2nd May, 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by three. The Labour party gained control of the council. The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 29, Liberal Democrat 15, Green 3 and Independent Working Class Association 1. Overall turnout was 34%.

[edit] Election Result

Oxford Local Election Result 2002
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Labour	29			+8	60.4	38.4	24,667	+8.0%
	Liberal Democrat	15			-6	31.3	26.1	16,768	-4.3%
	Green	3			-5	6.3	18.7	11,985	+0.1%
	Independent Working Class	1			+1	2.1	1.4	879	+1.4%
	Conservative	0			-1	0	14.6	9,359	-4.9%
	Socialist Alliance	0			0	0	0.60	382	+0.60%
	Independent	0			0	0	0.22	138	-0.18%

[edit] Ward Results

Barton and Sandhills (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander Hollingsworth	580
	Labour	Michael McAndrews	564
	Conservative	Prudence Dailey	270
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Wynne	162
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Wyatt	150
	Green	Raymond Hitchins	97
	Green	Pallas Reiss	54
Turnout			1,877	25.2

Blackbird Leys (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Valerie Smith	633
	Labour	Patrick Stannard	438
	Independent Working Class	Daphne Kingston	197
	Conservative	David Brown	111
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Hinnells	34
	Socialist Alliance	John Lister	33
	Green	Patrick Lingwood	22
	Liberal Democrat	Alexander MacFie	19
	Green	Nuala Young	18
Turnout			1,505	22.6

Carfax (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Michael Woodin	420
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Sargent	355
	Liberal Democrat	Afia Ali	341
	Green	Linda Losito	290
	Labour	Timothy Waters	211
	Labour	Karim Palant	208
	Conservative	Ann Dykes	153
	Conservative	Stephan Pritchard	144
Turnout			2,122	26.0

Churchill (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Susan Brown	589
	Labour	Peter Johnson	564
	Conservative	Harry Brack	205
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Edwards	186
	Liberal Democrat	Rosemary Smith	154
	Green	Alexis Kennedy	81
	Green	Daniel Rosenberg	71
	Socialist Alliance	George Roe	64
Turnout			1,914	25.1

Cowley (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beryl Keen	693
	Labour	Bryan Keen	668
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Hammond	392
	Liberal Democrat	Nadeem Khan	360
	Conservative	Ellen Smith	210
	Green	Martin Juckes	157
	Green	Jennifer Linsdell	146
Turnout			2,626	35.3

Cowley Marsh (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Ruth Beer	501
	Labour	David Taylor	486
	Labour	Mumtaz Fareed	469
	Liberal Democrat	Sajjad-Hussain Malik	459
	Green	James Kemp	148
	Green	Ian Wanless	130
	Conservative	Elizabeth Wells	129
Turnout			2,322	32.5

Headington (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	David Rundle	637
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Tall	597
	Conservative	Richard Jeffery	459
	Conservative	Joseph Hannigan	427
	Labour	Kathrin Luddecke	312
	Labour	Terence Johnson	306
	Green	Dave Dalton	150
	Green	Xanthe Bevis	112
	Socialist Alliance	Tracy Ellicott	64
Turnout			3,064	37.8

Headington Hill and Northway (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maureen Christian	552
	Labour	Manawar Jan-Khan	487
	Conservative	Philip McKearney	342
	Conservative	Peter Salcombe	341
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Hall	210
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Whittaker	199
	Green	Katherine Wedell	86
	Green	Tim Pizey	57
Turnout			2,274	32.3

Hinksey Park (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Price	961
	Labour	Richard Muir	836
	Green	Deborah Glass	649
	Green	Donald O'Neal	434
	Conservative	Simon Mort	226
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Bones	139
	Liberal Democrat	Ruth Penwarden	125
Turnout			3,370	43.0

Holywell (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Antony Brett	464
	Liberal Democrat	Fiyaz Mughal	426
	Green	Paul Williams	418
	Green	Laura Merrill	416
	Conservative	Sean Sullivan	190
	Conservative	Edmund Sutton	185
	Labour	Siobhan McAndrew	143
	Labour	Eleanor Reeves	125
Turnout			2,367	30.1

Iffley Fields (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Baker	876
	Labour	Richard Tarver	791
	Green	Elise Benjamin	654
	Green	Larry Sanders	559
	Liberal Democrat	Victoria Marsom	124
	Conservative	Edward Parkin	118
	Conservative	Margaret Croft	109
	Liberal Democrat	Madeline Rowe	102
Turnout			3,333	41.5

Jericho and Osney (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Susanna Pressel	1,092
	Labour	Colin Cook	895
	Green	Sushila Dhall	325
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Hilliard	320
	Green	Lilia Patterson	223
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Smithson	219
	Conservative	Patricia Jones	166
	Conservative	William Wilson	154
Turnout			3,394	39.5

Littlemore (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gillian Sanders	724
	Labour	John Tanner	697
	Conservative	David Leake	393
	Conservative	John Young	363
	Liberal Democrat	Vicky Potter	140
	Green	Mark Stevenson	118
	Green	Gail Percival	90
	Liberal Democrat	Aidan Thomson	70
Turnout			2,595	32.1

Lye Valley (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sabir-Hussain Mirza	627
	Labour	Daniel Paskins	621
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Hoyle	519
	Liberal Democrat	David Paintin	462
	Green	Barbara Topley	111
	Green	David Brooks-Saxl	89
Turnout			2,429	29.8

Marston (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Clarkson	837
	Labour	Roy Darke	765
	Conservative	Duncan Hatfield	436
	Liberal Democrat	Anjana Tiwari	400
	Conservative	Stuart Hand	388
	Liberal Democrat	Kenji Tiwari	378
	Green	Judith Chipchase	167
	Green	Garry Budin	141
Turnout			3,512	41.0

North (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Fooks	602
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Brown	586
	Green	Adrian Arbib	474
	Green	Miranda Carnegie	422
	Labour	Suzanne Ledwith	209
	Independent	John Rose	138
	Labour	Andrew Small	126
Turnout			2,557	31.7

Northfield Brook (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Molly Florey	406
	Independent Working Class	Stuart Craft	354
	Independent Working Class	Lee Cole	328
	Labour	Jane Darke	308
	Liberal Democrat	Bernard Gowers	70
	Liberal Democrat	Choudhary Zafar	59
	Green	Susan Tibbles	44
	Green	Patricia Dickson	38
Turnout			1,607	22.4

Quarry and Risinghurst (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Delia Sinclair	607
	Liberal Democrat	Julian Allison	552
	Labour	Noorjahan Sayani	531
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Coats	418
	Conservative	Peter Logan	335
	Conservative	George Callaghan	304
	Green	Sarah Wild	106
	Green	Susan Miles	72
	Socialist Alliance	Andrew Gibbons	70
Turnout			2,995	37.2

Rose Hill and Iffley (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Buckingham	953
	Labour	Edward Turner	791
	Liberal Democrat	David Penwarden	534
	Liberal Democrat	Pamela Bones	424
	Conservative	Gwendoline Fancutt	149
	Conservative	Julian Hicks	142
	Green	Oliver Tickell	120
	Green	Simon Brook	107
	Socialist Alliance	Ben Kenward	60
Turnout			3,280	41.8

St Clement's (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sophia Bartleet	494
	Green	Claire Palmer	489
	Green	Robert Sykes	469
	Labour	John Courouble	467
	Liberal Democrat	Owen Davies	155
	Conservative	Jean Pocock	146
	Conservative	Margaret Young	138
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Stone	132
Turnout			2,490	28.6

St Margaret's (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	James Campbell	628
	Liberal Democrat	Corinna Redman	628
	Green	Sally Bayley	330
	Green	Mary Franklin	324
	Conservative	Ursula Dreydel	254
	Conservative	Robert Porter	231
	Labour	Benjamin Harris	127
	Labour	Tim Boyd	115
Turnout			2,637	36.5

St Mary's (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Craig Simmons	433
	Labour	Mohammed Abbasi	429
	Green	Annie Skinner	390
	Labour	Peter Moss	389
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Barker	150
	Conservative	Darren Green	104
	Liberal Democrat	Pieter-Paul Barker	96
	Socialist Alliance	Angelina Rai	91
Turnout			2,082	27.4

Summertown (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Armitage	811
	Liberal Democrat	Anthony Hollander	788
	Conservative	Frank Bland	453
	Green	Sheila Buck	434
	Green	Malcolm Lee	412
	Conservative	Jason Tomes	390
	Labour	Joel Brookfield	252
	Labour	Benjamin Seifert	231
Turnout			3,771	43.3

Wolvercote (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Goddard	801
	Liberal Democrat	Susan Roaf	690
	Conservative	Graham Jones	616
	Conservative	Raoul Cerratti	578
	Green	Sheila Cameron	444
	Green	Michael Hamblett	444
	Labour	Patricia Brown	244
	Labour	Michael Taylor	238
Turnout			4,055	48.0