Wigan Council election, 2004

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Elections to Wigan Council were held on 10th June, 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 increasing the number of councillors by three. The Labour party kept overall control of the council.

[edit] Election result

Wigan Local Election Result 2004
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Labour	42			-18	56.0	46.1	96,448	-3.6%
	Community Action	18			+13	24.0	27.2	56,856	+13.3%
	Liberal Democrat	8			+4	10.7	11.3	23,623	-2.8%
	Conservative	7			+4	9.3	13.3	27,922	-3.7%
	British National Party	0			0	0	0.9	1,831	-0.9%
	Independent	0			0	0	0.7	1,457	+0.7%
	Green	0			0	0	0.6	1,180	+0.6%

Three Labour councillors were uncontested.

[edit] Ward results

Abram (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Audrey Bennett	1,809
	Labour	Eunice Smethurst	1,686
	Labour	Carl Sweeney	1,629
	British National Party	Dennis Shambley	647
	Conservative	Marion Green	625
Turnout			6,396

Ashton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Community Action	Paul Tushingham	2,366
	Community Action	Walter Carney	2,302
	Community Action	Claire Daington	2,229
	Labour	Nigel Ash	1,302
	Labour	Barry Hampson	1,029
	Labour	Frederick Lever	1,012
	Conservative	Marie Winstanley	402
Turnout			10,642

Aspull, New Springs, Whelley (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Hilton	1,758
	Labour	Christopher Ready	1,744
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Beswick	1,528
	Labour	James Roberts	1,519
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Robinson	1,134
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Thomas	1,030
Turnout			8,713

Astley Mosley Common (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Wilson	1,501
	Liberal Democrat	Glynnis Hogg	1,367
	Liberal Democrat	Joseph Haley	1,259
	Liberal Democrat	John Stackhouse	1,173
	Labour	John Lea	1,122
	Labour	Alan Stephenson	1,095
	Green	Ian Davies	870
Turnout			8,387

Atherleigh (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Susan Loudon	1,219
	Labour	Mark Aldred	1,214
	Labour	Anne Turnock	1,207
	Community Action	Francis Myler	683
	Community Action	Patricia Myler	680
	Conservative	Ann Davies	584
	Community Action	Gladys Wilkes	442
Turnout			6,029

Atherton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Splaine	1,705
	Liberal Democrat	David Higginbottom	1,525
	Labour	Karen Aldred	1,487
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Moore	1,414
	Labour	Philip Loudon	1,320
	Labour	Reginald Holmes	1,292
	Conservative	Malcolm Parr	449
	Green	Nicholas Redmond	310
Turnout			9,502

Bryn (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Community Action	John Hodgkinson	2,370
	Community Action	Gary Wilkes	2,297
	Community Action	Brian Merry	2,239
	Labour	Mildred Millington	1,233
	Labour	Alan Melling	1,183
	Labour	William Evans	986
	Conservative	William Winstanley	323
Turnout			10,631

Douglas (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joy Birch	1,427
	Labour	Christine Hitchen	1,347
	Labour	Margaret Coghlin	1,318
	Community Action	Lucy Beale	1,296
	Community Action	Robert Beale	1,287
	Community Action	Janette Thomas	1,223
Turnout			7,898

Golborne and Lowton West (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Community Action	Peter Franzen	1,639
	Community Action	Kevin Williams	1,414
	Community Action	Peter Solinas	1,413
	Labour	David Kelly	1,298
	Labour	Martin King	1,258
	Labour	Gerard Bretherton	1,216
	Conservative	Rosina Oxley	355
Turnout			8,593

Hindley (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Robinson	1,578
	Community Action	James Ellis	1,153
	Community Action	Dorothy Grace	1,134
	Labour	John Holland	1,041
	Labour	Stephen Murphy	1,024
	Independent	David Culshaw	874
	Community Action	Edward Houlton	614
	Conservative	Dorothy Angell	403
Turnout			7,820

Hindley Green(3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Simmons	1,272
	Community Action	Robert Brierley	1,264
	Community Action	Barry Fagan	1,231
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	898
	Labour	John Phillips	895
	Community Action	Adele Wilkes	750
	Independent	John Vickers	583
	Conservative	Andre Walker	489
Turnout			7,382

Ince (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Molyneux	1,494
	Labour	Joan Hurst	1,368
	Labour	James Moodie	1,132
	Community Action	Constantine Winstanley	694
	Community Action	Robert Hall	667
	Community Action	David Hall	651
Turnout			6,006

Leigh East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Keith Cunliffe	1,407
	Labour	Brian Jarvis	1,299
	Labour	Frederick Walker	1,081
	Community Action	Stuart Winstanley	943
	Community Action	Peter O'Connell	843
	Conservative	Derek Davies	644
	Community Action	Natalie Franzen	595
Turnout			6,812

Leigh South (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Keith Anderson	1,547
	Labour	John O'Brien	1,465
	Labour	Charles Rigby	1,429
	Community Action	Stephen Ellison	1,175
	Community Action	Janice Solinas	1,094
	Community Action	Irene Franzen	1,041
	Conservative	Andrew Oxley	1,030
Turnout			8,781

Leigh West (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Jarvis	1,708
	Labour	Myra Whiteside	1,624
	Labour	Peter Smith	1,506
	Community Action	Daniel Burrows	669
	Community Action	Yvonne Lavelle	549
	British National Party	Richard Close	513
	Community Action	Ian Franzen	508
Turnout			7,074

Lowton East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Community Action	Ian Franzen	1,793
	Community Action	Jonathan Miller	1,730
	Community Action	James Lavelle	1,516
	Labour	Lynne Liptrot	1,289
	Labour	Eric Waterworth	1,179
	Labour	Christine Cottam	1,062
	Conservative	James Grundy	879
	Conservative	Jeanette Leigh	792
	Conservative	Alan Lowe	647
Turnout			10,887

Orrell (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Clayton	1,747
	Conservative	Michael Winstanley	1,520
	Labour	Ernest Swift	1,402
	Labour	Michael Barnes	1,381
	Labour	Rodney Stockwell	1,313
	Conservative	Hazel Shields	1,285
	British National Party	Charles Mather	671
	Community Action	Alan Freeman	595
	Community Action	Tracy Lavelle	420
	Community Action	Sean Ashdown	395
Turnout			10,729

Pemberton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeanette Prescott	1,419
	Labour	Barbara Bourne	1,381
	Labour	Paul Prescott	1,314
	Community Action	Margaret Crank	1,140
	Community Action	William Burrows	1,096
	Community Action	John Hulme	1,025
	Conservative	Jonathan Cartwright	439
Turnout			7,814

Shevington with Lower Ground (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John O'Neill	1,843
	Labour	David Brown	1,468
	Labour	Michael Crosby	1,461
	Conservative	Elizabeth Beasleigh	1,456
	Conservative	Deborah Fairhurst	1,288
	Conservative	Barry Alder	1,191
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Sutton	739
	Liberal Democrat	Freda Graham	664
	Liberal Democrat	Solveiq Gaber	607
Turnout			10,717

Standish with Langtree (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Davies	1,383
	Conservative	George Fairhurst	1,325
	Conservative	Jessica Downer	1,278
	Liberal Democrat	Raymond Murphy	1,254
	Liberal Democrat	Trevor Beswick	1,202
	Labour	Thomas Morris	1,197
	Conservative	Barry Woolley	1,185
	Liberal Democrat	Maureen Garner	1,066
	Labour	Michael McLoughlin	953
Turnout			10,843

Tyldesley (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Neil Hogg	2,212
	Liberal Democrat	Keith McManus	1,976
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Derricutt	1,768
	Labour	Stephen Hellier	1,350
	Labour	David Boydell	1,212
	Labour	Richard Evans	1,027
	Conservative	Deborah Woodcock	457
Turnout			10,002

Wigan Central (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Cadman	2,130
	Conservative	James Davies	2,089
	Conservative	Gareth Fairhurst	1,961
	Labour	Richard Walsh	1,694
	Labour	Susan Turner	1,668
	Labour	John Ball	1,502
Turnout			11,044

Wigan West (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Halliwell	uncontested
	Labour	Joe Shaw	uncontested
	Labour	David Willis	uncontested

Winstanley (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Community Action	Stanley Barnes	1,810
	Labour	Rona Winkworth	1,393
	Community Action	William Wilkes	1,330
	Community Action	Ronald Barnes	1,299
	Labour	Philip Kelly	1,000
	Labour	Robin Atkinson	993
	Conservative	Matthew Sephton	525
Turnout			8,350

Worsley Mesnes (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Baldwin	1,547
	Labour	William Rotherham	1,540
	Labour	Wilfred Brogan	1,498
	Community Action	Susan Barnes	1,171
	Community Action	William Barnes	1,115
	Community Action	Stephen Wilkes	966
	Conservative	Thomas Sutton	424
Turnout			8,261