Elections to Sedgefield Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.
| Sedgefield Local Election Result 2003 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | ||
| Labour | 35 | -7 | 70.0 | 56.7 | 29,615 | |||||
| Independent | 7 | +3 | 14.0 | 21.2 | 11,096 | |||||
| Liberal Democrat | 7 | +4 | 14.0 | 15.4 | 8,046 | |||||
| Conservative | 1 | +1 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 2,493 | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 705 | |||||
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 313 | |||||
12 Labour candidates were unopposed.
| Bishop Middleham & Cornforth (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Hodgson | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Marie Predki | unopposed | |||
| Broom (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | George Morgan | 874 | |||
| Labour | David Newell | 872 | |||
| Labour | Brian Meek | 848 | |||
| Socialist Labour | Brian Gibson | 705 | |||
| Turnout | 3,299 | ||||
| Byerley (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | James Huntington | 1,033 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Gareth Howe | 865 | |||
| Labour | Vernon Chapman | 387 | |||
| Labour | John Bowman | 316 | |||
| Turnout | 2,601 | ||||
| Chilton (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Brian Avery | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Thomas Forrest | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Christine Potts | unopposed | |||
| Ferryhill (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Kathleen Conroy | unopposed | |||
| Labour | James Higgin | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Ronald Patchett | unopposed | |||
| Fishburn & Old Trimdon (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | John Burton | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Kester Noble | unopposed | |||
| Labour | Terence Ward | unopposed | |||
| Greenfield Middridge (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Vincent Crosby | 848 | |||
| Labour | Brian Hall | 799 | |||
| Independent | June Croft | 551 | |||
| Labour | Gloria Wills | 545 | |||
| Independent | Kevin Cox | 518 | |||
| Independent | Terence Paylor | 510 | |||
| Turnout | 3,771 | ||||
| Low Spennymoor & Tudhoe Grange (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Andrew Gray | 1,193 | |||
| Labour | Andrew Smith | 1,130 | |||
| Labour | John Khan | 1,033 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Roxby | 884 | |||
| Turnout | 4,240 | ||||
| Middlestone (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Kevin Thompson | 1,022 | |||
| Labour | William Waters | 919 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Christine Sproat | 888 | |||
| Labour | Christine Kennedy | 840 | |||
| Labour | Alexander Hawkes | 741 | |||
| Turnout | 4,410 | ||||
| Neville & Simpasture (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | John Moran | 1,021 | |||
| Labour | William Blenkinsopp | 993 | |||
| Labour | John Piggott | 975 | |||
| BNP | Justin Thornton | 229 | |||
| Turnout | 3,218 | ||||
| New Trimdon & Trimdon Grange | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Lucy Howels | unopposed | |||
| Sedgefield (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | James Wayman | 1,209 | |||
| Labour | John Robinson | 1,024 | |||
| Conservative | David Brown | 987 | |||
| Conservative | Patricia Waller | 936 | |||
| Labour | Linda Byrne | 879 | |||
| Labour | Maxine Robinson | 861 | |||
| Turnout | 5,896 | ||||
| Shafto St Mary's (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Angela Fleming | 866 | |||
| Labour | Robert Fleming | 849 | |||
| Labour | Malcolm Iveson | 822 | |||
| Independent | Alison Palmer | 604 | |||
| Independent | Lileen Cuthbertson | 541 | |||
| Independent | David Dobson | 521 | |||
| Turnout | 4,203 | ||||
| Spennymoor (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Benjamin Ord | 1,207 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Martin Jones | 927 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | George Scott | 869 | |||
| Labour | Anne Mumford | 768 | |||
| Labour | John Plews | 633 | |||
| Labour | John Parkin | 519 | |||
| Turnout | 4,923 | ||||
| Sunnydale (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Ina Smith | 930 | |||
| Independent | Lorraine Smith | 863 | |||
| Labour | Allan Walker | 538 | |||
| Labour | James Younghusband | 456 | |||
| Turnout | 2,787 | ||||
| Thickley (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | David Hancock | 968 | |||
| Independent | John Smith | 737 | |||
| Labour | Brian Stephens | 516 | |||
| Labour | Frank Timmiss | 381 | |||
| BNP | Janine Thornton-Browne | 84 | |||
| Turnout | 2,686 | ||||
| Tudhoe (2) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Barbara Graham | 804 | |||
| Labour | Agnes Armstrong | 790 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Marjorie Gordon | 351 | |||
| Conservative | Matthew Miller | 243 | |||
| Turnout | 2,188 | ||||
| West (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | George Gray | 723 | |||
| Independent | Enid Paylor | 707 | |||
| Labour | Michael Dalton | 683 | |||
| Independent | Margaret Crabtree | 666 | |||
| Labour | Maud Gray | 638 | |||
| Independent | Lynn Atkinson | 615 | |||
| Turnout | 4,032 | ||||
| Woodham (3) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Gray | 995 | |||
| Labour | Keith Henderson | 796 | |||
| Labour | Barbara Clare | 740 | |||
| Independent | Sandra Haigh | 470 | |||
| Independent | Malcolm Cannings | 362 | |||
| Conservative | Geoffrey Crass | 327 | |||
| Independent | Alison Jewkes | 324 | |||
| Turnout | 4,014 | ||||
| Preceded by Sedgefield Council election, 1999 |
Sedgefield local elections | Succeeded by Sedgefield Council election, 2007 |