Stroud District Council election, 2002
The 2002 Stroud Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 4.[1] The Conservative party gained overall control of the council from no overall control.[2]
Election result
Before the election the Conservatives were the largest party on the council with 24 seats, 4 seats short of having a majority.[3] The results saw the Conservatives gain control of the council after Labour lost seats.[4] Overall turnout in the election was 39.83%.[5]
Stroud local election result 2002[5][6] |
Party |
Seats |
Gains |
Losses |
Net gain/loss |
Seats % |
Votes % |
Votes |
+/− |
|
Conservative |
29 |
|
|
+5 |
56.9 |
41.5 |
26,705 |
-4.2% |
|
Labour |
12 |
|
|
-6 |
23.5 |
28.9 |
18,592 |
+2.4% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
4 |
|
|
-1 |
7.8 |
16.3 |
10,471 |
-3.9% |
|
Green |
4 |
|
|
0 |
7.8 |
10.4 |
6,693 |
+5.5% |
|
Independent |
2 |
|
|
-2 |
3.9 |
2.4 |
1,533 |
+0.5% |
|
UKIP |
0 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
0.6 |
365 |
+0.1% |
Ward results
Amberley and Woodchester[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Stephen Glanfield |
480 |
53.9 |
|
|
Green |
Sheila Macfadyen |
160 |
18.0 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Margaret Edmunds |
134 |
15.1 |
|
|
Labour |
John Appleton |
116 |
13.0 |
|
Majority |
320 |
36.0 |
|
Turnout |
890 |
50.9 |
|
Bisley[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Daniel Fleming |
436 |
49.3 |
|
|
Green |
Steven Penny |
388 |
43.9 |
|
|
UKIP |
Anthony Gardiner |
60 |
6.8 |
|
Majority |
48 |
5.4 |
|
Turnout |
884 |
50.9 |
|
Cainscross (3)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Robert Eccles |
961 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Andrew Read |
815 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Anthony Shortt |
716 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Norma Rodman |
384 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Darren Jones |
374 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Graham Lloyd-Jones |
334 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Graham Stanley |
329 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Hilary Howe |
328 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Ann Kendall |
321 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Ralph Kenber |
282 |
|
|
|
Green |
Philip Williams |
133 |
|
|
|
Green |
Martin Jakes |
112 |
|
|
Turnout |
5,089 |
35.4 |
|
Cam East (2)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
John Hudson |
537 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Miranda Clifton |
520 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
William Fearnley-Whittingstall |
504 |
|
|
|
Labour |
William Hamilton |
444 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Charles Hartley |
343 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Keith Pearce |
329 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,677 |
41.2 |
|
Cam West (2)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
Dennis Andrewartha |
631 |
|
|
|
Labour |
John Fowles |
485 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
John Dapling |
449 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Daryl Matthews |
372 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Gail Fearnley-Whittingstall |
242 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Desmond Lashbrook |
187 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,366 |
38.4 |
|
Central[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Michael Williams |
273 |
52.3 |
|
|
Labour |
Ronald Nichols |
148 |
28.4 |
|
|
Green |
David Michael |
101 |
19.3 |
|
Majority |
125 |
23.9 |
|
Turnout |
522 |
37.7 |
|
Coaley and Uley[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Janet Wood |
574 |
54.2 |
|
|
Conservative |
Caroline Chisolm |
352 |
33.2 |
|
|
Labour |
George East |
71 |
6.7 |
|
|
Green |
Janet Griffiths |
63 |
5.9 |
|
Majority |
222 |
20.9 |
|
Turnout |
1,060 |
57.6 |
|
Dursley (3)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Basil Allen |
723 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Hilary Fowles |
683 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Loraine Patrick |
600 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Brian Marsh |
573 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Paul Denney |
548 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Veronica Harding |
528 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Paul Mapplebeck |
525 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Terence Morgan |
499 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Patrick Blitz |
497 |
|
|
Turnout |
5,176 |
38.5 |
|
Eastington and Standish[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Kenneth Stephens |
282 |
47.5 |
|
|
Conservative |
Thomas James |
228 |
38.4 |
|
|
Green |
Valerie Hicken |
84 |
14.1 |
|
Majority |
54 |
9.1 |
|
Turnout |
594 |
39.8 |
|
Farmhill and Paganhill[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Sheffie Mohammed |
292 |
55.6 |
|
|
Labour |
Andy Treacher |
82 |
15.6 |
|
|
Conservative |
Catherine James |
74 |
14.1 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Deborah Sutherland |
55 |
10.5 |
|
|
Green |
Annabel Caddle |
22 |
4.2 |
|
Majority |
210 |
40.0 |
|
Turnout |
525 |
30.2 |
|
Kingswood[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
Paul Hemming |
408 |
72.7 |
|
|
Conservative |
Brenda Lock |
153 |
27.3 |
|
Majority |
255 |
45.5 |
|
Turnout |
561 |
36.4 |
|
Over Stroud[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Linda Durrans |
240 |
41.0 |
|
|
Conservative |
Linda Jeffreys |
236 |
40.3 |
|
|
Green |
Kate Corder |
109 |
18.6 |
|
Majority |
4 |
0.7 |
|
Turnout |
585 |
41.0 |
|
Rodborough (2)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Graham Blackshaw |
544 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Nigel Cooper |
488 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Roger Brown |
436 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Helen Hughes |
417 |
|
|
|
Green |
Carol Kambites |
188 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Andrew Fisk |
183 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Adrian Walker-Smith |
151 |
|
|
|
Green |
Ewout Granberg |
124 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,531 |
36.7 |
|
Severn (2)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
John Jones |
755 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Norman Smith |
725 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
John Howe |
457 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Michael Stayte |
409 |
|
|
|
Labour |
John Greenwood |
319 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Geoffrey Wheeler |
236 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,901 |
42.5 |
|
Slade[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Green |
Gwendoline Belcher |
236 |
42.7 |
|
|
Labour |
Charles Townley |
175 |
31.6 |
|
|
Conservative |
Laurence Carmichael |
142 |
25.7 |
|
Majority |
61 |
11.0 |
|
Turnout |
553 |
33.1 |
|
The Stanleys (2)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Nigel Studdert-Kennedy |
609 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Raymond Apperley |
556 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Lesley Williams |
527 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Phillip Herbert |
405 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Elizabeth Stanley |
194 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Thomas Williams |
173 |
|
|
|
Green |
Peter Adams |
152 |
|
|
Turnout |
2,616 |
42.7 |
|
Thrupp[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Green |
Martin Whiteside |
339 |
39.7 |
|
|
Conservative |
Roy Nicholas |
298 |
34.9 |
|
|
Labour |
John Howgate |
217 |
25.4 |
|
Majority |
41 |
4.8 |
|
Turnout |
854 |
47.8 |
|
Trinity[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Green |
John Marjoram |
367 |
69.0 |
|
|
Labour |
Marta Cock |
133 |
25.0 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Paul Hodgkinson |
32 |
6.0 |
|
Majority |
234 |
44.0 |
|
Turnout |
532 |
46.7 |
|
Uplands[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Linda Townley |
206 |
36.1 |
|
|
Conservative |
Rodger Cuddington |
158 |
27.7 |
|
|
Independent |
Donald Peters |
144 |
25.2 |
|
|
Green |
Henry Leveson-Gower |
63 |
11.0 |
|
Majority |
48 |
8.4 |
|
Turnout |
571 |
33.1 |
|
Upton St Leonards[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Michael Beard |
444 |
57.4 |
|
|
Green |
Gillian Stott |
175 |
22.6 |
|
|
Labour |
John Bell |
154 |
19.9 |
|
Majority |
269 |
34.8 |
|
Turnout |
773 |
42.9 |
|
Valley[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Green |
Tobias Green |
217 |
37.5 |
|
|
Labour |
Charles Burling |
158 |
27.3 |
|
|
Conservative |
Sylvia Kania |
112 |
19.3 |
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Barrie Pierce |
92 |
15.9 |
|
Majority |
59 |
10.2 |
|
Turnout |
57.9 |
34.9 |
|
Wotton-under-Edge (3)[5] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal Democrat |
June Cordwell |
1,159 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Christopher Galbraith |
1,077 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Sidney Gowers |
998 |
|
|
|
Liberal Democrat |
Ethel Woodhead |
747 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Daniel Lord |
622 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Sarah Munoz-Echverria |
507 |
|
|
Turnout |
5,110 |
37.6 |
|
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