2003 Vale of White Horse District Council election

Elections to Vale of White Horse District Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 1999. The Liberal Democrats lost seats, but stayed in overall control of the council.

Election Result
Vale of White Horse Local Election Result 2003
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Liberal Democrats 29 -4 56.9 46.1 25,848
  Conservative 21 +6 41.2 42.2 23,670
  Independent 1 0 0 0 2.0 0.08 425
  Labour 0 0 2 -2 0 9.5 5,326
  Green 0 0 0 - 0 1.4 810

Ward results
Abingdon, Abbey and Barton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Julie Mayhew-Archer 651
Liberal Democrats Anthony De Vere 617
Conservative Robert Burrage 310
Conservative Michael How 283
Labour Leslie Clyne 123
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Caldecott
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Paul Bizzell 347
Liberal Democrats Mary De Vere 344
Conservative Jonathan Godwin 193
Conservative Charles Parry 182
Labour David Banner 139
Labour Benjamin Woodham 137
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Dunmore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Janet Morgan 705
Conservative Peter Jones 666
Conservative Alexander Lovatt 659
Liberal Democrats Mark Richmond 637
Labour Clive Crowden 149
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Fitzharris
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Gibson 576
Conservative Monica Lovatt 552
Conservative David Calvert 543
Liberal Democrats Jeanette Halliday 531
Labour Marjorie McLellan 124
Labour Barbara Wynn 122
Green Dorothy Giacomin 95
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Northcourt
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats James Halliday 681
Liberal Democrats Laurel Symons 674
Conservative David Bowsher 353
Conservative Shaun Salter 337
Labour Denise Watt 181
Labour Alan Downe 171
Majority
Turnout
Abingdon, Ock Meadow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Badcock 599
Liberal Democrats Peter Green 596
Liberal Democrats Samantha Bowring 557
Conservative Andrew McLernan 532
Labour Catherine Dallal 109
Labour Brian Jeffries 96
Majority
Turnout
Appleton and Cumnor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Derek Rawson 1,013
Liberal Democrats Harry Dickinson 886
Liberal Democrats John Woodford 828
Conservative John Allen-Stevens 585
Conservative Stephan Pritchard 563
Conservative James Barraclough 495
Green Anne-Marie Heslop 270
Labour James Hutton 219
Majority
Turnout
Blewbury and Upton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Farrell 489
Conservative Kenneth Howard 201
Labour Christopher Lakeland 75
Majority
Turnout
Craven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Yvonne Constance 522
Liberal Democrats John Tamplin 138
Labour James Douglas 91
Majority
Turnout
Drayton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Grahame Ash 340 66.9
Conservative Rosemary Packer 168 33.1
Majority 172 33.8
Turnout 508
Faringdon and the Coxwells
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Matthew Barber 891
Conservative Alison Thomson 852
Conservative Roger Cox 799
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Braithwaite 719
Liberal Democrats Genevieve Webb 650
Liberal Democrats Hilary Taylor 592
Labour Mohammed Yaqub 390
Labour Stephen Leniec 360
Labour Michael Ilott 350
Majority
Turnout
Greendown
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Andrew Crawford 441
Conservative Anthony Hayward 273
Labour Stuart Taylor 106
Majority
Turnout
Grove
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Phillips 787
Conservative Pamela Westwood 735
Conservative Virginia Stock 716
Liberal Democrats Zoe Patrick 698
Liberal Democrats Susan Marchant 596
Liberal Democrats Rosalind Hicks-Greene 566
Labour William Ackers 176
Labour Roland Bashford 174
Labour Pamela Thompson 135
Majority
Turnout
Hanneys
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terence Cox 489
Liberal Democrats Paul Rollings 201
Labour Margaret Ward 51
Majority
Turnout
Harwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Margaret Turner 765
Conservative Richard Stone 698
Liberal Democrats Angela Lawrence 234
Labour Helen Walter 221
Liberal Democrats David Allinson 213
Majority
Turnout
Hendreds
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Terence Fraser 464
Independent John Dunsdon 425
Liberal Democrats Bogdan Nedelkoff 406
Conservative Michael Murray 374
Majority
Turnout
Kennington and South Hinksey
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jerry Patterson 770
Liberal Democrats Sylvia Patterson 765
Conservative Gareth Jennings 480
Conservative Denis Standen 426
Labour Stephanie Brown 118
Majority
Turnout
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Melinda Tilley 383
Liberal Democrats Catherine Chater 157
Labour John Matthews 53
Majority
Turnout
Longworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Elsa Boyce 480
Liberal Democrats Josephine Gaberscik 117
Labour Geoffrey Beer 73
Majority
Turnout
Marcham and Shippon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jane Hanna 447
Conservative Cyril Rudge 320
Majority
Turnout
North Hinksey and Wytham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Briony Newport 753
Liberal Democrats David Quinlan 615
Conservative Eric Batts 473
Conservative Ann Dykes 453
Green Robert Cowley 198
Majority
Turnout
Radley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Robin Johnston 487
Conservative Jennifer Standen 240
Labour Lisa Smyth 49
Green Dominique Henderson 42
Majority
Turnout
Shrivenham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Saunders 632
Conservative Clare Saunders 621
Liberal Democrats Bjorn Watson 470
Liberal Democrats John Howson 357
Majority
Turnout
Stanford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Sharp 367
Labour Peter Gill 225
Liberal Democrats Anthea Beszant 67
Majority
Turnout
Sunningwell and Wootton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Tessa Ward 816
Liberal Democrats Christopher Wise 725
Conservative Guy Rogers 376
Conservative Vernon Porter 354
Labour Cedric Edmonds-Brown 102
Majority
Turnout
Sutton Courtenay and Appleford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gervase Duffield 308
Labour Edward Crask 192
Liberal Democrats Patrick Wallace 134
Majority
Turnout
Wantage, Charlton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Amanda Harland 800
Liberal Democrats James Moley 727
Conservative Edwin Goldsmith 670
Conservative Carol Tomlinson 657
Liberal Democrats Jean Kent 595
Liberal Democrats Peter Kent 593
Labour Francis Kelly 229
Labour Michael Langston 226
Green Kevin Harris 205
Majority
Turnout
Wantage, Segsbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jennifer Hannaby 468
Liberal Democrats Joyce Hutchinson 395
Conservative John Humphries 261
Conservative Adam Dodwell 247
Labour Jean Nunn-Price 240
Labour Stephen Quinton 195
Majority
Turnout

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