Local Election Results 2002
Bedford
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for Bedford:
2003
2004
2006
2007
By-elections for Bedford (may be incomplete): 17th October 2002 (Elected Mayor)
Results for Bedfordshire county council: 2005
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
14123 |
37.5% |
24 |
| Liberal Democrat |
9177 |
24.3% |
12 |
| Labour |
9104 |
24.1% |
14 |
| Independent |
5060 |
13.4% |
4 |
| Green Party |
245 |
0.6% |
0 |
| Peter Hand |
C |
1301 |
48.5% |
| Andrew McConnell |
C |
1274 |
|
| Lynne Faulkner |
C |
1254 |
|
| Janet Salem |
LD |
1068 |
39.8% |
| David Sawyer |
LD |
1039 |
|
| Michael Murphy |
LD |
1033 |
|
| Yvonne Anderson |
Lab |
313 |
11.7% |
| Karl Sorembik |
Lab |
277 |
|
| Philip Otabanjo |
Lab |
259 |
|
| Terence Rigby |
C |
1432 |
72.3% |
| Eileen Whitmore |
C |
1413 |
|
| Robert Rigby |
C |
1361 |
|
| George Flaxman |
LD |
312 |
15.8% |
| Conrad Longmore |
LD |
290 |
|
| Stephen Rutherford |
LD |
260 |
|
| Yarina Jones |
Lab |
236 |
11.9% |
| Jim Brandon |
Ind |
818 |
76.2% |
| Anthony Morris |
C |
146 |
13.6% |
| David Robertson |
LD |
110 |
10.2% |
| Apu Bagchi |
Lab |
1050 |
46.8% |
| Peter Chiswell |
C |
942 |
42.0% |
| Margaret Davey |
C |
914 |
|
| Susanna Chirico |
Lab |
893 |
|
| Edward Davey |
C |
849 |
|
| Marilyn Leask |
Lab |
829 |
|
| Jacqueline Smithson |
LD |
252 |
11.2% |
| Janet Haddock |
LD |
226 |
|
| Brian Hill |
LD |
207 |
|
| Robert Elford |
Lab |
886 |
70.2% |
| Randolph Charles |
Lab |
850 |
|
| Christopher Black |
Lab |
811 |
|
| Anitat Gerard |
LD |
211 |
16.7% |
| Mary Fogg |
C |
166 |
13.1% |
| Philip Standley |
LD |
164 |
|
| Season Prater |
LD |
159 |
|
| Jennifer Ridge |
C |
147 |
|
| Margaret Thomas |
C |
135 |
|
| Mollie Foster |
C |
778 |
51.6% |
| Judith Arnold |
C |
660 |
|
| John Creasey |
Ind |
396 |
26.3% |
| Terence Carroll |
Lab |
226 |
15.0% |
| Gerald Elliott |
LD |
107 |
7.1% |
| Michelle Headley |
LD |
101 |
|
| John Ryan |
LD |
642 |
45.3% |
| Tarsem Paul |
C |
624 |
44.0% |
| James Moore |
C |
618 |
|
| Ian White |
LD |
586 |
|
| Robert Atkins |
Lab |
151 |
10.7% |
| Charles Bally |
Lab |
150 |
|
| Christine McHugh |
LD |
371 |
54.4% |
| Thomas Wootton |
C |
269 |
39.4% |
| Caron Rosovske |
Lab |
42 |
6.2% |
| Jennifer Heseltine |
LD |
1120 |
60.3% |
| Patrick Naughton |
LD |
1114 |
|
| Paul Smith |
LD |
1057 |
|
| Laurence Evans |
Lab |
408 |
22.0% |
| Elizabeth Grugeon |
Lab |
398 |
|
| David Williams |
Lab |
387 |
|
| Denise Coates |
C |
233 |
12.5% |
| Valerie Fulford |
C |
222 |
|
| David Pask |
C |
220 |
|
| Anthony Cardus |
Ind |
96 |
5.2% |
| Vivienne Melville |
Ind |
72 |
|
| John Harrison |
Ind |
69 |
|
| Robert Harrison |
C |
839 |
53.1% |
| Carole Ellis |
C |
820 |
|
| David Rawlins |
Ind |
300 |
19.0% |
| Pauline Curl |
Lab |
253 |
16.0% |
| Linda Carlton |
LD |
188 |
11.9% |
| Stuart Mardlin |
Ind |
120 |
|
| Paul Stekelis |
LD |
118 |
|
| Jennifer Johnson |
Ind |
106 |
|
| Ian Johnston |
Ind |
82 |
|
| Hazel Mitchell |
Lab |
707 |
40.5% |
| Brian Dillingham |
C |
686 |
39.3% |
| Ian Nicholls |
Lab |
658 |
|
| Julie Sturgess |
Lab |
635 |
|
| David Fletcher |
C |
559 |
|
| Richard West |
C |
558 |
|
| Janet Trengrove |
LD |
180 |
10.3% |
| Colin Grimley |
Grn |
173 |
9.9% |
| Samuel Wilson |
LD |
161 |
|
| Charlotte Hill |
LD |
90 |
|
| Martin Bridgman |
C |
463 |
66.1% |
| Margaret Gardner |
LD |
119 |
17.0% |
| Stephen Poole |
Lab |
118 |
16.9% |
| Charlotte Attenborough |
C |
699 |
51.9% |
| Georgina Coupe |
C |
619 |
|
| David Lewis |
Lab |
558 |
41.4% |
| Carl Meader |
Lab |
518 |
|
| Jill Hoyle |
LD |
90 |
6.7% |
| Jane Josephs |
LD |
74 |
|
| Susan Oliver |
Lab |
656 |
57.0% |
| Christopher Whitehead |
Lab |
588 |
|
| Jennifer Gough |
C |
376 |
32.7% |
| Mary Milner |
C |
347 |
|
| Simon White |
LD |
119 |
10.3% |
| Kathleen Naughton |
LD |
118 |
|
| Shan Hunt |
Lab |
686 |
37.4% |
| William Hunt |
Lab |
654 |
|
| Ray Oliver |
Lab |
630 |
|
| David Merry |
Ind |
544 |
29.7% |
| Danny Spain |
Ind |
541 |
|
| John Wignail |
Ind |
527 |
|
| Lionel Milner |
C |
281 |
15.3% |
| Amrit Kaur |
C |
237 |
|
| Jagdish Singh |
C |
237 |
|
| Timothy Hill |
LD |
193 |
10.5% |
| Paulette Lodge |
LD |
165 |
|
| Charles Parsons |
Lab |
129 |
7.0% |
| Shirley McKay |
LD |
788 |
44.3% |
| David Hodgson |
LD |
771 |
|
| Derek Jones |
Lab |
734 |
41.3% |
| Elizabeth Luder |
Lab |
727 |
|
| Elizabeth Saunders |
Lab |
715 |
|
| Tim Prater |
LD |
706 |
|
| Carolynne Eynon |
C |
200 |
11.3% |
| Janet Suter |
C |
177 |
|
| Vivian Suter |
C |
149 |
|
| Michael Blackledge |
Ind |
55 |
3.1% |
| John Mingay |
C |
498 |
40.4% |
| Colin Crane |
C |
463 |
|
| Paul Westerman |
LD |
380 |
30.8% |
| Neal Bath |
LD |
376 |
|
| Richard Crane |
Lab |
356 |
28.8% |
| Franca Garrick |
Lab |
314 |
|
| Patricia Olney |
Ind |
545 |
78.0% |
| Barbara Purbrick |
C |
84 |
12.0% |
| John Spicer |
Lab |
53 |
7.6% |
| Anne Thomas |
LD |
17 |
2.4% |
| Michael Headley |
LD |
1217 |
44.6% |
| Linda Weerasrie |
LD |
1095 |
|
| Myrtle Stewardson |
LD |
1056 |
|
| Ralph Hall |
C |
698 |
25.6% |
| Mark Adkin |
C |
672 |
|
| Arthur Foster |
C |
632 |
|
| Brian Gibbons |
Ind |
546 |
20.0% |
| Heather Harvey |
Ind |
536 |
|
| Hilary Finlayson |
Ind |
521 |
|
| Rosemary Roome |
Lab |
269 |
9.9% |
| David Lukes |
Lab |
260 |
|
| Luigi Reale |
Lab |
235 |
|
| Frank Garrick |
Lab |
937 |
73.8% |
| Muhammad Khan |
Lab |
907 |
|
| Michael Williams |
C |
188 |
14.8% |
| Sion Eynon |
C |
180 |
|
| Stephen Lawson |
LD |
144 |
11.3% |
| Gregory Webb |
LD |
110 |
|
| Ian Clifton |
Ind |
873 |
80.5% |
| Stewart Lister |
C |
72 |
6.6% |
| Mark Powell |
Grn |
72 |
6.6% |
| James Dormer |
Lab |
46 |
4.2% |
| Pierrette Lob-Levyt |
LD |
12 |
1.1% |
| John Williams |
Ind |
10 |
0.9% |
| William Clarke |
C |
598 |
70.9% |
| Sophia Stow |
LD |
93 |
11.0% |
| Simon Ross |
Lab |
92 |
10.9% |
| David Melville |
Ind |
60 |
7.1% |
| Richard Davison-Francis |
C |
542 |
60.0% |
| Geoffrey Hulatt |
Ind |
249 |
27.5% |
| Adrian Beardmore |
Lab |
65 |
7.2% |
| Terence Outen |
LD |
48 |
5.3% |
| Celia Hanbury |
C |
652 |
72.0% |
| Sarah Fogarty |
LD |
253 |
28.0% |
| Barry Huckle |
C |
855 |
65.2% |
| Anthony Hare |
C |
771 |
|
| Martin Parker |
LD |
457 |
34.8% |
| Malcolm Whiteman |
LD |
377 |
|
| Judith Cunningham |
LD |
686 |
36.3% |
| Mark Smith |
Ind |
568 |
30.1% |
| Gordon Willey |
LD |
505 |
|
| John Tait |
C |
501 |
26.5% |
| Roy Judge |
C |
468 |
|
| Karen Ledster |
LD |
441 |
|
| Anne Worboys |
C |
438 |
|
| Charan Sekhom |
Lab |
133 |
7.0% |
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