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Local Election Results 2002

Swale

Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.

Other results for Swale: 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2015 2019 2023
By-elections for Swale (may be incomplete): 25th September 2008 (Minster Cliffs; Sheerness E.) — 2nd October 2008 (Teynham & Lynsted) — 8th March 2012 (Kemsley) — 16th October 2014 (Sheppey C.) — 3rd August 2017 (Milton Regis) — 3rd May 2018 (Sheppey E.) — 6th May 2021 (Sheerness) — 30th September 2021 (Priory) — 14th September 2023 (Minster Cliffs) — 14th December 2023 (Abbey) — 3rd September 2024 (Priory)
Results for Kent county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — Swale 2002

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 12934 45.2% 25
Labour 8325 29.1% 10
Liberal Democrat 6400 22.4% 12
Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party 652 2.3% 0
Independent 276 1.0% 0

Abbey (2)

Bryan Mulhern C 652 54.3%
Peter Salmon Lab 550
Anita Walker C 548 45.7%
Trevor Payne Lab 490

Borden

Brian Woodland LD 246 45.1%
Roger Hoare C 231 42.3%
Patricia Donnellan Lab 69 12.6%

Boughton and Courtenay (2)

Andrew Bowles C 950 72.5%
George Bobbin C 917
Valerie Rowe Lab 360 27.5%
Edwina Adderley Lab 337

Chalkwell (2)

Roger Truelove Lab 514 44.9%
Ghlin Whelan Lab 454
David Spurling LD 394 34.4%
David Banks LD 392
Edward Gent C 236 20.6%
Patricia Martin C 229

Davington Priory

Brian Tovey C 414 62.0%
Caroline MacDonald Lab 254 38.0%

East Downs

Colin Prescott C 552 75.8%
Jeremy Groeger-Wilson Lab 176 24.2%

Grove (2)

Bernard Lowe LD 542 52.4%
David Manning LD 508
David Goodwin C 296 28.6%
Daphne Wyatt C 295
John Lewis Lab 197 19.0%
Gail Martin Lab 141

Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch (2)

Gerald Lewin C 820 54.4%
John Wright C 762
Keith Dunster LD 421 27.9%
Anthony Mould LD 389
Timothy Higgins Lab 267 17.7%
Matthew Wheatcroft Lab 192

Iwade and Lower Halstow

Mary Goodger LD 337 56.3%
Jacqueline Alcon C 147 24.5%
David Walker Lab 115 19.2%

Kemsley (2)

Brenda Simpson C 572 59.3%
Susan Gent C 464
Maureen Phillips Lab 207 21.5%
Kenneth Stammers LD 185 19.2%
Anthony Winckless Lab 157

Leysdown and Warden

Christopher Boden C 354 59.6%
Alison Seymour-Jones Lab 124 20.9%
Geoffrey Partis LD 65 10.9%
James Mumford RRLP 51 8.6%

Milton Regis (2)

Elvina Lowe LD 564 47.6%
Mark Baldock LD 523
Anthony Phillips Lab 475 40.1%
Fiona Gowdy Lab 457
Sylvia Bennett C 146 12.3%
Reginald Gent C 137

Minster Cliffs (3)

John Stanford LD 702 36.6%
Michael Brown LD 610
Adrian Crowther C 606 31.6%
Robin Harris C 552
Anne Groves LD 549
Kedar Prasad Lab 529 27.6%
Benjamin Stokes C 529
Florence Dethridge Lab 426
Mark Tucker Lab 401
Michael Young RRLP 82 4.3%

Murston (2)

Richard Calvert LD 546 57.0%
Clive Wherrell LD 526
Kenneth Stevens Lab 266 27.8%
Phyllis Stevens Lab 249
Martin Clarke C 146 15.2%
Keith Ferrin C 132

Queenborough and Halfway (3)

Michael Constable Lab 814 38.2%
Paul Hayes C 810 38.0%
Martin Goodhew C 698
Sandra Garside C 628
Philip Gull Lab 620
Elizabeth Higgins Lab 551
Christopher Driver RRLP 331 15.5%
Amanda Ellis LD 174 8.2%
John Ellis LD 166

Roman (2)

Simon Clark Lab 649 54.6%
Michael Haywood Lab 616
William Daw LD 377 31.7%
Renee Wherrell LD 356
Mayuri Patel C 163 13.7%
Nailesh Patel C 152

St Ann's (2)

Michael Cosgrove C 631 48.1%
Trevor Fentiman C 618
Paul Durkin Lab 455 34.7%
Lionel Vaughan Lab 439
Anna Stanford LD 226 17.2%

St Michaels (2)

Brenda Hammond LD 546 42.8%
Stuart Davidson LD 488
Susan Norris C 439 34.4%
Derek Carnell C 399
Edward Norton Lab 191 15.0%
Kenneth Rowles Lab 157
Bernard Bibby Ind 100 7.8%

Sheerness East (2)

Ian Smart Lab 453 54.5%
Mary Ronan Lab 445
David Jones C 291 35.0%
Kenneth Mackness C 276
Christopher Austin RRLP 87 10.5%

Sheerness West (2)

Angela Harrison Lab 625 64.6%
Stephen Worrall Lab 619
David Cassidy Ind 176 18.2%
Michael Gallagher C 167 17.3%
John Marsh C 111

Sheppey Central (3)

John Morris C 509 39.9%
Timothy Hammond C 504
Christine Coles C 483
John Crouch Lab 447 35.0%
Ronald Smith Lab 390
Libby Tucker Lab 381
Andrew Brown LD 219 17.2%
Maria Choppen LD 142
Christine Martin LD 132
Alma Driver RRLP 101 7.9%

Teynham and Lynsted (2)

Sylvia Butt C 687 61.2%
Richard Barnicott C 611
Martin Bellis Lab 436 38.8%
Stephen Lutman Lab 409

Watling (2)

Cynthia Davis C 1094 73.2%
David Simmons C 1036
Michael Frohnsdorff Lab 401 26.8%
Barry Hefferon Lab 367

West Downs

Donald Jordan C 541 72.0%
Anne Jenkins LD 109 14.5%
Kay Murphy Lab 101 13.4%

Woodstock (2)

Alan Willicombe C 932 49.6%
Jean Willicombe C 834
Ann McLean LD 747 39.8%
Robert Baxter LD 711
Jeane Holmes Lab 200 10.6%
Andrew Cooper Lab 192

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