Local Election Results 2002
Tunbridge Wells
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for Tunbridge Wells:
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
By-elections for Tunbridge Wells (may be incomplete): 19th September 2002 (Benenden & Cranbrook)
— 11th March 2004 (Southborough & High Brooms)
— 17th March 2005 (St John's)
— 30th June 2005 (Pembury)
— 13th July 2007 (Pantiles & St Mark's)
— 7th October 2010 (St James')
— 16th December 2010 (Sherwood)
— 17th March 2011 (Pembury)
— 10th September 2015 (Southborough N.)
— 14th November 2019 (Culverden)
— 25th November 2021 (Speldhurst & Bidborough)
Results for Kent county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
13656 |
50.3% |
34 |
| Liberal Democrat |
9050 |
33.3% |
11 |
| Labour |
2920 |
10.8% |
3 |
| Green Party |
713 |
2.6% |
0 |
| Independent |
661 |
2.4% |
0 |
| UK Independence Party |
150 |
0.6% |
0 |
| Peter Davies |
C |
1014 |
44.4% |
| Tom Veitch |
C |
1012 |
|
| Linda Hall |
C |
863 |
|
| Kim Fletcher |
Ind |
661 |
29.0% |
| Patricia Hoare |
LD |
607 |
26.6% |
| Paul Oliver-Smith |
C |
911 |
70.6% |
| Nicholas Fairrie |
C |
870 |
|
| Paul Ratcliffe |
LD |
379 |
29.4% |
| Peter Crawford |
LD |
481 |
50.1% |
| Barbara Cobbold |
C |
480 |
49.9% |
| Andrew Ollive |
LD |
455 |
|
| Jennifer Gregory |
C |
435 |
|
| Hugh Patterson |
LD |
420 |
63.8% |
| Margaret Pemberton |
C |
238 |
36.2% |
| Leonard Price |
C |
804 |
46.9% |
| Eldred Wakefield |
C |
800 |
|
| Wilfred Ekins-Daukes |
C |
799 |
|
| Aileen Prendergast |
LD |
523 |
30.5% |
| Christopher Storr |
LD |
497 |
|
| Brian Leslie |
Grn |
388 |
22.6% |
| John Smith |
C |
468 |
70.8% |
| Graham Lee |
LD |
193 |
29.2% |
| Barry Noakes |
C |
784 |
74.5% |
| John Bullock |
C |
728 |
|
| Simon Fowler |
Lab |
269 |
25.5% |
| John Cunningham |
C |
945 |
54.8% |
| Beverley Palmer |
C |
912 |
|
| Ronald Weeden |
C |
861 |
|
| Keith Brown |
LD |
504 |
29.2% |
| David Burgess |
Lab |
276 |
16.0% |
| David Marriott |
C |
489 |
46.1% |
| Peter Waldock |
C |
359 |
|
| Lorraine Braam |
LD |
342 |
32.3% |
| Timothy Rich |
Lab |
229 |
21.6% |
| Elizabeth Thomas |
C |
453 |
50.8% |
| Stanley Ward |
C |
443 |
|
| Raymond Moon |
Lab |
222 |
24.9% |
| Walter Stone |
LD |
217 |
24.3% |
| James Scholes |
C |
1096 |
70.7% |
| Leonard Horwood |
C |
1017 |
|
| Gillian Barber-Hughes |
C |
1005 |
|
| Michael McDowall |
LD |
454 |
29.3% |
| Christopher Wigley |
LD |
428 |
|
| Catherine Mayhew |
C |
1007 |
61.1% |
| Peter Bulman |
C |
952 |
|
| Henry Harrison |
C |
928 |
|
| Peter Hillier |
LD |
640 |
38.9% |
| Alan Bullion |
LD |
629 |
|
| Christopher Skelton |
LD |
620 |
|
| Archibald Ballantine |
LD |
926 |
42.9% |
| Paul Barrington-King |
C |
911 |
42.2% |
| David Mills |
LD |
898 |
|
| Gillian Pavely |
C |
818 |
|
| Richard Harding |
C |
789 |
|
| Sonya Wratten |
LD |
687 |
|
| Sally Osborn |
Lab |
182 |
8.4% |
| Toby Birkett |
Grn |
142 |
6.6% |
| Barney Richardson |
Grn |
65 |
|
| Storm Poorun |
Grn |
50 |
|
| Robert Wratten |
LD |
530 |
41.7% |
| Barry Edwards |
C |
396 |
31.2% |
| Christopher Gillmore |
LD |
391 |
|
| James Perry |
C |
385 |
|
| David Kirkham |
Lab |
194 |
15.3% |
| Victor Webb |
UKIP |
150 |
11.8% |
| David Neve |
LD |
803 |
69.7% |
| Beatrice Lewis |
LD |
764 |
|
| Rosemary Fitzherbert |
C |
226 |
19.6% |
| Roger Parkes |
C |
168 |
|
| David Osborn |
Lab |
123 |
10.7% |
| Alfred Baker |
LD |
745 |
44.0% |
| Simon Bannister |
LD |
742 |
|
| Geoffrey Young |
LD |
664 |
|
| Sean Lockhart |
C |
558 |
33.0% |
| Christopher Reich |
C |
543 |
|
| Christine Dickens |
C |
531 |
|
| Peter Ross-Skedd |
Lab |
206 |
12.2% |
| Phyllis Leslie |
Grn |
183 |
10.8% |
| Ted Jolley |
C |
505 |
39.7% |
| Frank Williams |
C |
492 |
|
| Robert Mayall |
C |
456 |
|
| Ian Carvell |
Lab |
445 |
35.0% |
| Emma Collins |
Lab |
414 |
|
| John Hopkinson |
Lab |
340 |
|
| Cicilia Bannister |
LD |
321 |
25.3% |
| Walter Clary |
Lab |
774 |
55.3% |
| Jemima Blackmore |
Lab |
726 |
|
| Ronnie Ooi |
Lab |
725 |
|
| Colin Bothwell |
C |
625 |
44.7% |
| Michael Scott |
C |
577 |
|
| Kevin Wilkinson |
C |
514 |
|
| Michael Rusbridge |
C |
618 |
53.1% |
| Trevor Poile |
LD |
545 |
46.9% |
| Pamela Howell |
C |
531 |
|
| John Billingham |
LD |
475 |
|
| Melvyn Howell |
C |
1128 |
72.9% |
| Jennifer Paulson-Ellis |
C |
1126 |
|
| John Jukes |
C |
1096 |
|
| Patrick Handcock |
LD |
420 |
27.1% |
| Jackie Cassidy |
LD |
415 |
|
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