Local Election Results 2002
Chorley
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for Chorley:
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
By-elections for Chorley (may be incomplete): 5th May 2005 (Clayton-le-Woods & Whittle-le-Woods)
— 4th June 2009 (Wheelton & Withnell)
— 20th October 2015 (Euxton N.)
— 4th July 2019 (Eccleston & Mawdesley)
— 14th September 2023 (Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton S.)
Results for Lancashire county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
21153 |
39.8% |
22 |
| Conservative |
17950 |
33.8% |
16 |
| Liberal Democrat |
8587 |
16.2% |
6 |
| Independent |
5007 |
9.4% |
3 |
| UK Independence Party |
401 |
0.8% |
0 |
| Catherine Hoyle |
Lab |
1887 |
50.9% |
| Michael Davies |
Lab |
1580 |
|
| Florence Molyneaux |
Lab |
1413 |
|
| Ivy Leigh |
C |
1027 |
27.7% |
| Betty Lawson |
C |
1020 |
|
| William Lawson |
C |
1014 |
|
| Philip Pilling |
LD |
795 |
21.4% |
| Laura Lennox |
Lab |
875 |
50.7% |
| Mark Perks |
C |
851 |
49.3% |
| Patricia Haughton |
C |
834 |
|
| Margaret Fielden |
Lab |
656 |
|
| David Dickinson |
C |
823 |
69.7% |
| Stephen Charlesworth |
LD |
182 |
15.4% |
| Beverley Gore |
Lab |
175 |
14.8% |
| Harold Heaton |
C |
1028 |
42.6% |
| Edward Smith |
C |
699 |
|
| Jon Davies |
Lab |
594 |
24.6% |
| Margaret Lees |
Lab |
516 |
|
| Alan Cornwell |
Ind |
410 |
17.0% |
| Glyn Jones |
LD |
379 |
15.7% |
| Linda Eubank |
LD |
246 |
|
| Raymond Parr |
Lab |
1658 |
47.6% |
| Patricia Wilson |
Lab |
1651 |
|
| Terrence Brown |
Lab |
1536 |
|
| Melville Coombes |
Ind |
711 |
20.4% |
| Jacqueline Bettney |
C |
596 |
17.1% |
| Jean Mellor |
LD |
521 |
14.9% |
| Dennis Edgerley |
Lab |
1624 |
46.9% |
| Adrian Lowe |
Lab |
1505 |
|
| Keith Lowe |
Lab |
1419 |
|
| James Fleming |
C |
795 |
23.0% |
| Elvi Livesey |
C |
683 |
|
| Eileen Smith |
LD |
640 |
18.5% |
| Graeme Frost |
UKIP |
401 |
11.6% |
| Ralph Snape |
Ind |
2973 |
51.1% |
| Joyce Snape |
Ind |
2612 |
|
| Robert Crabtree |
Lab |
1161 |
20.0% |
| Peter Malpas |
C |
1011 |
17.4% |
| Linda Norman |
LD |
669 |
11.5% |
| Peter Higham |
C |
491 |
|
| Elsie Perks |
C |
449 |
|
| Thomas McGowan |
Lab |
1508 |
50.7% |
| Steve Holgate |
Lab |
1377 |
|
| Christopher Snow |
Lab |
1282 |
|
| Geoffrey Goodspeed |
C |
959 |
32.2% |
| Sheila Marsden |
C |
931 |
|
| Barbara Higham |
C |
788 |
|
| David Porter |
LD |
510 |
17.1% |
| Roy Lees |
Lab |
1522 |
69.8% |
| Anthony Gee |
Lab |
1498 |
|
| John Wilson |
Lab |
1457 |
|
| Dorothy Livesey |
C |
657 |
30.2% |
| Kevan Haughton |
C |
632 |
|
| James Bell |
C |
1816 |
50.6% |
| John Walker |
C |
1466 |
|
| Nigel Baxter |
C |
1418 |
|
| Sharon Gray |
Lab |
905 |
25.2% |
| Glenda Charlesworth |
LD |
869 |
24.2% |
| Stuart Harding |
LD |
861 |
|
| Darren Woodruff |
Lab |
772 |
|
| George Harvey |
Lab |
673 |
|
| Peter Buckley |
LD |
909 |
34.4% |
| Stephen Fenn |
LD |
890 |
|
| William Mellor |
LD |
875 |
|
| Roger Livesey |
C |
871 |
33.0% |
| Alan Cullens |
C |
869 |
|
| Jean Cronshaw |
Lab |
861 |
32.6% |
| Margaret Cullens |
C |
853 |
|
| James Freeman |
Lab |
795 |
|
| Anthony Holden |
Lab |
700 |
|
| Lesley Brownlee |
Lab |
916 |
41.6% |
| Thomas Bedford |
C |
827 |
37.6% |
| Samuel Chapman |
C |
790 |
|
| Edward Murphy |
Lab |
749 |
|
| Gail Ormston |
LD |
457 |
20.8% |
| Kenneth Ball |
LD |
1570 |
54.5% |
| Stella Walsh |
LD |
1503 |
|
| Patricia Cuerden |
LD |
1373 |
|
| Andrew Birchall |
Lab |
1313 |
45.5% |
| John Murphy |
Lab |
1294 |
|
| Peter Maddock |
Lab |
1290 |
|
| Alan Whittaker |
Lab |
1798 |
55.3% |
| Michael Iddon |
C |
1455 |
44.7% |
| Francis Culshaw |
C |
1429 |
|
| Thomas Titherington |
Lab |
1400 |
|
| Brian Twist |
C |
1325 |
|
| Edward Forshaw |
Lab |
1150 |
|
| Thomas Gray |
Lab |
1086 |
51.9% |
| Daniel Gee |
Lab |
989 |
|
| Rosemary Russell |
C |
773 |
36.9% |
| Gordon Mitchell |
C |
769 |
|
| Mary Buckley |
LD |
234 |
11.2% |
| Geoffrey Russell |
C |
1053 |
52.2% |
| Peter Goldsworthy |
C |
1036 |
|
| Mary Gray |
Lab |
965 |
47.8% |
| Marion Lowe |
Lab |
855 |
|
| Mary Case |
C |
732 |
64.3% |
| June Molyneaux |
Lab |
407 |
35.7% |
| Margaret Iddon |
Ind |
913 |
34.5% |
| Doreen Dickinson |
C |
894 |
33.8% |
| David Massam |
Lab |
836 |
31.6% |
| George Rigby |
C |
691 |
|
| David Lloyd |
Lab |
409 |
|
| Marie Gray |
C |
645 |
55.0% |
| Janet Ross-Mills |
LD |
350 |
29.8% |
| Peter Wilson |
Lab |
178 |
15.2% |
| Iris Smith |
C |
1137 |
45.1% |
| Christopher Howard |
Lab |
884 |
35.0% |
| Simon Parkinson |
C |
746 |
|
| Paul Lowe |
Lab |
514 |
|
| Shelagh Graham |
LD |
502 |
19.9% |
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