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Local Election Results 2002

Rossendale

Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.

Other results for Rossendale: 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
By-elections for Rossendale (may be incomplete): 14th August 2003 (Stacksteads) — 30th September 2004 (Longholme) — 5th May 2005 (Greenfield) — 20th October 2005 (Hareholme) — 28th September 2006 (Cribden) — 13th September 2007 (Goodshaw; Irwell; Whitewell) — 22nd November 2007 (Hareholme) — 4th June 2009 (Helmshore) — 7th October 2010 (Healey & Whitworth; Irwell) — 16th October 2014 (Helmshore) — 4th December 2014 (Longholme) — 29th September 2022 (Facit & Shawforth; Helmshore)
Results for Lancashire county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — Rossendale 2002

Party Votes Percent Seats
Labour 9694 51.8% 24
Conservative 8253 44.1% 12
Independent 614 3.3% 0
Socialist Alliance 139 0.7% 0

Cribden (2)

Lawrence Forshaw Lab 598 56.8%
Hugh McCaw Lab 501
Clive Balchin C 454 43.2%
Richard Moorfield C 331

Eden (2)

Jeffrey Cheetham C 584 53.6%
Donald Rishton Lab 506 46.4%
Barry Pawson C 493
Thomas Belli Lab 414

Facit and Shawforth (2)

Eileen Kershaw Lab 550 59.3%
Thomas Aldred Lab 527
Albert Bolton C 378 40.7%
Peter Starkey C 290

Goodshaw (2)

Alyson Barnes Lab 656 65.0%
Roger Clarke Lab 644
Maureen Kirk C 353 35.0%
Deborah Hayden-Pawson C 330

Greenfield (3)

George Lee C 835 52.0%
Alan Schofield C 813
Alison Tickner C 804
Dorothy Atkinson Lab 631 39.3%
Janice Johnson Lab 591
Michael Cruise Lab 588
Noel O'Brien SocAll 139 8.7%

Greensclough (3)

James Eaton C 1124 67.5%
Judith Driver C 898
William Challinor C 825
Bernadette O'Connor Lab 542 32.5%
David Baron Lab 441
Susan Baron Lab 434

Hareholme (3)

Mollie Disley Lab 1041 61.2%
Graham Pearson Lab 935
Trevor Unsworth Lab 919
Janet O'Driscoll C 661 38.8%
Susan Popland C 601
Kenneth Slaughter C 586

Healey and Whitworth (2)

Ronald Neal Lab 515 62.7%
Ronald Pickup Lab 450
James Grogan C 306 37.3%
Andrew Neville C 224

Helmshore (3)

Gordon Nicholass C 763 40.5%
Neil Smith C 748
John McManus Lab 716 38.0%
Stuart Brannigan Lab 714
John Williams C 666
Anthony Nixon Lab 627
Roy Beavan Ind 405 21.5%

Irwell (3)

Robert Huntbach C 632 53.0%
Lorraine Hammond C 630
Peter Steen C 563
Peter Heyworth Lab 560 47.0%
Keith Wright Lab 501
William Pearson Lab 479

Longholme (3)

June Forshaw Lab 896 63.1%
John Pilling Lab 789
Denise Hancock Lab 775
James Wild C 524 36.9%
Terence Doherty C 510
James Fuke C 389

Stacksteads (2)

Michael McShea Lab 796 68.3%
Dale Connearn Lab 684
Dane Nuttall C 369 31.7%
Hazel Steen C 298

Whitewell (3)

David Hancock Lab 851 54.3%
William Riley Lab 830
David Easton Lab 801
Christopher Wadsworth C 715 45.7%
Ryan Godwin C 691
Christine Lever C 690

Worsley (3)

Geoffrey Atkinson Lab 836 52.3%
Marilyn Procter Lab 757
Adrian Lythgoe Lab 720
Joyce Thorne C 555 34.7%
Peter Nuttall C 534
Leonard Riley C 513
Stephen Birtwell Ind 209 13.1%

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