Local Election Results 2002
Merton
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for Merton:
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022
By-elections for Merton (may be incomplete): 6th March 2003 (Ravensbury)
— 10th June 2004 (Lower Morden)
— 3rd May 2012 (Wimbledon Park)
— 8th August 2013 (Colliers Wood)
— 5th May 2016 (Figge's Marsh)
— 19th May 2016 (St Helier)
— 20th July 2017 (St Helier)
— 20th June 2019 (Cannon Hill)
— 6th May 2021 (St Helier)
— 4th July 2024 (Figge's Marsh; St Helier)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
16809 |
34.2% |
25 |
| Labour |
16557 |
33.7% |
32 |
| Liberal Democrat |
6981 |
14.2% |
0 |
| Green Party |
4962 |
10.1% |
0 |
| Merton Park Ward Independent Residents |
1499 |
3.0% |
3 |
| UK Independence Party |
851 |
1.7% |
0 |
| Wimbledon Park Ward Independent Residents |
782 |
1.6% |
0 |
| Independent |
453 |
0.9% |
0 |
| British National Party |
302 |
0.6% |
0 |
| Su Assinen |
Lab |
766 |
39.0% |
| Pauline Abrams |
Lab |
765 |
|
| Mick Fitzgerald |
Lab |
710 |
|
| Stephen Ashcroft |
C |
644 |
32.8% |
| Anne Bottell |
C |
613 |
|
| Gordon Raymond |
C |
538 |
|
| Catherine Brown |
LD |
320 |
16.3% |
| John O'Boyle |
LD |
301 |
|
| Celia Lee |
LD |
260 |
|
| Jacqueline Barrow |
Grn |
233 |
11.9% |
| John Barrow |
Grn |
180 |
|
| Conal Cunningham |
Grn |
166 |
|
| Deborah Shears |
C |
1396 |
43.9% |
| Fiona Bryce |
C |
1341 |
|
| David Shellhorn |
C |
1277 |
|
| Stephen Alambritis |
Lab |
893 |
28.1% |
| Henry MacAuley |
Lab |
803 |
|
| Charles Lucas |
Lab |
785 |
|
| Blaise Eglington |
LD |
351 |
11.0% |
| Michael Spalding |
LD |
333 |
|
| Richard Ladmore |
LD |
319 |
|
| Despina Steiert |
Ind |
215 |
6.8% |
| Graham Mills |
UKIP |
175 |
5.5% |
| Francis Cluer |
Grn |
153 |
4.8% |
| Catherine Fallowfield |
Grn |
119 |
|
| Giles Fallowfield |
Grn |
98 |
|
| Nicholas Draper |
Lab |
1328 |
54.3% |
| Sheila Knight |
Lab |
1306 |
|
| George Reynolds |
Lab |
1254 |
|
| Thomas Walsh |
Grn |
940 |
38.4% |
| Alan Johnson |
Grn |
813 |
|
| Rajeev Thacker |
Grn |
752 |
|
| Philip Beard |
C |
179 |
7.3% |
| Joan Boyes |
C |
158 |
|
| John Lewis |
C |
145 |
|
| Ian Munn |
Lab |
1160 |
51.5% |
| Russell Makin |
Lab |
1120 |
|
| Judith Saunders |
Lab |
1012 |
|
| Sally Hammond |
C |
557 |
24.7% |
| Rhoda McCorquodale |
C |
531 |
|
| Gordon Southcott |
C |
481 |
|
| Nicholas Pizey |
LD |
321 |
14.2% |
| Louise Deere |
Grn |
216 |
9.6% |
| Michael Deere |
Grn |
180 |
|
| Matthew Bird |
C |
792 |
30.8% |
| Corinna O'Brien-Edge |
C |
769 |
|
| Amanda Ramsay |
Lab |
756 |
29.4% |
| Michael Brunt |
Lab |
751 |
|
| Stuart Pickover |
Lab |
729 |
|
| Paul Wigham |
C |
716 |
|
| Anne Blanchard |
LD |
455 |
17.7% |
| Christina Langley |
Grn |
330 |
12.8% |
| Christopher Oxford |
LD |
328 |
|
| Stephen Harbron |
LD |
322 |
|
| Julia Goldsmith |
Ind |
238 |
9.3% |
| Rathy Alagaratnam |
Ind |
191 |
|
| Geraldine Stanford |
Lab |
1052 |
51.1% |
| Danny Connellan |
Lab |
988 |
|
| Andrew Judge |
Lab |
939 |
|
| David Hart |
C |
483 |
23.5% |
| James Walsh |
C |
430 |
|
| Robert Marven |
C |
425 |
|
| Malcolm Geldart |
LD |
325 |
15.8% |
| Janette Wilkin |
Grn |
199 |
9.7% |
| Simon Wilkin |
Grn |
137 |
|
| Linda Kirby |
Lab |
1197 |
55.5% |
| Joe Abrams |
Lab |
1193 |
|
| John Dehaney |
Lab |
1087 |
|
| John Stephenson |
C |
436 |
20.2% |
| Joy Woods |
C |
423 |
|
| Mohammad Qureshi |
C |
406 |
|
| Eamonn Clifford |
LD |
324 |
15.0% |
| Emma-Ruth Crowhurst |
Grn |
200 |
9.3% |
| Mark Adri-Soejoko |
Grn |
160 |
|
| Richard Harwood |
C |
1053 |
49.5% |
| David Williams |
C |
1031 |
|
| David Simpson |
C |
982 |
|
| Linda Thomas |
Lab |
444 |
20.9% |
| Geeta Nargund |
Lab |
420 |
|
| Stephen Thomas |
Lab |
395 |
|
| Joan Pyke-Lees |
LD |
387 |
18.2% |
| Philippa Willott |
LD |
366 |
|
| Steve Bradley |
LD |
363 |
|
| Nicholas Robins |
Grn |
243 |
11.4% |
| Mary Dunn |
Lab |
886 |
51.7% |
| Mark Allison |
Lab |
873 |
|
| Edith Macauley |
Lab |
760 |
|
| Alfred Acott |
C |
378 |
22.0% |
| June Hayles |
C |
367 |
|
| Eugene Byrne |
C |
358 |
|
| Bernard Conway |
LD |
227 |
13.2% |
| Jennifer Barker |
Grn |
224 |
13.1% |
| John Barker |
Grn |
171 |
|
| Stephen Austin |
Lab |
1180 |
46.0% |
| David Chung |
Lab |
1107 |
|
| Leighton Veale |
Lab |
963 |
|
| David Robinson |
C |
921 |
35.9% |
| Louisa Hatcher |
C |
897 |
|
| Ronald Cox |
C |
886 |
|
| Pauline Barry |
LD |
281 |
11.0% |
| Jonathan Halls |
Grn |
183 |
7.1% |
| Maurice Groves |
C |
1378 |
45.6% |
| Terence Sullivan |
C |
1183 |
|
| Leslie Mutch |
C |
1180 |
|
| Elizabeth Daughters |
Lab |
682 |
22.6% |
| Alan Hodgson |
Lab |
621 |
|
| Muhammod Rahman |
Lab |
537 |
|
| Adrian Roberts |
UKIP |
385 |
12.7% |
| Patricia Pearce |
LD |
345 |
11.4% |
| Giles Barrow |
Grn |
233 |
7.7% |
| Anthony Hewitt |
Grn |
123 |
|
| Leslie Johnson |
Grn |
107 |
|
| Jillian Ashton |
MPIR |
1499 |
50.0% |
| Peter Southgate |
MPIR |
1420 |
|
| John Nelson-Jones |
MPIR |
1415 |
|
| David Edge |
C |
765 |
25.5% |
| Richard Chellew |
C |
731 |
|
| Richard Mernane |
C |
716 |
|
| Richard Nichols |
Lab |
409 |
13.6% |
| Michael Reddin |
Lab |
373 |
|
| Robert Powell |
Lab |
355 |
|
| Naomi Adams |
Grn |
201 |
6.7% |
| Andrew Mills |
UKIP |
127 |
4.2% |
| John Cole |
Lab |
1167 |
50.3% |
| Michael Tilcock |
Lab |
1153 |
|
| Martin Whelton |
Lab |
1026 |
|
| Margaret Neville |
C |
690 |
29.8% |
| Kenneth Butt |
C |
631 |
|
| Paul Goulden |
C |
602 |
|
| Nicholas Wren |
LD |
257 |
11.1% |
| Robin Bannister |
Grn |
205 |
8.8% |
| Philip Jones |
Lab |
946 |
45.5% |
| Peter McCabe |
Lab |
909 |
|
| Tony Giles |
Lab |
894 |
|
| Barbara Mansfield |
C |
583 |
28.1% |
| Jeffrey Gunn |
C |
540 |
|
| Reginald Martin |
C |
527 |
|
| Danielle Toyer |
LD |
343 |
16.5% |
| Paul Barasi |
Grn |
205 |
9.9% |
| Margaret Brierly |
C |
1294 |
46.9% |
| Horst Bullinger |
C |
1186 |
|
| Michael Cheng |
C |
1131 |
|
| Sally Harlow |
LD |
809 |
29.3% |
| Gail Moss |
LD |
764 |
|
| Kamaljit Sood |
LD |
626 |
|
| Michael Somerville |
Lab |
422 |
15.3% |
| Geoffrey Roberts |
Lab |
419 |
|
| Stefano Scalzo |
Lab |
395 |
|
| Richard Evans |
Grn |
232 |
8.4% |
| Jean Curry |
Grn |
155 |
|
| Brian Parkin |
Grn |
127 |
|
| Dennis Pearce |
Lab |
958 |
38.8% |
| Maxi Martin |
Lab |
947 |
|
| Mickey Spacey |
Lab |
840 |
|
| Joan Goodacre |
C |
532 |
21.5% |
| Sydney Quick |
C |
519 |
|
| Ronald Wilson |
C |
509 |
|
| Joyce Smith |
LD |
324 |
13.1% |
| Danny Ford |
BNP |
302 |
12.2% |
| Susan Boulding |
Grn |
192 |
7.8% |
| Stephen Boulding |
Grn |
178 |
|
| Christopher Byrne |
UKIP |
164 |
6.6% |
| Dorothy Kilsby |
C |
805 |
37.5% |
| Christopher McLaughlin |
C |
799 |
|
| Andrew Coles |
Lab |
781 |
36.4% |
| Maria Miller |
C |
780 |
|
| Vivien Guy |
Lab |
771 |
|
| Mohammad Karim |
Lab |
687 |
|
| Colette Mulchrone |
LD |
312 |
14.6% |
| Bonita Ralph |
LD |
293 |
|
| Christopher Shoebridge |
LD |
270 |
|
| Jennifer Barrow |
Grn |
246 |
11.5% |
| Lisa Ingram |
Grn |
203 |
|
| Hector Ingram |
Grn |
199 |
|
| Stephen Hammond |
C |
1667 |
68.2% |
| John Bowcott |
C |
1662 |
|
| Samantha George |
C |
1629 |
|
| William Bottriell |
Lab |
321 |
13.1% |
| Michelle McNicol |
Lab |
303 |
|
| David Ives |
Lab |
299 |
|
| Gerald Blanchard |
LD |
290 |
11.9% |
| Alison Edelsten |
LD |
285 |
|
| Jennifer Taylor |
LD |
259 |
|
| Rupert Stevens |
Grn |
166 |
6.8% |
| Gillian Lewis-Lavender |
C |
1198 |
41.7% |
| William Brierly |
C |
1174 |
|
| Angela Caldara |
C |
1106 |
|
| Iain Dysart |
LD |
1054 |
36.7% |
| Nicholas Harris |
LD |
913 |
|
| Louise Pugh |
LD |
856 |
|
| David Filby |
Lab |
466 |
16.2% |
| Margaret Layton |
Lab |
422 |
|
| Angela Manser |
Lab |
361 |
|
| Michael Bell |
Grn |
157 |
5.5% |
| Mark Davidson |
Grn |
135 |
|
| David Patterson |
Grn |
91 |
|
| Elisabeth Mitchell |
C |
1058 |
34.8% |
| Oonagh Moulton |
C |
1018 |
|
| Tariq Ahmad |
C |
982 |
|
| Stephen Saul |
WPIR |
782 |
25.7% |
| Elizabeth Nelson |
Lab |
743 |
24.4% |
| John White |
WPIR |
723 |
|
| Mark Thompson |
WPIR |
693 |
|
| Syed Rizvi |
Lab |
643 |
|
| Kenneth Wilshire |
Lab |
598 |
|
| John Houlihan |
LD |
256 |
8.4% |
| Richard Tibbetts |
LD |
234 |
|
| Ernest Dennis |
Grn |
204 |
6.7% |
| Sarah Miskin |
Grn |
131 |
|
| Nicholas Miskin |
Grn |
92 |
|
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