Local Election Results 2003
North Devon
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. One Independent councillor and four Liberal Democrat councillors were elected unopposed.
Other results for North Devon:
2007
2011
2015
2019
By-elections for North Devon (may be incomplete): 14th July 2005 (Georgeham & Mortehoe)
— 15th September 2005 (Forches & Whiddon Valley)
— 25th October 2007 (Witheridge)
— 11th August 2011 (Fremington)
— 2nd November 2017 (Braunton E.)
— 7th December 2017 (Newport)
— 28th June 2018 (Fremington)
— 8th December 2022 (Landkey)
Results for Devon county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Liberal Democrat |
10462 |
41.4% |
22 |
| Conservative |
8316 |
32.9% |
10 |
| Independent |
5507 |
21.8% |
10 |
| UK Independence Party |
559 |
2.2% |
1 |
| Green Party |
286 |
1.1% |
0 |
| British National Party |
118 |
0.5% |
0 |
| Rodney Cann |
C |
573 |
45.0% |
| Carol McCormack-Hole |
LD |
385 |
30.2% |
| Colin Brown |
C |
362 |
|
| Ronald Ellerton |
LD |
343 |
|
| Charles Piper |
Ind |
315 |
24.7% |
| Eric Ley |
Ind |
789 |
77.7% |
| Gerald Eva |
LD |
226 |
22.3% |
| Malcolm Prowse |
LD |
589 |
64.0% |
| Richard Peek |
C |
331 |
36.0% |
| Douglas Lucas |
Ind |
580 |
36.8% |
| Philip Daniel |
C |
554 |
35.1% |
| Derrick Spear |
LD |
444 |
28.1% |
| Elizabeth Spear |
LD |
420 |
|
| Geraldine Neale |
C |
328 |
|
| Jasmine Chesters |
C |
507 |
37.1% |
| Marguerite Shapland |
LD |
462 |
33.8% |
| Letitia Sellwood |
LD |
449 |
|
| Susan Lynch |
Ind |
397 |
29.1% |
| Sallieanne Tingley |
C |
364 |
|
| Peter Manning |
Ind |
328 |
|
| Faye Webber |
LD |
568 |
52.5% |
| John Wilsher |
LD |
519 |
|
| Simon Harvey |
C |
350 |
32.3% |
| Christopher Gifford |
C |
301 |
|
| Paul Dyer |
Ind |
164 |
15.2% |
| Kevin Butt |
LD |
495 |
56.0% |
| Terence Pincombe |
C |
389 |
44.0% |
| Yvette Gubb |
LD |
957 |
54.2% |
| Julia Clark |
LD |
839 |
|
| Susan Sussex |
C |
810 |
45.8% |
| Arthur Yelton |
C |
513 |
|
| Laurence Haydn-Higgins |
Ind |
374 |
44.6% |
| Francis Ovey |
LD |
298 |
35.5% |
| Valerie Monk |
LD |
279 |
|
| James Bartlett |
Ind |
261 |
|
| Susan McCrum |
C |
167 |
19.9% |
| Beresford Bawden |
Ind |
166 |
|
| Roy Morrish |
Ind |
603 |
58.9% |
| Peter Mullen |
Ind |
500 |
|
| David Harris |
Ind |
318 |
|
| John Gill |
C |
312 |
30.5% |
| Andrew Day |
C |
274 |
|
| Ronald Taylor |
LD |
109 |
10.6% |
| Arthur Windsor |
LD |
105 |
|
| Malcolm Wilkinson |
LD |
512 |
50.6% |
| Ernest Evans |
C |
500 |
49.4% |
| William Foster |
LD |
489 |
|
| Anthony Turner |
C |
482 |
|
| Andrew Davis |
C |
244 |
54.0% |
| Brian Jewell |
LD |
208 |
46.0% |
| Ivan Frances |
Ind |
503 |
100.0% |
| Richard Campbell |
Ind |
394 |
|
| Frank Pearson |
Ind |
389 |
|
| Tony Cooper |
Ind |
292 |
|
| David Williams |
Ind |
244 |
|
| Michael Edmunds |
Ind |
308 |
38.4% |
| Carol Slinn |
C |
258 |
32.2% |
| Albert Furber |
Ind |
139 |
17.3% |
| Ann Rhodes |
Ind |
97 |
12.1% |
| Geoffrey Fowler |
LD |
696 |
54.8% |
| David Spear |
Ind |
573 |
45.2% |
| Brian Cotton |
Ind |
373 |
|
| Christine Tomlinson-Smith |
Ind |
316 |
|
| Keith Thompson |
Ind |
235 |
|
| Lynn Brown |
C |
220 |
35.3% |
| Patricia Ford |
LD |
214 |
34.3% |
| Reginald Cane |
Ind |
190 |
30.4% |
| David Butt |
LD |
unop. |
|
| Alan Rennles |
LD |
unop. |
|
| Michael Pagram |
UKIP |
559 |
30.1% |
| David Brailey |
C |
538 |
29.0% |
| Pamela Holland |
Ind |
475 |
25.6% |
| Rodney Hawes |
LD |
284 |
15.3% |
| Paulene Godfrey |
LD |
264 |
|
| Nicholas Magnum |
Ind |
164 |
|
| John Travis |
LD |
733 |
88.0% |
| John Walley |
C |
100 |
12.0% |
| Frederick Tucker |
LD |
413 |
55.6% |
| Mary Farrer |
C |
330 |
44.4% |
| Henry Harrison |
C |
431 |
38.0% |
| Brian Macbeth |
LD |
416 |
36.7% |
| Diana Piercy |
LD |
408 |
|
| David Simpson |
C |
391 |
|
| Richard Knight |
Grn |
286 |
25.2% |
| Richard Edgell |
C |
495 |
50.1% |
| Michael Nelson |
LD |
375 |
38.0% |
| Peter Chantler |
BNP |
118 |
11.9% |
| Brian Greenslade |
LD |
753 |
68.1% |
| Mair Manuel |
LD |
717 |
|
| Malcolm Keene |
C |
353 |
31.9% |
| John Jones |
C |
333 |
|
| Ernest Moore |
LD |
969 |
67.4% |
| Susan Sewell |
LD |
870 |
|
| Jeremy Yabsley |
C |
469 |
32.6% |
| Douglas Dowling |
C |
332 |
|
| Nancy Lewis |
C |
385 |
52.0% |
| Kate Palmer |
LD |
356 |
48.0% |
| Christopher Haywood |
LD |
unop. |
|
| Colin Payne |
LD |
unop. |
|
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