Local Election Results 2003
Durham
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Durham = Durham Taxpayers Alliance
Other results for Durham:
2007
By-elections for Durham (may be incomplete): 11th December 2003 (Brandon)
— 16th December 2004 (Belmont)
— 3rd February 2005 (Newton Hall N.)
— 5th May 2005 (Carrville & Gilesgate Moor; Coxhoe)
— 6th April 2006 (Shadforth & Sherburn)
Results for Durham county council: 2005
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Liberal Democrat |
14071 |
48.7% |
30 |
| Labour |
9923 |
34.3% |
17 |
| Independent |
3330 |
11.5% |
3 |
| Durham Taxpayers Alliance |
798 |
2.8% |
0 |
| Conservative |
797 |
2.8% |
0 |
| Raymond Gibbon |
LD |
830 |
41.6% |
| Arnold Simpson |
LD |
767 |
|
| Fraser Reynolds |
LD |
750 |
|
| Kevin McKechnie |
Lab |
623 |
31.2% |
| David Bainbridge |
Lab |
565 |
|
| Peter Robson |
Lab |
517 |
|
| Michael Howarth |
Ind |
400 |
20.0% |
| Patricia Wynne |
C |
143 |
7.2% |
| Kathleen Atkinson |
LD |
849 |
50.6% |
| Roger Pape |
LD |
818 |
|
| Irene Lupton |
Ind |
491 |
29.3% |
| Michael Bennett |
Lab |
252 |
15.0% |
| Christopher Arthur |
C |
85 |
5.1% |
| Wendy Smith |
C |
67 |
|
| Maureen Smith |
LD |
855 |
66.0% |
| Denis Jackson |
LD |
834 |
|
| Paul Taylor |
Lab |
440 |
34.0% |
| Barry Grimes |
Lab |
409 |
|
| John Turnbull |
Lab |
752 |
68.1% |
| Robert McMahon |
Lab |
749 |
|
| Thomas Gill |
Lab |
735 |
|
| Colin Clark |
LD |
352 |
31.9% |
| David Huntley |
LD |
348 |
|
| Ian Lessels |
LD |
313 |
|
| Barbara Howarth |
LD |
1526 |
60.3% |
| John Harbron |
LD |
1287 |
|
| Dennis Southwell |
LD |
1225 |
|
| Joseph Knight |
Lab |
521 |
20.6% |
| Stephen Laverick |
Lab |
487 |
|
| Patricia Conway |
Lab |
473 |
|
| James Clouston |
Durham |
254 |
10.0% |
| Jean Middlemass |
Ind |
228 |
9.0% |
| Robert West |
Durham |
225 |
|
| Julia Aberdeen |
Durham |
210 |
|
| Michael Syer |
Lab |
838 |
56.1% |
| Margaret Robinson |
Lab |
749 |
|
| George Marsden |
Lab |
690 |
|
| Colin Metcalfe |
LD |
657 |
43.9% |
| Carol Fitz-Gibbon |
LD |
507 |
|
| Simon Key |
LD |
444 |
|
| Maurice Crathorne |
Lab |
986 |
74.9% |
| Stephen McDonnell |
Lab |
941 |
|
| Leslie Sheppard |
Lab |
925 |
|
| Eileen Woods |
LD |
331 |
25.1% |
| Michelle Caulkett |
LD |
296 |
|
| Timothy Packer |
LD |
285 |
|
| James Holland |
LD |
1074 |
55.4% |
| Mary Hagwood |
LD |
1029 |
|
| Robert Wynn |
LD |
966 |
|
| Jonathan Roberts |
Lab |
335 |
17.3% |
| Michael Costello |
Durham |
293 |
15.1% |
| Christopher Wynne |
C |
236 |
12.2% |
| Eileen Rochford |
Lab |
725 |
79.8% |
| David Cummings |
Lab |
668 |
|
| Hilary Westwell |
LD |
183 |
20.2% |
| Richard Hopkin |
LD |
174 |
|
| Susan Pitts |
LD |
774 |
62.7% |
| Margaret Norman |
LD |
705 |
|
| Nigel Zwanenberg |
LD |
658 |
|
| Lloyd Meadows |
Lab |
241 |
19.5% |
| Jenifer Wakefield |
C |
219 |
17.7% |
| William Lodge |
Ind |
741 |
34.7% |
| Neil Griffin |
Lab |
693 |
32.4% |
| Terence Moderate |
Ind |
595 |
|
| Daniel Burrows |
Ind |
530 |
|
| John Lavery |
Lab |
473 |
|
| Jonathan Pearce |
LD |
466 |
21.8% |
| Geoffrey Cutting |
LD |
465 |
|
| Peter Mahan |
Lab |
381 |
|
| Farid Sakr |
LD |
372 |
|
| Simon Carey |
Ind |
237 |
11.1% |
| Ronald Dickie |
Ind |
556 |
38.0% |
| Jeffrey Young |
LD |
549 |
37.5% |
| Sarah Cotes |
LD |
422 |
|
| Christopher Allen |
Durham |
251 |
17.1% |
| Roberta Woods |
Lab |
109 |
7.4% |
| Philip Stoddart |
Lab |
849 |
69.4% |
| John Cowper |
Lab |
758 |
|
| David Bell |
Lab |
728 |
|
| Geoffrey Moore |
LD |
375 |
30.6% |
| Christine McGinn |
LD |
302 |
|
| Joan Hindmarch |
LD |
299 |
|
| George Hunter |
LD |
932 |
80.1% |
| Frances Simmons |
LD |
847 |
|
| Aurelia Smith |
Lab |
231 |
19.9% |
| Brian Kinghorn |
LD |
866 |
78.2% |
| Philip Wolstenholme |
LD |
862 |
|
| Hugh Emmas-Williams |
Lab |
241 |
21.8% |
| Paul Leake |
LD |
739 |
53.6% |
| William Graham |
LD |
702 |
|
| Neil Shaw |
LD |
660 |
|
| Margaret Davies |
Lab |
641 |
46.4% |
| Craig Russell |
Lab |
641 |
|
| Jerry Ranson |
Lab |
632 |
|
| Kathleen Carr |
Lab |
543 |
43.5% |
| William Kellett |
Lab |
513 |
|
| Joan Austin |
LD |
403 |
32.3% |
| Brenda Tall |
LD |
352 |
|
| Ian Fawcett |
Ind |
301 |
24.1% |
| David Freeman |
LD |
668 |
67.1% |
| Angela Rae |
LD |
668 |
|
| Anthony Hull |
Lab |
151 |
15.2% |
| Jean Chaplow |
Lab |
121 |
|
| Michael Moverley |
C |
114 |
11.5% |
| Catherine Turner |
C |
104 |
|
| Paul Stokes |
Ind |
62 |
6.2% |
| Carol Woods |
LD |
1117 |
53.8% |
| James Walton |
LD |
1025 |
|
| Fionna Davison |
LD |
913 |
|
| John Bowman |
Lab |
645 |
31.1% |
| James Turnbull |
Lab |
495 |
|
| Keith Smith |
Lab |
460 |
|
| Mildred Brown |
Ind |
314 |
15.1% |
| John Lightley |
LD |
525 |
83.1% |
| Timothy Blackman |
Lab |
107 |
16.9% |
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