Local Election Results 2003
Wear Valley
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. One Independent councillor was elected unopposed.
Other results for Wear Valley:
2007
By-elections for Wear Valley (may be incomplete): 26th February 2004 (Woodhouse Close)
— 20th January 2005 (Wheatbottom & Helmington Row)
— 9th March 2005 (Bishop Auckland Town)
— 27th October 2005 (Howden)
— 3rd September 2006 (Coundon)
Results for Durham county council: 2005
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
11917 |
47.9% |
25 |
| Liberal Democrat |
8478 |
34.1% |
9 |
| Independent |
3380 |
13.6% |
6 |
| Conservative |
946 |
3.8% |
0 |
| British National Party |
174 |
0.7% |
0 |
| Margaret Jones |
Lab |
425 |
37.6% |
| Stephen Gregory |
Ind |
421 |
37.3% |
| Bill Wade |
Lab |
389 |
|
| Edwina Marriott |
LD |
284 |
25.1% |
| Keith Hodgson |
LD |
279 |
|
| Barbara Laurie |
Lab |
849 |
37.8% |
| Neil Harrison |
LD |
772 |
34.4% |
| Alan Anderson |
LD |
767 |
|
| Joseph Harrison |
LD |
755 |
|
| Jack Tobin |
Lab |
719 |
|
| Keith Stokeld |
Lab |
658 |
|
| James Tague |
C |
626 |
27.9% |
| Neil Stonehouse |
Lab |
879 |
54.2% |
| Jill Hilditch |
Lab |
784 |
|
| Thomas Taylor |
LD |
743 |
45.8% |
| Alan Dargue |
LD |
693 |
|
| Thomas Russell |
LD |
670 |
|
| John Lethbridge |
Lab |
652 |
|
| Wilfred Dobinson |
Lab |
406 |
57.0% |
| Angeline Groves |
LD |
306 |
43.0% |
| Olive Brown |
Lab |
1235 |
66.3% |
| Geoffrey Mowbray |
Lab |
1004 |
|
| Edward Murphy |
Lab |
941 |
|
| Peter Rayner |
LD |
628 |
33.7% |
| David English |
LD |
547 |
|
| Bernice English |
LD |
462 |
|
| Chris Foote-Wood |
LD |
653 |
62.1% |
| Dorothy Burn |
LD |
576 |
|
| Margaret Ingledew |
Lab |
399 |
37.9% |
| Sandra Lethbridge |
Lab |
330 |
|
| Vince Perkins |
LD |
579 |
57.0% |
| Derek Jago |
LD |
573 |
|
| Harold Douthwaite |
Lab |
436 |
43.0% |
| Kevin Graham |
Lab |
373 |
|
| Betty Todd |
LD |
659 |
40.2% |
| Alex Clements |
Lab |
658 |
40.1% |
| Derrick Waldock |
Lab |
584 |
|
| Kenneth Bowser |
LD |
455 |
|
| George Hewitt |
Ind |
256 |
15.6% |
| Lee Thornton |
BNP |
67 |
4.1% |
| David Quinn |
Lab |
390 |
55.5% |
| Richard Groves |
LD |
313 |
44.5% |
| David Nevins |
Lab |
324 |
50.8% |
| Robert Longhorn |
LD |
314 |
49.2% |
| John Shuttleworth |
Ind |
unop. |
|
| Thomas Mews |
Ind |
974 |
41.3% |
| Graeme McKellar |
Lab |
537 |
22.7% |
| John Chatfield |
LD |
530 |
22.4% |
| Dorothy Allan |
LD |
348 |
|
| Michael Letchford |
C |
320 |
13.6% |
| Jeffrey Gale |
Lab |
786 |
53.5% |
| Colin Hayton |
Lab |
695 |
|
| Ronald Grogan |
Ind |
683 |
46.5% |
| Edward Tomlinson |
Lab |
481 |
|
| John Bailey |
LD |
391 |
|
| Richard Hall |
LD |
329 |
|
| John Ferguson |
LD |
910 |
50.5% |
| Peter Harker |
Lab |
893 |
49.5% |
| Margaret Douthwaite |
Lab |
882 |
|
| Andrew Turner |
Lab |
738 |
|
| Isabel Bousfield |
Lab |
826 |
69.6% |
| John Moody |
Lab |
700 |
|
| David Halliday |
LD |
360 |
30.4% |
| Margaret Pinkney |
Lab |
1219 |
63.6% |
| Alan Sinclair |
Lab |
1038 |
|
| Alan Townsend |
Lab |
1026 |
|
| Anne Glynn |
LD |
698 |
36.4% |
| David Kingston |
Lab |
357 |
61.3% |
| Stephen Longhorn |
LD |
225 |
38.7% |
| Vere Shuttleworth |
Ind |
1046 |
75.0% |
| Desmond Wilson |
Ind |
872 |
|
| Peter Graham |
Lab |
348 |
25.0% |
| June Lee |
Lab |
950 |
60.9% |
| Richard Langham |
Lab |
862 |
|
| David Wilson |
Lab |
822 |
|
| Clifford Sanderson |
LD |
504 |
32.3% |
| Jason Thornton |
BNP |
107 |
6.9% |
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