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Local Election Results 2003

Dartford

Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.

Note:— The election in Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet was postponed after the death of a candidate.

NEP = New England Party
SGRA = Swanscombe and Greenhithe Residents Association

Other results for Dartford: 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
By-elections for Dartford (may be incomplete): 27th July 2006 (Heath) — 13th February 2008 (Princes) — 27th September 2012 (Castle) — 27th June 2013 (Newtown) — 5th December 2013 (Swanscombe) — 27th March 2014 (Stone) — 13th November 2014 (Brent; Littlebrook) — 6th May 2021 (Darenth; Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley) — 27th January 2022 (Maypole & Leyton Cross; Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley) — 9th February 2023 (Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley)
Results for Kent county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — Dartford 2003

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 9235 41.7% 21
Labour 7616 34.4% 17
UK Independence Party 1647 7.4% 0
Liberal Democrat 1287 5.8% 0
Independent 1134 5.1% 0
Swanscombe and Greenhithe Residents Association 957 4.3% 5
New England Party 276 1.2% 1

Bean and Darenth (3)

Simon Bull C 750 48.2%
David Hammock C 737
Ian Armitt C 667
Thomas Cook Lab 591 38.0%
Samson Carey Lab 579
Robert Carson Lab 454
Tanya O'Rourke LD 142 9.1%
David Kent UKIP 74 4.8%

Brent (3)

Kenneth Fickling C 800 46.6%
Sarah Karamuth C 781
Nancy Wightman C 779
Michael Dando Lab 712 41.5%
Margaret Eaton Lab 679
Rosemary Bryant Lab 678
Peter Overy UKIP 205 11.9%

Castle

Sheila East C 130 41.4%
Andrew Reeves LD 127 40.4%
Joyce Wise Lab 57 18.2%

Greenhithe (3)

Martin Murphy SGRA 329 37.2%
Brian Fitzpatrick SGRA 322
Conrad Broadley C 316 35.7%
Victor Openshaw SGRA 290
Jan Ozog C 234
Rebecca Storey C 232
Brian Francis Lab 196 22.2%
Michael Mahy Lab 190
Charles Prior Lab 190
Sara Reed UKIP 43 4.9%
Amanda Fullagar UKIP 23

Heath (3)

Terence Smith C 874 47.3%
Kenneth Leadbetter C 847
Patricia Thurlow C 788
Patrick Kelly Lab 486 26.3%
Marilyn May Lab 481
Jonathan Kingston Lab 449
Robert Howell UKIP 261 14.1%
Pauline Cherek LD 225 12.2%
Matthew Keane LD 224

Joyce Green (2)

Anne Muckle Lab 321 53.3%
Matthew Bryant Lab 303
Raymond Day UKIP 191 31.7%
Mark Croucher UKIP 177
Brian Garden C 90 15.0%
Amy Peters C 87

Joydens Wood (3)

Ann Allen C 1060 66.9%
Marilyn Peters C 1056
Jennifer Rickwood C 1050
Valerie Maddison Lab 398 25.1%
Stephen Sherrell Lab 367
Julian Bryant Lab 362
Arnold Tarling UKIP 126 8.0%

Littlebrook (2)

John Muckle Lab 321 34.5%
Michael Tibby NEP 276 29.7%
Stephen de Winton Lab 271
Terrence Martin C 131 14.1%
David Pickersgill C 123
Edward Llewellyn UKIP 117 12.6%
Gordon Mayell UKIP 88
Roger Reeves LD 85 9.1%

Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet (3) [Postponed poll; held 19th June 2003]

C 1417 54.0%
C 1393
C 1383
Ind 715 27.2%
Ind 402
Ind 364
Lab 326 12.4%
LD 168 6.4%
LD 143
LD 124

Newtown (3)

David Baker Lab 661 52.9%
Austen Brooker Lab 614
Graham Steele Lab 536
Robert Etheridge C 432 34.6%
Andrew Lloyd C 415
Avtar Sandhu C 399
Quentin Williamson UKIP 157 12.6%

Princes (3)

David May Lab 661 56.7%
Margaret Stock Lab 614
Victor Stock Lab 595
Susan Martin C 284 24.4%
David Strachan C 267
Edna Oborne C 252
Michael Wiltshire UKIP 221 19.0%
Suzanne Wiltshire UKIP 205

Stone (3)

Ivor Jones Lab 601 65.0%
Derek Lawson Lab 540
Bryan Jones Lab 517
Barbara Bell C 223 24.1%
Doreen Coleman C 197
Sheree Cox C 191
Jeffrey Reed UKIP 100 10.8%

Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2)

Patrick Coleman C 875 76.7%
Anthony Martin C 789
Anne Burke Lab 266 23.3%
Jacqueline Lineham Lab 247

Swanscombe (3)

Bryan Read SGRA 628 39.9%
Leslie Bobby SGRA 528
John Hayes SGRA 473
Howard Dold Lab 455 28.9%
Michael Crosby Ind 419 26.6%
Derek Hills Lab 312
Angela Mahy Lab 290
Richard Green C 71 4.5%
Joyce Kite C 68
Murdo MacLeod C 59

Town (2)

Trevor Rogers Lab 264 37.4%
Dharma Appadoo Lab 244
Christopher Shippam C 239 33.9%
Gary Shippam C 176
Anthony Easto LD 127 18.0%
Alan Rice UKIP 75 10.6%

West Hill (3)

Deborah Stoate Lab 736 38.8%
Geoffrey Prout Lab 714
Francis Byrne Lab 706
Matthew Davis C 673 35.4%
Josephine Shippam C 657
Teresa Wells C 637
Sonia Keane LD 413 21.7%
Frida Melillo LD 394
Adam Gebbett LD 388
Thomas Roach UKIP 77 4.1%

Wilmington (2)

Derek Hunnisett C 870 60.7%
Edward Lampkin C 809
Thomas Maddison Lab 564 39.3%
Christine Settle Lab 536

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