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Local Election Results 2003

King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. One Conservative councillor was elected unopposed.

Note:— The election in Rudham ward was postponed due to the death of a candidate.

Other results for King's Lynn and West Norfolk: 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
By-elections for King's Lynn and West Norfolk (may be incomplete): 19th February 2004 (Heacham) — 16th December 2004 (Snettisham) — 6th July 2006 (Hunstanton) — 13th August 2009 (Gaywood Chase) — 6th May 2010 (Mershe Lande) — 27th September 2012 (Spellowfields) — 2nd May 2013 (Snettisham) — 13th June 2013 (Watlington) — 6th March 2014 (Burnham) — 17th July 2014 (Airfield) — 16th June 2016 (Valley Hill) — 20th October 2016 (Heacham) — 11th May 2017 (Fairstead) — 3rd August 2017 (St Margarets with St Nicholas) — 2nd August 2018 (Snettisham) — 12th December 2019 (Upwell & Delph) — 1st December 2022 (Gaywood Clock)
Results for Norfolk county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — King's Lynn and West Norfolk 2003

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 24839 47.6% 35
Labour 12332 23.6% 14
Liberal Democrat 8631 16.5% 7
Independent 6430 12.3% 6

Airfield (2)

Geoffrey Hipperson C 958 55.2%
Hugh Symington C 847
Phillip Wing Lab 442 25.5%
Matthew Farthing LD 334 19.3%

Brancaster

Anthony Dobson C 684 69.7%
Jason Borthwick LD 298 30.3%

Burnham

Garry Sandell C 700 72.2%
Richard Mills LD 270 27.8%

Clenchwarton

Paul Brandon LD 627 60.9%
David Whitby C 403 39.1%

Denton (3)

Martin Storey C 1336 71.8%
Carol Sharp C 1300
Michael Peake C 1221
Nicole Farthing LD 524 28.2%

Dersingham (2)

Paul Burall LD 1564 64.4%
Colin Smith LD 1231
George Pratt C 866 35.6%
Sheila Tweedy-Smith C 533

Docking

Nicholas Ullswater C 536 54.8%
Keith Ives Lab 322 32.9%
Matthew Falkner Ind 120 12.3%

Downham Old Town

Kathleen Mellish C 355 56.6%
Jenny Groom Ind 272 43.4%

East Downham

Anthony Lovett C 451 67.4%
Linda Keer Lab 218 32.6%

Emneth with Outwell (2)

Barry Archer C 966 69.0%
Harry Humphrey C 934
Roger Parnell Lab 435 31.0%

Fairstead (2)

Margaret Wilkinson Lab 680 59.9%
Ian Gourlay Lab 595
Joanna Moncrieff C 455 40.1%

Gayton

Peter Gidney C 534 55.9%
David Parish LD 421 44.1%

Gaywood Chase (2)

Brenda Burch Lab 786 57.2%
Alan Burch Lab 755
Jacqueline Candy C 587 42.8%
Mark Lapping C 503

Gaywood North Bank (3)

Mark Shorting C 1175 53.8%
Michael Langwade C 1141
Christopher Bunting Lab 1009 46.2%
David Collis Lab 985
Alastair Moncrieff C 954
Clifford Walters Lab 926

Grimston

Hazel Fredericks LD 726 69.5%
Kenneth Roberts C 318 30.5%

Heacham (2)

Julian Witton Ind 1379 60.6%
Paul Cobb Ind 1365
Edward Martin C 474 20.8%
Barry Diggle Lab 421 18.5%
Joan Diggle Lab 387
Frank Lewis C 379

Hilgay with Denver

Anthony White C 516 66.7%
Thomas Thompson Lab 258 33.3%

Hunstanton (3)

Bryan Bullivant C 1371 41.2%
Alan Booth C 1110
Myrtle Wood C 1069
Stuart Bagnall Lab 1020 30.7%
Chistopher Nicholls Ind 933 28.1%
Brian Devlin Lab 841
Richard Bird Lab 725

Mershe Lande

Jack Bantoft Lab 540 57.3%
Gordon Dawes C 402 42.7%

North Downham

Geoffrey Wareham C 500 68.1%
Nigel Canham Lab 234 31.9%

North Lynn (2)

Linda Poll Lab 894 70.2%
Andrew Tyler Lab 876
Benjamin Perry C 380 29.8%
Chloe Dinwiddy C 344

North Wootton

Greville Howard C 533 56.3%
Kate Sayer LD 413 43.7%

Old Gaywood

John Collop Lab 381 54.7%
Daryle Taylor C 315 45.3%

Priory

Gwyneth Thorneywork Lab 488 54.9%
John Turtle C 401 45.1%

Rudham [Postponed poll; held 19th June 2003]

C 592 62.6%
Lab 353 37.4%

St Lawrence

Barry Ayres C 526 55.4%
Pauline Bantoft Lab 423 44.6%

St Margarets with St Nicholas (2)

Ted Benefer Lab 535 39.5%
David Berry Lab 523
Lesley Bambridge C 446 32.9%
Timothy Boldero C 378
Mark Seaman LD 374 27.6%
Teresa Brandon LD 358

Snettisham (2)

David Johnson Ind 1217 57.5%
Carol Tilbury Ind 887
Anthony Powell C 605 28.6%
Emma Rye C 549
Clive Jones Lab 296 14.0%

South and West Lynn (2)

Charles Joyce Lab 629 52.1%
Geoffrey Daniell C 578 47.9%
Irene MacDonald Lab 557
Peter Lagoda C 546

South Downham

John Legg C unop.

South Wootton (2)

Elizabeth Nockolds C 1303 58.4%
Nicholas Daubney C 1210
Vernon Moyse Lab 517 23.2%
Alison Loades LD 412 18.5%

Spellowfields (2)

David Harwood C 1017 60.1%
Brian Long C 834
Veronica Cook Lab 674 39.9%
Dawn Everitt Lab 461

Springwood

John Loveless LD 422 51.6%
Michael Buckley C 284 34.7%
Ann Bolton Ind 112 13.7%

Upwell and Delph (2)

Vivienne Spikings C 1003 61.6%
David Pope C 871
David Barnard Ind 624 38.4%
William Haylock Ind 343

Valley Hill

John Tilbury Ind 701 61.4%
Zipha Cristopher C 344 30.1%
Jennifer Koch Lab 97 8.5%

Walpole

Ann Clery-Fox LD 492 66.0%
Christine Rye C 254 34.0%

Walton

Roy Groom Ind 778 87.8%
Florence James LD 108 12.2%

Watlington

Julyan Ansell C 501 72.2%
Derek Neve LD 193 27.8%

West Winch (2)

Judith Brown LD 1007 50.1%
David Rye C 1003 49.9%
Jean Mickleburgh C 881
Colin Sayer LD 655

Wiggenhall

Lawrence Wilkinson Lab 428 54.2%
Paul Foster C 361 45.8%

Wimbotsham with Fincham

Margaret Moir C 350 39.1%
John Bostock Ind 294 32.8%
Paula Killingray Lab 252 28.1%

Wissey

Trevor Manley C 456 50.6%
Paul Coulten LD 446 49.4%

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