Local Election Results 2007
Wear Valley
Whole council up for election.
This was the last election to Wear Valley District Council before it was abolished in 2009.
Other results for Wear Valley:
2003
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 |
6427 |
37.5% |
18 |
| Liberal Democrat |
6277 |
36.7% |
16 |
| Independent |
2236 |
13.1% |
6 |
| Conservative |
1965 |
11.5% |
0 |
| British National Party |
219 |
1.3% |
0 |
| Samuel Zair |
LD |
374 |
52.2% |
| Sharon Ord |
LD |
248 |
|
| Bill Wade |
Lab |
181 |
25.2% |
| Frederick Anderson |
Lab |
176 |
|
| Colin Firby |
C |
162 |
22.6% |
| Hazel Lodge |
C |
160 |
|
| Neil Harrison |
LD |
600 |
36.7% |
| Alan Anderson |
LD |
597 |
|
| Barbara Laurie |
Lab |
559 |
34.1% |
| Colin Raine |
C |
478 |
29.2% |
| Jim Tague |
C |
458 |
|
| Graham Snaith |
LD |
451 |
|
| John Gasston |
C |
437 |
|
| Keith Stokeld |
Lab |
431 |
|
| Tommy Taylor |
LD |
516 |
51.0% |
| Diane Hardaker |
LD |
506 |
|
| Neil Stonehouse |
Lab |
495 |
49.0% |
| Lucy Thompson |
Lab |
465 |
|
| Norman Strongman |
Lab |
370 |
|
| Patricia Jopling |
LD |
222 |
54.7% |
| Graeme McKellar |
Lab |
184 |
45.3% |
| Eddie Murphy |
Lab |
625 |
43.9% |
| Geoff Mowbray |
Lab |
622 |
|
| Ann Carrick |
LD |
580 |
40.7% |
| Peter Sung |
Lab |
541 |
|
| David English |
LD |
504 |
|
| Gavin Jopling |
LD |
459 |
|
| Robert Muir |
BNP |
219 |
15.4% |
| Dorothy Burn |
LD |
361 |
59.3% |
| Gary Henry |
LD |
346 |
|
| Margaret Ingledew |
Lab |
248 |
40.7% |
| Sandra Lethbridge |
Lab |
222 |
|
| Robert Yorke |
Lab |
298 |
35.1% |
| Vince Perkins |
LD |
290 |
34.1% |
| John Fenwick |
LD |
280 |
|
| Peter Laws |
C |
262 |
30.8% |
| Olwyn Gunn |
Lab |
260 |
|
| Alisha Lynas |
C |
250 |
|
| Betty Todd |
LD |
443 |
53.8% |
| John Lethbridge |
Lab |
381 |
46.2% |
| John Huntington |
LD |
372 |
|
| Reg Davison |
Lab |
368 |
|
| John Bailey |
LD |
336 |
74.7% |
| Steven Cason |
Lab |
114 |
25.3% |
| Kenneth Bowser |
LD |
270 |
53.9% |
| David Nevins |
Lab |
231 |
46.1% |
| John Shuttleworth |
Ind |
640 |
88.6% |
| Christopher Houghton |
C |
82 |
11.4% |
| Thomas Mews |
Ind |
579 |
36.1% |
| Angela Bolam |
Ind |
510 |
|
| William Hobson |
Lab |
421 |
26.3% |
| Christopher Rowell |
C |
359 |
22.4% |
| Anthony Simpson |
LD |
244 |
15.2% |
| Colin Hayton |
Lab |
418 |
34.2% |
| Jeff Gale |
Lab |
407 |
|
| Ron Grogan |
Ind |
399 |
32.6% |
| Jack Walker |
Lab |
334 |
|
| David Halliday |
LD |
246 |
20.1% |
| Harvey Morgan |
C |
161 |
13.2% |
| Colin Mairs |
LD |
556 |
50.2% |
| Margaret Douthwaite |
Lab |
552 |
49.8% |
| John Ferguson |
LD |
539 |
|
| Pauline Fenwick |
LD |
455 |
|
| Christine Wilson |
Lab |
432 |
|
| Andrew Turner |
Lab |
372 |
|
| Roger Ward |
Lab |
384 |
55.6% |
| Rose Seabury |
Lab |
337 |
|
| Eileen Gooch |
LD |
307 |
44.4% |
| James Gooch |
LD |
296 |
|
| David Kingston |
Lab |
676 |
55.5% |
| Alan Sinclair |
Lab |
663 |
|
| Joe Buckham |
Lab |
642 |
|
| David Horn |
LD |
543 |
44.5% |
| Margaret Pinkney |
Lab |
256 |
48.8% |
| Becky Brunskill |
C |
172 |
32.8% |
| Anne Glynn |
LD |
97 |
18.5% |
| Vere Shuttleworth |
Ind |
618 |
68.1% |
| Desmond Wilson |
Ind |
500 |
|
| Simon Robeson |
C |
289 |
31.9% |
| Kirsty Robeson |
C |
274 |
|
| David Wilson |
Lab |
404 |
58.0% |
| June Lee |
Lab |
375 |
|
| Charlie Kay |
Lab |
368 |
|
| Lesley Zair |
LD |
292 |
42.0% |
| Pauline Ferguson |
LD |
278 |
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