Chorley Borough Council election, 2002

Elections to Chorley Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by one. The council stayed under no overall control.

After the election the composition of the council was:

	Seats	±
Labour	22	−2
Conservative	16	+1
Liberal Democrat	6	−1
Independent	3	+1

Election result

Chorley Local Election Result 2002
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	22			−2	46.8	45.1	48,637
	Conservative	16			+1	34.0	34.2	36,881
	Liberal Democrat	6			−1	12.8	13.3	14,309
	Independent	3			+1	6.4	7.1	7,619
	UKIP	0			0	0.0	0.4	401

Ward results

Adlington and Anderton

Adlington and Anderton (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YCatherine Hoyle	1,887	21.6
	Labour	YMichael Davies	1,580	18.1
	Labour	YFlorence Mary Molyneux	1,413	16.2
	Conservative	Ivy Leigh	1,027	11.8
	Conservative	Betty Lawson	1,020	11.7
	Conservative	William Lawson	1,014	11.6
	Liberal Democrat	Philip William Pilling	795	9.1
Turnout

Astley and Buckshaw

Astley and Buckshaw (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YLaura Jane Lennox	875	27.2
	Conservative	YMark Perks	851	26.5
	Conservative	Patricia Mary Haughton	834	25.9
	Labour	Margaret Rose Fielden	656	20.4
Turnout

Brindle and Hoghton

Brindle and Hoghton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YDavid Dickinson	823	69.5
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Charlesworth	182	15.4
	Labour	Beverley Gore	175	15.1
Majority			641	54.1
Turnout			1,184

Chisnall

Chisnall (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YHarold Heaton	1,028	26.6
	Conservative	YEdward Malcolm Smith	699	18.1
	Labour	Jon Davies	594	15.3
	Labour	Margaret M. Lees	516	13.3
	Independent	Alan Samuel Cornwell	410	10.6
	Liberal Democrat	Glyn Jones	379	9.8
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Eubank	246	6.4
Turnout

Chorley East

Chorley East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YRaymond Parr	1,658	24.9
	Labour	YPatricia Mary Wilson	1,651	24.7
	Labour	YTerence Brown	1,536	23.0
	Independent	Melville Coombes	711	10.7
	Conservative	Jacqueline C. Bettney	596	8.9
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Mellor	521	7.8
Turnout

Chorley North East

Chorley North East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YDennis Edgerley	1,624	23.1
	Labour	YAdrian Lowe	1,505	21.4
	Labour	YKeith Lowe	1,419	20.2
	Conservative	James Hnery Fleming	795	11.3
	Conservative	Elvi Livesey	683	9.7
	Liberal Democrat	Eileen Anne Smith	640	8.7
	UKIP	John Graeme Frost	401	5.7
Turnout

Chorley North West

Chorley North West (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	YRalph Snape	2,973	31.8
	Independent	YJoyce Snape	2,612	27.9
	Labour	YRobert Gordon Crabtree	1,161	12.4
	Conservative	Peter Malpas	1,011	10.8
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Norman	669	7.1
	Conservative	Peter William Higham	491	5.2
	Conservative	Elsie May Perks	449	4.8
Turnout

Chorley South East

Chorley South East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YThomas McGowan	1,508	20.5
	Labour	YAnthony Stephen Holgate	1,377	18.7
	Labour	YChristopher Michael Snow	1,282	17.4
	Conservative	Geoffrey Goodspeed	959	13.0
	Conservative	Sheila Marsden	931	12.7
	Conservative	Barbara Ann Higham	788	10.7
	Liberal Democrat	David Porter	510	6.9
Turnout

Chorley South West

Chorley South West (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YRoy Lees	1,522	26.4
	Labour	YAnthony Gee	1,498	26.0
	Labour	YJohn Gerard Wilson	1,457	25.3
	Conservative	Dorothy Livesey	657	11.4
	Conservative	Kevan George Haughton	632	11.9
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods

Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YJames Eric Bell	1,816	20.7
	Conservative	YJohn Philip Walker	1,466	16.7
	Conservative	YNigel Harvey Baxter	1,418	16.2
	Labour	Sharon A. Gray	905	10.3
	Liberal Democrat	Glenda Charlesworth	869	9.9
	Liberal Democrat	Stuart Brian Harding	861	9.8
	Labour	Darren M. Woodruff	772	8.8
	Labour	George W. Harvey	673	7.7
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods North

Clayton-le-Woods North (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	YPeter George Buckley	909	11.9
	Liberal Democrat	YStephen John Fenn	890	11.7
	Liberal Democrat	YWilliam Richard Mellor	875	11.5
	Conservative	Roger William Livesey	871	11.4
	Conservative	Alan Cullens	869	11.4
	Labour	Jean Elizabeth Cronshaw	861	11.3
	Conservative	Magdalene Margaret Cullens	853	11.2
	Labour	James Freeman	795	10.4
	Labour	Anthony Holden	700	9.2
Turnout

Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden

Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YLesley Elizabeth Brownlee	916	24.5
	Conservative	YThomas Bedford	827	22.1
	Conservative	Samuel Andrew Chapman	790	21.1
	Labour	Edward Anthony Murphy	749	20.0
	Liberal Democrat	Gail Patricia Ormston	457	12.2
Turnout

Coppull

Coppull (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	YKenneth William Ball	1,570	18.8
	Liberal Democrat	YStella Marie Walsh	1,503	18.0
	Liberal Democrat	YPatricia Cuerden	1,373	16.5
	Labour	Andrew Birchall	1,313	15.7
	Labour	John Murphy	1,294	15.5
	Labour	Peter Maddock	1,290	15.5
Turnout

Eccleston and Mawdesley

Eccleston and Mawdesley (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YAlan Whittaker	1,798	21.0
	Conservative	YMichael Iddon	1,455	17.0
	Conservative	YFrancis Culshaw	1,429	16.7
	Labour	Thomas Henry Titherington	1,400	16.4
	Conservative	Brian Twist	1,325	15.5
	Labour	Edward Vincent Forshaw	1,150	13.4
Turnout

Euxton North

Euxton North (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	YThomas Gray	1,086	28.2
	Labour	YDaniel Peter Gee	989	25.7
	Conservative	Rosemary Russell	773	20.1
	Conservative	Gordon Marshall Alexander Mitchell	769	20.0
	Liberal Democrat	Mary Buckley	234	6.1
Turnout

Euxton South

Euxton South (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YGeoffrey Russell	1,053	26.9
	Conservative	YPeter Goldsworthy	1,036	25.5
	Labour	Mary Gray	965	24.7
	Labour	Marion Lowe	855	21.9
Turnout

Heath Charnock and Rivington

Heath Charnock and Rivington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YMary Patricia Case	732	64.3
	Labour	June Molyneaux	407	35.7
Majority			325	28.5
Turnout			1,139

Lostock

Lostock (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	YMargaret Ann Iddon	913	24.4
	Conservative	YDoreen Dickinson	894	23.9
	Labour	David Massam	836	22.3
	Conservative	George Anthony Rigby	691	18.5
	Labour	David C. Lloyd	409	10.9
Turnout

Pennine

Pennine
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YMarie Elizabeth Gray	645	55.0
	Liberal Democrat	Janet Ross-Mills	350	29.8
	Labour	Peter Wilson	178	15.2
Majority			295	25.2
Turnout			1,173

Wheelton and Withnell

Wheelton and Withnell (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	YIris Elaine Smith	1,137	30.1
	Labour	YChristopher Howard	884	23.4
	Conservative	Simon Parkinson	746	19.7
	Labour	Paul Anthony Lowe	514	13.6
	Liberal Democrat	Shelagh Graham	502	13.3
Turnout

References

Council elections in Lancashire

County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

Blackburn with Darwen	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Blackpool	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2007 2011 2015

Burnley	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Chorley	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Fylde	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Hyndburn	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Lancaster	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Pendle	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Preston	1945 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Ribble Valley	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Rossendale	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

South Ribble	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

West Lancashire	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Wyre	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

See also: Wards Boundary changes

(2001 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2002 (→ 2003)

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