2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

1 May 2003 (2003-05-01)
All 42 seats to Bracknell Forest Borough Council 22 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	31%[1] ( 1pp)
First party Second party Third party   Con Lab LD Leader Paul Bettison Austin McCormack N/A Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Little Sandhurst & Wellington Ran in Wildridings & Central (lost) N/A Last election 30 seats 10 seats 0 seats Seats won 35 6 1 Seat change 5 4 1 Popular vote 13,621 7,774 4,121 Percentage 50.1% 28.6% 15.2% Swing 5.1% 2.1% 5.0%
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

The 2003 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003, to elect all 42 councillors in 18 wards for Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections in England as part of the 2003 United Kingdom local elections. Due to a boundary review there had been a change in ward boundaries, along with an increase in size from 40 members elected in 2000. The Conservative Party secured a third term in office, increasing its majority, whilst the opposition Labour Party lost its group leader. The Liberal Democrats re-entered the council for the first time at an all-out council election since 1995, and the first at which the eurosceptic UK Independence Party stood a candidate.

Ward results

Ascot

Ascot (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorothy Andrea Susan Hayes	712	57.0
	Conservative	Anne Kay Haydon	708
	Labour	Robert Edward Draper	204	16.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Peter Cross	188	15.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Richard Campbell-Grant	149
	Green	Derek Norman Wall	146	11.7
Turnout				29.4
Registered electors			3,931
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Binfield with Warfield

Binfield with Warfield (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terry Mills	1,159	39.1
	Conservative	John Bruce Harrison	1,127
	Conservative	Ian William Leake	1,055
	Liberal Democrats	Michael John Hawkins	676	22.8
	Labour	David John Fawcett	570	19.2
	Independent	Hilary Doyle	560	18.9
	Independent	Kevin Alan Harvey	417
Turnout				34.4
Registered electors			5,854
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bullbrook

Bullbrook (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Alexander McCracken	715	53.4
	Conservative	Edward Michael Sargeant	713
	Labour	David George Excell	450	29.5
	Labour	Allan Hylton Scorer	395
	Liberal Democrats	Ronald Henry Hanson	230	17.2
Turnout				36.0
Registered electors			3,718
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Central Sandhurst

Central Sandhurst (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Frederick Ward	631	38.9
	Conservative	Peter Laurie North	548
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Pope	355	21.9
	Labour	Sylvia Maria Ruth Trevis	270	16.6
	UKIP	Lawrence John Alan Boxall	190	11.7
	Green	Teresa Marie Burchnall-Wood	177	10.9
Turnout				29.7
Registered electors			4,011
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

College Town

College Town (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Cecil Edger	540	51.4
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond William Earwicker	510	48.6
	Conservative	Raymond Simonds	505
	Liberal Democrats	Reginald Peter John Hodge	472
Turnout				29.3
Registered electors			3,665
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Crown Wood

Crown Wood (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marc Brunel-Walker	725	47.4
	Conservative	Colin Reginald Dudley	692
	Conservative	Robert Charles Osborne	648
	Labour	Wilford Theophilus Holness	612	40.0
	Labour	Roy John Bailey	563
	Labour	Joyce Edna Still	529
	Green	Paul Lynton Harper	194	12.7
Turnout				25.4
Registered electors			5,829
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Crowthorne

Crowthorne (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James George Finnie	744	53.6
	Conservative	Robert Hugh Wade	649
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Barbara Swann	382	27.5
	Liberal Democrats	James Jeffrey Retallic	322
	Labour	Graham Edward Stuart Vertigen	263	18.9
Turnout				34.3
Registered electors			3,679
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Great Hollands North

Great Hollands North (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeananne Margaret Shillcock	498	66.6
	Labour	Langdon Richard Jones	490
	Conservative	Amanda Collette McLean	250	33.4
	Conservative	Nicholas Peter Skinner	228
Turnout				26.2
Registered electors			3,025
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Great Hollands South

Great Hollands South (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael John Adams	614	50.6
	Labour	John Stefan Piasecki	604
	Conservative	Jennifer Ann McCracken	599	49.4
	Conservative	Lars Fredrick Arthur Swann	552
Turnout				31.9
Registered electors			3,878
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Hanworth

Hanworth (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles (Chas) Walter Baily	939	44.5
	Conservative	Gillian (Gill) Margaret Birch	871
	Conservative	Alan Sydney Browne	861
	Labour	Janet Hazel Keene	633	30.0
	Labour	James Lawrence Walsh	566
	Green	David Henry Young	306	14.5
	Green	David Andrew Collins	243
	Liberal Democrats	Evelyn May Hughes	232	11.0
	Liberal Democrats	Larraine Kerry De Laune	222
	Green	Paul Charles Bennett	205
Turnout				30.3
Registered electors			6,386
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Harmans Water

Crown Wood (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Shelagh Rosemary Pile	1,122	67.7
	Conservative	Ian Christopher Douglas Mihell	1,082
	Conservative	Christopher Richard Martin Turrell	1,067
	Labour	Geoffrey Leslie Freeman	535	32.3
	Labour	John Kenneth Wright	500
	Labour	Alec Keene	494
Turnout				32.6
Registered electors			5,192
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Little Sandhurst & Wellington

Little Sandhurst & Wellington (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul David Bettison	806	69.3
	Conservative	Dale Philip Birch	776
	Labour	John (Jack) Robert Delbridge	357	30.7
	Labour	Jonathan George Keen	330
Turnout				30.8
Registered electors			3,889
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Old Bracknell

Old Bracknell (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maureen Elizabeth Beadsley	628	44.9
	Labour	Michael John Beadsley	624
	Conservative	Isabel Margaret Mattick	565	40.4
	Conservative	Andrew (Andy) Duncan Blatchford	534
	Liberal Democrats	Lesley Marion Tooze	126	9.0
	Green	Gillian Annette Nicholas	79	5.7
Turnout				35.5
Registered electors			3,740
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Owlsmoor

Owlsmoor (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David James Worrall	582	47.0
	Conservative	Richard Hugh Thomas	580
	Liberal Democrats	David Mohammed	348	28.1
	Labour	Brian David Wilson	309	24.9
Turnout				26.6
Registered electors			3,946
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Priestwood & Garth

Priestwood & Garth (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Packham	1,038	50.5
	Conservative	Jacqueline Doris Sylvia Ryder	1,000
	Conservative	Alvin Edwin Finch	935
	Labour	Dennis Rueben Good	780	38.0
	Labour	Amanda (Mandy) Jane Williams	769
	Labour	Colin Terence Williams	692
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Moira Aveling	237	11.5
Turnout				35.6
Registered electors			5,554
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Warfield Harvest Ride

Warfield Harvest Ride (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gareth Michael Barnard	1,078	55.4
	Conservative	Robert Lauchlan McLean	994
	Conservative	John (Cliff) Clifton Thompson	909
	Liberal Democrats	Martyn Jon Towle	500	25.7
	Labour	Marian Donald Langton	367	18.9
	Labour	Patricia Eira Brown	303
Turnout				27.7
Registered electors			5,442
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Wildridings & Central

Wildridings & Central (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Grayson[n 1]	609	53.8
	Conservative	Emma Catherine Duncan Barnard	603
	Labour	Austin John McCormack	524	46.2
	Labour	Richard Francis Mills	504
Turnout				35.0
Registered electors			3,356
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Winkfield & Cranbourne

Winkfield & Cranbourne (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mary Patricia Ballin	807	61.0
	Conservative	Alan Harold Kendall	802
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Stanley Tarrant	357	27.0
	Liberal Democrats	David James Maxwell	231
	Labour	Anthony Malcolm House	160	12.1
Turnout				34.9
Registered electors			3,721
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

By-elections

Binfield with Warfield

Binfield with Warfield By-Election 23 March 2006[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brenda Dorothy Wilson	921	55.5	+16.4
	Liberal Democrats	Michael John Hawkins	444	26.8	+4.0
	Labour	David John Fawcett	174	10.5	−8.7
	UKIP	Jeffrey Alan Newbold	119	7.2	New
Majority			477	28.7
Turnout			1,658	28
Registered electors			5,856
	Conservative hold		Swing

Footnotes

1. Grayson was elected as a Labour Party candidate in 2000.

References

1. "Borough Council Elections - Thursday, 1 May 2003". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 1 May 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
2. "Binfield with Warfield By-election - Thursday, 23 March 2006". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 23 March 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2023.