2002 Hyndburn Borough Council election

Elections to Hyndburn 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 12. The Labour party gained overall control of the council from the Conservative party.

Main article: Hyndburn Borough Council elections

2002 Hyndburn Borough Council election

← 2000 2 May 2002 2003 →
All 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council 18 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Ian Ormerod Peter Britcliffe Party Labour Conservative Leader's seat Milnshaw St Andrew's Seats before 16 31 Seats won 18 17 Seat change 2 14
2002 local election results in Hyndburn. Circles represent wards where multiple seats were contested.   Labour   Conservative   Not contested

Election result

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2002

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	18			0	51.4	49.7	22,083
	Conservative	17			-12	48.6	49.4	21,947
	Independent	0			0	0	0.8	377

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election. The number of councillors was reduced from 45 to 35 but the number of wards remained similar but not exactly the same.

Ward results

Altham (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Myles	583
	Labour	Miles Parkinson	577
	Conservative	Janet Storey	449
	Conservative	Alison Gabryszak	447
Turnout			2,056

Barnfield (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Dobson	625
	Labour	Wendy Dwyer	614
	Conservative	Derek Scholes	582
	Labour	Stephen Walsh	534
Turnout			2,355

Baxenden (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Griffiths	808
	Conservative	James Dickinson	807
	Labour	Ian Mason	412
	Labour	Anne Ormerod	367
Turnout			2,394

Central (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sardar Ali	720
	Conservative	Siddique Kazi	686
	Labour	Abdul Khan	657
	Conservative	Alma Pilkington	542
Turnout			2,605

Church (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Battle	788
	Labour	John Broadley	771
	Conservative	Edmund Hogan	450
	Conservative	Marion Raynor	434
Turnout			2,443

Clayton-Le-Moors (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Timothy O'Kane	569
	Labour	John Burke	510
	Conservative	Angela Taylor	478
	Conservative	Michael Taylor	476
	Independent	John Cooper	377
Turnout			2,410

Huncoat (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Parkins	859
	Labour	Brendan Shiel	678
	Conservative	Patricia Scholes	326
	Conservative	Elsbeth Mills	326
Turnout			2,189

Immanuel (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sandra Hayes	644
	Conservative	Jean Lockwood	597
	Labour	Edwina McCormack	575
	Labour	Dennis Baron	541
Turnout			2,357

Milnshaw (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Ormerod	805
	Labour	Malcolm Pritchard	726
	Conservative	Gordon Mills	637
	Conservative	Paul Travis	612
Turnout			2,780

Netherton (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohamed Rahman	684
	Labour	Susan Shorrock	601
	Conservative	Keith Hargreaves	551
	Conservative	Adele Atkinson	539
Turnout			2,375

Overton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winifred Frankland	963
	Conservative	Peter Clarke	936
	Conservative	David Mason	880
	Labour	George Slynn	698
	Labour	William Whitaker	684
	Labour	Brenda Haworth	638
Turnout			4,799

Peel (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernard Dawson	601
	Labour	Graham Jones	569
	Conservative	John Cunliffe	295
	Conservative	Derek Barden	272
Turnout			1,737

Rishton (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	June Butler	1,026
	Conservative	Anne Scaife	881
	Conservative	Stanley Horne	813
	Labour	Winifred Jackson	734
	Labour	Gerald Newton	693
	Labour	Frances Molloy	663
Turnout			4,810

St Andrew's (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Britcliffe	729
	Conservative	Brian Walmsley	705
	Labour	Dorothy Westell	594
	Labour	Maurice Cowell	545
Turnout			2,573

St Oswald's (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Douglas Hayes	924
	Conservative	George Griffiths	858
	Conservative	Brian Roberts	850
	Labour	John McCormack	639
	Labour	Leonard Neil	559
	Labour	Gary Jones	550
Turnout			4,380

Spring Hill (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pamela Barton	696
	Labour	Edith Dunston	649
	Conservative	Paul Barton	401
	Conservative	Abdul Qayyum	398
Turnout			2,144

References

• 2002 Hyndburn election result
• Tories ousted in nailbiting finish
• Ward results