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2002 Hyndburn Borough Council election

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2 May 2002

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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

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.

Election result

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2002
	Seats	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

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South Ribble	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
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