Elections to Dartford Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries, which reduced the total number of seats from 47 to 44. The election in Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet ward was postponed following the death of Bob Dunn, one of the Conservative candidates. The delayed election returned three Conservative councillors, increasing their number to 21.

Labour lost their majority on the council, putting it into no overall control. The Conservatives and Swanscombe & Greenhithe Residents Association subsequently formed a coalition to control the council.

Election result

Dartford Borough Council Election Result 2003
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 18 +4
  Labour 17 -12
  Liberal Democrats 0 0
  Residents 5 +3
  New England 1 +1
  Independent 0 -2

Ward results

Bean & Darenth (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Simon Roy Bull 750
Conservative David Alan Hammock 737
Conservative Ian Douglas Armitt 667
Labour Thomas William Cook 591
Labour Samson Patrick Carey 579
Labour Robert Finlay Carson 454
Liberal Democrats Tanya Jane O'Rourke 142
UKIP David John Kent 74
Turnout 35.17%
Brent (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth James Fickling 800
Conservative Sarah Karamuth 781
Conservative Nancy Catherine Wightman 779
Labour Michael George Dando 712
Labour Margaret Anne Eaton 679
Labour Rosemary Bryant 678
UKIP Peter Kenneth Overy 205
Turnout 36.2%
Castle (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sheila East 130
Liberal Democrats Andrew Reeves 127
Labour Joyce Wise 57
Turnout 31.1%
Greenhithe (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Residents Martin Murphy 329
Residents Brian Barry Fitzpatrick 322
Conservative Conrad Broadley 316
Residents Vic Openshaw 290
Conservative Jan Michael Ozog 234
Conservative Rebecca Florence Storey 232
Labour Brian Robert Francis 196
Labour Michael Leonard Mahy 190
Labour Charles Prior 190
UKIP Sara Reed 43
UKIP Amanda Tracey Jane Fullagar 23
Turnout 25.7%
Heath (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terence Charles Harry Smith 874
Conservative Kenneth Frank Martin Leadbeater 847
Conservative Patricia Anne Thurlow 788
Labour Patrick Kelly 486
Labour Marilyn Sharon May 481
Labour Jonathan Victor Kingston 449
UKIP Robert Charles Howell 261
Liberal Democrats Pauline Yvonne Cherek 225
Liberal Democrats Matthew William John Keane 224
Turnout 35.6%
Joyce Green (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Muckle 321
Labour Matthew James Bryant 303
UKIP Raymond Peter Day 191
UKIP Mark Christopher Croucher 177
Conservative Brian Garden 90
Conservative Amy Elizabeth Peters 87
Turnout 24.9%
Joydens Wood (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ann Dorothy Allen 1,060
Conservative Marilyn Iris Peters 1,056
Conservative Jennifer Ann Rickwood 1,050
Labour Valerie Maddison 398
Labour Stephen John Sherrell 367
Labour Julian Timothy Bryant 362
UKIP Arnold Edwin Tarling 126
Turnout 34.6%
Littlebrook (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Ivan Muckle 321
New England Michael Terrence Tibby 276
Labour Stephen Robert David de Winton 271
Conservative Terrence Raymond Martin 131
Conservative David Matthew Pickersgill 123
UKIP Edward Llewellyn 117
UKIP Gordon Thomas Patrick Mayell 88
Turnout 25.9%
Newtown (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David John Baker 661
Labour Austen Raymond Brooker 614
Labour Graham Christopher David Steele 536
Conservative Robert John Etheridge 432
Conservative Andrew Ronald Lloyd 415
Conservative Avtar Singh Sandhu 399
UKIP Quentin Williamson 157
Turnout 24.8%
Princes (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Edward May 661
Labour Margaret Anne Stock 614
Labour Victor William Stock 595
Conservative Susan Elizabeth Martin 284
Conservative David Alistair Strachan 267
Conservative Edna May Oborne 252
UKIP Michael Robert Wiltshire 221
UKIP Suzanne Louise Wiltshire 205
Turnout 25.4%
Stone (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ivor Thomas Noel Jones 601
Labour Derek Ernest Lawson 540
Labour Bryan Jones 517
Conservative Barbara Gladys May Bell 223
Conservative Doreen Edna Coleman 197
Conservative Sheree Gail Mary Cox 191
UKIP Jeffrey William Robert Reed 100
Turnout 20.3%
Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Patrick Francis Coleman 875
Conservative Anthony Robert Martin 789
Labour Anne Elizabeth Burke 266
Labour Jacqueline Lineham 247
Turnout 35.7%
Swanscombe (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Residents Bryan Ernest Read 628
Residents Leslie James Bobby 528
Residents John Alfred Hayes 473
Labour Howard Graham Dold 455
Independent (politician) Michael Arthur Crosby 419
Labour Derek Alexander Hills 312
Labour Angela Margaret Mahy 290
Conservative Richard Stewart Mortimer Green 71
Conservative Joyce Edna Kite 68
Conservative Murdo Macleod 59
Turnout 27.5%
Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Dharma Ramdass Appadoo 244
Labour Trevor Alan Rogers 239
Conservative Christopher Jon Shippam 239
Conservative Gary Leigh Shippam 176
Liberal Democrats Anthony Easto 127
UKIP Alan John Rice 75
Turnout 23.2%
West Hill (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Deborah Jane Stoate 736
Labour Geoffrey Truscott Prout 714
Labour Francis Gerald Byrne 706
Conservative Matthew John Davis 673
Conservative Josephine Anne Shippam 657
Conservative Teresa Wells 637
Liberal Democrats Sonia Elizabeth Keane 413
Liberal Democrats Frida Melillo 394
Liberal Democrats Adam Keith Gebbett 388
UKIP Thomas Geoffrey Roach 77
Turnout 46.6%
Wilmington (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Derek Edward Hunnisett 870
Conservative Edward John Lampkin 809
Labour Thomas Anthony Maddison 564
Labour Christine Settle 536
Turnout 46.5%

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