2002 Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council election

2002 Barking and Dagenham Council election
2 May 2002
All 51 council seats to Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council
26 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Party Labour Chadwell Heath RA
Last election 47 seats 3 seats
Seats won 42 4
Seat change 5 1
Popular vote 14,654 1,444
Percentage 55.6 5.5
Swing -14.4 -1.0
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative
Last election 1 seats 0 seats
Seats won 3 2
Seat change 2 2
Popular vote 6,115 3,638
Percentage 23.2 13.8
Swing +21.6 -4.8
Map of the results of the 2002 Barking and Dagenham council election. Labour in red, Chadwell Heath Residents Association in grey, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue.
Council control before election


Labour

Council control after election


Labour

Elections for Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002 to elect members to the council. All seats were up for election following boundary changes since the last election in 1998. The Labour Party kept overall control of the council, but lost 5 seats. Overall turnout was 22.76%.[1][2]

Background

100 candidates were nominated in total. Labour again ran a full slate (51) and was the only party to do so. By contrast the Conservative Party ran only 12 candidates , whilst the Liberal Democrats ran 28.

Election result

Barking and Dagenham local election results 2002[1][2][bd 1]
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 42 0 -2 -5 82.4 55.6 14,654
  Liberal Democrats 3 1 0 +2 5.9 23.2 6,115
  Conservative 2 2 0 +2 3.9 13.8 3,638
  Chadwell Heath RA 4 0 -1 +1 7.8 5.5 1,444
  Green 0 0 0 ±0.0 0.0 1.2 306
  Independent 0 0 0 ±0.0 0.0 0.8 210
  1. ^ gains and losses do not include the winning of new seats

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jeanne Alexander 997 64.9
Labour Graham Bramley 921 60.0
Labour Mohammed Fani 895 58.3
Liberal Democrats Brian Beadle 426 27.7
Liberal Democrats June Griffin 387 25.2
Liberal Democrats Margaret Tester 354 23.0
Turnout 1,536 22.9 −4.4
Registered electors 3,580
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Alibon

Alibon (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Terry Wade 743 58.8
Labour John Davis 724 57.3
Labour Mick McCarthy 632 50.0
Conservative Mary Justice 360 28.5
Turnout 1,264 19.1 −5.4
Registered electors 6,631
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

Becontree

Becontree (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edith Bradley 841 68.4
Labour John Wainwright 686 55.8
Labour Cameron Geddes 684 55.7
Liberal Democrats Rosemary Roberts 438 35.6
Turnout 1,229 17.0 −2.8
Registered electors 7,212
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

Chadwell Heath

Chadwell Heath (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Residents Ronald Curtis 682 37.3
Residents Robert Jeyes 667 36.5
Conservative Terry Justice 642 35.1
Residents Donna Lewis 624 34.2
Labour Patricia Northover 594 32.5
Labour Abdul Aziz 513 28.1
Labour Alok Agrawal 485 26.5
Turnout 1,827 26.7 −5.0
Registered electors 6,855
Residents hold Swing
Residents hold Swing
Conservative gain from Residents Swing

Eastbrook

Eastbrook (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lawrence Bunn 1,003 52.9
Labour Leonard Collins 936 49.3
Labour Sidney Summerfield 893 47.1
Conservative Sue Connolly 725 38.2
Conservative Kerry Smith 717 37.8
Conservative Vivian Patten 677 35.7
Independent Mike Butler 210 11.1
Turnout 1,897 25.6 +0.5
Registered electors 7,419
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Eastbury

Eastbury (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Alan Cooper 986 52.6
Liberal Democrats Jayne Cooper 930 49.7
Liberal Democrats Daniel Felton 885 47.3
Labour June Arnold 763 40.7
Labour Pat Manley 760 40.6
Labour Rocky Gill 648 34.6
Turnout 1,873 25.8 −14.3
Registered electors 7,255
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Gascoigne

Gascoigne (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kay Flint 992 67.3
Labour Valerie Rush 863 58.5
Labour Milton McKenzie 857 58.1
Liberal Democrats Alan Cornwell 383 26.0
Liberal Democrats Bryan Tester 324 22.0
Liberal Democrats Stephen Gower 317 21.5
Green Hidir Yildirim 158 10.7
Turnout 1,474 24.2 +0.8
Registered electors 6,086
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Goresbrook

Goresbrook (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jeff Porter 847 58.7
Labour Matthew Huggins 842 58.4
Labour Alan Thomas 778 53.9
Liberal Democrats Kelly Gill 520 36.0
Liberal Democrats William Gill 509 35.3
Turnout 1,443 20.3 −4.2
Registered electors 7,107
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

Heath

Heath (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charles Fairbrass 966 63.8
Labour Bryan Osborn 918 60.6
Labour Sidney Kallar 904 59.7
Conservative George Woodward 362 23.9
Liberal Democrats Benjamin Whyte 349 23.1
Liberal Democrats Antony Stepton 328 21.7
Turnout 1,514 21.8 −1.9
Registered electors 6,951
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Longbridge

Longbridge (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sue Bramley 869 41.1
Labour Madeleine Baker 852 40.3
Conservative Brian Cook 811 38.3
Labour Nirmal Gill 774 36.6
Conservative Anton Clark 757 35.8
Conservative Paul Cocklind 741 35.0
Liberal Democrats Lea Harding 379 17.9
Liberal Democrats Hazel Price 352 16.6
Liberal Democrats Shirley Felton 334 15.8
Turnout 2,115 29.6 −0.6
Registered electors 7,153
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Mayesbrook

Mayesbrook (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jean Blake 648 46.9
Labour Dee Hunt 619 44.8
Labour June Conyard 605 43.7
Liberal Democrats John Dias-Broughton 589 42.6
Liberal Democrats Raymond Little 589 42.6
Liberal Democrats Jonathon Lopez-Real 533 38.5
Turnout 1,383 20.8 N/A
Registered electors 6,655
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Parsloes

Parsloes (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frederick Jones 775 59.8
Labour Herbert Collins 758 58.5
Labour Dennis O’Brien 647 50.0
Liberal Democrats Winifred Chapman 462 35.7
Liberal Democrats Tony Perry 446 34.4
Turnout 1,295 19.9 −3.6
Registered electors 6,495
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

River

River (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Liam Smith 1,018 69.6
Labour Patricia Twomey 987 67.5
Labour Inder Jamu 827 56.6
Liberal Democrats Rosemary McCulloch 449 30.7
Turnout 1,462 20.4 −0.3
Registered electors 7,160
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

Thames

Thames (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Fred Barns 980 67.3
Labour Joan Rawlinson 947 65.0
Labour David Miles 940 64.5
Liberal Democrats Juan Dias-Broughton 321 22.0
Liberal Democrats Mardell Dias 293 20.1
Liberal Democrats Lisa Dias-Broughton 293 20.1
Green Francis Koch-Krause 148 10.2
Turnout 1,457 23.7 −7.1
Registered electors 6,144
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour win (new seat)

Valence

Valence (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vera Cridland 897 67.3
Labour Jean Bruce 811 60.8
Labour Catherine Osborne 741 55.6
Liberal Democrats Claire Stepton 430 32.3
Turnout 1,333 20.3 −1.9
Registered electors 6,568
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Village

Village (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lee Waker 981 63.2
Labour Darrin Best 946 61.0
Labour Bill Dale 890 57.3
Conservative Neil Connelly 414 26.7
Liberal Democrats Frederick Tindling 383 24.7
Turnout 1,552 22.4 −1.1
Registered electors 6,941
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Whalebone

Whalebone (3)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Residents Albert Gibbs 762 42.1
Residents John Denyer 755 41.7
Labour Marie West 740 40.9
Labour Raymond Parkin 701 38.7
Residents Keith Woodcock 675 37.3
Labour Maureen Worby 667 36.8
Conservative Philip Grimmer 324 17.9
Conservative Sylvia Grimmer 279 15.4
Turnout 1,811 26.2 N/A
Registered electors 6,922
Residents win (new seat)
Residents win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

By-elections between 2002 and 2006

Longbridge

Longbridge by-election, 6 February 2003[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anton Clark 1,186 61.0 +21.6
Labour Simon Bremner 578 29.7 −12.5
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Lopez-Real 180 9.3 −9.1
Majority 608 31.3 N/A
Turnout 26.8 −2.8
Registered electors
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Susan Bramley.

Eastbrook

Eastbrook by-election, 3 April 2003[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Little 847 47.5 −4.3
Labour Raymond Parkin 839
Conservative Susan Connelly 778 43.6 +6.2
Conservative Kerry Smith 768
Liberal Democrats Karen Perry 110 6.7 +6.7
Liberal Democrats Tony Perry 96
Green Melissa Serpico 50 2.8 +2.8
Green Francis Koch-Krase 43
Majority 69 3.9 N/A
Turnout 24.3 −1.3
Registered electors
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Lawrence Bunn and the resignation of Cllr Sidney Summerfield.

Eastbury

Eastbury by-election, 4 December 2003[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Diane Challis 470 32.9 −23.5
Labour James McDermott 466 32.6 −11.0
Conservative Colin King 381 26.7 +26.7
Green Geoff Sheridan 111 7.8 +7.8
Majority 4 0.3 N/A
Turnout 19.8 −7.0
Registered electors
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Daniel Felton

Chadwell Heath

Chadwell Heath by-election, 10 June 2004[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nadine Smith 965 39.4 +8.4
Conservative Mary Justice 899 36.7 +3.2
Residents Elaine Matthews 468 19.1 −16.5
Green Geoff Sheridan 117 4.8 +4.8
Majority 66 2.7 N/A
Turnout 35.5 +8.8
Registered electors
Labour gain from Residents Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Robert Jeyes.

Valence

Valence by-election, 15 July 2004[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Donald Hemmett 761 41.6 −26.0
BNP Lawrence Rustem 576 31.5 +31.5
Conservative George Woodward 279 15.3 +15.3
Liberal Democrats Angela Lambart 148 8.1 −24.3
Green Laurence Cleeland 65 3.6 +3.6
Majority 185 10.1 N/A
Turnout 27.8 +7.5
Registered electors
Labour hold Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Vera Cridland.

Goresbrook

Goresbrook by-election, 16 September 2004[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BNP Daniel Kelly 1,072 51.9 N/A
Labour Patricia Northover 602 29.1 −32.9
UKIP Terence Jones 137 6.6 N/A
Conservative Christine Naylor 111 5.4 N/A
Liberal Democrats Frederick Tindling 85 4.1 −33.9
Green Geoff Sheridan 59 2.9 N/A
Majority 470 22.8 N/A
Turnout 28.8 +8.5
Registered electors
BNP gain from Labour Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr Matthew Huggins.

Village

Village by-election, 7 October 2004[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Philip Waker 1,085 44.7 −10.5
BNP Lawrence Rustem 934 38.5 +38.5
Conservative Kerry Smith 410 16.9 −6.4
Majority 151 6.2 N/A
Turnout 35.0 +12.6
Registered electors
Labour hold Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr Darrin Best.

Becontree

Becontree by-election, 14 July 2005[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alok Agrawal 1,171 59.8 −6.0
BNP John Luisis 378 19.3 +19.3
Conservative Anthony Chytry 283 14.4 +14.4
UKIP John Bolton 125 6.4 +6.4
Majority 793 40.5 N/A
Turnout 25.9 +8.9
Registered electors
Labour hold Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr John Wainwright.

Goresbrook

Goresbrook by-election, 23 July 2005[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Warren Northover 1,227 51.0 +22.0
BNP Lawrence Rustem 791 32.9 −19.0
UKIP Kerry Smith 216 9.0 +2.4
Conservative Christine Naylor 167 7.0 +1.6
Majority 436 17.1 N/A
Turnout 33.6 +13.3
Registered electors
Labour gain from BNP Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr Daniel Kelly.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "London Borough Council Elections 2 May 2002". London Datastore. London Residuary Body. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Election Results 1964-2010" (PDF). Elections Centre. Plymouth University. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "London Borough Council Elections 4 May 2006" (PDF). London Datastore. London Residuary Body. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "London Borough By Election results". Gwydir. Keith Edkins. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Barking and Dagenham election results". Barking and Dagenham Council elections. Barking and Dagenham Council. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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