2002 Colchester Borough Council election

2002 Colchester Borough Council election

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All 60 seats to Colchester Borough Council 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	30.9% (1.2%)
First party Second party   Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Last election 23 seats, 33.1% 21 seats, 38.8% Seats won 26 24 Seat change 3 3 Popular vote 29,899 32,459 Percentage 36.4% 39.5% Swing 3.3% 0.7%   Third party Fourth party   Party Labour Independent Last election 15 seats, 24.1% 0 seats, 1.6% Seats won 6 4 Seat change 9 4 Popular vote 15,669 3,078 Percentage 19.1% 3.7% Swing 5.0% 2.1%
Council control before election No overall control Council control after election No overall control

The 2002 Colchester Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Colchester Borough Council in Essex, England. This was the same day as the other 2002 local elections in the United Kingdom.

Due to boundary changes, every seat was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.^[1][2]

Both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives gained seats to move to 26 and 24 seats respectively.^[3] This was at the expense of the Labour party who lost 9 seats to only have 6 councillors.^[3]

In total there were 24 new councillors elected, with a number of sitting councillors being defeated, including the leader of the Liberal Democrats on the council, Bill Frame.^[4] Frame had previously represented St Mary's ward, but contested Shrub End at the election and failed to be elected.^[3] Colin Sykes returned as the leader of the Liberal Democrat group after winning election, 2 years after having lost his seat on the council.^[5]

Conservative Party (60/60)

Liberal Democrats (46/60)

Labour Party (39/60)

Green Party (5/60)

Independent (5/60)

Socialist Alliance (1/60)

Colchester Borough Council Election, 2002^[1][2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	26	5	3	3	43.3	36.4	29,899	+3.3
	Conservative	24	5	2	3	40.0	39.5	32,459	+0.7
	Labour	6	1	7	9	10.0	19.1	15,669	–5.0
	Independent	4	3	0	4	6.7	3.7	3,078	+2.1
	Green	0	0	0		0.0	1.2	970	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	106	N/A
	Tiptree Residents	0	0	1	1	0.0	0.0	0	–2.4

Shown below are ward results according to the council's election results archive.^[6][7]

East Donyland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Raison	286	43.2	+9.7
	Conservative	Patricia Sanderson*	246	37.2	−6.2
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Woodward	130	19.6	−3.5
Majority			40	6.0	N/A
Turnout			662	36.0	−6.0
Registered electors			1,860
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	8.0

Great Tey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Chillingworth	566	65.7	+20.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Phillips*	295	34.3	−11.5
Majority			271	31.5	N/A
Turnout			862	40.0	−4.7
Registered electors			2,172
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	15.8

No Labour candidate as previous (8.5%).

Marks Tey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Gower*	405	64.7	−0.7
	Labour	Edna Salmon	125	20.0	+0.4
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Gray	96	15.3	+0.2
Majority			280	44.7	−1.1
Turnout			627	31.0	−2.0
Registered electors			2,009
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.6

Pyefleet

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Davidson	581	66.9	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Wilma Sutton	287	33.1	+16.1
Majority			294	33.9	−15.8
Turnout			875	43.0	+0.8
Registered electors			2,012
	Conservative hold		Swing	8.0

No Labour candidate as previous (16.3%).