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2003 UK local government election

2003 Worthing Borough Council election

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1 May 2003 (2003-05-01)

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13 out of 36 seats toWorthing Borough Council
19 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Liberal Democrats	Conservative
Last election	19 seats, 43.9%	17 seats, 44.9%
Seats won	5	8
Seats after	18	18
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	9,724	12,297
Percentage	41.0%	51.8%
Swing	2.9%	6.9%

Council control before election

Liberal Democrats

Council control after election

No overall control

The2003 Worthing Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members ofWorthing Borough Council inWest Sussex,England. One third of the council was up for election and theLiberal Democrats lost overall control of the council tono overall control.^[1] Overallturnout was 28.61%.^[2]

The election saw 38 candidates from 4 parties competing for the 13 seats which were being contested.^[3] 7 sittingcouncillors stood down at the election which saw the Liberal Democrats attempting to defend the majority they had won in theprevious election in 2002.^[3] The Liberal Democrats campaigned on the record of their "Clean and Safe Worthing" campaign and on plans to upgrade the leisure centre and replace the Aquarena.^[3] However the Conservatives attacked them for stopping improvements to the seafront and for the poor state of facilities in Worthing.^[3] TheGreen andLabour parties also stood candidates but did not contest all of thewards with Labour only putting up 3 candidates.^[3]

The results saw the Conservatives make one gain from the Liberal Democrats in Selden ward,^[4] with the winner, Jack Saheid, becoming the first Muslim councillor on Worthing council.^[5] After the Liberal Democrats failed by 6 votes to gain Gaisford from the Conservatives, both parties ended the election on 18 seats making Worthing a hung council.^[5] The results meant that the Liberal Democrat mayor of Worthing had thecasting vote on the council.^[6]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 18
Liberal Democrat 18^[7]

Election result

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Worthing local election result 2003^[5]^[8]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	8	1	0	+1	61.5	51.8	12,297	+6.9%
Liberal Democrats	5	0	1	-1	38.5	41.0	9,724	-2.9%
Green	0	0	0	0	0	5.1	1,210	+1.6%
Labour	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	503	-5.5%

Ward results

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Broadwater^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geraldine Lissenburg	1,069	65.9	−2.9
	Conservative	Heather Mercer	427	26.3	+4.0
	Green	Derek Colkett	125	7.7	+7.7
Majority			642	39.6	−6.9
Turnout			1,621	25.0	−0.8
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing

Castle^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Claire Potter	923	54.5	+3.5
	Conservative	John Rogers	771	45.5	+12.1
Majority			152	9.0	−8.6
Turnout			1,694	28.6	−3.1
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing

Central^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Hart	667	47.4	−11.3
	Conservative	Martin Coppard	472	33.5	+4.6
	Labour	Brian Gill	158	11.2	−1.2
	Green	Alice-Amanda Hinton	111	7.9	+7.9
Majority			195	13.9	−15.9
Turnout			1,408	24.4	−2.1
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing

Durrington^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Rodgers	1,168	56.3	−8.5
	Conservative	Alan Whiteley	787	37.9	+8.9
	Green	John Dwyer	121	5.8	−0.4
Majority			381	18.4	−17.4
Turnout			2,076	25.1	−5.0
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing

Gaisford^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Stephens	752	45.7	+7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Antony Price	746	45.3	−3.8
	Green	Marie Hillcoat	149	9.0	+4.5
Majority			6	0.4
Turnout			1,647	25.5	−4.8
	Conservativehold		Swing

Goring^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Welch	1,732	73.4	+2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Stephenson	628	26.6	−2.1
Majority			1,104	46.8	+4.2
Turnout			2,360	35.4	−2.2
	Conservativehold		Swing

Heene (2)^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Dice	996
	Conservative	Paul High	949
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Jones	513
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Skepper	418
	Green	Heather Rogers	191
Turnout			3,067	25.2	−2.1
	Conservativehold		Swing
	Conservativehold		Swing

Marine^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Wye	1,282	63.6	+2.9
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Medcalf	373	18.5	−0.6
	Labour	Peter Barnes	222	11.0	−0.3
	Green	Lucielle Colkett	140	6.9	−2.0
Majority			909	45.1	+3.5
Turnout			2,017	31.4	−0.3
	Conservativehold		Swing

Offington^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark McCarthy	1,490	69.7	+5.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Moynan	489	22.9	−0.2
	Green	Rosemary Hook	160	7.5	+2.2
Majority			1,001	46.8	+5.3
Turnout			2,139	33.7	−1.0
	Conservativehold		Swing

Salvington^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Marsh	1,100	60.3	−0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mark O'Keeffe	723	39.7	+11.3
Majority			377	20.6	−11.6
Turnout			1,940	27.9	−1.9
	Conservativehold		Swing

Selden^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Saheid	1,053	51.2	+15.5
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Brown	872	42.4	−2.4
	Green	Dave Yates	130	6.3	+1.8
Majority			181	8.8
Turnout			2,055	33.9	+0.4
	Conservativegain fromLiberal Democrats		Swing

Tarring^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Lovell	1,135	62.1	−6.7
	Conservative	Gavin Clark	486	26.6	+3.5
	Labour	Ian Sandell	123	6.7	−1.4
	Green	Benjamin Colkett	83	4.5	+4.5
Majority			649	35.5	−10.2
Turnout			1,827	27.6	−1.3
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing

References

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^"Election Results".The Times. 2 May 2003. p. 17.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m"Worthing borough council elections 1 May 2003"(PDF). Political Science Resources. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2 April 2012. Retrieved11 October 2009.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e"Worthing council".The Argus. 21 April 2003. Retrieved11 October 2009.
^"Tories cheer votes victory".The Argus. 2 May 2003. Retrieved12 October 2009.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o"Worthing borough council: no overall control".The Argus. 2 May 2003. Retrieved11 October 2009.
^"Parties in storm over control".The Argus. 7 May 2003. Retrieved12 October 2009.
^"English local elections: Results".The Guardian. 2 May 2003. p. 12.
^"Election results".Financial Times. 2 May 2003. p. 4.

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