Local Election Results 2002
Sunderland
One-third of council up for election.
Other results for Sunderland:20032004200620072008201020112012201420152016201820192021202220232024
By-elections for Sunderland (may be incomplete): 24th November 2005 (Barnes) — 23rd March 2006 (Millfield) — 27th September 2007 (Washington E.) — 2nd May 2013 (Houghton) — 27th March 2014 (St Anne's) — 11th December 2014 (Washington E.) — 12th January 2017 (Sandhill) — 1st February 2018 (Pallion) — 30th September 2021 (Hetton) — 3rd March 2022 (Redhill) — 27th November 2025 (Hetton)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party | Votes | Percent | Seats |
|---|
| Labour | 27882 | 56.9% | 21 |
| Conservative | 15629 | 31.9% | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat | 3852 | 7.9% | 1 |
| British National Party | 1537 | 3.1% | 0 |
| Independent | 121 | 0.2% | 0 |
| Thomas Foster | Lab | 1248 | 86.2% |
|---|
| Gwennyth Gibson | C | 199 | 13.8% |
|---|
| James Hollern | Lab | 949 | 59.3% |
|---|
| John Jackson | LD | 337 | 21.1% |
|---|
| Dorreen Storey | C | 314 | 19.6% |
|---|
| Maureen Ambrose | Lab | 1070 | 62.2% |
|---|
| John Brown | C | 651 | 37.8% |
|---|
| Elizabeth Bell | Lab | 1239 | 67.0% |
|---|
| David Wilson | C | 611 | 33.0% |
|---|
| Norman Bohill | C | 1863 | 66.5% |
|---|
| Gary Hollern | Lab | 609 | 21.7% |
|---|
| Amie Leung | LD | 181 | 6.5% |
|---|
| Joseph Dobbie | BNP | 148 | 5.3% |
|---|
| James Scott | Lab | 902 | 67.0% |
|---|
| David Francis | C | 445 | 33.0% |
|---|
| Thomas Martin | Lab | 1092 | 45.0% |
|---|
| Kathryn Chamberlin | C | 992 | 40.9% |
|---|
| David Guynan | BNP | 340 | 14.0% |
|---|
| Richard Tate | Lab | 1186 | 75.1% |
|---|
| Olwyn Bird | C | 394 | 24.9% |
|---|
| Joseph Lawson | Lab | 1341 | 80.3% |
|---|
| Gordon Newton | C | 330 | 19.7% |
|---|
| Brian Dodds | Lab | 1148 | 44.4% |
|---|
| Stephen Daughton | C | 1032 | 39.9% |
|---|
| Elizabeth Foreman | LD | 286 | 11.1% |
|---|
| Ronald Smith | Ind | 121 | 4.7% |
|---|
| David Wares | Lab | 1451 | 69.8% |
|---|
| William Dunn | C | 628 | 30.2% |
|---|
| Leslie Scott | Lab | 1433 | 58.2% |
|---|
| Alistair Newton | C | 1030 | 41.8% |
|---|
| Margaret Forbes | C | 1923 | 66.9% |
|---|
| Phillip Gibson | Lab | 950 | 33.1% |
|---|
| Michael Arnott | C | 1047 | 39.4% |
|---|
| Christine Shattock | Lab | 952 | 35.8% |
|---|
| John Lennox | LD | 657 | 24.7% |
|---|
| Kathryn Rolph | Lab | 1423 | 72.5% |
|---|
| Marjorie Matthews | C | 539 | 27.5% |
|---|
| Peter Gibson | Lab | 1623 | 72.2% |
|---|
| Patricia Francis | C | 484 | 21.5% |
|---|
| David Rogers | BNP | 141 | 6.3% |
|---|
| Thomas Wright | Lab | 898 | 68.4% |
|---|
| Michael Dixon | C | 415 | 31.6% |
|---|
| Paul Stewart | Lab | 933 | 62.9% |
|---|
| Alan Brettwood | BNP | 292 | 19.7% |
|---|
| Jane Walters | LD | 167 | 11.3% |
|---|
| Alice McLaren | C | 92 | 6.2% |
|---|
| Robert Kirby | Lab | 1011 | 67.1% |
|---|
| Paula Wilkinson | C | 260 | 17.3% |
|---|
| Joseph Dobbie | BNP | 235 | 15.6% |
|---|
| Mark Greenfield | LD | 1113 | 56.6% |
|---|
| Leonard Lamb | Lab | 594 | 30.2% |
|---|
| Neville Chamberlin | C | 260 | 13.2% |
|---|
| Richard Bell | Lab | 831 | 61.1% |
|---|
| John Martin | BNP | 381 | 28.0% |
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| Gillian Connor | C | 149 | 10.9% |
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| Derek Sleightholme | Lab | 1463 | 62.1% |
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| Jacqueline Atkinson | C | 537 | 22.8% |
|---|
| Avril Kitching | LD | 357 | 15.1% |
|---|
| James Walker | Lab | 1136 | 79.5% |
|---|
| Kathleen Irvine | C | 293 | 20.5% |
|---|
| Peter Young | Lab | 1325 | 49.8% |
|---|
| Lee Martin | C | 871 | 32.7% |
|---|
| Owen Dumpleton | LD | 466 | 17.5% |
|---|
| William Stephenson | Lab | 1075 | 65.8% |
|---|
| David Griffin | LD | 288 | 17.6% |
|---|
| Justin Garrod | C | 270 | 16.5% |
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