Local Election Results 2003
North Somerset
Whole council up for election.
Other results for North Somerset:20072011201520192023
By-elections for North Somerset (may be incomplete): 11th November 2004 (Easton-in-Gordano) — 3rd February 2005 (Portishead Redcliffe Bay) — 1st June 2006 (Portishead W.;Yatton) — 7th September 2006 (Pill) — 18th December 2008 (Weston-super-Mare Clarence & Uphill) — 4th June 2009 (Hutton & Locking) — 8th September 2011 (Backwell) — 2nd May 2013 (Weston-super-Mare S.) — 25th July 2013 (Weston-super-Mare North Worle) — 31st August 2017 (Weston-super-Mare North Worle) — 6th May 2021 (Portishead E.) — 22nd July 2021 (Congresbury & Puxton) — 16th November 2023 (Wrington) — 13th November 2025 (Long Ashton) — 5th February 2026 (Clevedon S.)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party | Votes | Percent | Seats |
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| Conservative | 21575 | 38.7% | 24 |
| Liberal Democrat | 19131 | 34.3% | 23 |
| Labour | 10477 | 18.8% | 10 |
| Independent | 3781 | 6.8% | 3 |
| Green Party | 627 | 1.1% | 1 |
| UK Independence Party | 124 | 0.2% | 0 |
| Felicity Baker | C | 1023 | 53.7% |
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| Peter Burden | C | 903 | |
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| Helen Madge | LD | 648 | 34.0% |
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| Alan Armstrong | LD | 517 | |
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| David Punter | Lab | 234 | 12.3% |
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| Ann Harley | C | 1311 | 52.6% |
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| Anthony Lake | C | 1297 | |
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| Hugh Parsons | C | 1261 | |
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| Michael Bibb | LD | 846 | 33.9% |
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| Amanda Brading | LD | 801 | |
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| Christopher Luke | LD | 649 | |
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| Stanley Banks | Lab | 336 | 13.5% |
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| Simon Arlidge | Lab | 324 | |
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| Andrew Hughes | Lab | 263 | |
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| Elizabeth Wells | C | 644 | 57.8% |
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| Anthony Hughes | LD | 372 | 33.4% |
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| Ernest Barnhurst | Lab | 98 | 8.8% |
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| Michael Nobes | Lab | 375 | 51.1% |
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| Carl Francis-Pester | C | 219 | 29.8% |
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| Anne Carpenter | LD | 140 | 19.1% |
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| David Shopland | Ind | 445 | 47.7% |
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| William Lavelle | C | 227 | 24.3% |
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| Mary McLean | LD | 144 | 15.4% |
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| Jeremy Callaghan | Lab | 117 | 12.5% |
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| Lionel Bates | C | 495 | 58.4% |
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| Joan Watkins | LD | 229 | 27.0% |
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| John Farley | Lab | 123 | 14.5% |
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| Alan Cotton | Lab | 316 | 39.4% |
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| Graham Watkins | LD | 271 | 33.7% |
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| Christopher Blades | C | 216 | 26.9% |
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| George Morris | C | 592 | 52.4% |
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| Jack Dagnall | LD | 537 | 47.6% |
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| Chanel Stevens | Lab | 409 | 45.9% |
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| Ericka Blades | C | 251 | 28.2% |
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| Patrick McNeill | LD | 231 | 25.9% |
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| John Norton-Sealey | C | 351 | 45.7% |
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| Bryan Moore | Lab | 240 | 31.3% |
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| Julian Carpenter | LD | 177 | 23.0% |
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| Thomas Leimdorfer | Grn | 627 | 58.7% |
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| Gillian Bute | C | 442 | 41.3% |
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| Peter Fisher | C | 636 | 61.4% |
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| Wendy Griggs | LD | 237 | 22.9% |
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| Derek Waters | Lab | 163 | 15.7% |
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| Nigel Ashton | C | 639 | 67.1% |
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| Charles Pritchard | LD | 198 | 20.8% |
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| Barry Cooper | Lab | 115 | 12.1% |
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| Ian Peddlesden | C | 1039 | 52.1% |
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| Elfan ap Rees | C | 946 | |
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| Bryan McGrath | LD | 687 | 34.4% |
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| Richard Bartlett | LD | 637 | |
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| Timothy Taylor | Lab | 270 | 13.5% |
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| David Roxburgh | Lab | 220 | |
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| Ian Porter | C | 424 | 52.7% |
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| David Evans | LD | 255 | 31.7% |
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| Jacqueline Scholes | Lab | 125 | 15.5% |
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| Andrew Cole | LD | 1119 | 57.2% |
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| Robert Coleman | LD | 986 | |
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| Angela Barber | C | 836 | 42.8% |
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| Anita Heappey | C | 663 | |
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| Robert Steadman | LD | 1062 | 37.3% |
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| Jeremy Blatchford | C | 1031 | 36.2% |
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| James Tonkin | LD | 960 | |
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| Mary Blatchford | C | 958 | |
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| Suzanne Williams | C | 955 | |
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| Alan Clarke | LD | 954 | |
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| Julian Parry | Lab | 756 | 26.5% |
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| Sarah O'Brien | Lab | 745 | |
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| Catherine Elliott | Lab | 738 | |
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| Glyndwr Duck | Lab | 587 | 61.2% |
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| Adrian Phillips | C | 222 | 23.1% |
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| Peter Maw | LD | 150 | 15.6% |
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| John Clark | LD | 204 | 41.3% |
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| James McMurray | C | 174 | 35.2% |
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| Andrew Hamblin | Lab | 116 | 23.5% |
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| James Walters | C | 608 | 59.5% |
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| Philip Palmer | LD | 414 | 40.5% |
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| Arthur Terry | C | 386 | 39.4% |
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| Daisy Bickley | LD | 309 | 31.6% |
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| Roger Whitfield | Lab | 284 | 29.0% |
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| John Daws | C | 606 | 60.2% |
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| John Clark | LD | 401 | 39.8% |
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| Jonathan Gething | LD | 389 | 41.4% |
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| Alan McMurray | C | 299 | 31.8% |
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| Patricia Gardener | Lab | 252 | 26.8% |
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| Nicholas Brown | Ind | 898 | 81.9% |
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| Rosalind Cruse | C | 198 | 18.1% |
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| John Crockford-Hawley | LD | 693 | 48.4% |
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| Ian Baker | LD | 655 | |
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| Mark Terry-Short | C | 375 | 26.2% |
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| David Hunt | C | 360 | |
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| Josephine Bateman | Lab | 222 | 15.5% |
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| Frederick Roberts | Lab | 199 | |
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| Adam Nash | Ind | 92 | 6.4% |
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| Alan James | UKIP | 51 | 3.6% |
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| Michael Roe | C | 1385 | 58.4% |
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| Anthony Bryant | C | 1368 | |
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| Clive Webb | C | 1345 | |
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| Kenneth Tucker | LD | 647 | 27.3% |
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| Peter Solomon | LD | 620 | |
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| David Hobb-Titchard | LD | 599 | |
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| Stephen Varney | Lab | 339 | 14.3% |
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| Jamie Dormer-Durling | Lab | 337 | |
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| Karoline Bateman | Lab | 328 | |
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| Derek Kraft | Lab | 1034 | 45.9% |
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| Richard Tucker | Lab | 990 | |
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| Muriel Kraft | Lab | 944 | |
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| Grace Atkinson | LD | 629 | 27.9% |
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| Bryan Osborne | LD | 610 | |
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| Raymond Hicks | C | 591 | 26.2% |
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| Brian Hampson | LD | 543 | |
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| Jennifer Gosden | LD | 1169 | 37.9% |
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| Astra Brand | LD | 1118 | |
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| Rosslyn Willis | LD | 1112 | |
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| Peter Crew | C | 1025 | 33.3% |
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| Patrick Taylor | C | 1018 | |
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| Frederick Hogg | C | 1009 | |
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| Simon Stokes | Lab | 481 | 15.6% |
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| Elizabeth Swan | Lab | 450 | |
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| William Swan | Lab | 424 | |
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| Jeffrey Bullingham | Ind | 407 | 13.2% |
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| Alan Hockridge | LD | 1356 | 60.2% |
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| Ronald Moon | LD | 1236 | |
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| Richard Skinner | LD | 1143 | |
|---|
| Frederick Parsons | C | 627 | 27.9% |
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| Frederick Gamble | C | 610 | |
|---|
| Paul Francis | Lab | 268 | 11.9% |
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| Lynda Pearcey | Lab | 248 | |
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| Simon Morse | Lab | 243 | |
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| Ian Parker | Lab | 1122 | 60.7% |
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| Mari Owens | Lab | 1057 | |
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| Robert Bateman | Lab | 1056 | |
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| Raymond Armstrong | LD | 388 | 21.0% |
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| Celia Davies | LD | 386 | |
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| June How | LD | 357 | |
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| Michael Marriott | C | 338 | 18.3% |
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| Sally Tabrett | LD | 989 | 43.9% |
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| Colin Golland | LD | 953 | |
|---|
| Andrew Wright | LD | 921 | |
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| Christopher Flint | Lab | 621 | 27.6% |
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| Michael Lyall | Lab | 608 | |
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| Christopher Belton-Reed | Lab | 584 | |
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| Ena King | C | 533 | 23.7% |
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| Sidney Carter | C | 526 | |
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| Alan Lane | C | 479 | |
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| John Heenan | Ind | 109 | 4.8% |
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| Mark Canniford | LD | 1337 | 48.8% |
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| Michael Bell | LD | 1336 | |
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| Robert Payne | LD | 1179 | |
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| Andrew Horler | C | 895 | 32.7% |
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| Robert Cleland | C | 864 | |
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| Michael Fazackerley | C | 853 | |
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| Paul Spencer | Ind | 223 | 8.1% |
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| Robert Craig | Lab | 210 | 7.7% |
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| Christopher Hollebon | Lab | 197 | |
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| Vanessa Hollebon | Lab | 188 | |
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| Mervyn Gibbs | UKIP | 73 | 2.7% |
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| Audrey Telling | C | 456 | 57.6% |
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| Jessica Monks | Lab | 335 | 42.4% |
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| Robert Cook | C | 1097 | 49.4% |
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| Howard Roberts | C | 1000 | |
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| Angela Neale | LD | 807 | 36.3% |
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| Donald Barritt | LD | 653 | |
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| Christopher Smart | Lab | 317 | 14.3% |
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| Deborah Yamanaka | LD | 708 | 67.8% |
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| Teresa Kemp | C | 336 | 32.2% |
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| Greta Lewis | Ind | 1607 | 34.5% |
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| Isabel Cummings | LD | 1388 | 29.8% |
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| Peter Kehoe | LD | 1251 | |
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| Stanley Vyce | C | 1048 | 22.5% |
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| Alison Tull | C | 872 | |
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| Douglas May | Lab | 612 | 13.1% |
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