Local Election Results 2003
South Ribble
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for South Ribble:20072011201520192023
By-elections for South Ribble (may be incomplete): 30th October 2003 (Walton-le-Dale) — 29th April 2004 (Leyland St Ambrose;Leyland St Mary's) — 14th October 2004 (Coupe Green & Gregson Lane) — 5th May 2005 (Golden Hill) — 4th June 2009 (Leyland C.;Walton-le-Dale) — 15th October 2009 (Leyland St Mary's) — 6th May 2010 (Moss Side) — 13th October 2011 (Bamber Bridge E.) — 2nd May 2013 (Howick & Priory;Leyland St Ambrose;Leyland St Mary's) — 5th May 2016 (Seven Stars) — 16th March 2017 (Walton-le-Dale E.) — 24th October 2019 (Coupe Green & Gregson Lane) — 6th May 2021 (Longton & Hutton W.;St Ambrose) — 18th November 2021 (Bamber Bridge E.) — 5th May 2022 (Earnshaw Bridge) — 10th October 2024 (Bamber Bridge W.) — 24th October 2024 (Middleforth) — 18th December 2025 (Broad Oak)
Results for Lancashire county council:200520092013201720212025
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party | Votes | Percent | Seats |
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| Conservative | 10503 | 41.5% | 19 |
| Liberal Democrat | 6867 | 27.1% | 15 |
| Labour | 5807 | 22.9% | 17 |
| The Idle Toad | 1860 | 7.3% | 4 |
| Independent | 280 | 1.1% | 0 |
| James Owen | Lab | 357 | 42.4% |
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| David Watts | Lab | 311 | |
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| Barbara Nathan | IdleToad | 282 | 33.5% |
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| Stephen Hawkins | IdleToad | 278 | |
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| William Chisholm | C | 203 | 24.1% |
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| Margaret Livesey | C | 189 | |
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| Carol Chisholm | C | 422 | 51.4% |
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| Stephen Bennett | Lab | 399 | 48.6% |
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| David Banks | Lab | 375 | |
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| Julie Mullineaux | C | 351 | |
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| Thomas Hanson | Lab | 340 | 39.8% |
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| John Higgins | IdleToad | 303 | 35.4% |
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| Brian Pemberton | Lab | 278 | |
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| George Woods | C | 212 | 24.8% |
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| Renee Blow | IdleToad | 200 | |
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| Collette Nuttall | C | 180 | |
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| David Howarth | LD | 788 | 63.3% |
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| Harold Hancock | LD | 776 | |
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| Linda Woollard | C | 457 | 36.7% |
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| Alistair Woollard | C | 411 | |
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| Dorothy Gardner | C | 377 | 40.8% |
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| Melvyn Gardner | C | 366 | |
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| Michael Thistlethwaite | Lab | 317 | 34.3% |
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| Robert Taylor | Lab | 295 | |
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| Adrian Underwood | Ind | 229 | 24.8% |
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| Thomas Sharratt | IdleToad | 763 | 60.4% |
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| Warren Bennett | IdleToad | 646 | |
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| Roger Messenger | C | 405 | 32.0% |
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| Derek Walmsley | C | 400 | |
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| Rita Harrison | Lab | 96 | 7.6% |
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| David Wooldridge | Lab | 80 | |
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| William Evans | Lab | 394 | 57.6% |
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| Peter McClelland | Lab | 339 | |
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| Dorothy Eastham | C | 290 | 42.4% |
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| James Aspden | C | 270 | |
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| Christine Harrison | LD | 409 | 56.0% |
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| Nigel Bluck | LD | 377 | |
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| John Otter | C | 188 | 25.7% |
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| Dylis Hayton | C | 166 | |
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| Colin Cookson | Lab | 134 | 18.3% |
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| Andrew Bennison | Lab | 132 | |
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| Mark Alcock | LD | 453 | 45.7% |
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| Judith England | LD | 435 | |
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| Brian Whitlock | C | 378 | 38.1% |
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| Philip Smith | C | 373 | |
|---|
| Marian Derbyshire | Lab | 160 | 16.1% |
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| Thomas Derbyshire | Lab | 145 | |
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| Matthew Tomlinson | Lab | 455 | 53.6% |
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| Georgina Lewis | Lab | 440 | |
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| John Edwin | LD | 235 | 27.7% |
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| Jean Fell | C | 159 | 18.7% |
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| Frank Redfern | C | 135 | |
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| David Shaw | LD | 626 | 53.0% |
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| Leonard Read | LD | 622 | |
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| Mary Robinson | C | 555 | 47.0% |
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| Marjorie Askew | C | 544 | |
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| Howard Gore | Lab | 433 | 56.8% |
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| James Patten | Lab | 418 | |
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| Frank Almond | C | 329 | 43.2% |
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| Andrew Gardner | C | 325 | |
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| Charlotte Ashworth | LD | 550 | 53.0% |
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| Dorothy Foster | LD | 539 | |
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| Clifford Dawber | Lab | 379 | 36.5% |
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| Agnes Gwilliam | Lab | 309 | |
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| Malcolm Barker | C | 109 | 10.5% |
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| Edith Sayer | C | 83 | |
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| Neva Orrell | LD | 649 | 68.1% |
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| Derek Forrest | LD | 615 | |
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| Brian Walmsley | Lab | 215 | 22.6% |
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| Donald Smith | Lab | 203 | |
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| Nancy Morris | C | 89 | 9.3% |
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| Dorothy Webster | C | 85 | |
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| Jeffrey Knowles | LD | 529 | 43.8% |
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| John Demack | C | 483 | 40.0% |
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| Raymond Mellor | LD | 456 | |
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| Michael McNulty | C | 431 | |
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| Michael Titherington | Lab | 195 | 16.2% |
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| Simon Butler | Lab | 176 | |
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| David Suthers | C | 668 | 78.6% |
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| Colin Coulton | C | 613 | |
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| Marie Garratt | LD | 182 | 21.4% |
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| Marion Hancock | LD | 176 | |
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| Colin Clark | C | 995 | 71.8% |
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| Jonathan Hesketh | C | 960 | |
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| Peter Stettner | C | 938 | |
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| Jane Marchant | LD | 390 | 28.2% |
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| Martin Cassell | LD | 336 | |
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| Geoffrey Garratt | LD | 319 | |
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| Kathleen Beattie | C | 456 | 65.2% |
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| Donald Parkinson | C | 442 | |
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| Robert Baines | LD | 243 | 34.8% |
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| Doreen Baines | LD | 233 | |
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| Fred Heyworth | Lab | 391 | 46.4% |
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| Joseph Kelly | Lab | 383 | |
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| Christine Leeming | LD | 296 | 35.2% |
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| Michele Edwin | LD | 285 | |
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| John Barnes | C | 104 | 12.4% |
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| John Clement | C | 79 | |
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| Ronald Taylor | Ind | 51 | 6.1% |
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| Gaynor Bretherton | Lab | 364 | 47.6% |
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| David Bretherton | Lab | 321 | |
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| Rosemary Holding | C | 280 | 36.6% |
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| David Ross | C | 278 | |
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| William Bryce | LD | 120 | 15.7% |
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| Doris Pimblett | LD | 112 | |
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| Anne Brown | Lab | 375 | 52.4% |
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| Michael Green | C | 340 | 47.6% |
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| Rita Hughes | C | 299 | |
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| James Minall | Lab | 298 | |
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| James Breakell | C | 734 | 64.3% |
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| Margaret Smith | C | 729 | |
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| Marilyn Sumner | LD | 408 | 35.7% |
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| Nicholas Sumner | LD | 372 | |
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| Peter Mullineaux | C | 517 | 43.3% |
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| Barrie Yates | IdleToad | 512 | 42.9% |
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| Frances Walker | C | 475 | |
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| Michael Nathan | IdleToad | 443 | |
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| Christine Watts | Lab | 164 | 13.7% |
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| David Lyon | Lab | 157 | |
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| Brenda Wilson | Lab | 348 | 55.7% |
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| Donald Harrison | Lab | 337 | |
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| Alan Ogilvie | C | 277 | 44.3% |
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| Doreen Baker | C | 265 | |
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| Joseph Hughes | C | 589 | 75.4% |
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| Kenneth Palmer | C | 542 | |
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| Mark Livesey | LD | 192 | 24.6% |
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| Peter Stringfellow | LD | 143 | |
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| Graham O'Hare | C | 493 | 62.9% |
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| Harold Clarkson | C | 482 | |
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| Graham Davies | Lab | 291 | 37.1% |
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| Christopher Watts | Lab | 277 | |
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| Anthony Pimblett | LD | 797 | 66.9% |
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| Timothy Young | LD | 725 | |
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| Vernon Baker | C | 394 | 33.1% |
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| Marie Fryer | C | 387 | |
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