Elections to Chorley Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by one. The council stayed under no overall control.
After the election the composition of the council was:
Party | Seats | ± | |
---|---|---|---|
Labour | 22 | 2 | |
Conservative | 16 | 1 | |
Liberal Democrat | 6 | 1 | |
Independent | 3 | 1 |
Election result
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 22 | 2 | 46.8 | 45.1 | 48,637 | ||||
Conservative | 16 | 1 | 34.0 | 34.2 | 36,881 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | 6 | 1 | 12.8 | 13.3 | 14,309 | ||||
Independent | 3 | 1 | 6.4 | 7.1 | 7,619 | ||||
UKIP | 0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 401 |
Ward results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Catherine Hoyle | 1,887 | 21.6 | ||
Labour | Michael Davies | 1,580 | 18.1 | ||
Labour | Florence Mary Molyneux | 1,413 | 16.2 | ||
Conservative | Ivy Leigh | 1,027 | 11.8 | ||
Conservative | Betty Lawson | 1,020 | 11.7 | ||
Conservative | William Lawson | 1,014 | 11.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Philip William Pilling | 795 | 9.1 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Laura Jane Lennox | 875 | 27.2 | ||
Conservative | Mark Perks | 851 | 26.5 | ||
Conservative | Patricia Mary Haughton | 834 | 25.9 | ||
Labour | Margaret Rose Fielden | 656 | 20.4 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Dickinson | 823 | 69.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Charlesworth | 182 | 15.4 | ||
Labour | Beverley Gore | 175 | 15.1 | ||
Majority | 641 | 54.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,184 |
Chisnall
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harold Heaton | 1,028 | 26.6 | ||
Conservative | Edward Malcolm Smith | 699 | 18.1 | ||
Labour | Jon Davies | 594 | 15.3 | ||
Labour | Margaret M. Lees | 516 | 13.3 | ||
Independent | Alan Samuel Cornwell | 410 | 10.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Glyn Jones | 379 | 9.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Linda Eubank | 246 | 6.4 | ||
Turnout |
Chorley East
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Raymond Parr | 1,658 | 24.9 | ||
Labour | Patricia Mary Wilson | 1,651 | 24.7 | ||
Labour | Terence Brown | 1,536 | 23.0 | ||
Independent | Melville Coombes | 711 | 10.7 | ||
Conservative | Jacqueline C. Bettney | 596 | 8.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jean Mellor | 521 | 7.8 | ||
Turnout |
Chorley North East
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dennis Edgerley | 1,624 | 23.1 | ||
Labour | Adrian Lowe | 1,505 | 21.4 | ||
Labour | Keith Lowe | 1,419 | 20.2 | ||
Conservative | James Henry Fleming | 795 | 11.3 | ||
Conservative | Elvi Livesey | 683 | 9.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Eileen Anne Smith | 640 | 8.7 | ||
UKIP | John Graeme Frost | 401 | 5.7 | ||
Turnout |
Chorley North West
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Ralph Snape | 2,973 | 31.8 | ||
Independent | Joyce Snape | 2,612 | 27.9 | ||
Labour | Robert Gordon Crabtree | 1,161 | 12.4 | ||
Conservative | Peter Malpas | 1,011 | 10.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Linda Norman | 669 | 7.1 | ||
Conservative | Peter William Higham | 491 | 5.2 | ||
Conservative | Elsie May Perks | 449 | 4.8 | ||
Turnout |
Chorley South East
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McGowan | 1,508 | 20.5 | ||
Labour | Anthony Stephen Holgate | 1,377 | 18.7 | ||
Labour | Christopher Michael Snow | 1,282 | 17.4 | ||
Conservative | Geoffrey Goodspeed | 959 | 13.0 | ||
Conservative | Sheila Marsden | 931 | 12.7 | ||
Conservative | Barbara Ann Higham | 788 | 10.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | David Porter | 510 | 6.9 | ||
Turnout |
Chorley South West
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Lees | 1,522 | 26.4 | ||
Labour | Anthony Gee | 1,498 | 26.0 | ||
Labour | John Gerard Wilson | 1,457 | 25.3 | ||
Conservative | Dorothy Livesey | 657 | 11.4 | ||
Conservative | Kevan George Haughton | 632 | 11.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Eric Bell | 1,816 | 20.7 | ||
Conservative | John Philip Walker | 1,466 | 16.7 | ||
Conservative | Nigel Harvey Baxter | 1,418 | 16.2 | ||
Labour | Sharon A. Gray | 905 | 10.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Glenda Charlesworth | 869 | 9.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Stuart Brian Harding | 861 | 9.8 | ||
Labour | Darren M. Woodruff | 772 | 8.8 | ||
Labour | George W. Harvey | 673 | 7.7 | ||
Turnout |
Clayton-le-Woods North
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Peter George Buckley | 909 | 11.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Stephen John Fenn | 890 | 11.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | William Richard Mellor | 875 | 11.5 | ||
Conservative | Roger William Livesey | 871 | 11.4 | ||
Conservative | Alan Cullens | 869 | 11.4 | ||
Labour | Jean Elizabeth Cronshaw | 861 | 11.3 | ||
Conservative | Magdalene Margaret Cullens | 853 | 11.2 | ||
Labour | James Freeman | 795 | 10.4 | ||
Labour | Anthony Holden | 700 | 9.2 | ||
Turnout |
Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lesley Elizabeth Brownlee | 916 | 24.5 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Bedford | 827 | 22.1 | ||
Conservative | Samuel Andrew Chapman | 790 | 21.1 | ||
Labour | Edward Anthony Murphy | 749 | 20.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Gail Patricia Ormston | 457 | 12.2 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth William Ball | 1,570 | 18.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Stella Marie Walsh | 1,503 | 18.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Patricia Cuerden | 1,373 | 16.5 | ||
Labour | Andrew Birchall | 1,313 | 15.7 | ||
Labour | John Murphy | 1,294 | 15.5 | ||
Labour | Peter Maddock | 1,290 | 15.5 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Whittaker | 1,798 | 21.0 | ||
Conservative | Michael Iddon | 1,455 | 17.0 | ||
Conservative | Francis Culshaw | 1,429 | 16.7 | ||
Labour | Thomas Henry Titherington | 1,400 | 16.4 | ||
Conservative | Brian Twist | 1,325 | 15.5 | ||
Labour | Edward Vincent Forshaw | 1,150 | 13.4 | ||
Turnout |
Euxton North
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Gray | 1,086 | 28.2 | ||
Labour | Daniel Peter Gee | 989 | 25.7 | ||
Conservative | Rosemary Russell | 773 | 20.1 | ||
Conservative | Gordon Marshall Alexander Mitchell | 769 | 20.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Mary Buckley | 234 | 6.1 | ||
Turnout |
Euxton South
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Russell | 1,053 | 26.9 | ||
Conservative | Peter Goldsworthy | 1,036 | 25.5 | ||
Labour | Mary Gray | 965 | 24.7 | ||
Labour | Marion Lowe | 855 | 21.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mary Patricia Case | 732 | 64.3 | ||
Labour | June Molyneaux | 407 | 35.7 | ||
Majority | 325 | 28.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,139 |
Lostock
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Margaret Ann Iddon | 913 | 24.4 | ||
Conservative | Doreen Dickinson | 894 | 23.9 | ||
Labour | David Massam | 836 | 22.3 | ||
Conservative | George Anthony Rigby | 691 | 18.5 | ||
Labour | David C. Lloyd | 409 | 10.9 | ||
Turnout |
Pennine
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marie Elizabeth Gray | 645 | 55.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Janet Ross-Mills | 350 | 29.8 | ||
Labour | Peter Wilson | 178 | 15.2 | ||
Majority | 295 | 25.2 | |||
Turnout | 1,173 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Iris Elaine Smith | 1,137 | 30.1 | ||
Labour | Christopher Howard | 884 | 23.4 | ||
Conservative | Simon Parkinson | 746 | 19.7 | ||
Labour | Paul Anthony Lowe | 514 | 13.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Shelagh Graham | 502 | 13.3 | ||
Turnout |