2002 Westminster City Council election
{{Short description|2002 English local election}}
{{infobox election
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1998 Westminster City Council election
| previous_year = 1998
| next_election = 2006 Westminster City Council election
| next_year = 2006
| election_date = 2 May 2002
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| leader1 =
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| party1 = Conservative Party (UK)
| last_election1 = 47 seats
| seats1 = 48
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}1
| popular_vote1 = 20,573
| percentage1 = 55.5%
| swing1 =
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| party2 = Labour Party (UK)
| last_election2 = 13 seats
| seats2 = 12
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}1
| popular_vote2 = 10,387
| percentage2 = 28.0%
| swing2 =
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| party3 = Liberal Democrats (UK)
| last_election3 = 0 seats
| seats3 = 0
| seat_change3 = {{steady}}0
| popular_vote3 = 4,982
| percentage3 = 13.4%
| swing3 = |
| country = United Kingdom
| election_name = 2002 Westminster City Council election
| seats_for_election = all 60 council seats
| majority_seats = 31
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| before_election =
| posttitle = Council control after election
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The 2002 Westminster City Council election took place on May 2, 2002, to elect members of the Westminster City Council. It resulted in a conservative majority.
Election results
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|+ Election results{{Cite web |url=https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2002/20/ |title=Local Election Results 2002 |website=Local Elections Archive Project}} | ||||
Party | Votes | Percent | Seats | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 20,573 | 55.5% | 48 | {{increase}}1 |
Labour | 10,387 | 28.0% | 12 | {{decrease}}1 |
Liberal Democrat | 4,982 | 13.4% | 0 | {{steady}}0 |
Green Party | 545 | 1.5% | 0 | {{steady}}0 |
Save St John's Wood Adventure Playground | 378 | 1.0% | 0 | {{steady}}0 |
Socialist Alliance | 193 | 0.5% | 0 | {{steady}}0 |
Total votes
|37,058 | | | |
The election resulted in a Conservative majority of 36 and 48 seats. The Save St John's Wood Adventure Playground party ran in protest of the 40% budget cut of the playground by the previous city council.{{Cite web |date=2002-05-03 |title=Single-issue candidates in shock victories |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/singleissue-candidates-in-shock-victories-9147295.html |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=The Independent |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Addley |first=Esther |date=2003-11-25 |title='It's just a lot of suits and faceless men' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/nov/25/publicservices.voterapathy |access-date=2024-03-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
Ward results
=Abbey Road=
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|+ Abbey Road | |||
Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Judith Warner | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1269 | rowspan="3" | 59.5% |
Cyril Nemeth | 1265 | ||
Kevin Gardner | 1230 | ||
Katharine Hoskyns | rowspan="2" | Labour | 338 | rowspan="2" | 15.9% |
Phillida Inman | 313 | ||
Robert Bell | Liberal Democrats | 308 | 14.4% |
Margherita Rendel | Labour | 306
| | |
Elizabeth Maxwell | rowspan="2" | Save St John's Wood Adventure Playground | 217 | rowspan="2" | 10.2% |
Michele Staniland | 217 |
=Bayswater=
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|+ Bayswater | |||
Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Frixos Tombolis | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 911 | rowspan="3" | 51.0% |
Michael Brahams | 908 | ||
Brian Connell | 867 | ||
Timothy Nolan | rowspan="3" | Labour | 558 | rowspan="3" | 31.2% |
Lewis Baston | 510 | ||
Daphne Segre | 475 | ||
Morag Beattie | rowspan="3" | Liberal Democrats | 319 | rowspan="3" | 17.8% |
Jacqueline Castles | 293 | ||
Monica Kendall | 275 |
= Bryanston and Dorset Square =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Audrey Lewis | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1157 | rowspan="3" | 67.6% |
Carolyn Keen | 1147 | ||
Angela Hooper | 1123 | ||
Brenda Buxton | rowspan="3" | Labour | 295 | rowspan="3" | 17.2% |
David Bradby | 277 | ||
Derek Buckland | 264 | ||
Alexis Batterbee | rowspan="2" | Liberal Democrats | 260 | rowspan="2" | 15.2% |
Nikhil Seth | 232 |
= Church Street =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Barbara Graham | rowspan="3" | Labour | 969 | rowspan="3" | 59.1% |
Antony Mothersdale | 921 | ||
Murad Qureshi | 905 | ||
Ian Balcombe | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 460 | rowspan="3" | 28.0% |
Daniel Defoe | 450 | ||
Stephen Garside | 410 | ||
Iain Black | rowspan="2" | Liberal Democrats | 211 | rowspan="2" | 12.9% |
Niall McMahon | 195 |
= Churchill =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Andrew Havery | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1378 | rowspan="3" | 65.9% |
John Wyatt | 1364 | ||
Sarah Richardson | 1361 | ||
Josephine Abercrombie | rowspan="3" | Labour | 499 | rowspan="3" | 23.9% |
Madge Cavalla | 486 | ||
Cass Cass-Horne | 444 | ||
Rhoda Torres | rowspan="3" | Liberal Democrats | 214 | rowspan="3" | 10.2% |
Colin Bell
|211 | |||
Michael Holmans | 197 |
= Harrow Road =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Guthrie McKie | rowspan="3" | Labour | 1029 | rowspan="3" | 52.6% |
Sharan Tabari | 952 | ||
Josephine Ohene-Djan | 942 | ||
Andrew Reid | rowspan="2" | Conservative | 499 | rowspan="2" | 18.5% |
Jeremy Fox | 486 | ||
Paul Miller
|Green | 444
|14.8% | ||
Edward Vaizey | Conservative | 214 | |
Melissa Foux
|Liberal Democrats |211 |14.2% |
= Hyde Park =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Pamela Batty | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1095 | rowspan="3" | 69.5% |
Anne Mallinson | 1071 | ||
Colin Barrow | 1066 | ||
Louis Al-Dhahir | rowspan="2" | Labour | 250 | rowspan="2" | 15.9% |
Victoria Wegg-Prosser | 236 | ||
Barbara Bridge
|Liberal Democrats | 231
|14.7% | ||
Joseph Ogden | Labour | 212 | |
Elizabeth Mackeith
| rowspan="2" |Liberal Democrats |157 | rowspan="2" | | |||
Esther Stansfield | 150 |
= Knightsbridge and Belgravia =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Angela Harvey | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1126 | rowspan="3" | 77.3% |
Elizabeth Blois | 1124 | ||
Catherine Longworth | 1114 | ||
Tania Chislett | rowspan="3" | Liberal Democrats | 144 | rowspan="3" | 9.9% |
Simon Bryden-Brook | 130 | ||
Angela Whittelegge | 130 | ||
Thomas Bewley
|Green |112 |7.7% | |||
Peter Cavalla | rowspan="3" | Labour | 74 | rowspan="3" | 5.1% |
Angelar Forester
|72 | |||
Malwine Eyre | 65 |
= Lancaster Gate =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Susan Burbridge | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1180 | rowspan="3" | 65.3% |
Robert Davis | 1160 | ||
Simon Milton | 1128 | ||
Elizabeth Whitmore | rowspan="3" | Labour | 332 | rowspan="3" | 18.4% |
Tony Rea | 310 | ||
Stephen Gruneberg | 299 | ||
Susan Baring
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |295 | rowspan="3" |16.3% | |||
Monica Wilson | 269 | ||
Mark Gray
|241 |
= Little Venice =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Melvin Caplan | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1177 | rowspan="3" | 65.1% |
Ian Adams | 1159 | ||
Barbara Schmeling | 1147 | ||
Paul O'Donnell | rowspan="3" | Labour | 395 | rowspan="3" | 21.8% |
Beryl Leaver | 377 | ||
Basema Elsafi | 374 | ||
Michael Ryan
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |236 | rowspan="3" |13.1% | |||
Michael Dearden | 214 | ||
Phillip Wardle
|199 |
= Maida Vale =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Jan Prendergast | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1179 | rowspan="3" | 52.7% |
Ronald Raymond-Cox | 1108 | ||
Alastair Moss | 1066 | ||
David Lancaster | rowspan="3" | Labour | 780 | rowspan="3" | 34.9% |
Syed Hayat | 762 | ||
Albert Catterall | 745 | ||
Anne Couchman
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |279 | rowspan="3" |12.5% | |||
Robert Scott | 237 | ||
Zena Lutrin
|201 |
= Marylebone High Street =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Harvey Marshall | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1328 | rowspan="3" | 71.0% |
Mark Page | 1295 | ||
Michael Vearncombe | 1257 | ||
Susan Stocker | Liberal Democrats | 278 | 14.9% |
Mair Garside
| rowspan="3" |Labour | 264
| rowspan="3" |14.1% | ||
Owain Garside | 255 | ||
David Worton
|236 | |||
David Brewin
| rowspan="2" |Liberal Democrats | 214
| rowspan="2" | | ||
Michael Sibley
|199 |
= Queen's Park =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Barrie Taylor | rowspan="3" | Labour | 1154 | rowspan="3" | 61.3% |
Paul Dimoldenberg | 1122 | ||
Mushtaq Qureshi | 1080 | ||
Peter Prendergast | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 318 | rowspan="3" | 16.9% |
Nita Fernandez | 317 | ||
Richard Phibbs | 291 | ||
Jonathan Wardle
|Liberal Democrats |219 |11.6% | |||
Monica Kefi
|Socialist Alliance | 193
|10.2% | ||
Bernard Silver
|Liberal Democrats |184 | |
= Regent's Park =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Daniel Astaire | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1145 | rowspan="3" | 59.5% |
Gwyneth Hampson | 1138 | ||
Timothy Joiner | 1079 | ||
Peter Denton | rowspan="3" | Labour | 410 | rowspan="3" | 21.3% |
Joseph Thomas | 375 | ||
David Woodgate | 357 | ||
Richard Croix
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |207 | rowspan="3" |10.8% | |||
Herbert Hartwell | 199 | ||
Alan Thompson
|177 | |||
Nasir Qureshi
|Save St John's Wood Adventure Playground |161 |8.4% |
= St James's =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Louise Hyams | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1056 | rowspan="3" | 58.3% |
Timothy Mitchell | 1034 | ||
Alexander Nicoll | 977 | ||
Stephanie Ayres | rowspan="3" | Labour | 355 | rowspan="3" | 19.6% |
Lynda Giddings | 343 | ||
Pamela Eyre | 327 | ||
Marie-Louise Rossi
| rowspan="2" |Liberal Democrats |255 | rowspan="2" |14.1% | |||
Nigel Bliss | 199 | ||
Peter Budge
| rowspan="2" |Green |144 | rowspan="2" |8.0% | |||
Lydia Howitt
|140 |
= Tachbrook =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Alan Bradley | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1451 | rowspan="3" | 62.2% |
Nicholas Evans | 1377 | ||
Dominic Schofield | 1369 | ||
Charles Campion | rowspan="3" | Labour | 583 | rowspan="3" | 25.0% |
William Thomson | 548 | ||
Michael Dumigan | 543 | ||
Josephine Hayes
| rowspan="2" |Liberal Democrats |300 | rowspan="2" |12.9% | |||
John Stephens | 249 |
= Vincent Square =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Duncan Sandys | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1351 | rowspan="3" | 66.8% |
Danny Chalkley | 1308 | ||
Justin Powell-Truck | 1270 | ||
Steven Friel | rowspan="3" | Labour | 406 | rowspan="3" | 20.1% |
Gillian Guy | 391 | ||
Alen Matthewson | 357 | ||
Margaret Lang
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |264 | rowspan="3" |13.1% | |||
Jancie Taverne | 230 | ||
Kathleen Hobbins
|223 |
= Warwick =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Matthew Mitchell | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 1282 | rowspan="3" | 68.1% |
David Clark | 1265 | ||
Christopher Malthouse | 1259 | ||
Nicholas Gartside | Labour | 318 | 16.9% |
Anthony Brett-Jones
| rowspan="2" |Liberal Democrats | 283
| rowspan="2" |15.0% | ||
Keith Dugmore | 261 | ||
Violet Spencer
| rowspan="2" |Labour |251 | rowspan="2" | | |||
Babette Payne | 246 |
= West End =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Glenys Roberts | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 949 | rowspan="3" | 61.0% |
Ian Wilder | 938 | ||
John Cox | 919 | ||
David Bieda | rowspan="3" | Labour | 409 | rowspan="3" | 26.3% |
Harold Brookstone | 340 | ||
Richard Hearnden | 214 | ||
Michael Pepperell
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |198 | rowspan="3" |12.7% | |||
Ian Steers | 191 | ||
Susan Kendrick
|182 |
= Westbourne =
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
David Boothroyd | rowspan="3" | Labour | 969 | rowspan="3" | 61.7% |
Simon Stockill | 923 | ||
Rupert d'Cruz | 908 | ||
Alexander Story | rowspan="3" | Conservative | 399 | rowspan="3" | 25.4% |
Mary Agrafiotou | 365 | ||
Iheoma Oteh | 331 | ||
Martin Thompson
| rowspan="3" |Liberal Democrats |203 | rowspan="3" |12.9% | |||
Anthony Williams | 202 | ||
Vera Williams
|181 |
References
{{reflist}}
{{London elections}}
{{Greater London elections}}
{{United Kingdom local elections, 2002}}