Chorley Council election, 2003

Elections to Chorley Council were held on 1 May 2003. Ond third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was

• Labour 22
• Conservative 18
• Liberal Democrat 4
• Independent 3

Election result

Chorley Local Election Result 2003
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	9	2	0	+2	60.0	38.9	12,639	+4.7%
	Labour	6	1	1	0	40.0	43.1	13,997	-2.0%
	Liberal Democrat	0	0	2	-2	0	15.8	5,143	+2.5%
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	721	-4.9%

Ward results

Adlington and Anderton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	June Molyneux	1,281	44.0
	Conservative	Lois Birtwistle	1,104	37.9
	Liberal Democrat	Philip Pilling	528	18.1
Majority			177	6.1
Turnout			2,913
	Labour hold		Swing

Astley and Buckshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Perks	887	58.2
	Labour	David Lloyd	488	32.0
	Liberal Democrat	Raymond Ormston	149	9.8
Majority			399	26.2
Turnout			1,524
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chisnall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Smith	620	35.8
	Labour	Edward Forshaw	529	30.6
	Independent	Alan Cornwell	299	17.3
	Liberal Democrat	Glyn Jones	283	16.3
Majority			91	5.2
Turnout			1,731
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chorley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Brown	1,282	59.8
	Conservative	Elsie Perks	440	20.5
	Independent	Melville Coombes	422	19.7
Majority			860	39.3
Turnout			2,144
	Labour hold		Swing

Chorley North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Marion Lowe	1,264	53.2
	Conservative	Shaun Smith	785	33.0
	Liberal Democrat	Eileen Smith	327	13.8
Majority			479	20.2
Turnout			2,376
	Labour hold		Swing

Chorley North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Malpas	1,254	42.0
	Labour	Robert Crabtree	1,126	37.7
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Norman	605	20.3
Majority			128	4.3
Turnout			2,985
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Chorley South East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Snow	1,281	51.3
	Conservative	Sheila Marsden	863	34.6
	Liberal Democrat	David Porter	352	14.1
Majority			418	16.7
Turnout			2,496
	Labour hold		Swing

Chorley South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Wilson	1,150	58.2
	Conservative	Lawrence Carter	487	24.6
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Mellor	340	17.2
Majority			663	33.6
Turnout			1,977
	Labour hold		Swing

Clayton le Woods and Whittle-le-Woods
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nigel Baxter	1,170	47.9
	Labour	Sharon Gray	640	26.2
	Liberal Democrat	Glenda Charlesworth	634	25.9
Majority			530	21.7
Turnout			2,444
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clayton le Woods North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roger Livesey	715	36.8
	Liberal Democrat	William Mellor	699	36.0
	Labour	Darren Woodruff	529	27.2
Majority			16	0.8
Turnout			1,943
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Clayton le Woods West and Cuerden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Bedford	731	42.0
	Labour	Ted Murphy	656	37.7
	Liberal Democrat	Gail Ormston	353	20.3
Majority			75	4.3
Turnout			1,740
	Conservative hold		Swing

Coppull
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Birchall	939	45.6
	Liberal Democrat	Patricia Cuerden	873	42.4
	Conservative	Dorothy Livesey	246	12.0
Majority			66	3.2
Turnout			2,058
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Eccleston and Mawdesley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Culshaw	1,399	51.4
	Labour	Thomas Titherington	1,320	48.5
Majority			79	2.9
Turnout			2,719
	Conservative hold		Swing

Euxton South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Golsworthy	1,039	57.2
	Labour	Mary Gray	778	42.8
Majority			261	14.4
Turnout			1,817
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lostock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Doreen Dickinson	899	55.1
	Labour	David Massam	734	44.9
Majority			165	10.2
Turnout			1,633
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

• 2003 Chorley election result
• BOROUGH ELECTION RESULTS - MAY 2003

Preceded by Chorley Council election, 2002

Chorley local elections

Succeeded by Chorley Council election, 2004