Jump to content

Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

(Top) 1 Results 1.1 Ward results 2 References

2003 Reading Borough Council election

Add links ●Article ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Cite this page ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code ●Wikidata item Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

← 2002

1 May 2003 (2003-05-01)

2004 →

15 seats of 45 on council
23 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
	Lab	LD	Con
Leader	David Sutton	Bob Green	Fred Pugh
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Conservative
Seats before	36	6	3
Seats after	35	6	4
Seat change	1		1
Popular vote	11,489	7,862	8,502
Percentage	38.9	26.6	28.8
Swing	5.3 pp	0.6 pp	1.9 pp

The 2003 Reading Borough Council election was held on 1 May 2003, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. One third of the 45 seats on Reading Borough Council were up for election. The Conservatives gained one seat at the election from Labour. Otherwise all other seats stayed with the same party and Labour continued have a large majority on the council, with David Sutton continuing as leader of the party and the council.^[1]

Results[edit]

Reading Borough Council Election, 2003
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	13	0	1	-1	73.3%	38.9%	11,489	-5.3
Conservative	2	1	0	+1	13.3%	28.8%	8,502	+1.9
Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0	13.3%	26.6%	7,862	+0.6
Green	0				0%	2.1%	614	-0.1
Stop the War	0				0%	1.9%	555
Independent	0				0%	1.7%	490

Ward results[edit]

The results in each ward were as follows:^[2]

Abbey Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Antony Page	983	53.3	+2.0
	Conservative	David Stevens	393	21.3	0.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Wood	380	20.6	+4.3
	Stop the War	Darren Williams	88	4.8	n/a
Turnout			1,844
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.0

Battle Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Crisp	755	46.8	-20.8
	Liberal Democrats	James Martin	298	18.5	+3.4
	Independent	Adeyinka Oyekan	279	17.3	n/a
	Conservative	John Britton	233	14.5	-2.8
	Stop the War	Alan Lockey	47	2.9	n/a
Turnout			1,612
	Labour hold		Swing	-12.1

Caversham Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Wilson	1,372	45.9	+5.3
	Labour	Susan Stainthorp (Sue Stainthorp)	1,110	37.1	-6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Barclay	428	14.3	-1.5
	Stop the War	Magda Koc	80	2.7	n/a
Turnout			2,990
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+5.9

Church Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Goodall	665	46.8	-2.0
	Conservative	Dharam Ahuja	416	29.3	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Warrell	223	15.7	-5.3
	Green	Robert Awbery	77	5.4	n/a
	Stop the War	Rachel Mills	39	2.7	n/a
Turnout			1,420
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.15

Katesgrove Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Stainthorp	563	46.6	-9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Best-Shaw	260	21.5	+4.8
	Conservative	Shirley Mills	204	16.9	-1.9
	Green	Louisa Radice	71	5.9	-2.6
	Independent	David Boobier	64	5.3	n/a
	Stop the War	Judith Wicks	46	3.8	n/a
Turnout			1,208
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.1

Kentwood Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard McKenzie	893	44.3	-3.5
	Conservative	Thomas Steele	638	31.7	+0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Duveen	451	22.4	+1.2
	Stop the War	Leslee Hopper	33	1.6	n/a
Turnout			2,015
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.05

Minster Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine Wilton	965	47.4	-2.3
	Conservative	Michael Wade	578	28.4	-2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nicolas Lawson	377	18.5	+4.2
	Green	James Towell	86	4.2	-1.0
	Stop the War	Pauline Thomas	32	1.6	n/a
Turnout			2,038
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.05

Norcot Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graeme Hoskin	1,045	63.7	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Cook	300	18.3	+1.8
	Conservative	Alexandra Mowczan	295	18.0	-0.7
Turnout			1,640
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.45

Park Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Hartley	830	46.7	-9.1
	Liberal Democrats	James Spackman	392	22.1	+1.0
	Conservative	David Vaughan	240	13.5	+0.6
	Green	Mary Westley	189	10.6	+0.5
	Stop the War	Peter Burt	125	7.0	n/a
Turnout			1,776
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.05

Peppard Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Annette Hendry	1,506	56.9	-1.3
	Conservative	Christopher Morton	889	33.6	+2.0
	Labour	Andrea Collins	250	9.5	-0.7
Turnout			2,645
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-1.65

Redlands Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Riaz Chaudhri	879	42.5	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Harris	598	28.9	-6.4
	Conservative	Carole Haskell	337	16.3	+3.3
	Green	Hugh Swann	191	9.2	+0.7
	Stop the War	Sean O'Leary	65	3.1	n/a
Turnout			2,070
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.85

Southcote Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Ennis	1,049	59.0	-6.5
	Conservative	Patricia Steele	489	27.5	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Allen	239	13.4	+3.5
Turnout			1,777
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.8

Thames Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Pugh (Fred Pugh)	1,722	53.3	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Summers	1,310	40.6	-0.7
	Labour	Gul Khan	196	6.1	-6.0
Turnout			3,228
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.65

Tilehurst Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Fry	896	45.6	-1.3
	Labour	Raymond Richens	519	26.4	-6.3
	Conservative	Una Kidd	403	20.5	+2.9
	Independent	Richard Grimsdell	147	7.5	n/a
Turnout			1,965
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+2.5

Whitley Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Hanley	787	61.3	-6.9
	Conservative	Nicholas Brown	293	22.8	+0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Max Heydeman	204	15.9	+6.6
Turnout			1,284
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.6

References[edit]

^ "Tories claim a 'vital breakthrough' – Labour lose seat in Reading after nine years". Get Reading. 2 May 2003. Retrieved 2 May 2022.

^ "How you voted". Get Reading. 2 May 2003. Retrieved 2 May 2022.

v t e Council elections in Berkshire
Bracknell Forest Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Reading Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Slough Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
West Berkshire Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 2000 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Wokingham Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Berkshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 Abolished
See also: Wards Boundary changes

v t e (2002 ←) 2003 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2004)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils (England)	Adur Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Berwick-upon-Tweed Blaby Blyth Valley Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chester Chester-le-Street Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Chorley Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Derwentside Dover Durham Easington East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Pendle Penwith Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Salisbury Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale Royal Wansbeck Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian
National Assembly and Parliament elections	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

Reading, Berkshire

Topics

Politics

Constituencies

Local elections

Places

Suburbs and areas
within the borough

Electoral wards
within the borough

Suburbs and areas
outside the borough

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003_Reading_Borough_Council_election&oldid=1185788135" Categories: ●2003 English local elections ●Reading Borough Council elections ●2000s in Berkshire Hidden categories: ●Articles with short description ●Short description is different from Wikidata ●Use dmy dates from April 2022 ●Use British English from April 2022 ●This page was last edited on 19 November 2023, at 00:44 (UTC). ●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. ●Privacy policy ●About Wikipedia ●Disclaimers ●Contact Wikipedia ●Code of Conduct ●Developers ●Statistics ●Cookie statement ●Mobile view