Local Election Results 2002
Rossendale
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Other results for Rossendale:
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
By-elections for Rossendale (may be incomplete): 14th August 2003 (Stacksteads)
— 30th September 2004 (Longholme)
— 5th May 2005 (Greenfield)
— 20th October 2005 (Hareholme)
— 28th September 2006 (Cribden)
— 13th September 2007 (Goodshaw; Irwell; Whitewell)
— 22nd November 2007 (Hareholme)
— 4th June 2009 (Helmshore)
— 7th October 2010 (Healey & Whitworth; Irwell)
— 16th October 2014 (Helmshore)
— 4th December 2014 (Longholme)
Results for Lancashire county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
9694 |
51.8% |
24 |
| Conservative |
8253 |
44.1% |
12 |
| Independent |
614 |
3.3% |
0 |
| Socialist Alliance |
139 |
0.7% |
0 |
| Lawrence Forshaw |
Lab |
598 |
56.8% |
| Hugh McCaw |
Lab |
501 |
|
| Clive Balchin |
C |
454 |
43.2% |
| Richard Moorfield |
C |
331 |
|
| Jeffrey Cheetham |
C |
584 |
53.6% |
| Donald Rishton |
Lab |
506 |
46.4% |
| Barry Pawson |
C |
493 |
|
| Thomas Belli |
Lab |
414 |
|
| Eileen Kershaw |
Lab |
550 |
59.3% |
| Thomas Aldred |
Lab |
527 |
|
| Albert Bolton |
C |
378 |
40.7% |
| Peter Starkey |
C |
290 |
|
| Alyson Barnes |
Lab |
656 |
65.0% |
| Roger Clarke |
Lab |
644 |
|
| Maureen Kirk |
C |
353 |
35.0% |
| Deborah Hayden-Pawson |
C |
330 |
|
| George Lee |
C |
835 |
52.0% |
| Alan Schofield |
C |
813 |
|
| Alison Tickner |
C |
804 |
|
| Dorothy Atkinson |
Lab |
631 |
39.3% |
| Janice Johnson |
Lab |
591 |
|
| Michael Cruise |
Lab |
588 |
|
| Noel O'Brien |
SocAll |
139 |
8.7% |
| James Eaton |
C |
1124 |
67.5% |
| Judith Driver |
C |
898 |
|
| William Challinor |
C |
825 |
|
| Bernadette O'Connor |
Lab |
542 |
32.5% |
| David Baron |
Lab |
441 |
|
| Susan Baron |
Lab |
434 |
|
| Mollie Disley |
Lab |
1041 |
61.2% |
| Graham Pearson |
Lab |
935 |
|
| Trevor Unsworth |
Lab |
919 |
|
| Janet O'Driscoll |
C |
661 |
38.8% |
| Susan Popland |
C |
601 |
|
| Kenneth Slaughter |
C |
586 |
|
| Ronald Neal |
Lab |
515 |
62.7% |
| Ronald Pickup |
Lab |
450 |
|
| James Grogan |
C |
306 |
37.3% |
| Andrew Neville |
C |
224 |
|
| Gordon Nicholass |
C |
763 |
40.5% |
| Neil Smith |
C |
748 |
|
| John McManus |
Lab |
716 |
38.0% |
| Stuart Brannigan |
Lab |
714 |
|
| John Williams |
C |
666 |
|
| Anthony Nixon |
Lab |
627 |
|
| Roy Beavan |
Ind |
405 |
21.5% |
| Robert Huntbach |
C |
632 |
53.0% |
| Lorraine Hammond |
C |
630 |
|
| Peter Steen |
C |
563 |
|
| Peter Heyworth |
Lab |
560 |
47.0% |
| Keith Wright |
Lab |
501 |
|
| William Pearson |
Lab |
479 |
|
| June Forshaw |
Lab |
896 |
63.1% |
| John Pilling |
Lab |
789 |
|
| Denise Hancock |
Lab |
775 |
|
| James Wild |
C |
524 |
36.9% |
| Terence Doherty |
C |
510 |
|
| James Fuke |
C |
389 |
|
| Michael McShea |
Lab |
796 |
68.3% |
| Dale Connearn |
Lab |
684 |
|
| Dane Nuttall |
C |
369 |
31.7% |
| Hazel Steen |
C |
298 |
|
| David Hancock |
Lab |
851 |
54.3% |
| William Riley |
Lab |
830 |
|
| David Easton |
Lab |
801 |
|
| Christopher Wadsworth |
C |
715 |
45.7% |
| Ryan Godwin |
C |
691 |
|
| Christine Lever |
C |
690 |
|
| Geoffrey Atkinson |
Lab |
836 |
52.3% |
| Marilyn Procter |
Lab |
757 |
|
| Adrian Lythgoe |
Lab |
720 |
|
| Joyce Thorne |
C |
555 |
34.7% |
| Peter Nuttall |
C |
534 |
|
| Leonard Riley |
C |
513 |
|
| Stephen Birtwell |
Ind |
209 |
13.1% |
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