Local Election Results 2003
Newark and Sherwood
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. Three Conservative councillors were elected unopposed.
Other results for Newark and Sherwood:
2007
2011
2015
2019
By-elections for Newark and Sherwood (may be incomplete): 11th September 2003 (Clipstone)
— 18th September 2003 (Collingham & Meering)
— 3rd March 2005 (Southwell E.)
— 14th July 2005 (Balderton W.)
— 19th January 2006 (Ollerton)
— 5th June 2008 (Edwinstowe)
— 24th July 2008 (Magnus)
— 11th December 2008 (Clipstone)
— 17th September 2009 (Beacon)
— 1st July 2010 (Rainworth)
— 12th April 2012 (Lowdham)
— 2nd May 2013 (Collingham & Meering)
— 27th June 2013 (Farnsfield & Bilsthorpe)
— 11th September 2014 (Collingham & Meering; Ollerton)
— 21st July 2016 (Balderton S.)
— 4th May 2017 (Ollerton)
— 6th May 2021 (Boughton)
— 1st July 2021 (Bridge)
— 21st October 2021 (Rainworth S. & Blidworth)
Results for Nottinghamshire county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
11220 |
43.9% |
22 |
| Labour |
6337 |
24.8% |
13 |
| Liberal Democrat |
4633 |
18.1% |
4 |
| Independent |
3362 |
13.2% |
6 |
| Kenneth Fletcher |
C |
692 |
55.1% |
| Raymond Hind |
C |
678 |
|
| Phil McCauley |
Lab |
311 |
24.8% |
| Joan Whicher |
Lab |
277 |
|
| Neil Allen |
LD |
252 |
20.1% |
| Gordon Brooks |
C |
440 |
50.5% |
| Patricia Fletcher |
C |
397 |
|
| Vic Hall |
Lab |
299 |
34.3% |
| Janet Atkinson |
Lab |
273 |
|
| Lorretta Chalk |
LD |
132 |
15.2% |
| Leonard Wilkes |
C |
598 |
51.1% |
| Peter Prebble |
C |
575 |
|
| Doreen Westmoreland |
Lab |
295 |
25.2% |
| Peter Gafney |
LD |
278 |
23.7% |
| Carolyn Podmore |
Lab |
278 |
|
| Graham Bennett |
Lab |
525 |
57.5% |
| Kevan Wakefield |
Lab |
488 |
|
| James Thornton |
C |
388 |
42.5% |
| Hazel Wilson |
C |
372 |
|
| Geoffrey Merry |
Ind |
386 |
54.8% |
| Kathleen Arnold |
Lab |
319 |
45.2% |
| William Bates |
Lab |
315 |
|
| Will Richards |
Ind |
199 |
|
| Arthur Formon |
Ind |
192 |
|
| Carole Turner |
Lab |
477 |
58.4% |
| Raymond Shilling |
Lab |
440 |
|
| Donald Brown |
C |
340 |
41.6% |
| Mary Brown |
C |
332 |
|
| Gillian Dawn |
Ind |
638 |
59.8% |
| Irene Brown |
Ind |
600 |
|
| Keith Girling |
C |
245 |
23.0% |
| Rita Crowe |
C |
211 |
|
| Dennis Jones |
Lab |
184 |
17.2% |
| Andrew Freeman |
Lab |
169 |
|
| Thomas Bickley |
C |
781 |
52.9% |
| David Payne |
C |
755 |
|
| Stanley Richardson |
C |
719 |
|
| Laurence Goff |
Lab |
464 |
31.4% |
| Matthew Stevenson-Dodd |
Lab |
457 |
|
| Desmond Whicher |
Lab |
348 |
|
| Eileen Green |
Ind |
232 |
15.7% |
| Sylvia Michael |
C |
602 |
73.2% |
| Frances Higson |
LD |
119 |
14.5% |
| Josephine Cocking |
Lab |
101 |
12.3% |
| Leonard Sprigg |
Ind |
404 |
56.4% |
| Robert Murray |
Lab |
312 |
43.6% |
| W J A Giles |
Ind |
193 |
|
| Terence Bell |
Lab |
192 |
|
| Richard Shillito |
C |
994 |
61.9% |
| Antony McDonald |
C |
977 |
|
| Marylyn Rayner |
LD |
354 |
22.0% |
| John Stobbart |
Lab |
259 |
16.1% |
| John Clarke |
Lab |
365 |
42.5% |
| Alan Hannaford |
Lab |
339 |
|
| Peter Foster |
C |
256 |
29.8% |
| Tracy Mathias |
Ind |
238 |
27.7% |
| Mark Mathias |
Ind |
224 |
|
| Maria Tribe |
C |
199 |
|
| Pamela Bird |
Ind |
772 |
44.4% |
| John Benson |
Lab |
546 |
31.4% |
| John Faben |
Ind |
486 |
|
| Richard Empson |
Lab |
431 |
|
| Brian Jarvis |
C |
421 |
24.2% |
| Ivor Walker |
C |
648 |
51.4% |
| Keith Walker |
C |
630 |
|
| Declan Logue |
LD |
612 |
48.6% |
| Linda Harris |
LD |
449 |
|
| Nora Armstrong |
C |
1050 |
57.0% |
| Bruce Laughton |
C |
978 |
|
| James Moore |
LD |
427 |
23.2% |
| Christopher Bower |
Lab |
366 |
19.9% |
| Roger Jackson |
C |
unop. |
|
| Keith Sheppard |
C |
unop. |
|
| Richard Alexander |
C |
504 |
50.5% |
| Tony Robert |
C |
478 |
|
| Paul Trickett |
Lab |
326 |
32.7% |
| Yvonne Woodhead |
Lab |
273 |
|
| Derek Green |
Ind |
168 |
16.8% |
| Susan Saddington |
C |
707 |
81.1% |
| John Higson |
LD |
165 |
18.9% |
| Stanley Crawford |
Lab |
594 |
40.0% |
| Henry Swan |
Ind |
524 |
35.3% |
| Edward Jackson |
Lab |
518 |
|
| Benjamin Wells |
Lab |
506 |
|
| Robin Richardson |
C |
368 |
24.8% |
| Brian d'Arcy |
Ind |
329 |
|
| Michael Jefferies |
Lab |
554 |
69.7% |
| Allen Tift |
Lab |
530 |
|
| Jonathan Gadadhar |
C |
241 |
30.3% |
| John Baker |
LD |
489 |
61.4% |
| John King |
C |
307 |
38.6% |
| Brendan Haigh |
LD |
579 |
70.7% |
| David Lomax |
C |
240 |
29.3% |
| Peter Harris |
LD |
476 |
55.3% |
| Suzannah Beatson-Hird |
C |
385 |
44.7% |
| Christine Rose |
LD |
499 |
53.3% |
| Garth Robertshaw |
C |
398 |
42.5% |
| Anne Brooks |
Lab |
40 |
4.3% |
| Roger Blaney |
C |
615 |
71.0% |
| Margaret Allen |
LD |
251 |
29.0% |
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