# 2003 Wyre Borough Council election

Elections to Wyre Borough Council were held on 5 May 2003. All 55 councillors were elected from 26 wards in elections held every four years. The Conservative Party kept hold overall control of the council. For this election boundary changes had taken place which resulted in reducing the number of seats by one.
After the election composition of the council was as follows:
| Party | Seats | ± |
| Conservative | 33 | -2 |
| Labour | 21 | +2 |
| Liberal Democrat | 1 | -1 |

## Election result

Wyre Borough Council Election, 2003 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes |
| Conservative | 33 | | | -12 | 60.00 | 50.09 | 15,648 |
| Labour | 21 | | | +2 | 38.18 | 38.51 | 12,031 |
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | | | -1 | 1.82 | 9.00 | 2,813 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.40 | 750 |

## Ward Results
### Bourne

Bourne (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Terence Lees | 692 | 26.43 |
| | Labour | Anne Hall | 667 | 25.48 |
| | Labour | John Condron | 659 | 25.17 |
| | Conservative | Corinne Roberts | 600 | 22.92 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Breck

Breck (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Harry Taylor | 669 | 36.34 |
| | Conservative | Francis Carroll | 646 | 35.09 |
| | Labour | Alan Dawkins | 276 | 14.99 |
| | Labour | Peter Elliott | 250 | 13.58 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Brock

Brock (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Pete Murphy | 425 | 69.44 |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Thompson | 187 | 30.56 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 238 | 38.89 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 612 | |

### Cabus

Cabus (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Roger Brooks | 364 | 54.74 |
| | Labour | Marilyn Levey | 301 | 45.26 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 63 | 9.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 665 | |

### Calder

Calder (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | David Williams | 292 | 52.24 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jack Rogers | 267 | 47.76 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25 | 4.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 559 | |

### Carleton

Carleton (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | James Hargeaves | 677 | 28.99 |
| | Conservative | Frances Gandhi | 669 | 28.65 |
| | Labour | Jane Jackson | 511 | 21.88 |
| | Labour | Andrew Walker | 478 | 20.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Catterall

Catterall (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Sharples | 532 | 68.91 |
| | Conservative | Valerie Wilson | 240 | 31.09 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 292 | 37.82 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 772 | |

### Cleveleys Park

Cleveleys Park (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Penelope Martin | 862 | 17.06 |
| | Labour | Wayne Martin | 854 | 16.90 |
| | Labour | John Traynor | 852 | 16.86 |
| | Conservative | Arthur Brooks | 750 | 14.84 |
| | Conservative | William Rogerson | 730 | 14.45 |
| | Conservative | Ernest Smith | 693 | 13.71 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jean Taylor | 312 | 6.17 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Garstang

Garstang (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Dulcie Atkins | 1,066 | 23.03 |
| | Conservative | Elizabeth Collinson | 923 | 19.94 |
| | Conservative | Thomas Balmain | 912 | 19.70 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Paul Harrison | 693 | 14.97 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Francis Purkins | 590 | 12.75 |
| | Labour | Stanley Harvey | 445 | 9.61 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Great Eccleston

Great Eccleston (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Alfred Coop | 815 | 46.95 |
| | Conservative | Thomas Pimbley | 688 | 39.63 |
| | Labour | David Swift | 233 | 13.42 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Hambleton & Stalmine-with-Staynall

Hambleton & Stalmine-with-Staynall (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | John Dickinson | 878 | 31.11 |
| | Conservative | Lynn Bowen | 797 | 28.24 |
| | Labour | Roger Cameron | 599 | 21.23 |
| | Labour | Margaret Jackson | 548 | 19.42 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Hardhorn

Hardhorn (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Graeme Cocker | 787 | 36.28 |
| | Conservative | Frank Turner | 730 | 33.66 |
| | Labour | Richard Barnes | 336 | 15.49 |
| | Labour | Eileen Pacey-Patrick | 316 | 14.57 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Highcross

Highcross (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Maurice Richardson | 787 | 30.16 |
| | Conservative | Daniel Penswick | 752 | 28.82 |
| | Labour | Alphonse Robert | 553 | 21.20 |
| | Labour | Eric Stafford | 517 | 19.82 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Jubilee

Jubilee (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Alan Heppenstall | 530 | 26.33 |
| | Conservative | John Hodgkinson | 501 | 24.89 |
| | Labour | Kathleen Condron | 499 | 24.79 |
| | Labour | Graham Robinson | 483 | 23.99 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Mount

Mount (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Ian Duffy | 596 | 29.93 |
| | Labour | Ruth Duffy | 572 | 28.73 |
| | Conservative | Mark Hamer | 456 | 22.90 |
| | Conservative | Carole Bonham | 367 | 18.43 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Norcross

Norcross (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | David Twizell | 503 | 26.46 |
| | Labour | Peter Smith | 477 | 25.09 |
| | Conservative | John Shedwick | 470 | 24.72 |
| | Conservative | Leonard Jolley | 451 | 23.72 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Park

Park (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Stanley Leadbetter | 673 | 38.04 |
| | Labour | Geoffrey Horrocks | 603 | 34.09 |
| | Conservative | Kathleen Vincent | 261 | 14.75 |
| | Conservative | Catherine Rogerson | 232 | 13.11 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Pharos

Pharos (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Lorraine Beavers | 946 | 26.20 |
| | Labour | Clive Grunshaw | 927 | 25.67 |
| | Labour | Ronald Shewan | 905 | 25.06 |
| | Conservative | Margaret Grant | 249 | 6.90 |
| | Conservative | Graham Cooke | 206 | 5.70 |
| | Conservative | Michael Vincent | 195 | 5.40 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Palmerton | 183 | 5.07 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Pilling

Pilling (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Donald Lawrenson | 342 | 52.13 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Neil Thompson | 314 | 47.87 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 28 | 4.27 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 656 | |

### Preesall

Preesall (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Ian McCann | 1,012 | 22.28 |
| | Conservative | Paul Moon | 936 | 20.60 |
| | Conservative | Vivien Taylor | 935 | 20.58 |
| | Independent | Thomas Hudson | 750 | 16.51 |
| | Labour | Nicholas Fogg | 498 | 10.96 |
| | Labour | Brian Stephenson | 412 | 9.07 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Rossall

Rossall (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Marlene Colby | 953 | 22.71 |
| | Labour | Vincent Riley | 950 | 22.64 |
| | Labour | Edwn Taylor | 886 | 21.11 |
| | Conservative | Harry King | 486 | 11.58 |
| | Conservative | Frances Thewlis | 463 | 11.03 |
| | Conservative | Kathleen Walker | 459 | 10.94 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Staina

Staina (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | William Forsyth | 941 | 18.97 |
| | Conservative | Ralph Lawrenson | 934 | 18.83 |
| | Conservative | Ramesh Gandhi | 931 | 18.77 |
| | Labour | Thomas Rawlings | 736 | 14.84 |
| | Labour | David Oxley | 712 | 14.35 |
| | Labour | Richard Anyon | 707 | 14.25 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Tithebarn

Tithebarn (2 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | David Bannister | 781 | 35.40 |
| | Conservative | Peter Hawley | 752 | 34.09 |
| | Labour | Alan Morgan | 341 | 15.46 |
| | Labour | Christopher Frost | 332 | 15.05 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Victoria

Victoria (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Keith Tebbs | 839 | 20.30 |
| | Conservative | Rita Amos | 828 | 20.03 |
| | Conservative | Alan Vincent | 779 | 18.85 |
| | Labour | Fred Greenhalgh | 615 | 14.88 |
| | Labour | Christopher Brooks | 545 | 13.19 |
| | Labour | Paul Meehan | 527 | 12.75 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Warren

Warren (3 Councillors) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Margaret Anderton | 863 | 21.26 |
| | Labour | Irene Robinson | 821 | 20.22 |
| | Labour | George Irish | 777 | 19.14 |
| | Conservative | Andrea Whitehouse | 562 | 13.84 |
| | Conservative | Roger Berry | 546 | 13.45 |
| | Conservative | William Proctor | 491 | 12.09 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |

### Wyresdale

Wyresdale (1 Councillor) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Richard Collinson | 369 | 53.17 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Hazel Ronson | 325 | 46.83 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 44 | 6.34 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 694 | |