# 2000 Oxford City Council election

Elections to Oxford City Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council seats were up for election. The Labour Party lost its majority on the council to no overall control. The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 21, Liberal Democrat 21, Green 8 and Conservative 1. Overall turnout was 31.1%

## Election result

Oxford Local Election Result 2000 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Liberal Democrats | 9 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 50.0 | 30.8 | 9,930 | +2.6% |
| Labour | 5 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 27.8 | 30.4 | 9,785 | -5.9% |
| Green | 3 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 16.7 | 18.6 | 6,000 | +1.4% |
| Conservative | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 5.6 | 19.5 | 6,301 | +2.4% |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 120 | -0.6% |
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 98 | +0.0% |

## Ward results

Blackbird Leys :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Patrick Stannard | 594 | 61.4 | −11.9 |
| | Conservative | Laura Postlethwaite | 179 | 18.5 | +9.1 |
| | Green | Patricia Dickson | 97 | 10.0 | +1.1 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Alexander Macfie | 97 | 10.0 | +1.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 415 | 42.9 | −21.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 967 | 12.3 | −1.3 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Green | Paul Ingram | 488 | 30.5 | −7.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Antony Brett | 456 | 28.5 | +1.4 |
| | Labour | Edward Turner | 409 | 25.6 | +9.4 |
| | Conservative | Andrea Cummins | 245 | 15.3 | −3.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 32 | 2.0 | −8.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,598 | 25.5 | +7.1 |
| | Green hold | Green hold | Swing | | |
Cherwell :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Connett | 923 | 44.1 | +6.6 |
| | Conservative | Simon Mort | 757 | 36.2 | +2.2 |
| | Labour | Patricia Brown | 272 | 13.0 | −6.6 |
| | Green | Stella Hudson | 141 | 6.7 | −2.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 166 | 7.9 | +4.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,093 | 41.0 | +2.7 |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Richard Tarver | 790 | 45.5 | +4.9 |
| | Green | Gail Hemming | 680 | 39.2 | −9.2 |
| | Conservative | William Coulstock | 151 | 8.7 | +2.9 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Pieter-Paul Barker | 115 | 6.6 | +1.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 110 | 6.3 | −1.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,736 | 29.7 | −1.7 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Headington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fairweather-Tall | 832 | 44.4 | |
| | Labour | Leslie Town | 582 | 31.1 | |
| | Conservative | William Clare | 372 | 19.9 | |
| | Green | Andrew Taylor | 86 | 4.6 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,872 | 29.4 | +0.4 |
| | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Iffley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Penwarden | 933 | 44.5 | +32.8 |
| | Labour | Bryan Keen | 614 | 29.3 | −22.3 |
| | Conservative | James French | 353 | 16.8 | −7.3 |
| | Green | Nuala Young | 195 | 9.3 | −3.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 319 | 15.2 | −12.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,095 | 37.4 | +12.1 |
| | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Littlemore :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Gillian Sanders | 493 | 42.3 | −20.2 |
| | Conservative | John Young | 390 | 33.4 | +16.5 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Vicky Potter | 171 | 14.7 | +4.4 |
| | Green | Daniel O'Brien | 112 | 9.6 | −0.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 103 | 8.9 | −36.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,166 | 22.8 | +2.3 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Marston :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Barbara Burgess | 760 | 46.9 | +19.1 |
| | Labour | Sam Timms | 516 | 31.9 | −15.3 |
| | Green | Katherine Wedell | 183 | 11.3 | −1.4 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stephen Howarth | 161 | 9.9 | −2.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 244 | 15.0 | −4.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,620 | 33.8 | +5.7 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
North :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jean Fooks | 825 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stephen Brown | 677 | | |
| | Green | Donald O'Neal | 374 | | |
| | Labour | Cherry Mosteshar | 320 | | |
| | Green | Donald Smith | 316 | | |
| | Conservative | Elizabeth Prypr | 285 | | |
| | Conservative | Robert Porter | 280 | | |
| | Labour | Stuart Skyte | 263 | | |
| | Independent | John Rose | 120 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,460 | 31.1 | −1.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
Old Marston & Risinghurst :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Mark Whittaker | 699 | 40.9 | −9.9 |
| | Labour | Kenji Tiwari | 544 | 31.9 | +4.0 |
| | Conservative | Duncan Hatfield | 390 | 22.8 | +5.2 |
| | Green | Pritam Singh | 75 | 4.4 | +0.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 155 | 9.0 | −13.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,708 | 34.8 | −1.1 |
| | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Quarry :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Julian Allison | 929 | 49.1 | +6.2 |
| | Labour | Andrew Brown | 496 | 26.2 | −11.8 |
| | Conservative | Philip Hodgson | 358 | 18.9 | +4.4 |
| | Green | Tracy Dighton-Brown | 108 | 5.7 | +1.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 433 | 22.9 | +18.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,891 | 31.5 | −3.6 |
| | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | | |
St. Clement's :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Green | Jacob Sanders | 897 | 47.9 | +4.3 |
| | Labour | Mohammad Abbasi | 617 | 33.0 | +2.5 |
| | Conservative | Thomas Garner | 211 | 11.3 | +3.6 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Martin Stone | 146 | 7.8 | +1.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 280 | 14.9 | +1.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,871 | 24.6 | −0.3 |
| | Green hold | Green hold | Swing | | |
South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Green | Deborah Glass | 1,202 | 46.2 | +5.8 |
| | Labour | John Tanner | 961 | 37.0 | −5.9 |
| | Conservative | Prudence Dailey | 299 | 11.5 | +1.5 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Mark Hinnells | 137 | 5.3 | −1.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 241 | 9.2 | +6.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,599 | 42.1 | +4.1 |
| | Green gain from Labour | Green gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Temple Cowley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Robert Hoyle | 865 | 51.0 | −0.5 |
| | Labour | Francine Baker | 503 | 29.6 | −5.7 |
| | Conservative | Georgina Shomroni | 193 | 11.4 | +2.9 |
| | Green | Lilia Patterson | 136 | 8.0 | +3.3 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 362 | 21.4 | +5.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,697 | 30.1 | −3.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Susanna Pressel | 1,011 | 45.7 | +5.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Valerie Harris | 832 | 37.6 | +7.8 |
| | Green | Carole Guberman | 187 | 8.5 | −11.7 |
| | Conservative | Steven Doody | 183 | 8.3 | −1.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 179 | 8.1 | −2.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,213 | 38.7 | +3.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Wolvercote :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stephen Goddard | 1,001 | 43.4 | −2.2 |
| | Green | Michael Buck | 556 | 24.1 | +12.5 |
| | Conservative | Jason Tomes | 542 | 23.5 | −5.6 |
| | Labour | Wendy Piatt | 207 | 9.0 | −4.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 445 | 19.3 | +2.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,306 | 39.7 | −1.5 |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
Wood Farm :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Peter Johnson | 593 | 44.2 | −11.2 |
| | Conservative | Christopher Connolly | 353 | 26.3 | +11.2 |
| | Green | David Dalton | 167 | 12.4 | +2.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Bernard Gowers | 131 | 9.8 | −2.6 |
| | Liberal | Roger Jenking | 98 | 7.3 | +0.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 240 | 17.9 | −22.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,342 | 24.5 | +2.1 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |