en 2003 Alnwick District Council election - 2025

An election for the Alnwick District Council was held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. One of the three seats in the Rothbury and South Rural ward had no candidate for the seat - a subsequent by-election on 12 June was won by an independent candidate.

Election result

Alnwick Local Election Result 2003
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Independent	14	+3	48.3	53.7	5,487
Liberal Democrats	10	-3	34.5	30.0	3,062
Conservative	3	+1	10.3	4.1	420
Labour	2	0	6.9	11.6	1,184
UKIP	0	0	0.0	0.6	63

5 Liberal Democrat, 2 Conservative and 1 Independent candidates were unopposed.

Ward results

Alnwick Castle (3)
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal Democrats	David Archer	unopposed
Liberal Democrats	Alastair Graham	unopposed
Liberal Democrats	Kevin Thompson	unopposed

Alnwick Clayport (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Kenneth Gray	295
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen Blakey	231
	Conservative	Karl Poulsen	29
Turnout			555	20.7

Alnwick Hotspur (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Gordon Castle	403
	Independent	John Wright	245
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Willa	183
	Labour	Louis Levi	116
Turnout			947	31.7

Amble Central (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Audrey Jones	299
	Labour	Elizabeth Gray	231
	Liberal Democrats	Teresa Hedley	191
	Independent	Thomas Evans	124
Turnout			845	30.0

Amble East (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Arckless	363
	Liberal Democrats	John Hedley	228
	Independent	George Smailes	117
	Conservative	Rebecca Poulsen	61
Turnout			769	27.2

Amble West (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Henry Stewart	277
	Independent	Carl Oliver	253
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Hinson	229
	Labour	Christopher Rollo	153
Turnout			912	33.0

Embleton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Lydia Cairns	246	56.4
	Independent	June Burnie	190	43.6
Majority			56	12.8
Turnout			436	55.4

Harbottle and Elsdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Susan Bolam	unopposed

Hedgeley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Taylor	unopposed

Lesbury (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Hugh Philipson	595
	Conservative	John Orde	330
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Vass	275
Turnout			1,200	51.5

Longframlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Trevor Thorne	unopposed

Longhoughton with Craster and Rennington (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Grey	353
	Independent	Ann Glass	294
	Independent	Thomas Spence	211
Turnout			858	38.9

Rothbury and South Rural (3)
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal Democrats	Peter Dawson	unopposed
Liberal Democrats	Andrew Duffield	unopposed
	No candidate

Shilbottle (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Maria Haddow	614
	Independent	Vera Vaggs	559
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Rickwood	445
	Labour	Mary Dixon	321
	Independent	Eric Thomason	311
Turnout			1,618	40.2

Warkworth (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Susan Champion	472
	Independent	Jeffrey Watson	326
	Liberal Democrats	John Elliott	323
Turnout			1,121	38.8

Whittingham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Rutherford	197	61.0
	UKIP	Ian Dodds	63	19.5
	Liberal Democrats	Noel Peberdy	63	19.5
Majority			134	41.5
Turnout			323	39.6

External links

BBC report of 2003 Alnwick election result
Ward results and map (Archived 2009-10-25)

v t e Council elections in Northumberland
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Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
Blyth Valley Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
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Tynedale District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
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2003 Alnwick District Council election

Election result

Ward results

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