2004 City of Lincoln Council election

English political election

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10 June 2004

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11 of the 33 seats to City of Lincoln Council
17 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Last election	27	6	0
Seats won	5	5	1
Seats after	25	7	1
Seat change	2	1	1
Popular vote	9,450	9,689	3,211
Percentage	39.2%	40.2%	13.3%

Map showing the results of the 2004 Lincoln City Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats, blue shows Conservative seats and orange shows Liberal Democrat seats.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

Elections to City of Lincoln Council in Lincolnshire, England, were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Lincoln Local Election Result 2004
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	5	1	0	1	45.5	40.2	9,689	4.4
Labour	5	0	2	2	45.5	39.2	9,450	12.3
Liberal Democrats	1	1	0	1	9.1	13.3	3,211	10.4
Lincoln Independent Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	5.0	1,218	0.2
Socialist Alternative	0	0	0		0.0	1.4	329	1.4
Independent	0	0	0		0.0	0.9	222	1.3

All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 2000 election.

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Fay Smith	703	42.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Margetts	489	29.3
	Conservative	Anne Duguid	479	28.7
Majority			214	12.8
Turnout			1,671	40.0%
	Labour hold

Birchwood

Birchwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Edmund Strengiel	1,015	48.3
	Labour	Julie Cooper	756	36.0
	Socialist Alternative	Ryan Hayward	329	15.7
Majority			259	12.3
Turnout			2,100	38.9%
	Conservative hold

Boultham

Boultham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Amode Toofany	979	43.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jayne Fisk	637	28.3
	Conservative	Darius Laws	635	28.2
Majority			342	15.2
Turnout			2,251	41.4%
	Labour hold

Bracebridge

Bracebridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Hilton Spratt	1,575	59.0
	Labour	Kevin Parnham	1,093	41.0
Majority			482	18.0
Turnout			2,668	43.3%
	Conservative hold

Carholme

Carholme
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Neil Murray	767	36.6
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Shaw	596	28.5
	Conservative	Jayne Harris	509	24.3
	Independent	Peter McGovern	222	10.6
Majority			171	8.1
Turnout			2,094	45.4%
	Labour hold

Castle

Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Donald Nannestad	790	40.7
	Conservative	Michael Reeve	426	21.9
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Mappin	372	19.2
	Lincoln Independent Alliance	Richard Hall	353	18.2
Majority			364	18.8
Turnout			1,941	42.1%
	Labour hold

Glebe

Glebe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lawrence Wells	926	38.2
	Lincoln Independent Alliance	George Spencer	865	35.7
	Conservative	Geoffrey Brooking	634	26.1
Majority			61	2.5
Turnout			2,425	45.4%
	Labour hold

Hartsholme

Hartsholme
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ronald Hills	1,710	63.7
	Labour	Elizabeth Jones	973	36.3
Majority			737	27.4
Turnout			2,683	41.6%
	Conservative hold

Minster

Minster
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Gratrick	1,099	46.2
	Labour	Winston Duncan	760	32.0
	Liberal Democrats	Daphne Shaw	518	21.8
Majority			339	14.2
Turnout			2,377	46.1%
	Conservative hold

Moorland

Moorland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Bellamy	1,181	51.4
	Labour	Denise Moore	1,117	48.6
Majority			64	2.8
Turnout			2,298	41.6%
	Conservative hold

Park

Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Quinton	599	37.2
	Labour	Patrick Vaughan	586	36.4
	Conservative	Paul Grice	426	26.4
Majority			13	0.8
Turnout			1,611	33.5%
	Liberal Democrats hold

References

"Council compositions by year". The Elections Centre.
"Local Election Summaries 2004". The Elections Centre.
"Council by Council - Lincoln". BBC News. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ Andrew Teale. "Local Election Results 2004 - Lincoln". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 5 November 2019.

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Former councils
Holland County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
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Boothferry Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Cleethorpes Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Glanford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Great Grimsby Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 Abolished
Scunthorpe Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 Abolished

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