2004 Stroud District Council election

2004 UK local government election

The 2004 Stroud Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Stroud local election result 2004
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	11	1	1	61.1	42.0	11,626	+6.4%
Labour	4	0	0	22.2	21.1	5,842	-3.5%
Liberal Democrats	2	1	1	11.1	19.2	5,306	-1.1%
Green	1	0	0	5.6	14.1	3,891	-1.3%
UKIP	0	0	0	0	2.5	679	+1.5%
Independent	0	0	0	0	1.0	274	-2.1%
English Democrat	0	0	0	0	0.2	64	+0.2%

Ward results

Amberley and Woodchester
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Glanfield	526	56.0	+2.1
	Green	Mark Welton	146	15.5	−2.5
	Labour	John Appleton	140	14.9	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	John Howe	128	13.6	−1.5
Majority			380	40.4	+4.4
Turnout			940
	Conservative hold		Swing

Berkeley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Benjamin Francis	745	50.2
	Labour	Michael Denning	450	30.3
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Lloyd-Jones	170	11.5
	Green	David Michael	118	8.0
Majority			295	19.9
Turnout			1,483
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cainscross
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Burling	694	38.7	−9.8
	Conservative	Elizabeth Price Jones	507	28.3	+5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Tomlinson	379	21.2	−0.6
	Green	John Harris	211	11.8	+4.7
Majority			184	10.4	−15.4
Turnout			1,791
	Labour hold		Swing

Chalford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Susan Fellows	880	41.7	−4.8
	Green	David Wood	402	19.0	+2.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Freeman	325	15.4	+0.7
	UKIP	Leslie Banstead	255	12.1	+6.4
	Labour	David Taylor	250	11.8	−5.0
Majority			478	22.6	−7.1
Turnout			2,112
	Conservative hold		Swing

Dursley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Fowles	667	32.7	+11.4
	Conservative	Loraine Patrick	614	30.1	−3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Blitz	473	23.2	−19.3
	UKIP	Ronald Bishop	137	6.7	+4.5
	Green	Katherine Mundy	83	4.1	+4.1
	English Democrat	Robert Howells	64	3.1	+3.1
Majority			53	2.6
Turnout			2,038
	Labour hold		Swing

Eastington and Standish
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kenneth Stephens	282	41.1	−6.4
	Conservative	Thomas James	270	39.4	+1.0
	Green	Valerie Hicken	73	10.6	−3.5
	Liberal Democrats	Milner Howe	61	8.9	+8.9
Majority			12	1.7	−7.4
Turnout			686
	Labour hold		Swing

Hardwicke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Tomlins	743	59.9
	Labour	Henrietta Nichols	258	20.8
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Hartley	240	19.3
Majority			485	39.1
Turnout			1,241
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kingswood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Hemming	419	51.0	−21.7
	Conservative	Owen Inskip	350	42.6	+15.3
	Labour	Jean Smalley	52	6.3	+6.3
Majority			69	8.4	−37.1
Turnout			821
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Minchinhampton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Forbes	857	53.0	−6.6
	Labour	Rhian Griffiths	285	17.6	−4.5
	Liberal Democrats	Colleen Rothwell	221	13.7	−1.3
	Green	Oscar Hull	135	8.3	+8.3
	UKIP	Adrian Blake	120	7.4	+4.2
Majority			572	35.4	−2.1
Turnout			1,618
	Conservative hold		Swing

Nailsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorcas Binns	812	35.8	+2.7
	Green	John Nicholson	721	31.8	−0.2
	Labour	Audrey Smith	375	16.5	−5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Howe	191	8.4	−5.0
	UKIP	Alan Lomas	167	7.4	+7.4
Majority			91	4.0	+2.9
Turnout			2,266
	Conservative hold		Swing

Painswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Barbara Tait	1,112	55.4
	Green	Martin Sherrard	457	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	David Harcup	310	15.5
	Labour	Andrew Read	127	6.3
Majority			655	32.7
Turnout			2,006
	Conservative hold		Swing

Rodborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Sinfield	471	30.9	−8.3
	Green	Penelope Wildgoose	407	26.7	−5.2
	Independent	Charles Townley	274	18.0	+18.0
	Labour	Martin Alder	254	16.7	−5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Darren Jones	118	7.7	+1.0
Majority			64	4.2	−3.2
Turnout			1,524
	Conservative hold		Swing

Severn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Norman Smith	827	53.1
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Stayte	453	29.1
	Labour	John Greenwood	277	17.8
Majority			374	24.0
Turnout			1,557
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stonehouse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mattie Ross	940	45.6	−1.4
	Conservative	Philip Bevan	736	35.7	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	June Snell	206	10.0	+0.5
	Green	Clare Sheridan	179	8.7	+0.1
Majority			204	9.9	−2.1
Turnout			2,061
	Labour hold		Swing

The Stanleys
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Raymond Apperley	672	42.7
	Labour	Karin Degenberg	334	21.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Owen	290	18.4
	Green	Thomas Bermingham	279	17.7
Majority			338	21.5
Turnout			1,575
	Conservative hold		Swing

Upton St Leonards
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Ardron	374	39.2	+39.2
	Conservative	Michael Beard	372	39.0	−18.4
	Green	Peter Adams	116	12.2	−10.4
	Labour	Campbell Smith	92	9.6	−10.3
Majority			2	0.2
Turnout			954
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Sarah Lunnon	319	48.6	+0.2
	Conservative	Jenefer Wythe	174	26.5	+2.8
	Labour	Thomas Williams	100	15.2	−3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Rogers	64	9.7	+0.4
Majority			145	22.1	−2.6
Turnout			657
	Green hold		Swing

Wotton-Under-Edge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sydney Gowers	958	40.7	−6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Galbraith	884	37.6	−15.2
	Labour	Helen Roberts	265	11.3	+11.3
	Green	Christopher Dunn	245	10.4	+10.4
Majority			74	3.1
Turnout			2,352
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

References

"Stroud council". BBC News Online. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
"Local councils". Financial Times. 12 June 2004. p. 7.
^ "June 10th 2004 Election Results". Stroud District Council. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
"Ballot box". The Times. 12 June 2004. p. 26.

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