Trailer - Local Elections May 2003

Elections were held on Thursday 1st May 2003 in all Scottish Councils, and 308 English Local Authorities.

Council Elections in Wales have been postponed to 2004 - The Local Government Elections (Wales) Order 2001. Just to be clear - the Welsh Assembly Elections are going ahead in 2003!

36 Metropolitan Boroughs (all by thirds)
Barnsley
Birmingham
Bolton
Bradford
Bury
Calderdale
Coventry
Doncaster
Dudley
Gateshead
Kirklees
Knowsley
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salford
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Solihull
South Tyneside
St Helens
Stockport
Sunderland
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
27 Unitary Authorities all-up
Links are to Electoral Change Orders coming into effect with these elections
* Stockton-on-Tees was scheduled for re-warding but the final report came way too late for implementation
+++ Elections by thirds from 2004.
Bath & N.E. Somerset
Blackpool
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Brighton & Hove
Darlington
East Riding of Yorkshire
Herefordshire
Leicester
Luton
Medway
Middlesbrough
North East Lincolnshire +++
North Lincolnshire
North Somerset
Nottingham
Plymouth +++
Poole
Redcar & Cleveland
Rutland
South Gloucestershire
Stockton-on-Tees *
Telford & Wrekin
Torbay
West Berkshire
Windsor & Maidenhead
York
13 Unitary Authorities by thirds
The elections due in Blackburn with Darwen, Halton, Thurrock, Peterborough, and Warrington, have been postponed to 2004 - when all-up elections will be held.
Bristol
Derby
Hartlepool
Kingston upon Hull
Milton Keynes
Portsmouth
Reading
Slough
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Stoke-on-Trent
Swindon
Wokingham
150 Second-tier districts all-up
Links are to Electoral Change Orders coming into effect with these elections
+++ Elections by thirds from 2004.
Allerdale
Alnwick
Arun
Ashfield
Ashford
Aylesbury Vale
Babergh
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Blaby
Blyth Valley
Bolsover
Boston
Braintree
Breckland
Bridgnorth
Bromsgrove
Broxtowe
Canterbury
Caradon
Carrick
Castle Morpeth
Castle Point +++
Charnwood
Chelmsford
Chesterfield
Chester-le-Street
Chichester
Chiltern
Christchurch
Copeland
Corby
Cotswold
Dacorum
Dartford
Derbyshire Dales
Derwentside
Dover
Durham
Easington
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
East Lindsey
East Northamptonshire
East Staffordshire
Eden
Epsom & Ewell
Erewash
Fenland
Forest Heath
Forest of Dean
Fylde
Gedling
Gravesham
Guildford
Hambleton
Harborough
High Peak
Hinckley & Bosworth
Horsham
Kennet
Kerrier
Kettering
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk
Lancaster
Lewes
Lichfield
Maldon
Malvern Hills
Mansfield
Melton
Mendip
Mid Bedfordshire
Mid Devon
Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex
New Forest
Newark & Sherwood
North Cornwall
North Devon
North Dorset
North East Derbyshire
North Kesteven
North Norfolk
North Shropshire
North Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire
North Wiltshire
Northampton
Oadby & Wigston
Oswestry
Restormel
Ribble Valley
Richmondshire
Rother
Rushcliffe
Ryedale
Salisbury
Scarborough
Sedgefield
Sedgemoor
Selby
Sevenoaks
Shepway
South Bucks
South Derbyshire
South Hams
South Holland
South Kesteven
South Norfolk
South Northamptonshire
South Oxfordshire
South Ribble
South Shropshire
South Somerset
South Staffordshire
Spelthorne
St Edmundsbury
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Suffolk Coastal
Surrey Heath
Taunton Deane
Teesdale
Teignbridge
Tendring
Test Valley
Tewkesbury
Thanet
Tonbridge & Malling
Torridge
Tynedale
Uttlesford
Vale of White Horse
Vale Royal
Wansbeck
Warwick
Waverley
Wealden
Wear Valley
Wellingborough
West Devon
West Dorset
West Somerset
West Wiltshire
Wychavon
Wycombe
Wyre
82 Second-tier districts by thirds
No elections this year in Cheltenham, Fareham, Gosport, Hastings, Nuneaton & Bedworth, or Oxford, which are changing to elections by halves -
The Local Authorities (Scheme for Elections of Specified Councils) (England) Order 2002
Adur
Amber Valley
Barrow-in-Furness
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane
Bassetlaw
Bedford
Brentwood
Broadland
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Carlisle
Cherwell
Chester
Chorley
Colchester
Congleton
Craven
Crawley
Crewe & Nantwich
Daventry
Eastbourne
Eastleigh
Ellesmere Port & Neston
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Gloucester
Great Yarmouth
Harlow
Harrogate
Hart
Havant
Hertsmere
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
Macclesfield
Maidstone
Mole Valley
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North Hertfordshire
Norwich
Pendle
Penwith
Preston
Purbeck
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
Shrewsbury & Atcham
South Bedfordshire
South Cambs
South Lakeland
St Albans
Stevenage
Stratford-on-Avon
Stroud
Swale
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford
Waveney
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Oxfordshire
Weymouth & P'land
Winchester
Woking
Worcester
Worthing
Wyre Forest
32 Scottish Councils all-up
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll & Bute
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries & Galloway
Dundee
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh
Falkirk
Fife
Glasgow
Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian
Moray
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Orkney
Perth & Kinross
Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian
Western Isles

16 Feb 2017 Fix links to Statutory Instruments

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