2000_Pendle_Council_election

2000 Pendle Borough Council election

2000 Pendle Borough Council election

2000 UK local government election


The 2000 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Background

Before the election, the Liberal Democrats held 23 seats, compared to 19 for Labour and 8 Conservatives, while one seat was vacant.[3] Seventeen seats were being contested, with two seats being up for election in Waterside ward after Labour councillor Ann Doult resigned from the council due to ill health.[3] The Liberal Democrats only contested 13 of the 17 seats, saying "we're concentrating our resources where we think it's best".[3]

Election result

The results saw no party win a majority on the council, but the Labour party gained 4 seats.[4]

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Ward results

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By-elections between 2000 and 2002

A by-election in Horsfield ward took place on 1 March 2001 after Labour councillor Colin Nightingale resigned his seat on the council due to pressure of work.[8] The Liberal Democrats gained the seat from Labour by 429 votes, with the former mayoress of Pendle, Dorothy Lord, regaining a seat on the council after she had lost her seat in Vivary Bridge at the 2000 election.[8]

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References

  1. "Pendle". BBC News Online. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  2. "Local council results". Financial Times. 6 May 2000. p. 6.
  3. "LibDems give up on four seats". Lancashire Telegraph. 5 April 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  4. "Labour singing the Blues". Lancashire Telegraph. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  5. "Election results". Pendle Borough Council. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  6. "Election results: local councils". The Times. 6 May 2000. p. 10.
  7. "Pendle election results". Lancashire Telegraph. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  8. "Former mayoress wins by-election". Lancashire Telegraph. 3 March 2001. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  9. "Local Authority Byelection Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2014.

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