COLCHESTER One third of council up for election.No overall control. Liberal Democrats provide leader Political make-up in May 2002: Lib Dem 26, Con 24, Lab 6, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4.
COLCHESTER
One third of council up for election.
No overall control. Liberal Democrats provide leader
Political make-up in May 2002: Lib Dem 26, Con 24, Lab 6, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4. Now: Lib Dem 23, Con 24, Lab 4, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4, Highwoods Group 3, Independent Labour 1, Vacancy
Berechurch (1): *Susan Brooks (LD), Sarah McLean (Con), Julia Thomas (L).
Birch and Winstree (1): Audrey Spencer (L), Barry Woodward (LD), *Peter Crowe (Con).
Castle (1): Malcolm Cannon (L), *Kenneth Jones (LD), Walter Schwarz (Green Party), Pauline Lucas (Con).
Christchurch (1): Dave Canning (L), Martin Hunt (LD), *Roger Buston (Con).
Copford and West Stanway (1): Anna Trudgian (L), Anothony Scott-Boutell (LD), *Elizabeth Blundell (Con), Patrick Mead (Ind).
Fordham and Stour Ward (1): Wilma Sutton (LD), *Nigel Chapman (Con), Gary Griffiths (L).
Great Tey (1): Alan Trudgian (L), *Peter Chillingworth (Con), Carolyn Catney (LD).
Highwoods (1): *Ian Ringer (Ind), Edmund Chinnery (L), Alan Hayman (LD), Maris Fuller (Con).
Mile End (1): Jane Chinnery (Ind), *Anne Turrell (LD), Jane Rosehart Smith (L), Mary Hilda Bryan (Green Party), Shahid Naim Husain (Con).
New Town (1): Jane Green (L), *Margaret Fisher (LD), Glenn Bath (Con).
Prettygate (1): Luke Dopson (L), Sandra Gray (LD), *Ron Levy (Con).
St Andrew's (1): *Tim Young (L), Jim Jepps (SA), Jennifer Berriman (LD), Anne Allan (Con).
St Anne's (1): Peter Brine (L), *Barrie Cook (LD), Angus Allan (Con), David Isaacson (Social Alliance).
Shrub End (1): Richard Bourne (L), John Coombes (Social Alliance), Barbara Williamson (LD), *Alan Scattergood (Con).
Stanway (1): John Spademan (L), *Lesley Scott-Boutell (LD), John Reeves (Con).
Tiptree (1): Alan Mogridge (L), *Anne Burgess (Ind), Stella Barnes (Green), Margaret Crowe (Con).
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green (1): Ian Yates (L), Una Jones (LD), *Jill Tod (Con).
West Mersea (1): Bry Mogridge (L), *Margaret Kimberley (Con), Ronald Baker (LD).
Wivenhoe Cross (2): Paul Bishop (L), Aulay Mackenzie (L), *David Adams (Con), Eugene Kraft (Con), Barry James (LD).
Wivenhoe Quay (1): Stephen Ford (L), *Richard Davies (Ind), Christopher Fox (Green), Kenneth Rogers (Con).
* denotes councillor seeking re-election
Figure in brackets denotes number of councillors to be elected.
Key: Conservative (Con), Labour (Lab), Liberal Democrat (LD), Green Party (Green), Independent (Ind), Socialist Alliance (SA)
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