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2002 Croydon London Borough Council election

2002 local election in England

Field	Value
election_name	Croydon Council Election, 2002
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1998 Croydon London Borough Council election
previous_year	1998
election_date	4 May 2002
next_election	2006 Croydon London Borough Council election
next_year	2006
seats_for_election	All 70 seats to Croydon London Borough Council
majority_seats	36
turnout	34.5%
leader1	Hugh Malyan
party1	Labour Party (UK)
leader_since1	1999
leaders_seat1	Upper Norwood
last_election1	38 seats, 38.2%
seats1	37
seat_change1	1
popular_vote1	31,871
percentage1	38.0%
leader2	Dudley Mead
leader_since2	1998
party2	Conservative Party (UK)
leaders_seat2	Selsdon & Ballards
last_election2	31 seats, 47.5%
seats2	32
seat_change2	1
popular_vote2	37,908
percentage2	45.2%
leader3	Ian Atkins
party3	Liberal Democrats (UK)
leader_since3	1998
leaders_seat3	Coulsdon East
last_election3	1 seat, 12.1%
seats3	1
seat_change3
popular_vote3	27,608
percentage3	12.2%
map_image	Croydon London UK local election 2002 map.svg
map_size	330px
map_caption	Map of the results of the 2002 Croydon council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Labour Co-operative in dark red and Liberal Democrats in yellow
title	Leader of the Council.
posttitle	Elected Leader
before_election	Hugh Malyan
before_party	Labour Party (UK)
after_election	Hugh Malyan
after_party	Labour Party (UK)

Elections to Croydon Council in London, England were held on 4 May 2002. The council was up for election for the first time since the 1998 election. The Labour Party managed to keep control of the council which it had done since 1994 when it took power from the Conservative Party. This year Labour held Croydon with a smaller majority, only clinging onto power through a tiny number of votes in its marginal wards - one councillor won by just eight votes.

37 Labour councillors, 32 Conservative councillors and 1 Liberal Democrat councillor were elected, maintaining Labour control of the Council. Subsequently, one Conservative councillor defected to Labour, defected back to the Conservatives, became an independent and then a Liberal Democrat.

Election result

|seats % = 45.7 |votes % = 45.2 |plus/minus = |seats % = 52.9 |votes % = 38.0 |plus/minus = |seats % = 1.4 |votes % = 12.2 |plus/minus = |seats % = |votes % = 1.7 |plus/minus = |seats % = |votes % = 1.2 |plus/minus = |seats % = |votes % = 1.1 |plus/minus = |seats % = |votes % = 0.3 |plus/minus = |seats % = |votes % = 0.2 |plus/minus = |}

Ward results

Addiscombe

Ashburton

Bensham Manor

Broad Green

Coulsdon East

Coulsdon West

Croham

|reg. electors = 10,639

Fairfield

Fieldway

Heathfield

Kenley

New Addington

Norbury

Purley

Sanderstead

Selhurst

Selsdon & Ballards

Shirley

South Norwood

Thornton Heath

Upper Norwood

Waddon

|reg. electors =

West Thornton

Woodside

|reg. electors =

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