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2003 Swindon Borough Council election

2003 UK local government election

2003 Swindon Borough Council election
Summary

2003 UK local government election

Liberal Democrats]] in yellow. Wards in grey were not contested in 2003.

The 2003 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Swindon Unitary Council in Wiltshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was

  • Conservative 29
  • Labour 22
  • Liberal Democrat 8

Voting trial

Swindon was one of 3 councils which trialed voting by television in 2003 for the first time anywhere in the world. Voters in Swindon also had 8 electronic information kiosks in the town centre where they could vote, telephone and internet voting. These trials, which were open for voting in the week before the election,

Overall turnout in the election was 29.82%, lower than in 2002.{{cite news | title = Life: Inside IT: News

Election result

|seats % = 60.0 |votes % = 41.8 |plus/minus = +3.2% |seats % = 25.0 |votes % = 30.7 |plus/minus = -3.5% |seats % = 15.0 |votes % = 25.3 |plus/minus = +1.0% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.7 |plus/minus = +0.3% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.7 |plus/minus = +0.7% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.6 |plus/minus = -1.2% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.3 |plus/minus = +0.3%

Ward results

References

References

  1. "Local elections". BBC News.
  2. (2003-05-03). "How Britain voted: English and Scottish councils". The Independent.
  3. (2003-04-26). "Britain: Pol idol; Television voting". [[The Economist]].
  4. (2003-04-29). "Text, e-mail, click...just vote, please". The Times.
  5. Mathieson, SA. (2003-05-01). "Inside IT: X marks the spot: Today's local elections mark the biggest experiment so far in e-voting". The Guardian.
  6. Parker, Simon. (2003-04-30). "Society: Cross culture: The government is putting its faith in the potential of electronic voting to the test in tomorrow's local elections. But are indifference and disillusionment the real enemies of democracy?". The Guardian.
  7. "Swindon Borough Council Election Results 1 May 2003". Political Science Resources.
  8. (2003-05-11). "West: Voting, which way now?". BBC News.
  9. (2003-05-02). "Election results; English Councils; Local elections 2003". The Times.
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