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2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election

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The 2004 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by six. The Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.

Background

Since the 2003 election boundary changes reduced the number of councillors from 54 to 48, while also reducing the number of wards from 18 to 16.

Election result

Labour lost their majority of the council, after losing 9 seats to take exactly half of the seats on the council, with 24 councillors. The Labour leader of the council, Marie Rimmer held her seat in West Park after 3 recounts, while Labour councillors Terry Hanley, Jeff Molyneux and Marlene Quinn were among those to be defeated. Overall turnout at the election dropped to 40% from 48% in 2003,

Following the election Labour continued to run the council with all of the executive being Labour councillors, after an agreement between the Labour and Conservative group leaders. This saw Conservative Betty Lowe becoming the new mayor, but only after agreeing not to use her vote at full council meetings.

|seats % = 50.0 |votes % = 42.3 |plus/minus = -6.2% |seats % = 37.5 |votes % = 40.0 |plus/minus = +6.6% |seats % = 12.5 |votes % = 15.6 |plus/minus = -1.4% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 1.5 |plus/minus = +0.6% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.3 |plus/minus = +0.3% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.2 |plus/minus = +0.2%

Ward results

References

References

  1. (11 June 2004). "St Helens council". BBC News.
  2. (12 June 2004). "Ballot box – Elections". [[NewsBank]].
  3. Bianchi, Stefania. (17 June 2004). "Election quake rocks town hall". [[NewsBank]].
  4. Beattie, Jason. (11 June 2004). "Losses in the heartlands and there may be more defeats". [[NewsBank]].
  5. Kilmurray, Andrew. (11 June 2004). "Labour loses control of St Helens". [[NewsBank]].
  6. Bianchi, Stefania. (17 June 2004). "Move forward say Lib Dems". [[NewsBank]].
  7. Kelly, Andy. (11 June 2004). "Elections 2004: The big question -was postal vote a success?". [[NewsBank]].
  8. Cummins, Liz. (8 July 2004). "Labour takes control of the executive". [[NewsBank]].
  9. Kilmurray, Andrew. (24 June 2004). "Betty keeps mayor's chain". [[NewsBank]].
  10. "Election Results". St Helens Council.
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