2004 Coventry City Council election

Elections to Coventry City Council were held in June 2004. Due to boundary changes, the entire council was up for election. The council remained with no overall control, but the Conservatives became the largest party.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Coventry Local Election Result 2008
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %
Conservative	27	4	1	+4	50.00
Labour	22	2	4	-2	40.74
Liberal Democrats	3	1	0	+1	5.56
Socialist Alternative	2	0	1	-1	3.70
BNP	0	0	0	0	0.00
Independent	0	0	-2	-2	0.00

Ward results

Note that seat gains and losses are compared with the previous seat of the same name. All eighteen seats had redrawn boundaries.

Bablake ward^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Victor Gazey	3,035
	Conservative	Brian Kelsey	2,522
	Conservative	Andrew John Williams	2,359
	Labour	William Shakespeare	1,470
	Labour	Pamela June Darville	1,326
	Labour	Gordon Arthur Wright	1,184
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin John Weaver	974
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Binley and Willenhall ward^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David Chater	1,722
	Labour	Ram Parkesh Lakha	1,647
	Labour	John Roderick Mutton	1,639
	Conservative	Joseph Andrew Featherstone	1,399
	Conservative	Graham Richard Williams	1,332
	Conservative	Mimi Francesca Hwangpo	1,159
	Independent	Craig Deniro	845
	Liberal Democrats	David Richard Farren	784
	Socialist Alternative	David Bryan Runnalls	423
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Cheylesmore ward^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Kevin John Foster	2,284
	Conservative	Hazel Margaret Noonan	2,395
	Conservative	Linda Ann Reece	2,230
	Labour	John Boynton	1,530
	Labour	Helen Elizabeth Sinclair	1,385
	Labour	Rois Ali	1,323
	Liberal Democrats	Terence Kenny	1,084
	Independent	Irene Elizabeth Rogers	673
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Earlsdon ward^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Catherine Harper	2,789
	Conservative	Andrew McDonald Matchet	2,598
	Conservative	Kenneth John Taylor	2,657
	Labour	Kathleen Mary Fletcher	1,782
	Labour	Peter Francis Davis	1,724
	Labour	Baljinder Singh	1,341
	Liberal Democrats	Vincent John McKee	1,193
	Independent	Paul Anthony Smith	703
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Foleshill ward^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Shabbir Ahmed	2,171
	Conservative	Mohammed Asif	2,155
	Labour	Malkiat Singh Auluck	1,923
	Labour	Satnam Singh Gill	1,899
	Conservative	Harjinder Singh Sehmi	1,876
	Labour	Marilyn Ann (Mal) Mutton	1,856
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Brian Sewards	516
	Socialist Alternative	Lakshman James Hensman	332
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Henley ward^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Brian David Patton	1,643
	Labour	Lynnette Catherine Kelly	1,431
	Labour	Thomas Patrick Ruddy	1,380
	Conservative	Jean Margaret Tandy	1,323
	Conservative	Avril Rosemary Johnson	1,262
	Conservative	Mary Winifred Lee	1,222
	Liberal Democrats	Mandeep Singh Jandu	715
	Socialist Alternative	Paul David Hunt	527
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Holbrook ward^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Margaret Lancaster	1,727
	Labour	Joseph Clifford	1,652
	Labour	Evelyn Ann (Ann) Lucas	1,626
	Conservative	Scot Kereck Hatfield	992
	Conservative	Gareth David Peters	957
	Conservative	Amrit Pal Kaur Singh	881
	Liberal Democrats	Dennis Herbert Jeffrey	794
	Liberal Democrats	David Michael Field	793
	Liberal Democrats	Alice Rachel Turner	693
	Socialist Alternative	Michael Jeffrey Holton	284
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Longford ward^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	George Arthur Duggins	2,052
	Labour	Linda Joyce Bigham	2,041
	Labour	Jill Valerie (Val) Stone	1,881
	Conservative	Allan Robert Andrews	1,226
	Conservative	Harry Maeers	1,090
	Conservative	Ian Thomas Jamie	1,070
	Liberal Democrats	Derek Arthur Franklin	831
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from		Swing

Lower Stoke ward^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Jack Harrison	1,975
	Labour	John Douglas McNicholas	1,852
	Labour	Philip David Townshend	1,603
	Conservative	Michael Antony Hammon	1,396
	Conservative	Margaret Veronica Rigby	1,334
	Conservative	Marcus Edgar Lapsa	1,163
	Independent	Christine Margaret Oddy	1,156
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Ian Kay	765
	Socialist Alternative	Jane Ashwell	561
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Radford ward^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Kate Hunter	1,516
	Labour	Anthony Charles Skipper	1,345
	Labour	Keiran Pascal Mulhall	1,309
	Conservative	Mary Craggs	858
	Conservative	Brenda Mary Kelsey	812
	Conservative	Bruce William Peace	776
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Simpson	764
	Liberal Democrats	Sofia Angelica Bridger	728
	Liberal Democrats	Warwick Michael Dumas	716
	Independent	John Joseph Ryan	357
	Marxist Party	David Anderson	222
	Socialist Alternative	Frances Ann Flint	220
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Michael's ward^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Socialist Alternative	David John Nellist	1,586
	Socialist Alternative	Karen McKay	1,449
	Labour	Suleman Ismail (Solly) Bhyat	1,217
	Socialist Alternative	Robert Piers Windsor	1,201
	Labour	James Matthew O'Boyle	1,201
	Labour	Steven Peter Thomas	1,118
	Conservative	Duncan Thomas Flynn	469
	Conservative	Mary Taylor	436
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Thomas Holmes	409
	Liberal Democrats	Faye Langston	391
	Conservative	Jane Marie Westerman	361
Majority
Turnout
	Socialist Alternative hold		Swing
	Socialist Alternative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Socialist Alternative		Swing

Sherbourne ward^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Gary Christopher Ridley	1,787
	Conservative	Heather Rutter	1,767
	Conservative	David Arrowsmith	1,727
	Labour	Jayne Elisabeth Innes	1,395
	Labour	Eric Lloyd Linton	1,392
	Labour	Patrick Joseph Walsh	1,316
	Liberal Democrats	William George Haymes	897
	Socialist Alternative	Jason Arnold Toynbee	446
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Upper Stoke ward^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Derek Stephen Benefield	2,119
	Liberal Democrats	Russell David Field	2,047
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Bridget Basu	1,865
	Labour	Sucha Singh Bains	1,776
	Labour	Howard Peter Lacy	1,504
	Labour	David Stuart Welsh	1,480
	Conservative	Roger Bailey	526
	Conservative	Sharon Jane Featherstone	480
	Conservative	Hazel Ann Reece	457
	Socialist Alternative	Eleanor Griffiths	251
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Wainbody ward^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Anthony Blundell	2,811
	Conservative	Timothy Winspear Sawdon	2,753
	Conservative	Gary Edward Crookes	2,736
	Labour	Pamela Phillips	1,382
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Rhys Williams	1,356
	Labour	Jaswant Singh Sambi	1,240
	Labour	Mohammed Saeed	1,032
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Westwood ward^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David Henry Batten	1,780
	Conservative	Nigel Charles Lee	1,699
	Labour	Sheila Lacy	1,664
	Conservative	David John Skinner	1,658
	Conservative	Hannah Jane (Jane) O'Neill	1,647
	Labour	Lindsley Harvard	1,459
	Liberal Democrats	Conrad George Stephen Benefield	792
	Independent	Henderson Easton (Harry) Brooks	585
	Socialist Alternative	James Richard Donnelly	424
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Whoberley ward^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joan Ann Griffin	1,951
	Conservative	Kenneth Henry Charley	1,906
	Conservative	Clifford Leonard Ridge	1,766
	Labour	Kevin Barry Maton	1,511
	Labour	Joan Ellen Stanton	1,437
	Labour	Michael John Rawson	1,436
	Liberal Democrats	Arthur Hugh Thomas	1,242
	Socialist Alternative	Mark Edward Power	563
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Woodlands ward^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Heather Jean Johnson	2,588
	Conservative	Christian Michael Cliffe	2,584
	Conservative	Anthony John O'Neill	2,487
	Labour	Sarah Elizabeth Gold	1,541
	Labour	Myra Stella	1,308
	Labour	Joseph Akpati Ijoma	1,264
	Liberal Democrats	Gilbert Napier Penlington	982
	BNP	Roderick Malcolm Rowley	894
	Socialist Alternative	Jonathan Donald Morley	348
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wyken ward^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Susanna Ella Dixon	1,871
	Conservative	Michael Patrick Noonan	1,647
	Conservative	Yvette Maskell	1,617
	Labour	Colleen Margaret Fletcher	1,469
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Edward Dyke	1,278
	Labour	John French	1,215
	Labour	Terence Rollings	1,169
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Howarth	1,129
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Rees Lewis	1,018
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References

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