2004 Oxford City Council election

Elections to Oxford City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The council is elected by halves, so one seat in each ward was up for election (except in St Clements, where both seats were contested). Labour lost majority control of the council but remained in minority administration. Overall turnout was 37.6%, with the lowest turnout (26.5%) in Carfax ward and the highest (49.5%) in Wolvercote.

Election result

Oxford Local Election Result 2004

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrats	10	4	1	+3	40.0	30.2	12,053	+4.1%
	Labour	7	0	9	-9	28.0	27.4	10,970	-11.0%
	Green	5	4	0	+4	20.0	20.4	8,161	+1.7%
	Ind. Working Class	3	2	0	+2	12.0	3.6	1,435	+2.2%
	Conservative	0	0	0	0	0	17.6	7,019	+3.0%
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.83	333	+0.61%

Note: three Independents stood in 2004, compared with one in 2002.

The total number of seats on the Council after the election was:

• Labour - 20
• Liberal Democrats - 18
• Green - 7
• Independent Working Class Association - 3

Sources: BBC Oxford City Council

Results by ward

Map of the Oxford Wards

All results from Oxford City Council.

Barton and Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Murray	497	36.6%
	Labour	Peter Brennan	414	30.5%
	Conservative	Prudence Dailey	285	21.0%
	Green	Raymond Hitchins	149	10.9%
Turnout			1,357	31.1

Blackbird Leys

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Working Class	Lee Cole	494
	Labour	Patrick Stannard	415
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Bearder	92
	Conservative	Patricia Jones	91
	Green	Donald O'Neal	36
Turnout			1,128	28.2

Carfax

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Sargent	479
	Conservative	Edward Watkins	236
	Green	Pallas Reiss	185
	Labour	Peter Morton	185
Turnout			1,091	26.5

Churchill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Working Class	Claire Kent	386
	Labour	Peter Johnson	376
	Conservative	John Young	256
	Liberal Democrats	Sybil Dibdin	202
	Green	Matthew Ledbury	94
Turnout			1,318	28.9

Cowley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beryl Keen	616
	Liberal Democrats	Shakil Khan	369
	Green	Martin Juckes	323
	Conservative	Georgina Shomroni	262
Turnout			1,577	37.8

Cowley Marsh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sajjad-Hussain Malik	584
	Labour	Mumtaz Fareed	377
	Conservative	Judith Harley	222
	Green	David Bibby	179
	Independent	Khurshid Ahmed	74
Turnout			1,445	36.7

Headington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Tall	1,061
	Conservative	Tarrant Anderson	343
	Labour	Georgina Toynbee	193
	Green	Judith Chipchase	150
Turnout			1,753	44.2

Headington Hill and Northway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Gray	451
	Conservative	Michael Davis	434
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Altaf-Khan	287
	Green	Katherine Wedell	160
Turnout			1,337	33.8

Hinksey Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Muir	869
	Green	Lilian Sherwood	534
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Bones	282
	Conservative	Simon Mort	258
Turnout			1,956	44.3

Holywell

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Matthew Sellwood	443
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Gotch	385
	Conservative	Gregory Stafford	225
	Labour	Timothy Waters	192
Turnout			1,264	32.1

Iffley Fields

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Elise Benjamin	800
	Labour	Richard Tarver	721
	Liberal Democrats	Bernard Gowers	195
	Conservative	James Hayward-Bloomfield	160
Turnout			1,946	45.9

Jericho and Osney

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Collins	846
	Labour	Colin Cook	721
	Green	Lilia Patterson	332
	Conservative	William Wilson	266
Turnout			2,175	46.1

Littlemore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Tanner	539
	Conservative	Stuart Hand	359
	Green	Mark Stevenson	227
	Liberal Democrats	Nadeem Khan	198
Turnout			1,334	30.0

Lye Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daniel Paskins	597
	Liberal Democrats	Nathan Pyle	506
	Conservative	Marilyn Cox	271
	Green	Tim Pizey	141
Turnout			1,524	32.9

Marston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline van Zyl	749
	Labour	Roy Darke	693
	Conservative	Duncan Hatfield	426
	Green	Jeremy Poster	157
Turnout			2,030	46.3

North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Clark Brundin	706
	Green	Sushila Dhall	500
	Conservative	Elizabeth Pryor	214
	Labour	William Turner	175
	Independent	John Rose*	62
Turnout			1,669	39.0

*John Rose stood on the platform "Local Government Reform"

Northfield Brook

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Working Class	Stuart Craft	555
	Labour	Rae Humberstone	439
	Conservative	Mohammed Abdul-Haq	90
	Liberal Democrats	Pamela Bones	89
	Green	Susan Tibbles	61
Turnout			1,242	30.3

Quarry and Risinghurst

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tia MacGregor	953
	Labour	Oscar van Nooijen	572
	Conservative	Elizabeth Mills	356
	Green	Matthew Ormondroyd	155
Turnout			2,053	46.0

Rose Hill and Iffley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Turner	676
	Liberal Democrats	David Penwarden	505
	Conservative	Allen Mills	256
	Green	Simon Brook	185
Turnout			1,682	39.2

St Clement's

Note: the top two candidates were elected

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Claire Palmer	741
	Green	Mary-Jane Sareva	597
	Labour	Jane Darke	357
	Labour	Mohammed Nawaz	356
	Liberal Democrats	Ali Hydar	236
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew MacGregor	233
	Conservative	Peter Leeming	201
	Independent	David Leake	197
	Conservative	Gareth Jennings	197
Turnout			1,564	33.9

Because both seats were up for election each voter had two votes (i.e. plurality-at-large). Turnout has been estimated by halving the number of votes cast.

St Margaret's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Gwynneth Royce	635
	Green	Christopher Goodall	449
	Conservative	Robert Porter	358
	Labour	James Cloyne	108
Turnout			1,559	38.7

St Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Sidney Phelps	616
	Labour	Mohammed Abbasi	496
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Goddard	198
	Conservative	Margaret Young	127
Turnout			1,447	33.4

Summertown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Hollander	938
	Green	Thomas Lines	462
	Conservative	Raoul Cerratti	457
	Labour	Oliver Kempton	216
Turnout			2,082	44.6

Wolvercote

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Roaf	828
	Conservative	Graham Jones	669
	Green	Sheila Cameron	485
	Labour	Michael Taylor	162
Turnout			2,156	49.5