Herefordshire Council Elections for Hope End, May 2003 Mark Davies Green 571 Katrina Turnbull Green 681 Terence White Liberal Democrat 785 Rees Mills Conservative 1469 Elected Roy Stockton Conservative 1554 Elected
Cradley Parish Council, May 2003
Cradley (Fifteen seats) - Elected: Michael Richard Allfrey,
Storridge (304), Frederick Albert Charles Beard, Storridge
(345), Rosemarie Pearl Berry, Bosbury Road (362), Geoffrey
Cooper, Little Westfield (291), David Guy Creed-Newton,
Finchers Corner (331), Edmund John Edgar, Finchers Corner
(290), Patricia Ann Fairfax, Chapel Lane (484); Roger Stephen
Colin Gill, St Katherine's (459), Christopher Adrian Jervoise
Lowder, Cradley (320), Sally Ramsden, The Old Rectory (449),
John Frederick Rowe, Finchers Corner (362), Geoffrey William
Thomas, Huntingdon (312), Jeremy Charles Thomas, Vinesend
Lane (352), Katrina Emma Turnbull, (Green), Church House
(288), Jane Pilling, Rough Leasow (290).
Not elected: Ann Christine Carver, Upper Churchfields (236), Elizabeth
Anne Hunt, Credenleigh (259) Pamela Moreen Hurle, Storridge (276),
Stuart Knight, Buryfields (225), Kathleen Beryl Munrowd Beech,
Credenleigh (275), Kenneth John Nason, Buryfields (260).
Turnout: 63.44 per cent. 22 papers spoiled.
The general election of 7 June 2001 returned a conservative majority of 10,367 out of an electorate of 68,695 in Leominster constituency.
B Wiggin C 22,879
C Downie LD 12,512
S Hart Lab 7,872
P Bennett Green 1,690
C Kingsley UK ind 1590
J Haycock Ind 186
Bill Wiggin 35, wins the seat back for the Tories after Peter Temple-Morris, who held Leominster in 1977, crossed the floor as a One Nation Conservative and joined the Labour party. The seat is a traditional Conservative stronghold. Bill contested Burnley in 1997, Banker, former foreign trader and investmnent manager. Educated Eton and University College of North Wales (Economics). Married.
1997 election
C 22,889
LD 14,053
Lab 8.831
Ref 2,815
Green 1.086
UK ind 588
BNP 292
C Maj 8,835