The 2002 Barnet Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Barnet London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council, replacing the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition that had governed Barnet for the previous 8 years.
Background
Before the election a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition ran the council. Since the last election in 1998, the Local Government Commission carried out a periodic electoral review of Barnet under the Local Government Act 1992 and made a number of boundary changes increasing the number of seats by three.
Election result
Overall turnout in the election was 34.04%.
Ward results
Brunswick Park
Burnt Oak
Childs Hill
Colindale
Coppetts
East Barnet
East Finchley
Edgware
Finchley Church End
Garden Suburb
Golders Green
Hale
Hendon
High Barnet
Mill Hill
Oakleigh
Totteridge
Underhill
West Finchley
West Hendon
Woodhouse
By-elections between 2002 and 2006
Burnt Oak
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Alan J. Williams.
Hale
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Ruth J. Nyman.
Colindale
The by-election was called following the disqualification of Cllr. Alan M. Sloam.
Garden Suburb
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Vanessa R. Gearson.
High Barnet
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Kantilal S. Patel in October 2005. It was only the third time in the council's history that a seat had changed hands in a by-election.
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