Elections to
Croydon Council
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England
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were held on 4 May 2002. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the
1998 election. The
Labour Party managed to keep control of the council which it had done since 1994 when it took power away from the
Conservative Party
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. This year Labour held Croydon with a smaller majority, only clinging onto power through a tiny number of votes in its marginal wards - one councillor won by just eight votes.
37 Labour councillors, 32 Conservative councillors and 1 Liberal Democrat councillor were elected, maintaining Labour control of the Council. Subsequently, one Conservative councillor defected to Labour, defected back to the Conservatives, became an independent and then a Liberal Democrat.
Election result
Ward results
Addiscombe
Ashburton
Bensham Manor
Broad Green
Coulsdon East
Coulsdon West
Croham
Fairfield
Fieldway
Heathfield
Kenley
New Addington
Norbury
Purley
Sanderstead
Selhurst
Selsdon & Ballards
Shirley
South Norwood
Thornton Heath
Upper Norwood
Waddon
West Thornton
Woodside
External links
BBC - Croydon Council election result
{{United Kingdom local elections, 2002
2002
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2002 London Borough council elections