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Elections to Hartlepool Borough Council in the ceremonial county of County Durham in England were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.^[1] At the same time an election took place for a directly elected mayor, which was won by independent candidate Stuart Drummond.^[2]

Mayoral election

Campaign

Five candidates stood in the election for mayor, one each from the three main political parties and two independents. The Labour candidate for mayor was Leo Gillen, a local businessman who had led the campaign in favour of introducing a directly elected mayor.^[3] The Liberal Democrats selected the leader of the council since 2000, Arthur Preece, as their candidate for mayor, while the Conservatives chose councillor Stephen Close.^[4] The first independent candidate, Stuart Drummond, was better known as H'Angus the Monkey the official mascot for the local football team Hartlepool United F.C..^[2]^[5] The other independent candidate was Ian Cameron, another local businessman.^[6]

Drummond campaigned on a pledge to give free bananas to all school pupils under 11 in Hartlepool.^[5] He received backing from the football club who paid his deposit^[7] and he promised that he would attempt to keep a local sports centre open, improve sporting facilities, tackle crime^[8] and reduce the number of councillors.^[5] His candidacy began as something of a joke but became more serious as he attracted support during the campaign.^[9]

A supplementary voting system was used in the mayoral election with second preferences being used if no candidate received over half of the vote.^[10] A local bookmaker initially made Drummond a 100-1 outsider in the mayoral election but soon had to suspend betting after receiving a lot of bets from local people.^[11]

Results

Stuart Drummond won the mayoral election defeating the Labour candidate Leo Gillen on second preferences.^[2] Drummond said that his victory was due to disillusionment with local politicians and said that he was serious about doing a good job for Hartlepool as mayor.^[12] Local Member of Parliament Peter Mandelson praised Drummond on his victory and described him as being "very committed".^[13] However other political opponents described the results as having made Hartlepool "a laughing stock".^[12]

Council election

In the previous election in 2000 the Labour party had lost control of the council which since then had been run by a coalition between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.^[15] Elections took place in 16 of the 17 wards with only Greatham ward not holding an election.^[10] Most attention was on the mayoral election but there was a large swing of 14.2% to Labour in the council election. However they were only able to gain one seat in Seaton ward from the Conservatives.^[16]

Summary of results

Ward results

References

1. ^¹{{Cite web| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2002/local_elections/66.stm | title = Hartlepool | accessdate = 2009-05-03 | publisher = BBC Online}}
2. ^¹²{{Cite web| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1965569.stm | title = Monkey mascot elected mayor | accessdate = 2009-05-08 | date = 2002-05-03 | publisher = BBC Online}}
3. ^{{Cite news| title = Council of despair for the elected mayor: Tony Blair's principal idea for reinvigorating local government is running out of steam in the face of establishment | publisher = Financial Times | page = 19 | date = 2002-02-01 }}
4. ^{{Cite news| title = Councillor's bid to be mayor | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 6 | date = 2002-03-19 }}
5. ^¹²{{Cite news| first = Nick | last = Loughlin | title = Mayor candidate who really gives a monkey's | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 1 | date = 2002-04-04 }}
6. ^{{Cite news| first = Arifa | last = Akbar | title = POLITICS LOCAL ELECTIONS: Mascot may make a monkey out of bookies at the polls ; HARTLEPOOL | publisher = The Independent | page = 9 | date = 2002-05-02 }}
7. ^{{Cite news| first = John | last = Innes | title = Monkey business in local election | publisher = The Scotsman | page = 11 | date = 2002-04-05 }}
8. ^{{Cite news| first = Chris | last = Tighe | title = Hartlepool's monkey means business as he climbs up poll: Mayoral bid by football mascot raises serious issues. | publisher = The Financial Times | page = 22 | date = 2002-04-27 }}
9. ^{{Cite news| title = Voters make a monkey of mainstream parties | publisher = The Financial Times | page = 7 | date = 2002-05-03 }}
10. ^¹{{Cite news| first = Katie | last = Relton | title = World: Follow the rules for smooth election day | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 6 | date = 2002-04-19 }}
11. ^{{Cite news| first = Nick | last = Loughlin | title = Punters make a monkey of bookie | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 1 | date = 2002-04-24 }}
12. ^¹{{Cite news| first = Oliver | last = Wright | title = Monkey business turns serious for Hartlepool | publisher = The Times | page = 13 | date = 2002-05-04 }}
13. ^{{Cite news| first = Patrick | last = Hennessy | title = Club mascot makes a monkey out of Tony Blair's mayor dream | publisher = Evening Standard | page = 8 | date = 2002-05-03 }}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2002/rp02-033.pdf|title= Local Elections in England: 2 May 2002|publisher= House of Commons Library |date=9 May 2002 |accessdate=16 January 2013}}
15. ^{{Cite news| title = No time to put a monkey on election result | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 7 | date = 2002-04-06 }}
16. ^{{Cite news| first = Colin | last = Tapping | title = Labour suffers disappointment in triplicate at mayoral elections | publisher = The Northern Echo | page = 9 | date = 2002-05-04 }}
17. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵{{Cite web| url = http://uk.geocities.com/AndrewTeale/locals02.html | title = Local Council Elections: 2 May 2002 | accessdate = 2009-05-03 | publisher = Andrew Teale|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723093152/http://uk.geocities.com/AndrewTeale/locals02.html|archivedate=2009-07-23}}