2003 West Lothian Council election
2003 Scottish local government election
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Elections to West Lothian Council were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the last to use the FPTP based ward system, and saw Labour retaining their majority on the council.
1 May 2003
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All 32 seats to West Lothian Council 17 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 32 single member wards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Results
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Labour | 18 |  2 |
56.3 | 43.5 | 25,356 | 1.6 | |||
| SNP | 12 |  1 |
37.5 | 36.3 | 21,184 | 5.3 | |||
| Conservative | 1 |  |
3.1 | 9.2 | 5,390 | 0.6 | |||
| Independent | 1 | 1 |
3.1 | 2.5 | 1,463 | 2.3 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 7.0 | 4,100 | 2.5 | |
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 1.4 | 842 | New | |
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