Map of the results of the 2002 Barking and Dagenham council election. Labour in red, Chadwell Heath Residents Association in grey, Liberal Democrats in yellow and Conservatives in blue.
Elections for Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council, UK were held on 2 May 2002 to elect members to the council. All seats were up for election following boundary changes since the last election in 1998. The Labour Party kept overall control of the council, but lost 5 seats. Overall turnout was 22.76%.[1][2]
Background
100 candidates nominated in total. Labour again ran a full slate (51) and was the only party to do so. By contrast the Conservative Party ran only 12 candidates , whilst the Liberal Democrats ran 28.
Election result
Barking and Dagenham Local Election Results 2002[1][2][bd 1]