The 2003 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of

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Council in

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, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under

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. After the election, the composition of the council was *

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29 * Labour 22 *

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Voting trial

Swindon was one of 3 councils which trialed voting by television in 2003 for the first time anywhere in the world. Voters in Swindon also had 8 electronic information kiosks in the town centre where they could vote, telephone and

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voting. These trials, which were open for voting in the week before the election, followed a trial of

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in the 2002 election which saw turnout increase by 3.5%. Overall turnout in the election was 29.82%, lower than in 2002. However the number of electronic votes increased by 75% from 2002 to 11,055, including 349 cast by television.

Election result

Ward results

References

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