Elections to Durham County Council took place on 5 May 2005, as part of the 2005 local elections in the United Kingdom. The election also took place on the same day as the 2005 general election. This was the council's final election before it became a unitary authority as part of changes to local government in 2009, with the first elections to the new unitary council taking place in 2008. New electoral division boundaries were introduced for this election, with 63 divisions returning one councillor each using the first past the post voting system.^[1]

Labour kept control of the council with 53 seats. The Liberal Democrats were second with five seats and the Conservatives won two seats.^[2] There were also three independents elected, including two from the Derwentside Independents group.

Results

Durham County Council election, 2005^[3][4]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	53	N/A	N/A	N/A	84.1	56.7	124,683	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	5	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.9	20.4	44,878	N/A
	Conservative	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.2	14.7	32,358	N/A
	Derwentside Independents	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.2	3.6	7,835	N/A
	Independent	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	1.6	4.5	9,833	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.0	0.1	288	N/A
	BNP	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.0	0.1	119	N/A

Results by electoral division

Chester-le-Street (7 seats)

Chester-le-Street North & East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joseph Knox	1,816	47.3
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Hutchinson	799	20.8
	Conservative	Beatrice Bainbridge	630	16.4
	Independent	Lancelot Edward William Brown	592	15.4

Chester-le-Street South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rita Greener Carr	1,946	49.3
	Liberal Democrats	Russell Amor Haswell	1,254	31.8
	Conservative	Amanda Jane Hall	745	18.9

Chester-le-Street West Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Brian David Ebbatson	1,853	63.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Kilkenny	682	23.4
	Conservative	Philip Clive Stevens	378	12.9

Lumley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Brian Walker	1,860	53.1
	Liberal Democrats	Angela Mary Rae	593	16.9
	Conservative	Justin Matthew Garrod	576	16.4
	Independent	Audrey Willis	475	13.6

Ouston and Urpeth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Christine Teresa Smith	2,170	60.5
	Liberal Democrats	John Leak	827	23.1
	Conservative	James Norman	588	16.4

Pelton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Sands Cordon	1,848	49.3
	Liberal Democrats	George Herbert Gardner	698	18.6
	Conservative	Frank Lumsden	655	17.5
	Independent	William Laverick	545	14.5

Sacriston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Linda Anne Wright	1,693	66.6
	Liberal Democrats	Simon James Key	499	19.6
	Conservative	Mark Anthony Watson	349	13.7

Derwentside (11 seats)

Annfield Plain

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michele Hodgson	2,119	70.1
	Liberal Democrats	Gillian Raine	623	20.6
	Conservative	Julie Ann Watson	280	9.3

Benfieldside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Davies	1,250	40.4
	Derwentside Independents	John Joseph Healey	866	27.9
	Liberal Democrats	Bruce Neilson McCaig	647	20.9
	Conservative	Julia Carole Ross	330	10.7

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