The 2002 Barnet Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Barnet London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall control of the council, replacing the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition that had governed Barnet for the previous 8 years. Background Before the election a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition ran the council. Since the last election in 1998, the Local Government Commission carried out a periodic electoral review of Barnet under the Local Government Act 1992 and made a number of boundary changes increasing the number of seats by three. Election result Overall turnout in the election was 34.04%. |} Ward results Brunswick Park Burnt Oak Childs Hill Colindale Coppetts East Barnet East Finchley Edgware Finchley Church End Garden Suburb Golders Green Hale Hendon High Barnet Mill Hill Oakleigh Totteridge Underhill West Finchley West Hendon Woodhouse By-elections between 2002 and 2006 Burnt Oak The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Alan J. Williams. Hale The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Ruth J. Nyman. Colindale The by-election was called following the disqualification of Cllr. Alan M. Sloam. Garden Suburb The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Vanessa R. Gearson. High Barnet The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Kantilal S. Patel in October 2005. It was only the third time in the council's history that a seat had changed hands in a by-election. References 2002 2002 London Borough council elections