THE winners in the county council elections were:

Harrogate

Bilton and Nidd Gorge - Morris Lightfoot (Lib Dem), John Peter Burrill Wren (Lib Dem).

Harrogate Central - John Walter Marshall (Lib Dem), Stephen Richard Macare (Lib Dem).

Harrogate Harlow - Leslie John Parkes (Lib Dem).

Harrogate Oatlands - Keith Stephen Barnes (Lib Dem).

Harrogate Saltergate - Gordon Brian Charlton (Lib Dem).

Harrogate Starbeck - Margaret-Ann Corlett De Courcey-Bayley (Lib Dem).

Ainsty - John Savage (Con).

Lower Nidderdale and Bishop Monkton - Heather Joyce Garnett (Con).

Pannal and Lower Wharfedale - Clifford Wilfred (Cliff) Trotter (Con).

Ripon North - Bernard Arthur Bateman (Lib Dem).

Ripon South - Andrew Williams (Independent).

Knaresborough - Bill Hoult, (Lib Dem), Richard Hall (Lib Dem).

Hambleton

Easingwold - Peter George Sowray (Con).

Northallerton - Anthony William (Tony) Hall (Con).

Sowerby - William Frederick Barton (Con).

Stillington - Caroline Patmore (Con).

Thirsk - Gareth Wedgewood Dadd (Con).

Scarborough

Castle - Michelle Andrew (Lab).

Eastfield and Osgodby - Brian Simpson (Lab).

Esk Valley - William Herbert (Herbert) Tindall (Con).

Falsgrave and Stepney - Patricia Marsburg (Lab).

Filey - Geoffrey Cullern (Con).

Hertford and Cayton - John Stephen Blackburn (Con).

Newby - Graham Andrew (Andrew) Backhouse (Con).

Northstead - Eric Broadbent (Lab).

Seamer and Derwent Valley - David Colin Jeffels (Con)

Weaponness and Ramshill - Eric Martin Smith (Con).

Scalby and The Coast - Helen Gall Swiers (Con).

Woodlands - David Lawrence Billing (Lab).

Whitby/Mayfield Cum Malgrave - Robert William Broadley (Lib Dem).Whitby/Streonshalh - Jane Kenyon (Con).

Selby

Mid Selby - Christopher Frank Pearson (Con).

Osgoldcross - Gillian Carol Ivey (Con).

Tadcaster - Christopher Metcalfe (Con).

Cawood and Saxton - Andrew Lee (Con).

Escrick - Elizabeth Ann Casling (Con).

Selby Barlby - Brian Samuel Marshall (Lab), Steven Shaw-Wright (Lab).

Selby Brayton - Graham Michael Gatman (Lab).

Sherburn-in-Elmet - James Clement Snowball (Lab).

South Selby - Margaret Hulme (Con).

Ryedale

Hovingham and Sheriff Hutton - Clare Launa Wood (Con).

Kirkbymoorside - Valerie Margaret (Val) Arnold (Con).

Malton - Michael Sydney Knaggs (Con).

Norton - David Lloyd-Williams (Lib Dem).

Pickering - Gregory Brian White (Con).

Thornton-le-Dale and The Wolds - Ronald Malcolm Haigh (Con).

Updated: 09:39 Saturday, May 07, 2005