United Kingdom local elections, 2005

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Elections for local government were held in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2005 along with the 2005 general election. In addition, the Isle of Wight held a local referendum on the issue of a directly-elected mayor.

1 Directly-elected mayors
2 County councils
3 Unitary authorities
4 Northern Ireland districts
5 External links

[edit] Directly-elected mayors

District	Winner	Party	Incumbent	Party
Doncaster	Martin Winter	Labour	Martin Winter	Labour
Hartlepool	Stuart Drummond	Independent	Stuart Drummond	Independent
North Tyneside	John Harrison	Labour	Linda Arkley	Conservative
Stoke-on-Trent	Mark Meredith	Labour	Mike Wolfe	Independent

[edit] County councils

All shire county county council seats were up for re-election.

Bedfordshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Buckinghamshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Cambridgeshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Cheshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Cornwall (Council)	Liberal Democrat gain from NOC
Cumbria (Council)	NOC hold
Derbyshire (Council)	Labour hold
Devon (Council)	Liberal Democrat gain from NOC
Dorset (Council)	Conservative hold
Durham (Council)	Labour hold
East Sussex (Council)	Conservative hold
Essex (Council)	Conservative hold
Gloucestershire (Council)	Conservative gain from NOC
Hampshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Hertfordshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Kent (Council)	Conservative hold
Lancashire (Council)	Conservative hold
Leicestershire (Council)	Conservative hold
Lincolnshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Norfolk (Council)	Conservative hold
North Yorkshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Northamptonshire (Council)	Conservative gain from Labour
Northumberland (Council)	Labour hold
Nottinghamshire (Council)	Labour hold
Oxfordshire (Council)	Conservative gain from NOC
Shropshire (Council)	Conservative gain from NOC
Somerset (Council)	Liberal Democrat gain from NOC
Staffordshire (Council)	Labour hold
Suffolk (Council)	Conservative gain from NOC
Surrey (Council)	Conservative hold
Warwickshire (Council)	NOC hold
West Sussex (Council)	Conservative hold
Wiltshire (Council)	Conservative hold
Worcestershire (Council)	Conservative gain from NOC

[edit] Unitary authorities

Bristol (Council)	NOC hold	1/3
Isle of Wight (Council)	NOC to Conservatives	all up
Stockton-on-Tees (Council)	NOC gain from Labour	all up

[edit] Northern Ireland districts

All seats were up for election in the 26 districts of Northern Ireland. The many parties and the use of the single transferable vote meant that most councils ended up in no overall control. The DUP gained majority control of three councils: Ards, Ballymena, and Castlereagh.