One third of the City of Bradford Council is elected each year, followed by one year without election.
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Conservative 1973 - 1980
Labour 1980 - 1982
No overall control 1982 - 1986
Labour 1986 - 1988
No overall control 1988 - 1990
Labour 1990 - 2000
No overall control 2000 - present
Bradford Council election, 1998
Bradford Council election, 1999
Bradford Council election, 2000
Bradford Council election, 2002
Bradford Council election, 2003
Bradford Council election, 2004
Bradford Council election, 2006
Bradford Council election, 2007
Bradford Council election, 2008
Bradford Council election, 2010
| Heaton By-Election 26 September 1996 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | 2,041 | 50.4 | |||
| Labour | 1,808 | 44.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | 202 | 5.0 | |||
| Majority | 233 | 5.8 | |||
| Turnout | 4,051 | 34.8 | |||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| Shipley West By-Election 9 October 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | 1,263 | 36.8 | -6.7 | ||
| Conservative | 1,222 | 35.6 | -0.6 | ||
| Green | 667 | 19.4 | +8.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | 284 | 8.3 | -0.6 | ||
| Majority | 41 | 1.2 | |||
| Turnout | 3,436 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Baildon By-Election 20 November 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | 1,614 | 52.3 | -1.0 | ||
| Conservative | 1,077 | 34.9 | -0.7 | ||
| Labour | 372 | 12.1 | +1.0 | ||
| Independent | 22 | 0.7 | +0.7 | ||
| Majority | 537 | 17.4 | |||
| Turnout | 3,085 | 24.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
| Little Horton By-Election 18 March 1999 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | 1,227 | 60.2 | +18.5 | ||
| Conservative | 538 | 26.4 | -14.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | 272 | 13.4 | +4.3 | ||
| Majority | 689 | 33.8 | |||
| Turnout | 2,037 | 17.0 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Bowling By-Election 22 March 2001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Tony Niland | 1,014 | 44.0 | -8.4 | |
| Conservative | Zameer Shah | 777 | 33.7 | +5.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Rupert Oliver | 473 | 20.5 | +8.6 | |
| Majority | 237 | 10.3 | |||
| Turnout | 2,264 | 18.6 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Queensbury By-Election 7 June 2001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | 3,217 | 45.5 | +16.0 | ||
| Conservative | 2,744 | 38.8 | -15.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | 892 | 12.6 | -4.6 | ||
| Independent | 203 | 2.9 | -2.0 | ||
| Asian | 13 | 0.2 | +0.2 | ||
| Majority | 473 | 6.7 | |||
| Turnout | 7,069 | 53.3 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Bingley Rural By-Election 6 December 2001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Juliette Kinsey | 1,576 | 65.2 | -0.7 | |
| Labour | James Newton | 642 | 26.6 | +4.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | James Stewart | 150 | 6.2 | -2.4 | |
| Green | John Love | 50 | 2.1 | -1.9 | |
| Majority | 934 | 38.6 | |||
| Turnout | 2,418 | 20.0 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Great Horton By-Election 16 October 2003 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Liz Devlin | 926 | 36.9 | -0.9 | |
| Conservative | Richard Milczanowski | 764 | 30.4 | +8.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Michell | 692 | 27.6 | +10.5 | |
| Green | Derek Curtis | 129 | 5.1 | -1.5 | |
| Majority | 162 | 6.5 | |||
| Turnout | 2,511 | 23.4 | |||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Craven By-Election 16 March 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Andrew Naylor | 1,304 | 57.0 | +13.4 | |
| Labour | Steven Carter | 669 | 29.2 | +10.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Frances McAulay | 315 | 13.8 | -3.7 | |
| Majority | 635 | 27.8 | |||
| Turnout | 2,288 | 18.7 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Keighley West By-Election 23 March 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Angela Sinfield | 1,819 | 47.0 | +22.2 | |
| BNP | Ian Dawson | 1,216 | 31.4 | +2.3 | |
| Conservative | Lionel Lockley | 627 | 16.2 | -3.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Victoria Salmons | 208 | 5.4 | -4.8 | |
| Majority | 603 | 15.6 | |||
| Turnout | 3,870 | 35.1 | |||
| Labour gain from BNP | Swing | ||||
| Bingley Ward By-Election, 4 December 2008[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Allan Pennington | 1,949 | |||
| Labour | Andrew David Mawson | 689 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Jean Taylor | 332 | |||
| Green | Arthur Albert John Arnold | 175 | |||
| Democratic Nationalists | Jim Lewthwaite | 61 | |||
| UKIP | Jason Paul Smith | 49 | |||
| Majority | 1,260 | ||||
| Turnout | 3,262 | 24.99 | |||
| Worth Valley Ward By-Election 25 November 2010[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Russell Brown | 1,020 | |||
| Labour | Mark Bernard Curtis | 697 | |||
| Green | Robert Edward Swindells | 235 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | Sharon Catherine Purvis | 180 | |||
| Majority | 323 | ||||
| Turnout | 2,139 | 19.46 | |||
| Great Horton By-Election 24 November 2011 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Abdul Jabar | 1,993 | 58.6 | -1.1 | |
| Conservative | Mehrban Hussain | 705 | 20.7 | -5.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mary Slingsby | 337 | 9.9 | -3.3 | |
| UKIP | Jason Paul Smith | 294 | 8.6 | (+8.6) | |
| Green | Celia Ruth Hickson | 73 | 2.1 | (+2.1) | |
| Majority | 1,288 | 37.9 | +3.9 | ||
| Turnout | 3,402 | 27.1 | -8.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | 3.9 | |||