Wiltshire Council elections

As a result of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, the former Wiltshire County Council and the four districts within its geographical area were replaced by the new Wiltshire Council, which is a unitary authority covering the same area, with elections continuing to be held every four years, beginning in June 2009. Previously, Wiltshire County Council had been elected between 1889 and 2005, initially every three years, later every four years.

History

The county council was established in 1889 as the principal local authority for the historic county of Wiltshire. It continued as such until April 1997, when the borough of Swindon became a unitary authority, taking almost a third of the population out of the area then falling under Wiltshire County Council. From 2009, it became Wiltshire Council.

Election results

Wiltshire County Council

5 May 1977: the Conservatives held onto control, winning fifty-seven seats, a gain of seventeen. Labour won fourteen, the Liberals and Independents four each.^[1]
7 May 1981: following boundary changes, the Conservatives again retained control, winning forty seats, Labour had twenty, the Liberals twelve, and Independents two, including one Ratepayer.^[2]
2 May 1985: the Conservatives lost their majority, winning only thirty seats, resulting in no overall control. The Liberals took seventeen seats and their Social Democrat allies eight, Labour seventeen, plus three Independents, including one Ratepayer.^[3] Following the elections, an agreement between the leader of the Liberals, Jack Ainslie, and the leader of the Labour members, Mary Salisbury, led to the formation of a minority SDP–Liberal Alliance administration.^[4]
4 May 1989: Conservatives 35, Liberal Democrats 18, Labour 18, Independents 2, Liberal 1, SDP 1, resulting in a continuation of no overall control, this time with the Liberal Democrats and Labour forming a joint administration.
6 May 1993: Liberal Democrats 33, Conservatives 18, Labour 17, resulting in a further four years of no overall control, with a Liberal Democrat and Labour administration.
On 1 April 1997, Swindon was separated from Wiltshire to become a new unitary authority, giving the Liberal Democrats a brief period of overall control before that year's election.
1 May 1997 (the same day as the general election of 1997): Conservatives 22, Liberal Democrats 20, Labour 4, Independent 1, resulting in a continuation of no overall control, with a new Liberal Democrat and Labour administration being formed.
On 2 April 1998 the Conservatives won a by-election in the Whorwellsdown division by 17 votes, and at the annual meeting in May 1998 a Conservative and Independent administration was formed.
On 13 January 2000, the Conservatives won another by-election, this time in Melksham Without, gaining an overall majority which they were able to hold until the following year's elections.
7 June 2001 (a later date than usual to coincide with the general election of 2001): Conservatives 28, Liberal Democrats 14, Labour 3, Independents 2.
5 May 2005 (again coinciding with a general election): Conservatives 28, Liberal Democrats 16, Labour 3, Independents 2. Wiltshire County Council came to an end on 1 April 2009, when a new Wiltshire Council unitary authority was formed.

Wiltshire Council

4 June 2009 (coinciding with European Parliament elections): Conservatives 62, Liberal Democrats 24, Independents 7, Devizes Guardians 3, Labour 2.
2 May 2013: Conservatives 58, Liberal Democrats 27, Independents 8, Labour 4, UK Independence Party 1.

Council elections

County Council elections

Unitary authority elections

County result maps

2013 results map

By-election results

1997–2001

Whorwellsdown By-Election 2 April 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joan Barbara Prouse Savage	1,095	50.4	+12.0
	Liberal Democrat	Trevor William Carbin	1,078	49.6	+2.4
Majority			17	0.8
Turnout			2173	34.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Alderbury By-Election 1 July 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gerard Downes	1,223	60.6
	Liberal Democrat	Gillian Morgan	682	33.8
	Labour	Mark Wareham	114	5.6
Majority			541	26.8
Turnout			2,019	30.35
	Conservative hold		Swing

Melksham Without By-Election 13 January 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Arthur Spiers	810	48.6	+15.1
	Liberal Democrat	Angela Betty Barker	623	37.4	-1.2
	Labour	Marcus Aurelius	234	14.0	-11.4
Majority			187	11.2
Turnout			1,667	18.4
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Bedwyn and Pewsey By-Election 20 July 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lay	1,470	61.8	+22.1
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Francis	771	32.4	-13.1
	Labour	Terrence O'Sullivan	139	5.8	-8.9
Majority			699	29.4
Turnout			2,380	29.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

2001–2005

Salisbury St Paul By-Election 14 November 2002^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Robert Vincent	534	36.8	-14.8
	Conservative	Terence John Lindley	288	19.8	-6.2
	Liberal Democrat	Ben Gerald Rawlence	272	18.7	-0.1
	Independent	Stephen Michael Dauwalder	252	17.4	+17.4
	UKIP	Derek William Sales	56	3.8	+3.8
	Green	Susan Isabel Wright	50	3.4	-0.3
Majority			246	17.0
Turnout			1,482	24.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Chippenham Sheldon By-Election 26 February 2004^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Jonathan Fox	1,052	57.0	+17.5
	Conservative	Adrian Robin Nicholas Fry	488	26.4	-2.7
	Labour	Maureen Frances Lloyd	307	16.6	-14.8
Majority			564	30.6
Turnout			1,847	29.5
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

2005–2009

Warminster West By-Election 2 November 2006^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Batchelor	548	40.2	+11.1
	Conservative	Christopher March	543	39.8	+4.4
	Independent	Michael John Turner	273	20.0	-15.5
Majority			5	0.4
Turnout			1,364	21.3
	Liberal Democrat gain from Independent		Swing

Trowbridge East By-Election 7 February 2008^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Fuller	1,363	49.2	+17.4
	Liberal Democrat	Tom James	1,176	42.5	-7.5
	Green	David McQueen	229	8.3	+8.3
Majority			187	6.7
Turnout			2,768	19.2
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Holt and Paxcroft By-Election 7 February 2008^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ernie Clark	1,075	41.0	+6.7
	Liberal Democrat	Trevor Carbin	994	37.9	-0.1
	Conservative	Andy Milton	458	17.4	-10.2
	Labour	Louise Smith	53	2.0	+2.0
	Green	Hilary Millichamp	45	1.7	+1.7
Majority			81	3.1
Turnout			2,625	37.0
	Independent gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

2009–2013

Southwick By-Election 3 September 2009^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Francis Morland	385	37.1	+ 37.1
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Ian King	315	30.3	-8.4
	Conservative	David Edward Halik	273	26.3	-33.6
	UKIP	Benjamin Anthony Parker	61	5.9	+ 5.9
Majority			70
Turnout			1,034	30.66
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing	+35.3

Bromham, Rowde and Potterne By-Election 21 December 2010^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Liz Bryant	561	53.5	+10.3
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Mortimer	358	34.2	+15.9
	Labour	Andrew Derek Peter Jones	74	7.06	+2.3
	Independent	Pat Bryant	55	5.3	N/A
Majority			203
Turnout			1052	27.1	-17.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.8

2013–2015

Ethandune By-Election 6 March 2014^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeremy Paul Wickham	480	35.6
	Liberal Democrat	Carolyn Rose King	372	27.6
	UKIP	Roderick Paul Eaton	236	17.5
	Independent	Francis Morland	192	14.2
	Labour	Shaun Samuel James Henley	69	5.1
Majority			203
Turnout			1,349	37.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bromham, Rowde, and Potterne By-Election 7 May 2015^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anna Louise Cuthbert	1,641	56.7	+ 1.2
	UKIP	Paul Robert Carter	519	17.9	- 26.6
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Charles Rankin	401	13.8	+ 13.8
	Labour	David Wearn	334	11.5	+ 11.5
Majority			1,122
Turnout			2,916	74.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chippenham Hardenhuish By-Election 7 May 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Melody Rhonda Thompson	1,154	47.4
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Kenneth Brough	864	35.5
	Green	Tina Maria Johnston	416	17.1
Majority			290
Turnout			2,456	74.3
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Salisbury St Edmund and Milford By-Election 26 November 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Atiqul Hoque	425	36.7	+13.7
	Liberal Democrat	Greg Condliffe	242	20.9	-22.1
	Labour	Mark Frank Timbrell	232	20.0	+5.5
	Green	Michael Robert Pope	215	18.6	+11.1
	Independent	Diana Dallimore	45	3.9
Majority			290
Turnout			2,456	74.3
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

References

↑ Conservatives triumph in Greater London and metropolitan counties in The Times of London, issue 59997 dated 7 May 1977, p. 3
↑ 'Declarations from the county councils' in The Times of London, issue 60923 dated Saturday, 9 May 1981, p. 4
↑ Hugh Clayton (Local Government Correspondent), 'Local Elections' in The Times of London, issue 62129 dated 4 May 1985, p. 4
↑ Hugh Clayton (Local Government Correspondent), 'Emerging figure in new Lib-Lab pact: an Alliance shire leader cast in Tory mould', in The Times of London, issue 62135 dated 11 May 1985, p. 2
↑ "Salisbury St Paul By Election result". Wiltshire Council. 2002-11-15. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
↑ "Chippenham Sheldon by-election result". Wiltshire Council. 2004-02-27. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
↑ "New councillors for Warminster ward". Wiltshire Times. 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
1 2 "Local Authority Byelection Results - February 2008". www.gwydir.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
↑ "Id: 88010 - Friday 4th September 2009 - Press Release by election results". Wiltshire Council. 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
↑ http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/elections-declation-of-result-bromham-rowde-potterne.pdf
↑ Ethandune result at wiltshire.gov.uk/elections, accessed 19 July 2014
↑ by-election result at wiltshire.gov.uk, accessed 10 May 2015

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Wiltshire Council

Council elections in Wiltshire

Wiltshire Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013

Swindon Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Kennet District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

North Wiltshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

Salisbury District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

West Wiltshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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