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2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election

2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election

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The 2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Amber Valley Borough Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by 2.[1] The Conservative Party gained control of the council from the Labour Party.[2]

Map of the results of the 2000 Amber Valley council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Independent in grey.

Election result

Overall turnout in the election was 31.6%,[3] with a trial in 2 wards seeing a 115% increase in postal voting after anyone was allowed to apply.[4]

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References

  1. "Amber Valley". BBC News Online. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  2. "Local council results". Financial Times. 6 May 2000. p. 6.
  3. "Election - May 2000". Ambernet. Archived from the original on 31 May 2002. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  4. Wainwright, Martin (15 May 2000). "Making it easy: Experiments to improve the turnout in local elections have had an impact, although some voters still want to use a polling station". The Guardian. p. 17.
  5. "Election results: local councils". The Times. 6 May 2000. p. 10.

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