2011_Cheshire_East_Council_election

2011 Cheshire East Council election

2011 Cheshire East Council election

English local election

Elections to Cheshire East Council happened on Thursday 5 May 2011. Elections occurred in all 52 wards, with each ward returning between one and three councillors to the council.

Quick Facts All 82 seats in Cheshire East Council 42 seats needed for a majority, First party ...
Map of the results of the 2011 Cheshire East council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Handforth Ratepayers Association, Middlewich First and Shavington First in white, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independents in grey.

The wards were all new, having been created in a boundary review which took effect in January 2011.[1] They replaced the previous 27 three-seat wards used in the 2008 election, which were identical to the former Cheshire County Council wards.

Overall results

The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council, winning 52 out of 82 seats, with a majority of 22 councillors.[2]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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Ward results

An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor.

Alderley Edge

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Councillor Keegan previously served as a member for the now dissolved Alderley ward.

Alsager

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Audlem

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Councillor Bailey previously served as a member for the now dissolved Cholmondeley ward.

Bollington

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Councillor Livesley previously served as a councillor for the now dissolved Prestbury and Tytherington ward.

Brereton Rural

The one seat for this ward was uncontested and the Conservative Party candidate, John Valentine Frank Wray, was elected unopposed.

References

  1. [1]
    "The Cheshire East (Electoral Changes) Order 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Elections 2011 - results overview". Cheshire East Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Alderley Edge Ward". cheshireeast.gov.uk. Cheshire East Council. 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.


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