2019_Bracknell_Forest_Borough_Council_election

2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election

2019 local election in Bracknell Forest


The 2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 42 councillors in 18 wards for Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England.

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The Conservative Party has controlled the council since its establishment as a unitary authority in 1997, and ended up securing a seventh term in office.

Background

Bracknell Forest Borough Council held local elections on 2 May 2019 along with councils across England as part of the 2019 local elections. The council elects its members in all-out elections, with all its councillors up for election every four years.[2][3] Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2015. In that election, forty-one Conservative councillors and one Labour councillor were elected.

The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since the unitary authority was first elected in 1997. The predecessor district council had been controlled by both the Labour and Conservative parties.

Overall results

After the previous election, and immediately before this election, the composition of the council was:

41 1
Conservative Labour

The Conservatives held the council losing just three seats with two going to Labour and one to the Liberal Democrats.

Following the 2019 election, the composition of the council was:

38 3 1
Conservative Labour

Ward results

An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor standing for re-election

Ascot

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Binfield with Warfield

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Bullbrook

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Central Sandhurst

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College Town

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Crown Wood

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Crowthorne

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Great Hollands North

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Great Hollands South

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Hanworth

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Harmans Water

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Little Sandhurst and Wellington

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Old Bracknell

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Owlsmoor

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Priestwood and Garth

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Warfield Harvest Ride

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Wildridings & Central

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Winkfield & Cranbourne

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By-elections

Old Bracknell

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References

  1. "Borough Council Elections 2019 - Thursday, 2 May 2019". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. "Local government structure and elections". GOV.UK. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  3. "Election results for Old Bracknell". Bracknell Forest Borough Council. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.

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