2009 United Kingdom local elections

2009 United Kingdom local elections
All 27 county councils, 7 out of 55 unitary authorities,; 1 sui generis authority, and 3 directly elected mayors
	County council election results
	Unitary authority and mayoral elections

The 2009 United Kingdom local elections were elections held to all 27 County Councils, three existing Unitary Authorities and five new Unitary Authorities, all in England, on 4 June 2009.^[2]^[3] The elections were due to be held on 7 May 2009, but were delayed in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.^[4]^[5]

The elections resulted in significant gains for the Conservatives. The party won Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Lancashire from Labour, as well as Devon and Somerset from the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats did however win a majority in Bristol. Despite the optimism for the Conservatives in seat and council gains, their share of the vote at 38% was 6% down on 2008. That said, they had a clear 10% lead over the Liberal Democrats who achieved a respectable second place on 28%.

Labour, taking the blame in government from a worsening economic climate, soaring unemployment and the expenses scandal, lost all of its councils, with some authorities being swept clear of any Labour councillors at all. The party also performed poorly in the European elections on the same day.

Summary of results

Party		Councillors		Councils
Party		Number	Change	Number	Change
	Conservative	1,531	244	30	7
	Liberal Democrats	484	2	1	1
	Labour	178	291	0	4
	Independent	97	6	0
	Green	18	8	0
	Residents	9	2	0
	UKIP	7	7	0
	BNP	3	3	0
	Mebyon Kernow	3		0
	Liberal	2		0
	Others	30	15	0
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	3	2

Source: BBC News Isles of Scilly Council not included in the above figures.

County councils

All 27 English County Councils were up for election. All seats on the councils were contested at this election.

Council			Details
Buckinghamshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Cumbria	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Derbyshire	Labour	Conservative gain	Details
Devon	Liberal Democrats	Conservative gain	Details
Dorset	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
East Sussex	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Essex	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Gloucestershire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Hampshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Hertfordshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Kent	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Lancashire	Labour	Conservative gain	Details
Leicestershire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Lincolnshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Norfolk	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
North Yorkshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Northamptonshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Nottinghamshire	Labour	Conservative gain	Details
Oxfordshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Somerset	Liberal Democrats	Conservative gain	Details
Staffordshire	Labour	Conservative gain	Details
Suffolk	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Surrey	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Warwickshire	No overall control	Conservative gain	Details
West Sussex	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Worcestershire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details

Unitary authorities

Existing authorities

Council	Proportion up for election	Previous control		Result		Details
Bristol	1/3		No overall control		Liberal Democrats gain	Details
Isle of Wight	All		Conservative		Conservative hold	Details

New authorities

Elections were held for five new unitary authorities. All councillors were elected at this election.

Council		Details
Bedford	No overall control	Details
Central Bedfordshire	Conservative	Details
Cornwall	No overall control (Conservative/Independent Coalition)	Details
Shropshire	Conservative	Details
Wiltshire	Conservative	Details

Isles of Scilly

The Council of the Isles of Scilly was created by the Local Government Act 1888, meaning they lie outside the classifications of authorities used in the rest of England.

Council	Proportion up for election	Previous control		Result		Details
Isles of Scilly	All		Independent		Independent hold	Details

Mayoral elections

Local Authority			Details
Doncaster	Martin Winter (Independent^[6])	Peter Davies (English Democrats)	Details
Hartlepool	Stuart Drummond (Independent)	Stuart Drummond (Independent)	Details
North Tyneside	John Harrison (Labour)	Linda Arkley (Conservative)	Details

A mayoral election was also due to be held in Stoke-on-Trent, however voters in the city voted to abolish the directly elected mayor system in a referendum held in October 2008. The referendum decided to replace the mayor and executive system with a council leader and cabinet system of local government.^[7]

References

^ "BBC projected national vote shares for 2009". BBC News. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
^ "Communities and Local Government - Local government elections in 2009". Communities.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
^ Communities and Local Government - Moving the date of English Local Government elections to the date of the European Parliament elections in 2009 - Consultation Archived August 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster (4 November 2008). "House of Commons Hansard Debates from 04 Nov 2008 - Local Government Motion". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "'British expenses scandal dominates political debate', 23 May 2009". City Mayors. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
^ Winter was twice elected mayor as the Labour Party's candidate, but he declared himself an independent following the 2008 local elections and was subsequently expelled from the Labour Party. He did not stand for re-election in 2009.
^ "Mayor faces final months in power". BBC News. 6 March 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.

External links

Elections 2009 BBC News
- Elections 2009: Councils A-Z BBC News

[bbc2009-1] "BBC projected national vote shares for 2009". BBC News. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.

[2] "Communities and Local Government - Local government elections in 2009". Communities.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.

[3] Communities and Local Government - Moving the date of English Local Government elections to the date of the European Parliament elections in 2009 - Consultation Archived August 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[4] Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster (4 November 2008). "House of Commons Hansard Debates from 04 Nov 2008 - Local Government Motion". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[5] "'British expenses scandal dominates political debate', 23 May 2009". City Mayors. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.

[6] Winter was twice elected mayor as the Labour Party's candidate, but he declared himself an independent following the 2008 local elections and was subsequently expelled from the Labour Party. He did not stand for re-election in 2009.

[7] "Mayor faces final months in power". BBC News. 6 March 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009.

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