Stoke-on-Trent City Council elections

Stoke-on-Trent is a unitary authority in Staffordshire, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district. Between 2002 and 2009 it also had a directly elected mayor.[1]

Political control

City council

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[2][3]

County borough, later, City of Stoke-on-Trent

Party in controlYears
Independent1910-1929
Labour1929-1931
Independent1931-1934
Labour1934-1937
Independent1937-1945
Labour1945-1970
No overall control1970-1971
Labour1971-1974

Non-metropolitan district

Party in controlYears
Labour1973-1998

Unitary authority

Party in controlYears
Labour1997-2002
No overall control2002-2004
Labour2004-2006
No overall control2006-2011
Labour2011-2015
No overall control2015–present

Directly elected mayor
Party in controlYears
Independent2002-2005
Labour2005-2009

Council elections

Non-metropolitan district elections
  • 1973 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1976 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1979 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election (New ward boundaries)[4]
  • 1980 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1982 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1983 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1984 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1986 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1987 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1988 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1990 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1991 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1992 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1994 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
  • 1995 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election

Unitary authority elections

Mayoral elections
  • Stoke-on-Trent mayoral election, 2002
  • Stoke-on-Trent mayoral election, 2005

City result maps

By-election results
Springfields & Trent Vale Ward by-election, 26 July 2012 [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
City Independents Jackie Barnes 370 34.90 N/A
Labour Mubsira Aumir 245 23.11
Liberal Democrats Les Porch 152 14.33
Conservative Harold David Gregory 109 10.28 N/A
UKIP Michael Anthony Bedarsky 105 9.90
Independent Gary Elsby 36 3.39 N/A
BNP Michael Coleman 27 2.54 N/A
TUSC Matt Wright 14 1.32 N/A
Democratic Nationalist Party Mark Leat 2 0.18 N/A
Majority 125
Turnout 1,060 21.6
Baddeley, Milton and Norton Ward by-election, 14 November 2013[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
City Independents Anthony Munday 861 32.19
Conservative Sam Richardson 504 18.84
Labour Candi Chetwynd 444 16.60
UKIP Mick Harold 333 12.45
Independent Gary Elsby 313 11.70
BNP Michael Anthony White 79 2.95
Green Adam William Colclough 50 1.86
Liberal Democrats Tom Grocock 32 1.19
Independent John Davis 27 1.00
TUSC Liat James Norris 25 0.93
Majority 357 13.35
Turnout 2,674 19.18
gollark: SPUDNET's reports API accepts JSON and no other encoding.
gollark: Please submit complaints to the SPUDNET incident report line for processing.
gollark: E.
gollark: How about a hello world program, but it also uploads your files to SPUDNET?
gollark: > using an installer

References
  1. City council elections page
  2. "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  3. "Elections 2011 - England council elections - Stoke-on-Trent". BBC News Online. 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
  4. The City of Stoke-on-Trent (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976
  5. legislation.gov.uk - The City of Stoke-on-Trent (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
  6. legislation.gov.uk - The Stoke-on-Trent (Electoral Changes) Order 2011. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
  7. "Election 2015: Stoke on Trent City Council Results". Stoke Sentinel. Local World. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  8. By-election result page on council site
  9. http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/council-and-democracy/elections/by-election-baddeley-milton-and-norton.en
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.