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1999 Reading Borough Council election

The 1999 Reading Borough Council election was held on 6 May 1999, at the same time as other local elections across Britain. Sixteen of the 45 seats on Reading Borough Council were up for election, being the usual third of the council (15 seats) plus a by-election in Abbey ward, where Labour's Jane Griffiths had resigned her seat on the council.

Labour gained one seat in Abbey ward which had been held by Mohammad Iqbal, who had been elected as a Labour councillor in 1997 but expelled from the party later that year. He had continued to hold his council seat since then as an independent councillor, but did not stand for re-election in 1999. Apart from that change, no other seats changed party in 1999.

Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
13	1	0	+1	81.3	48.7	14,094	+4.2
1	0	0	0	6.3	27.4	7,945	-2.9
2	0	0	0	12.5	22.5	6,532	-1.9
0				0.0	1.4	397	+0.6

The results in each ward were as follows:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	932	61.1
	Conservative	387	25.6
	Liberal Democrats	201	13.3
1,511
	Labour gain from Independent

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	987	65.6
	Conservative	325	21.6
	Liberal Democrats	192	12.8
1,504
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	925	67.6
	Conservative	309	22.6
	Liberal Democrats	135	9.9
1,369
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	1,236	45.2
	Conservative	1,154	42.2
	Liberal Democrats	342	12.5
2,732
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	659	59.0
	Conservative	255	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	146	13.1
	Green	57	5.1
1,117
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	764	67.5
	Conservative	222	19.6
	Liberal Democrats	146	12.9
1,132
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	952	44.9
	Conservative	689	32.5
	Liberal Democrats	432	20.4
	Green	48	2.3
2,121
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	1,225	58.0
	Conservative	683	32.4
	Liberal Democrats	203	9.6
2,111
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	971	67.8
	Conservative	249	17.4
	Liberal Democrats	213	14.9
1,433
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	1,063	61.5
	Conservative	302	17.5
	Liberal Democrats	244	14.1
	Green	119	6.9
1,728
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	1,608	61.6
	Conservative	746	28.6
	Labour	257	9.8
2,611
	Liberal Democrats hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	900	49.2
	Liberal Democrats	450	24.6
	Conservative	345	18.9
	Green	133	7.3
1,828
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	1,177	67.8
	Conservative	413	23.8
	Liberal Democrats	147	8.5
1,737
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	1,320	48.1
	Liberal Democrats	939	34.2
	Labour	486	17.7
2,745
	Conservative hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	1,030	47.9
	Labour	738	34.3
	Conservative	344	16.0
	Green	40	1.9
2,152
	Liberal Democrats hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	831	73.1
	Conservative	202	17.8
	Liberal Democrats	104	9.1
1,137
	Labour hold

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