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2000 Milton Keynes Council election

2000 UK local government election

2000 UK local government election

The 2000 Milton Keynes Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Milton Keynes Council (a unitary authority) in Buckinghamshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

  • Labour 22
  • Liberal Democrat 20
  • Conservative 8
  • Independent 1

Campaign

The Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair came to Milton Keynes to launch his party's local election campaign. Labour were defending control of Milton Keynes council, but before the election were relying on the casting vote of the mayor to keep control, after 2 Labour councillors left the party to become independents.

The election in Milton Keynes saw a relaxation of the rules for requesting a postal vote, allowing anyone who wanted to vote by post. As a result the number of postal vote requests increased from the normal 1,100 to 3,600.

Election result

The results saw no party win a majority on the council, with Labour losing seats, including 3 to the Conservatives.

|seats % = 50.0 |votes % = 34.5 |plus/minus = +5.6 |seats % = 27.8 |votes % = 30.7 |plus/minus = +1.3 |seats % = 22.2 |votes % = 31.6 |plus/minus = -5.2 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 1.9 |plus/minus = -1.5 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 1.4 |plus/minus = +0.2

Ward results

References

References

  1. "Milton Keynes". BBC News.
  2. (6 May 2000). "Local council results". Financial Times.
  3. (14 April 2000). "Blair goes on offensive in run-up to elections". Financial Times.
  4. Salman, Saba. (25 April 2000). "Local voters set to kick Blair over mayoral 'fix'". Evening Standard.
  5. Wainwright, Martin. (15 May 2000). "Comment & Analysis: Analysis: Making it easy: Experiments to improve the turnout in local elections have had an impact, although some voters still want to use a polling station". The Guardian.
  6. Salman, Saba. (5 May 2000). "Labour loses 600 seats in Tory fightback". Evening Standard.
  7. "Local Election Results May 4, 2000". Milton Keynes Council.
  8. (6 May 2000). "Election results: local councils". The Times.
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