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2009 West Sussex County Council election

2009 UK local government election

Field	Value
election_name	2009 West Sussex County Council election
country	West Sussex
type	Parliamentary
ongoing	no
party_colour	yes
previous_election	2005 West Sussex County Council election
previous_year	2005
next_election	2013 United Kingdom local elections
next_year	2013
seats_for_election	All 71 seats to West Sussex County Council
majority_seats	36
election_date	4 June 2009
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
seats1	48
seat_change1	2
party2	Liberal Democrats (UK)
seats2	21
seat_change2	4
party3	Labour Party (UK)
seats3	2
seat_change3	5
map_image	West Sussex wards 2009.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	Map showing the results of the 2009 West Sussex County Council elections.
title	Council control
posttitle	Council control after election
before_election	Conservative
after_election	Conservative

The West Sussex County Council election, 2009 were elections to West Sussex County Council which took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.

The elections saw the Conservative Party retain overall control, having done so since 1997. On this occasion they gained two seats and saw their vote share increase by just over 5%. The Liberal Democrats strengthened their position as the main opposition party, gaining a net total of four seats, despite their own share of the vote falling by nearly 4%. The Labour Party lost five of the seven seats they had held before the election, and saw their vote fall by nearly 10%, broadly in line with their national decline. This decline saw the party fall to fourth place in the county in terms of the popular vote, being replaced in third by the UK Independence Party, who are likely to have benefited by voting being held alongside the European Parliament elections.

Summary

|seats % = 67.61 |votes % = 48.40 |plus/minus = +5.23% |seats % = 29.58 |votes % = 28.96 |plus/minus = -3.76% |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 8.55 |plus/minus = +5.57% |seats % = 2.82 |votes % = 8.48 |plus/minus = -9.28% |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 2.21 |plus/minus = -0.07% |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 2.01 |plus/minus = +1.81% |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 0.66 |plus/minus = -0.18% |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 0.61 |plus/minus = N/A |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 0.07 |plus/minus = N/A |seats % = 0.00 |votes % = 0.05 |plus/minus = N/A |}

Results by division

The elections were the first to be fought on new electoral divisions as recommended by the Boundary Committee for England following a review, carried out at the request of West Sussex County Council. The new arrangement of 71 single-member divisions replaced the 70 seats that were contested across 62 divisions in 2005. The recommendations were accepted by the Electoral Commission in February 2009, who implemented the legal order authorising the change and allowing the new divisions to be used in these elections on 6 March 2009.

Adur

Arun

Chichester

Crawley

Horsham

Mid Sussex

Worthing

References

[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8086343.stm BBC News - Lib Dems win seats in West Sussex]
[http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-media/news-releases/boundary-committee-news-centre/electoral-review2/boundary-committee-publishes-electoral-arrangements-for-west-sussex-county-council Boundary Committee publishes electoral arrangements for West Sussex County Council - The Electoral Commission]
[http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/boundary-reviews/all-reviews/south-east/west-sussex/west-sussex-electoral-review West Sussex electoral review - The Electoral Commission]
[http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-media/news-releases/boundary-committee-news-centre/electoral-review2/changes-to-west-sussex-electoral-arrangements-finalised Changes to West Sussex electoral arrangements finalised - The Electoral Commission]

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