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2009 Wiltshire Council election
2009 UK local government election
2009 UK local government election
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 2009 Wiltshire Council election |
| country | Wiltshire |
| type | parliamentary |
| ongoing | no |
| election_date | |
| next_election | 2013 Wiltshire Council election |
| next_year | 2013 |
| seats_for_election | All 98 seats to Wiltshire Council |
| majority_seats | 50 |
| image1 | Con |
| party1 | Conservative Party (UK) |
| seats1 | 62 |
| popular_vote1 | 66,985 |
| percentage1 | 45.3% |
| image2 | LD |
| party2 | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| seats2 | 24 |
| popular_vote2 | 46,375 |
| percentage2 | 31.4% |
| image3 | Ind |
| party3 | Independent (politician) |
| seats3 | 7 |
| popular_vote3 | 12,905 |
| percentage3 | 8.7% |
| image4 | DG |
| party4 | Devizes Guardians |
| seats4 | 3 |
| popular_vote4 | 1,503 |
| percentage4 | 1.0% |
| image5 | Lab |
| party5 | Labour Party (UK) |
| seats5 | 2 |
| popular_vote5 | 6,852 |
| percentage5 | 4.6% |
| map_image | Wiltshire UK local election 2009 map.svg |
| map_caption | Map showing the composition of Wiltshire Council following the election. Blue showing Conservative, Red showing Labour, Yellow showing Liberal Democrats, Grey showing Independents and Green showing the Devizes Guardians. |
| title | Council control after election |
| after_election | Conservative |
Elections to Wiltshire Council, a new unitary authority, were held on 4 June 2009.
The whole council of ninety-eight members was up for election, with each member to be elected in a single-member electoral division. None of the new electoral divisions was identical to any of the divisions or wards of the council's predecessors, Wiltshire County Council and the four district councils within its area, Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire.
As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the European elections of 2009. The 2005 Wiltshire County Council election, the last to the old county council, coincided with the general election of 2005, and the county elections of 1997 and 2001 had also coincided with general elections.
Reorganization
Wiltshire's "two tier" system of local government until 2009 was typical of English shire counties, with the county, excluding the pre-existing unitary authority of Swindon, being sub-divided into four local government districts. However, the Department for Communities and Local Government announced on 25 July 2007 that with effect from 1 April 2009 Wiltshire was to be served by a new unitary authority, replacing Wiltshire County Council and the four district councils within its area, with Swindon continuing as a separate unitary authority.
Although the new authority came into being on 1 April 2009, the date on which the four district councils ceased to exist, the first elections to the new council were not held until 4 June. For some two months, the role of elected members of the new authority was carried out by the 48 outgoing Wiltshire county councillors and by an "Implementation Executive" consisting of eight members appointed from the outgoing county council and two members from each of the outgoing districts.
Results
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|}
Electoral division results
Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Alderbury and Whiteparish
Amesbury East
Amesbury West
Bourne and Woodford Valley
Box and Colerne
Bradford on Avon North
Bradford on Avon South
Brinkworth
Bromham, Rowde and Potterne
Bulford, Allington and Figheldean
Burbage and the Bedwyns
By Brook
Calne Central
Calne Chilvester and Abberd
Calne North
Calne Rural
Calne South and Cherhill
Chippenham Cepen Park and Derriads
Chippenham Cepen Park and Redlands
Chippenham Hardenhuish
Chippenham Hardens and England
Chippenham Lowden and Rowden
Chippenham Monkton
Chippenham Pewsham
Chippenham Queens and Sheldon
Corsham Pickwick
Corsham Town
Corsham Without and Box Hill
Cricklade and Latton
Devizes and Roundway South
Devizes East
Devizes North
Downton and Ebble Valley
Durrington and Larkhill
Ethandune
Fovant and Chalke Valley
Hilperton
Holt and Staverton
Kington
Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum
Ludgershall and Perham Down
Lyneham
Malmesbury
Marlborough East
Marlborough West
Melksham Central
Melksham North
Melksham South
Melksham Without North
Melksham Without South
Mere
Minety
Nadder and East Knoyle
Pewsey
Pewsey Vale
Purton
Redlynch and Landford
Roundway
Salisbury Bemerton
Salisbury Fisherton & Bemerton Village
Salisbury Harnham
Salisbury St Edmund & Milford
Salisbury St Francis and Stratford
Salisbury St Marks and Bishopdown
Salisbury St Martins and Cathedral
Salisbury St Pauls
Sherston
Southwick
Summerham and Seend
The Collingbournes and Netheravon
The Lavingtons and Erlestoke
Tidworth
Till and Wylye Valley
Tisbury
Trowbridge Adcroft
Trowbridge Central
Trowbridge Drynham
Trowbridge Grove
Trowbridge Lambrok
Trowbridge Park
Trowbridge Paxcroft
Urchfont and The Cannings
Warminster Broadway
Warminster Copheap and Wylye
Warminster East
Warminster West
Warminster Without
West Selkley
Westbury East
Westbury North
Westbury West
Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley
Winsley and Westwood
Winterslow
Wootton Bassett East
Wootton Bassett North
Wootton Bassett South
By-elections between 2009 and 2013
Between 2009 and 2013 the composition of the council changed significantly. After the 2009 local elections the council consisted of 62 Conservatives, 24 Liberal Democrats, seven independent councillors, three Devizes Guardians, and two Labour. In September 2009 and December 2010, an Independent joining UKIP while remaining in the Independent group, a defection in May 2012 by a Liberal Democrat councillor to the Conservatives, and in November 2012 by another Lib Dem and a Conservative to the Independents, by the beginning of 2013 Wiltshire Council consisted of 61 Conservatives, 22 Liberal Democrats, ten Independents including one UKIP member, three Devizes Guardians, and two Labour members.
Southwick
Bromham, Rowde and Potterne
References
References
- [http://www.onecouncilforwiltshire.co.uk/ Towards One Council] {{Webarchive. link. (9 March 2009 at onecouncilforwiltshire.co.uk)
- [http://www.westburytownforums.co.uk/index.php?topic=2337.0 Explanation by Cllr Cuthbert Murray] at westburytownforums.co.uk that he is both a UKIP member and an Independent
- (22 May 2012). "Wiltshire councillor joins Conservatives". ConservativeHome.
- Gerald Isaaman, [http://www.marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk/news/all-the-news/1237-councillor-peggy-dow-quits-the-lib-dems-as-they-suffer-election-humiliation-at-the-polls Councillor Peggy Dow quits the Lib-Dems as they suffer election humiliation at the polls] (marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk)
- (2008-02-08). "Id: 88010 - Friday 4th September 2009 - Press Release by election results". Wiltshire Council.
- "Election of a Unitary Councillor for Bromham, Rowde and Potterne on Tuesday 21 December 2010".
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