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2012 St Albans City and District Council election

2012 UK local government election

2012 UK local government election

The 2012 St Albans City and District Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of St Albans District Council in Hertfordshire, 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:

  • Conservative 29
  • Liberal Democrats 19
  • Labour 8
  • Green 1
  • Independent 1

Background

Before the election the Conservatives were the largest party on the council with 29 of the 58 seats. The Liberal Democrats had 23 seats, Labour had 4 seats, the Green Party had 1 seat and there was 1 Independent.

19 seats were contested in 2012 with both the Conservative and Labour parties having a full 19 candidates, the Liberal Democrats had 18 and the Greens had 17. There were 3 independent candidates as well, the sitting independent councillor Tony Swendell in Redbourn, the former Labour group leader Maurice MacMillan in London Colney, who had left the party a few years before over the imposition of an all-women shortlist, and Conservative councillor John Chambers, who was standing in Harpenden North as an independent after having been deselected by the Conservatives.

Election result

The Labour Party gained 4 seats to have 8 councillors after taking 3 seats from the Liberal Democrats and 1 seat from the Conservatives. The Conservatives remained the largest party, while the Liberal Democrats dropped to 19 seats and both the Green Party and Independent Tony Swendell held the seats they had been defending.

|seats % = 42.1 |votes % = 37.9 |plus/minus = -4.6 |seats % = 26.3 |votes % = 25.0 |plus/minus = -4.3 |seats % = 21.1 |votes % = 22.0 |plus/minus = +2.4 |seats % = 5.3 |votes % = 8.6 |plus/minus = +0.3 |seats % = 5.3 |votes % = 5.6 |plus/minus = +5.3 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.7 |plus/minus = +0.7 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.2 |plus/minus = +0.2

Ward results

References

References

  1. (4 May 2012). "St Albans". BBC News.
  2. (5 May 2012). "Election results 2012: Non-Metro". The Guardian.
  3. (24 April 2012). "Local elections 2012". BBC News.
  4. White, Debbie. (20 January 2012). "Roma Mills wins St Albans by-election". The Herts Advertiser.
  5. Burton, Madeleine. (16 April 2012). "Surprise independent candidates in St Albans Council elections". The Herts Advertiser.
  6. (3 May 2012). "2012 local election counting begins". St Albans & Harpenden Review.
  7. Mistry, Manisha. (4 May 2012). "Conservatives still largest St Albans District Council party". St Albans & Harpenden Review.
  8. "3rd May 2012 District Council Election Results". St Albans City & District Council.
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