Swale Borough Council elections

Map showing the composition of Swale Borough Council after the 2011 election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independent in light grey.

Swale Borough Council in Kent, England is elected every four years. Until 2011 one third of the council was elected every year, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes in 2002, 47 councillors have been elected from 25 wards.^[1]

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[2]

Party in control	Years
No overall control	1973 - 1976
Conservative	1976 - 1986
No overall control	1986 - 2002
Conservative	2002 - present

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.^[3]

• Swale District Council election, 1973
• Swale Borough Council election, 1976
• Swale Borough Council election, 1979 (New ward boundaries)^[4]
• Swale Borough Council election, 1980
• Swale Borough Council election, 1982
• Swale Borough Council election, 1983 (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[5]
• Swale Borough Council election, 1984 (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[6]
• Swale Borough Council election, 1986
• Swale Borough Council election, 1987
• Swale Borough Council election, 1988

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats	UKIP	Independent	Sheppey First	Notes
1990[7]	19	16	14	0	0	0
1991[8]	18	19	12	0	0	0
1992[9]	20	14	14	0	1	0
1994[10]	17	12	19	0	1	0
1995[11]	14	14	20	0	1	0
1996[12]	6	19	23	0	1	0
1998[13]	7	19	22	0	1	0
1999[14]	9	17	23	0	0	0
2000[15]	15	12	22	0	0	0
2002[3]	25	10	12	0	0	0	New ward boundaries[16]
2003[17]	25	11	11	0	0	0
2004[18]	26	11	10	0	0	0
2006[19]	28	10	8	0	1	0
2007[20]	26	10	6	0	1	4
2008[21]	26	9	5	0	7	0
2010[22]	33	10	3	0	1	0
2011[2]	32	13	1	0	1	0
2015	32	4	0	9	2	0	New ward boundaries[23]

Borough result maps

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  2002 results map

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  2003 results map

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  2004 results map

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  2006 results map

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  2007 results map

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  2008 results map

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  2010 results map

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  2011 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;^[24] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Eastern by-election	25 January 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Minster Cliffs by-election	25 September 2008		Sheppey First		Conservative
Sheerness East by-election	25 September 2008		Sheppey First		Labour
Teynham and Lynsted by-election	2 October 2008		Conservative		Conservative
Kemsley by-election	8 March 2012		Conservative		Conservative
Sheppey Central by-election	16 October 2014		Conservative		UKIP

References

1. "Becoming a Councillor" (PDF). Swale Borough Council. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
2. "England council elections". BBC News Online. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
3. "Swale". BBC News Online. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
4. The District of Swale (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976
5. The Gillingham and Swale (Areas) Order 1982
6. The Maidstone and Swale (Areas) Order 1983
7. "Local election results". The Times (NewsBank). 5 May 1990.
8. "Complete round-up of results from Thursday's local council elections". The Times (NewsBank). 4 May 1991.
9. "Local election results 1992". The Times (NewsBank). 9 May 1992.
10. "Non Metropolitan Districts - Local elections". The Times (NewsBank). 7 May 1994. p. 9.
11. "Complete list of results from thursday's council elections". The Times (NewsBank). 6 May 1995. p. 8.
12. "Complete list of results". The Times (NewsBank). 4 May 1996. p. 8.
13. "Local Elections results". The Times (NewsBank). 9 May 1998. p. 46.
14. "How the nations voted". The Times (NewsBank). 8 May 1999. p. 48.
15. "Swale". BBC News Online. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
16. legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Swale (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
17. "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
18. "Swale council". BBC News Online. 11 June 2004. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
19. "Local elections: Swale". BBC News Online. 4 May 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
20. "Swale: Sheppey First! wins four seats". Kent Online. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
21. "Swale". BBC News Online. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
22. "Swale". BBC News Online. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
23. legislation.gov.uk - The Swale (Electoral Changes) Order 2012. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
24. "Local Authority Byelection Results". Retrieved 26 March 2015.

External links

• Swale Borough Council