Wokingham Borough Council

Wokingham Borough Council
Third of council elected three years out of four
Type
Type	Unitary authority council of the Borough of Wokingham
Houses	Unicameral
Term limits	None
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Elections
Voting system	Plurality-at-large
Last election	2010 (one third of councillors) 2011 (one third of councillors) 2012 (one third of councillors)
Next election	2014 (one third of councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors)
Website
www.wokingham.gov.uk

Wokingham Borough Council is the local authority of Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined.

Elections

Main article: Wokingham local elections

Elections to the council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 54 seats on the council being elected at each election. Since winning the 2002 election the Conservative party has had a majority on the council. As of the Wokingham Borough Council election, 2015 the council is composed of the following councillors:^[1]

Party		Councillors
	Conservative Party	46
	Liberal Democrats	5
	Independent	1
	Labour	1

References

↑ . Wokingham Borough Council http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/news/index/may2014/local/. Retrieved 25 May 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Unitary authorities of England

Districts	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cornwall County Durham Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Northumberland Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Shropshire Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea South Gloucestershire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York

Councils	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cornwall Derby Durham Darlington East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Northumberland Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Shropshire Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea South Gloucestershire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York

Local elections	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cornwall County Durham Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Northumberland Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Shropshire Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea South Gloucestershire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York

Local authorities in Berkshire

Bracknell Forest Reading Slough West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham

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