Cheshire West and Chester Council elections

Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority in Cheshire, England. It was created on 1 April 2009 replacing Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale Royal and Cheshire County Council.

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 2008 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[1][2][3]

	Leader	Term of office	Elections won
Conservative	Mike Jones	15 May 2008 – 21 May 2015	2008, 2011
Labour	Samantha Dixon	21 May 2015 – 3 May 2019	2015
No overall control		3 May 2019 – present	2019

Council elections

By-election results

2011

Ellesmere Port Town by-election, 20 October 2011[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynn Clare	686		-
	Conservative	Graham Pritchard	102
	Socialist Labour	Kenny Spain	65
	UKIP	Andrew Roberts	64
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Chrusciezl	41
Majority			584
Turnout				15.3
	Labour hold		Swing

2014

Boughton by-election, 10 July 2014[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martyn Delaney	614	44.8	-7.3%
	Conservative	Kate Vaughan	469	34.2	-6.2%
	UKIP	Charles Dodman	131	9.6	+9.6%
	Green	John McNamara	86	6.3	+6.3%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Gant	70	5.1	-2.4%
Majority			145	10.6
Turnout			1,370
	Labour hold		Swing

Winnington and Castle by-election, 10 July 2014[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sam Naylor	525	39.5
	Conservative	Jim Sinar	418	31.4
	UKIP	Amos Wright	307	23.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alice Chapman	80	6.0
Majority			107	8.0
Turnout			1,330
	Labour hold		Swing

2017

Blacon by-election, 20 April 2017[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ben Powell	1,556	59.1	0%
	Conservative	Jack Jackson	574	21.8	+4%
	Independent	Steve Ingram	434	16.5	+16.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Lizzie Jewkes	70	2.7	+2.7%
Majority			982	37.3
Turnout			2,634	25.4	-35.8%
	Labour hold		Swing

2018

Ellesmere Port Town by-election, 3 May 2018[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edwardson, Mike	1,447
	Conservative	Griffiths, Robert Douglas	239
	Green	Roberts, Matthew Joseph	60
Majority
Turnout				24.51
	Labour hold		Swing

References

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"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
"Cheshire West and Chester". BBC News Online. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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"Boughton, 2014". www.englishelections.org.uk. Kristofer Keane. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
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Council elections in Cheshire
Cheshire East Council	2008 2011 2015 2019
Cheshire West and Chester Council	2008 2011 2015 2019
Halton Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Warrington Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Cheshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 Abolished
Chester City Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Congleton Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Macclesfield Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 Abolished
Vale Royal Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 Abolished
See also: Wards Boundary changes

Unitary authorities of England
Districts	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Buckinghamshire Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cornwall County Durham Darlington Derby Dorset 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 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, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Buckinghamshire Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cornwall Derby Dorset 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 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

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