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image captionNew council leader Linda Taylor said the authority would work closely with the county s six Tory MPs
Cornwall Council has a new leader after the Conservatives won a majority in last week s local elections.
Linda Taylor said she would head up the unitary authority after her party became the first to take full control of it since its creation in 2009.
The Conservative group leader takes the top seat after no-one stood against her for the the post, she told the BBC.
New deputy leader David Harris also stood unopposed and a new cabinet had been confirmed, she said.
It s all change at Cornwall Council as the Conservative Group takes overall majority control. For the past four years there has been a Liberal Democrat-Independent leadership at the council, but all that has changed following yesterday s local elections. The Conservatives took 47 seats, polling 37% of the votes. Meanwhile the Liberal Democrat Group took only 14 seats this time, polling 20% of the votes. Independent candidates did one better, taking 15 of the seats, with 17% of the votes. Mebyon Kernow now has five councillors, and polled 5% of the votes. Labour has four seats on the council, with 10% of the vote taken. The Green Party now has its first candidate on the council, after Tamsyn Widdon was elected to Penryn, with the party polling 10% of the votes.