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.
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