One third of seats in the Cherwell district were contested this year. There are three seats in each of the 16 district wards, but with elections being held by thirds, just one seat in each ward is due for election three years out of four. Usually the year without district elections is the year of county council elections, but the cycle was affected by the postponement of the 2020 elections due to the pandemic. In Banbury there are 15 district councillors representing five wards, while in Bicester there are 12 district councillors representing four wards. In Kidlington there are six district councillors representing two wards and across the rural areas there are five wards and 15 district councillors.
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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.
Polling day will be on May 6 this year SOUTH Staffordshire Council has confirmed the results of its county council and police and crime commissioner elections after voters went to the polls last Thursday May 6. Conservative candidate Victoria Wilson has been re-elected to serve as the county councillor for Kinver - having secured 2,911 votes.
Councillor Victoria Wilson Labour s Lorna Jones picked up 453 votes and Green Party candidate Bernadette McGourty notched up 546 votes. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party has retained the role of Staffordshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner - after Ben Adams was elected with 136,024 votes. Tony Kearon, for the Labour and Co-operative Party, picked up 67,050 votes; independent candidate Deneice Florence-Jukes notched up 19,102 votes; Liberal Democrat Richard Whelan gained 10,690 votes; and Reform UK candidate Michael Riley earned 5,504 votes.
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Voting took place on Thursday alongside the county council elections, with counting today (Monday May 10).
She said: “I’m really delighted and honoured to be re-elected by the people of Sussex and to represent them.
“We will continue with the work we have already been doing to recruit more police officers, because that’s what local people want, to continue developing our rural crime team, to continue developing our business crime team as well and I would also very much like to say a huge thank you to returning officer Geoff Raw and his amazing team of staff who you can hear downstairs packing away. It has been a very, very long day for all of them so a big thank you for all you have done for this.
Reading s new councillors Three new councillors have been elected to Reading Borough Council (RBC) last week, including a former Zimbabwean diplomat and a former advisor to the McCann family. There were 17 councillors in total elected in Reading last week at the local elections, with voting taking place on Thursday, May 6, and the winners confirmed at the count on Friday. Just three of the 17 are new councillors, however, with each of the new members winning after a councillor had stood down from their role. The three councillors also represent three different political parties. Two of them come from the same party as the retiring councillor, while the other won by just 10 votes to secure a gain for their party.