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The 10 to watch - who will lead Buckinghamshire Council? The first Bucks unitary elections are over and the results are in – the Conservatives have come out on top, taking 113 seats and the overall majority at Buckinghamshire Council. The next step is for the controlling party to name a man or woman to lead the council for the next four years. Former leader Martin Tett, who was elected in the Little Chalfont and Amersham Common ward, confirmed at the Chiltern count on Saturday he would be putting himself forward for the position again. Our sources also told us challengers are expected to vie for his position as the group will decide who it could be – but there has been confirmation on rumoured names.
It was a blue wave in the first-ever Bucks Council unitary elections, as the Conservatives swept numerous wards in the central and northern areas of Buckinghamshire. The Tories dominated a large majority of the county, despite several Liberal Democrat candidates winning seats in their respected areas. During a long and drawn out day at the Gateway Office in Aylesbury on Saturday, May 8, numerous candidates were ‘too tense to talk’ as the votes were being counted.
The calm before the storm Not long arrived at Aylesbury’s Buckinghamshire Council offices for the #ElectionResults2021. Several people are already here and the first results should be revealed at around 11ish #LE2021pic.twitter.com/iBA24t93oX James Richings | Bucks Free Press (@James BFP) May 8, 2021
It became a unitary council in April 2020. The Conservatives have 152 seats, the Liberal Democrats have 17, the Independents have 12 seats, Labour have nine, and the Green Party has one. There is also one for the Bucks Residents’ Association – Cllr Andy Huxley. Many of these councillors represent a particular area, be it Grendon Underwood, Aston Clinton and Bierton, Chiltern Villages, Chess Valley, Tylers Green and Loudwater, Stoke Poges and Wexham, Chalfont St Giles, and so on. Some also sit on town and parish councils such as Great Missenden, West Wycombe, Bledlow-cum-Saunderton, Beaconsfield, Little Marlow, and Denham, and so it goes.
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