2011 Cheshire West and Chester Council election information
2011 UK local government election
Main article: 2011 United Kingdom local elections
Cheshire West and Chester Council Election, 2011
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All 75 seats on Cheshire West and Chester Council 38 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Mike Jones
Derek Bateman
Party
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat
Tattenhall
Ellesmere Port Town
Last election
55
13
4
Seats before
50
13
4
Seats won
8
19
3
Seats after
42
32
1
Popular vote
84,705
69,829
22,223
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Richard Lowe[a]
Party
Independent
UKIP
Leader's seat
Garden Quarter (defeated)
Last election
0
0
Seats before
4
1
Seats won
4
1
Seats after
0
0
Popular vote
5,732
2,889
Leader of the Council before election
Mike Jones
Conservative
Leader of the Council after election
Mike Jones
Conservative
The 2011 elections to Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council were the first elections to this Council after it had been re-warded into a mixture of single-, two- and three-member wards. They took place on 5 May alongside the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum. The previous election held for 2008 were based on the old Cheshire County Council electoral divisions each of which returned 3 members. The 2008 elections elected 72 members to serve first on the shadow authority and then, with effect from 1 April 2009, the new Council when it took over responsibility for the delivery of local government services.
Given the re-warding that took place in time for the 2011 elections, direct comparisons between the 2008 and 2011 results are problematic. Superficially, the 2011 results give the impression of a dramatic swing to Labour when compared with the 2008 results; however, this is misleading. In 2008, the Labour Party was particularly unpopular, with the local government elections taking place shortly after the '10p tax rate' had been abolished, plunging Labour support to a particular low. This unpopularity, coupled with the then large electoral wards electing three councillors per ward, and the first-past-the-post system, very much favoured the then leading party in the opinion polls – the Conservatives – who, in 2008, won a much greater majority than had otherwise been predicted.
The 2011 elections with the re-warding took place one year into the national Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition, at a time when support for the Liberal Democrats was at a particular low. Nationally, Labour's support had rallied considerably when compared with 2008.
Before the elections in 2011, the majority Conservative party suffered a small number of defections, principally almost certainly associated with existing councillors failing to be selected by the party to fight the seat of their choice.
The count at Northgate Arena.
As noted, the Conservatives had reduced in number from 55 to 50 through resignations, defections and withdrawal of the party whip associated with the processes for selection of candidates to fight the 2011 election.
Four political groups which had unsuccessfully put forward candidates in 2008 did not do so in 2011. Several deselected Conservatives stood without the party whip, but there were no other independent candidates.
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