Trailer - Local Elections May 2008

Elections were held on Thursday 1st May 2008 in 135 English Local Authorities, 2 shadow authorities and all Welsh Councils.

This page reflects local government restructuring proposals for Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire & Wiltshire which have been approved by Parliament.

36 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors in each
* - slight boundary changes.
Barnsley
Birmingham
Bolton
Bradford*
Bury
Calderdale
Coventry
Doncaster
Dudley
Gateshead
Kirklees
Knowsley
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salford
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Solihull
South Tyneside
St Helens
Stockport
Sunderland
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
19 Unitary Authorities - one-third of councillors in each
Blackburn with Darwen
Derby
Halton
Hartlepool
Hull
Milton Keynes
North East Lincolnshire
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Slough
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Stoke-on-Trent
Swindon
Thurrock
Warrington
Wokingham
2 County Councils - all-up.
(Becoming Unitary Authorities 1 Apr 2009.)
Durham
Northumberland
   
2 shadow Unitary Authorities, effective from 1 Apr 2009 - all-up.
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
   
78 Second-tier districts - one-third except where indicated
No elections will be held in Penwith; Shrewsbury & Atcham; Congleton, Chester, Crewe & Nantwich, Ellesmere Port & Neston, Macclesfield; Bedford or South Bedfordshire; Bedford will hold all-up elections in 2009 as a Unitary Authority with a reduced number of councillors, the others will be abolished on 1 April 2009. * - slight boundary changes.
Adur (one-half)
Amber Valley
Barrow-in-Furness (all-up)
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane (all-up)
Bassetlaw
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Carlisle
Castle Point
Cheltenham (one-half)
Cherwell
Chorley
Colchester
Craven
Crawley
Daventry
Eastleigh
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham (one-half)
Gloucester
Gosport (one-half)
Great Yarmouth
Harlow
Harrogate
Hart
Hastings (one-half)
Havant
Hertsmere
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
Maidstone
Mole Valley
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North Hertfordshire
Norwich
Nuneaton & Bedworth (one-half)
Oxford (one-half)
Pendle
Preston
Purbeck
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby*
Runnymede
Rushmoor
South Cambridgeshire*
South Lakeland (all-up)
St Albans
Stevenage
Stratford-on-Avon*
Stroud
Swale
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford
Waveney
Welwyn Hatfield (all-up)
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Oxfordshire
Weymouth & Portland
Winchester
Woking
Worcester
Worthing
Wyre Forest
22 Welsh Councils all-up
Blaenau Gwent
Bridgend
Caerphilly
Cardiff
Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Conwy
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Gwynedd
Merthyr Tydfil
Monmouthshire
Neath & Port Talbot
Newport
Pembrokeshire
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Swansea
Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wrexham
Ynys Môn

07 Jul 2006 First draft.
27 Jul 2006 Note Adur is one-half.
7 Jan 2008 Effects of restructuring.
28 Feb 2008 Noted 4 Electoral Change Orders.
29 Feb 2008 Further effects of restructuring, mainly Cheshire.
12 Mar 2008 Correction, no elections in Eastbourne (now has all-up elections).
21 Mar 2008 Restructuring in Bedfordshire.
5 Apr 2008 Link Restructuring Order for Bedfordshire.
3 Aug 2009 Belated minor boundary adjustment orders.
4 Nov 2011 Correct explanation of no elections in Bedford.
16 Feb 2017 Fix links to Statutory Instruments

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