1993 Wiltshire County Council election explained

Election Name:1993 Wiltshire County Council election
Country:Wiltshire
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1989 Wiltshire County Council election
Previous Year:1989
Seats For Election:All 68 seats to Wiltshire County Council
Majority Seats:35
Next Election:1997 Wiltshire County Council election
Next Year:1997
Image1: LD
Party1:Liberal Democrats (UK)
Last Election1:18 seats, 27%
Seats1:33
Seat Change1: 15
Popular Vote1:64,107
Percentage1:37.5%
Swing1: 10.5%
Party2:Conservative Party (UK)
Last Election2:35 seats, 44%
Seats2:18
Seat Change2: 17
Popular Vote2:61,379
Percentage2:36%
Swing2: 8%
Image3: Lab
Last Election3:18 seats, 24%
Party3:Labour Party (UK)
Seats3:17
Seat Change3: 1
Popular Vote3:38,445
Percentage3:22.5%
Swing3: 1.5%
Council control
Posttitle:Council control after election
Before Election:No overall control
After Election:No overall control

Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 6 May 1993. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party. This resulted in a no-party-control shared administration for the first year of the Council, with the three main party groups being briefed on a coequal basis. Following a by-election gain by the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives, giving the Liberal Democrats exactly half the seats on the Council, a Liberal Democrat administration was formed, but with a convention that those chairing committees would not use their casting vote.

When Swindon Borough Council was established as a new unitary authority on 1 April 1997, the members who had been elected to the county council from Haydon Wick, Highworth, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough, and Wroughton ceased to hold office. The size of the council fell from 68 to 47, and in the remaining month of the council's term of office the Liberal Democrats briefly gained control, but they lost it at the 1997 Wiltshire Council election, when there was a return to no overall control.

Results

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Results by divisions

Wroughton

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