| Election Name: | 1995 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1994 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Previous Year: | 1994 |
| Next Election: | 1996 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
| Seats For Election: | 17 of 50 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Image1: | Con |
| Leader1: | Geoff Woods |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 25 |
| Seats After1: | 22 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Leader2: | David Kearns |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before2: | 18 |
| Seats After2: | 21 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Image3: | LD |
| Leader3: | Ian Simpson |
| Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats Before3: | 5 |
| Seats After3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Image4: | RA |
| Party4: | Ratepayers Association |
| Seats Before4: | 1 |
| Seats After4: | 0 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Image5: | Ind |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before5: | 1 |
| Seats After5: | 1 |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Geoff Woods Conservative |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| Posttitle: | Policy chairman after election |
| After Election: | David Kearns Labour |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 1995 North Hertfordshire District Council election was held on 4 May 1995, at the same time as other local elections across England and Wales. There were 17 out of 50 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council up for election, being the usual third of the council.[1]
The council remained under no overall control. Prior to the election the council had been run by a Conservative minority administration, with the Conservative leader, Geoff Woods, being leader of the council. At the election, the Conservatives made a net loss of three seats whilst Labour gained three seats and was able to form a minority administration with the support of the Liberal Democrats, although the two parties did not formally consider their arrangement to be a coalition. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 16 May 1995 the Labour leader, David Kearns, took the council's most senior political role as chairman of the policy and resources committee, although he was not given the title of leader of the council that all previous policy chairmen had held. Immediately after the election the Conservatives changed their group leader from Geoff Woods to F. John Smith.[2] [3]
The overall results were as follows:
The results for each ward were as follows. An asterisk(*) indicates a sitting councillor standing for re-election.[4] [5]
The Letchworth East seat had previously been held by Labour councillor Charles Bifield, but had been vacant since his death on 16 February 1995.[6]