Election Name: | 2007 Kennet District Council election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2003 Kennet District Council election |
Previous Year: | 2003 |
Seats For Election: | All 43 seats to Kennet District Council |
Majority Seats: | 22 |
Image1: | Con |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 26 seats, 40.9% |
Seats1: | 33 |
Seat Change1: | 7 |
Popular Vote1: | 11,890 |
Percentage1: | 47.3% |
Swing1: | 6.4% |
Party2: | Independent (politician) |
Last Election2: | 8 seats, 17.8% |
Seats2: | 5 |
Seat Change2: | 3 |
Popular Vote2: | 3,365 |
Percentage2: | 13.4% |
Swing2: | 4.4% |
Image3: | UKIP |
Party3: | United Kingdom Independence Party |
Last Election3: | 1 seat, 1.7% |
Seats3: | 2 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 3,148 |
Percentage3: | 12.5% |
Swing3: | 10.8% |
Image4: | DG |
Party4: | Devizes Guardians |
Last Election4: | 3 seats, 7.6% |
Seats4: | 2 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 1,391 |
Percentage4: | 5.5% |
Swing4: | 2.1% |
Image5: | LD |
Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election5: | 3 seats, 17.0% |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 2 |
Popular Vote5: | 3,958 |
Percentage5: | 15.7% |
Swing5: | 1.3% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Conservative |
After Election: | Conservative |
Elections to Kennet District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election, and the Conservatives comfortably retained control, winning thirty-three of the forty-three seats available.[1]
This was the last election of district councilors to take place in Kennet. The following year, a government review of local government determined that the four district councils of Wiltshire were to be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority with effect from 1 April 2009, when Kennet would be abolished and its councilors ' term of office would end two years early.
Elections to the new unitary authority, Wiltshire Council, took place in June 2009.
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