Election Name: | 2007 West Wiltshire District Council election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2003 West Wiltshire District Council election |
Previous Year: | 2003 |
Seats For Election: | All 44 seats to West Wiltshire District Council |
Majority Seats: | 23 |
Image1: | Con |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 19 seats, 36.9% |
Seats1: | 26 |
Seat Change1: | 7 |
Popular Vote1: | 17,339 |
Percentage1: | 48.1% |
Swing1: | 11.2% |
Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election2: | 19 seats, 35.6% |
Seats2: | 14 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 12,040 |
Percentage2: | 33.4% |
Swing2: | 2.2% |
Image3: | Ind |
Party3: | Independent (politician) |
Last Election3: | 4 seats, 13.0% |
Seats3: | 4 |
Popular Vote3: | 4,687 |
Percentage3: | 12.6% |
Swing3: | 0.4% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | No overall control |
After Election: | Conservative |
Elections to West Wiltshire District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the Conservatives took control.
Most wards had boundary changes or were new.[1] One ward, Shearwater, was uncontested.
Of the 44 new members, 21 were not members of the outgoing council.
The district councillors were elected on 3 May 2007 for a four-year term of office, but a review of local government determined in 2008 that the four district councils of Wiltshire should be merged with Wiltshire County Council to form a new unitary authority for Wiltshire with effect from 1 April 2009, when the district councillors' term of office would end. The county council was treated as a "continuing authority", and elections to the new Wiltshire Council unitary council took place in June 2009.
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