Elections to the newly created Cheshire East Council took place on 1 May 2008. Elections occurred in all 27 wards, with each ward returning three councillors to the council. The wards were identical to the former Cheshire County Council wards.
From May 2008 until April 2009, the elected members formed a "shadow" council, which made preparations for the changeover from the county and borough structure to the new unitary authority structure.[1] Thereafter, the members serve for two years from May 2009 with the next elections scheduled for May 2011.
The Conservative Party took overall control of the council with a majority of 37 councillors.[2]
After the election, the composition of the council was:
N.B. The change in voting percentages refers to the change since the 2005 Cheshire Council election, the last time that voting took place in the same wards.
At the 2005 Cheshire County Council election, there were 15 Conservative controlled wards, 6 Labour controlled wards, 5 Liberal Democrat controlled wards and 1 ward controlled by an independent. Based on the 2005 results, the Cheshire East Council election would have resulted in 45 Conservative councillors, 18 Labour councillors, 15 Liberal Democrat councillors and 3 independents; the projected results would have given the Conservatives overall control of the council, with a majority of 9 councillors.
Current county councillor: Mark Asquith (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Rod Fletcher (Liberal Democrat)
Current county councillor: Sylvia Roberts (Liberal Democrat)
Current county councillor: David Freear (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Steve Wilkinson (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Allan Richardson (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Ken Oliver (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Peter Mason (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Bill Wolstencroft (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Gordon Fyffe (Labour)
Current county councillor: Peter Nurse (Labour)
Current county councillor: Dorothy Flude (Labour)
Current county councillor: David Newton (Labour)
Current county councillor: David Brickhill (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Bert Grange (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Barrie Hardern (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Nell Carter (Labour)
Current county councillor: Ken Edwards (Labour)
Current county councillor: Mark Dickson (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Arthur Moran (Independent)
Current county councillor: Chris Claxton (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Paul Findlow (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Margaret Simon (Conservative)
Current county councillor: Neville Price (Independent) (elected as a Conservative in 2005)
Current county councillor: Roy Giltrap (Liberal Democrat)
Current county councillor: Adrian Bradley (Liberal Democrat)
Current county councillor: Pat Fearnley (Liberal Democrat)