Election Name: | 2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2015 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Election: | 2023 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Seats For Election: | All 42 seats to Bracknell Forest Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 22 |
Image1: | Con |
Leader1: | Paul Bettison |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat1: | Little Sandhurst & Wellington |
Last Election1: | 41 seats, 52.0% |
Seats1: | 38 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 14,183 |
Percentage1: | 48.5% |
Swing1: | 3.5% |
Leader2: | Mary Temperton |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat2: | Great Hollands North |
Last Election2: | 1 seat, 22.2% |
Seats2: | 3 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 7,790 |
Percentage2: | 26.7% |
Swing2: | 4.5% |
Image3: | LD |
Leader3: | N/A |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Leaders Seat3: | N/A |
Last Election3: | 0 seat, 6.7% |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 5,956 |
Percentage3: | 20.4% |
Swing3: | 13.7% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Conservative |
After Election: | Conservative |
The 2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 42 councillors in 18 wards for Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England.
The Conservative Party has controlled the council since its establishment as a unitary authority in 1998, and ended up securing a seventh term in office.
Bracknell Forest Borough Council held local elections on 2 May 2019 along with councils across England as part of the 2019 local elections. The council elects its members in all-out elections, with all its councillors up for election every four years.[1] [2] Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2015. In that election, forty-one Conservative councillors and one Labour councillor were elected.
The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since the unitary authority was first elected in 1997. The predecessor district council had been controlled by both the Labour and Conservative parties.
After the previous election, and immediately before this election, the composition of the council was:
41 | 1 | |
Conservative | Labour |
Following the 2019 election, the composition of the council was:
38 | 3 | 1 |
Conservative | Labour |
An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor standing for re-election