Election Name: | 2019 Mansfield District Council election |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2015 Mansfield District Council election |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Election: | 2023 Mansfield District Council election |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Seats For Election: | All 36 seats to Mansfield District Council |
Majority Seats: | 19 |
Election Date: | 2 May 2019 |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 18 |
Seats Before1: | 17 |
Seats1: | 15 |
Seat Change1: | -2 |
Popular Vote1: | 8,155 |
Percentage1: | 34.3% |
Swing1: | -13.6% |
Party2: | Mansfield Independent Forum |
Color2: | DDDDDD |
Last Election2: | 16 |
Seats Before2: | 19 |
Seats2: | 13 |
Seat Change2: | -3 |
Popular Vote2: | 8,245 |
Percentage2: | 34.6% |
Swing2: | -3.1% |
Party3: | Independent (politician) |
Last Election3: | 0 |
Seats Before3: | 0 |
Seats3: | 6 |
Seat Change3: | +6 |
Popular Vote3: | 1,789 |
Percentage3: | 7.5% |
Swing3: | +3.5% |
Party4: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election4: | 0 |
Seats Before4: | 1 |
Seats4: | 2 |
Seat Change4: | +1 |
Popular Vote4: | 5,062 |
Percentage4: | 21.3% |
Swing4: | +18.3% |
Party5: | UKIP |
Last Election5: | 2 |
Seats Before5: | 0 |
Seats5: | 0 |
Seat Change5: | -2 |
Popular Vote5: | 540 |
Percentage5: | 2.3% |
Swing5: | -5.2% |
Party6: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election6: | New Party |
Seats Before6: | 0 |
Seats6: | 0 |
Seat Change6: | 0 |
Popular Vote6: | 16 |
Percentage6: | 0.1 |
Swing6: | +0.1% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | No overall control |
After Election: | No overall control |
The 2019 Mansfield District Council election took place on 2 May 2019, to elect all 36 seats to the Mansfield District Council in Nottinghamshire, England.[1] It was prior to the election run by the Mansfield Independent Forum.
As of January 2020 the council composition is:
6Conservative Party UK
2
Answer was elected as a UKIP councillor in 2015 before rejoining the Mansfield Independent Forum.
Between 2017 and 2019 the former Mansfield Independent councillor sat as a Conservative.
In the 2015 elections, Manor ward went uncontested.
Sissons was originally elected in 2015 for the Mansfield Independent Forum but defected in 2018 with Stephen Garner to sit as an Independent.
Hopewell was previously elected in 2011 and 2015 as the Labour councillor for the ward but later defected.
Garner was originally elected as Mansfield Independent Forum however later left the forum in 2018 to run for mayor as an independent.
Due to Andy Abrahams winning the Mayoral election, a by-election took place in Sandhurst on the 27th of June 2019. Dave Saunders went on to win the subsequent by-election.