Election Name: | 2022 Cherwell District Council election |
Country: | Oxfordshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2021 Cherwell District Council election |
Previous Year: | 2021 |
Next Election: | 2023 Cherwell District Council election |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Seats For Election: | 17 out of 48 seats to Cherwell District Council |
Majority Seats: | 25 |
Leader1: | Barry Wood |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 31 seats, 47.7% |
Seats1: | 6 |
Seats After1: | 25 |
Seat Change1: | 6 |
Popular Vote1: | 16,169 |
Percentage1: | 38.4% |
Swing1: | 9.3% |
Leader2: | Sean Woodcock |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election2: | 8 seats, 22.8% |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seats After2: | 10 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 10,434 |
Percentage2: | 24.8% |
Swing2: | 2.0% |
Leader3: | Katherine Tyson |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election3: | 3 seats, 15.1% |
Seats3: | 5 |
Seats After3: | 7 |
Seat Change3: | 4 |
Popular Vote3: | 11,120 |
Percentage3: | 26.4% |
Swing3: | 11.3% |
Party4: | Independent politician |
Last Election4: | 5 seats, 4.7% |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seats After4: | 4 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 1,092 |
Percentage4: | 2.6% |
Swing4: | 2.2% |
Leader5: | Ian Middleton |
Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Last Election5: | 1 seat, 9.7% |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seats After5: | 2 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 3,241 |
Percentage5: | 7.7% |
Swing5: | 2.0% |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
The 2022 Cherwell District Council election was held on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Cherwell District Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.
Hannah Banfield, elected in 2019 as a Labour councillor for Banbury Cross and Neithrop ward, resigned from the party in November 2022, sitting instead as an independent.[2]