Bath and North East Somerset Council elections explained

Bath and North East Somerset Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset, England. The council is elected every four years by the first past the post system of election and currently consists of 59 councillors, representing 33 electoral wards.

Council elections

• 1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
• 1999 Bath and North East Somerset Council election (New ward boundaries)^[1]
• 2003 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
• 2007 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
• 2011 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
• 2015 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
• 2019 Bath and North East Somerset Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 6)^[2]
• 2023 Bath and North East Somerset Council election

width=125 align="center"	Date		width=100 align="center"	Liberal Democrat	width=22 align="center"	+/–		width=100 align="center"	Conservative	width=22 align="center"	+/–		width=100 align="center"	Labour	width=22 align="center"	+/–		width=100 align="center"	Greens	width=22 align="center"	+/–		width=100 align="center"	Independent	width=22 align="center"	+/–		Other	width=20 align="center"	+/–	width=125 align="center"	Control
1995^[3] ^[4]	27			16			22			–			–			–			NOC
1999^[5]	30		+3	16		=	17		–5	–			–			2		+2	NOC
2003^[6]	29		–1	26		+10	6		–11	–			4		+4	0		–2	NOC
2007^[7]	26		–3	31		+5	5		–1	–			3		–1	–			NOC
2011^[8]	29		+3	29		–2	5		=	–			2		–1	–			NOC
2015^[9]	15		–14	37		+8	6		+1	2		+2	3		+1	2		+2	Conservative
2019^[10]	37		+22	11		–26	5		–1	0		–2	6		+3	0		–2	Liberal Democrat
2023^[11]	41		+4	3		–8	7		+2	3		+3	5		-1	0		–2	Liberal Democrat

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of all by-elections;^[12] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Abbey by-election	17 July 1997
Weston by-election	19 February 1998
Lansdown by-election	4 May 2000
Bathavon North by-election	12 October 2000
Lansdown by-election	11 July 2002
Walcot by-election	11 July 2002
Radstock by-election	29 July 2010
Chew Valley North by-election	15 November 2012
Bathavon North by-election	22 May 2014
Abbey by-election	17 November 2016
Walcot by-election	6 April 2017
Newbridge by-election	4 May 2017
Kingsmead by-election	5 July 2018

External links

• Bath and North East Somerset Council

Notes and References

1. legislation.gov.uk - The District of Bath and North East Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 1998. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
2. legislation.gov.uk - The District of Bath and North East Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 2018. Retrieved on 20 May 2020.
3. Bath & North East Somerset Council Election Results 1995-2011 . Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher . Bath and North East Somerset Council . The Elections Centre, Plymouth University . 2011 . 22 May 2018.
4. News: Bath and North East Somerset Council results . Bath Chronicle . May 1995 .
5. Web site: Local Election – Thursday, 6th May, 1999 . Bath & North East Somerset Council . 3 May 2011.
6. Web site: Local Election – Thursday, 1st May, 2003. May 2003 . Bath & North East Somerset Council. 3 May 2011.
7. Web site: Local Election – Thursday, 3rd May, 2007. 3 May 2007 . Bath & North East Somerset Council. 3 May 2011.
8. Web site: Local Election – Thursday, 5th May, 2011. 5 May 2011 . Bath & North East Somerset Council. 6 May 2011.
9. Web site: Bath and North East Somerset Council (All Wards) - Thursday, 7th May, 2015. 7 May 2015 . Bath and North East Somerset. 21 December 2019.
10. Web site: Election results by party, 2 May 2019. 2019-05-02. democracy.bathnes.gov.uk. 2019-05-03.
11. Web site: Bath & North East Somerset (All Wards) - Thursday, 4th May, 2023. 2023-05-04. democracy.bathnes.gov.uk. 2023-05-05.
12. Web site: Local Authority Byelection Results. 15 March 2020. 29 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100329041227/http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/byelections/index.htm. dead.