| Tower | |
| Type: | County Council |
| Parl Name: | Suffolk County Council |
| District: | West Suffolk |
| Region: | East of England |
| Population: | 22,028 (2019) |
| Electorate: | 16,494 (2021) |
| Towns: | Bury St Edmunds Town Centre |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Member: | David Nettleton (Conservative) Robert Everitt (Conservative) |
| Members Label: | Councillor |
| Seats: | 2 |
| Elects Howmany: | 2 |
| Local Council: | West Suffolk Council |
| Previous: | Northgate & St. Olaves, Risbygate & Sextons |
Tower Division is an electoral division in Suffolk which returns two county councillors to Suffolk County Council.
It is made up of the central and North West Bury St Edmunds and consists of the West Suffolk council wards of Miden, St Olaves, Tollgate, and Abbeygate along with a small part of Westgate ward between the River Linnet, Hospital Road, and Petticoat lane.[1]
The first elections for this division were held as part of the 2005 United Kingdom local elections, after the division was created through The County of Suffolk (Electoral Changes) Order 2004[2] [3]
Both seats of the division are currently held by Conservative party after David Nettleton defected to the Conservatives in December 2019 having been elected as an independent.[4]
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Lockwood | Labour | 2005–2009 | Paul Hopfensperger | Conservative | 2005–2008[5] | ||
| Independent | 2008–2009 | ||||||
| Paul Farmer | Conservative | 2009–2010 | Mark Ereira-Guyer | Green | 2009–2017 | ||
| Stefan Oliver | Conservative | 2010–2013 | |||||
| David Nettleton | Independent | 2013–2019 | |||||
| Conservative | 2019–present | Robert Everitt | Conservative | 2017–present | |||