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1997 Oxfordshire County Council Election
The 1997 Oxfordshire County Council election took place on 1 May 1997 as part of the 1997 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 70 councillors were elected from 70 electoral divisions which returned one county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. Division Results * Denotes sitting councillor Abingdon Central Abingdon North Abingdon South Bampton Banbury Easington Banbury Grimsbury Banbury Hardwick Banbury Neithrop Banbury Ruscote Benson Bicester North Bicester South Blackbird Leys Bloxham Burford Carterton Chalgrove Charlbury Chinnor Chipping Norton Cumnor Deddington Didcot Manor Didcot Mereland Dorchester Drayton Eynsham Faringdon ...
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Oxfordshire County Council
Oxfordshire County Council is the county council (upper-tier local authority) for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire in the South East of England. It is an elected body responsible for some local government services in the county, including education (schools, libraries and youth services), social services, public health, highway maintenance, waste disposal, emergency planning, consumer protection and town and country planning for matters to do with minerals, waste, highways and education. It is one of the largest employers in Oxfordshire and has a gross expenditure budget of £856.2 million for the 2021–22 financial year. History County councils were first introduced in England and Wales with full powers from 22 September 1889 as a result of the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions until then carried out by the unelected quarter sessions. The areas they covered were termed administrative counties and were not in all cases identical to the tr ...
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1997 United Kingdom Local Elections
The United Kingdom local elections took place on 1 May 1997. Elections took place for all of the English country councils, some English unitary authorities and all of the Northern Ireland districts. The elections were held on the same day as the general election. Summary of results While the results were overshadowed by the landslide election of a Labour government, they did provide some comfort to the Conservative party. The Conservatives made some gains and were the largest party in the county council elections. It is likely that what helped the Conservatives gain some councils (Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex and Kent) was the creation of unitary authorities and thus the abolition of county council divisions in these areas (in this case unitaries in Peterborough, Luton, Thurrock and Medway), in predominantly urbanised areas which are usually strong for the Labour Party in elections and indeed all four of those unitaries (and all of the parliamentary seats that they ...
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Wards And Electoral Divisions Of The United Kingdom
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors. The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, the electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils, while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities. Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. England The London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils) instead use the term ''electoral division''. In s ...
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First-past-the-post Voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins even if the top candidate gets less than 50%, which can happen when there are more than two popular candidates. As a winner-take-all method, FPTP often produces disproportional results (when electing members of an assembly, such as a parliament) in the sense that political parties do not get representation according to their share of the popular vote. This usually favours the largest party and parties with strong regional support to the detriment of smaller parties without a geographically concentrated base. Supporters of electoral reform are generally highly critical of FPTP because of this and point out other flaws, such as FPTP's vulnerability t ...
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Oxfordshire County Council Elections
Oxfordshire County Council is elected every four years. Council elections * 1973 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1977 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1981 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1985 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1989 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1993 Oxfordshire County Council election * 1997 Oxfordshire County Council election * 2001 Oxfordshire County Council election * 2005 Oxfordshire County Council election * 2009 Oxfordshire County Council election *2013 Oxfordshire County Council election *2017 Oxfordshire County Council election * 2021 Oxfordshire County Council election Election results County result maps File:Oxfordshire wards 2009.svg, 2009 results map File:Oxfordshire UK local election 2013 map.svg, 2013 results map File:Oxfordshire UK local election 2017 map.svg, 2017 results map By-election results 1997-2001 2001-2005 ...
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1997 English Local Elections
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