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2018 Winchester City Council Election
Elections to Winchester City Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom. Result Summary An election was not held this year in St Luke as it is a two-member ward, with both seats previously having been up for election with the 2016 Election, and one of the seats next up for the election in 2019. Colden Common and Twyford is similarly a two-member ward, but did hold an election this time. Ward results Alresford & Itchen Valley Badger Farm & Oliver's Battery Bishops Waltham Central Meon Valley Colden Common & Twyford Denmead Southwick & Wickham St Barnabas St Bartholomew St Michael St Paul The Worthys Upper Meon Valley Whiteley & Shedfield Wonston & Mitcheldever By-Elections Upper Meon Valley A by-election was held in Upper Meon Valley ward on 20 September 2018 after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Winchester City Council Election
The 2016 Winchester City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Every seat was contested following boundary changes which saw the number of seats reduce from 57 to 45. The count for this election was conducted on 7 May 2016. Before the election, the composition of Winchester City Council was: *Conservative 33 * Liberal Democrats 22 * Labour 2 The result of the election was: *Conservatives 25 *Liberal Democrats 20. Results Summary ''The table below only tallies the votes of the highest polling candidate for each party within each ward. This is known as the ''top candidate method'' and is often used for multi-member plurality elections.'' Ward results Alresford & Itchen Valley Badger Farm & Oliver's Battery Bishop's Waltham Central Meon Valley Colden Common and Twyford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Winchester City Council Election
Elections to Winchester City Council took place on Thursday 2 May 2019, alongside other local elections across the country. The Conservatives Party held a narrow majority of one at the last election, with the seats contested in this election being last contested in 2016 election. The Conservatives defended 10 seats, whilst the Liberal Democrats defended 4. Town and parish councils in the city boundary were also up for election. Background Prior to the election, the Conservatives had held overall control of Winchester City Council since 2015, with the Liberal Democrats having last controlled the council between 2010 and 2011. No other parties have held seats in Winchester since the 2016 election, in which the boundaries were redrawn. In June 2018, after the previous election, one Conservative councillor left the party to sit as an independent over concerns about redevelopment of the city. In July, a Liberal Democrat councillor, who had previously defected from the Conservati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester City Council
The City of Winchester () is a local government district in Hampshire, England, with a city status. The district covers the ancient settlement of the city of Winchester itself, but also covers a large area of central Hampshire including Bishop's Waltham, Denmead, New Alresford, and Kings Worthy (for a full list of these, see the "Settlements and parishes" section below), for a total area of . The 2011 Census recorded the population of the district as 116,600. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the City of Winchester with Droxford Rural District and part of Winchester Rural District. It borders Basingstoke and Deane to the north, East Hampshire to the east, the Borough of Havant and the unitary authority area of Portsmouth to the south-east, the Borough of Fareham to the south, the Borough of Eastleigh to the south-west, and Test Valley to the west. The city traces its history to the Roman Era, developing from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, having won the 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological factions including one-nation conservatives, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Welsh Parliament, 2 directly elected mayors, 30 police and crime commissioners, and around 6,683 local councillors. It holds the annual Conservative Party Conference. The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 from the Tory Party and was one of two dominant politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 United Kingdom Local Elections
Council elections in England were held on Thursday 3 May 2018. Elections were held in all 32 London boroughs, 34 metropolitan boroughs, 67 district and borough councils and 17 unitary authorities. There were also direct elections for the mayoralties of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Watford. With the exception of those areas that have had boundary changes, the seats up for election were last contested in the 2014 local elections. A parliamentary by-election in West Tyrone took place the same day. Various other local by-elections also took place. Seats held prior to the election According to a BBC News estimate, taking into account boundary changes, the major political parties are effectively defending the following 'notional' numbers of council seats on election day: * Labour Party – 2,278 seats *Conservative Party – 1,365 seats * Liberal Democrats – 462 seats *UK Independence Party – 126 seats * Greens – 31 seats These numbers are how many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester City Council Elections
One third of City of Winchester, Winchester City Council in Hampshire, England is elected each year, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes in 2016, 55 councillors have been elected from 16 Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, wards, there having previously been 57 councillors have been elected from 26 wards from 2002. Political control Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties: Leadership The role of List of mayors of Winchester, mayor of Winchester is now largely ceremonial, with political leadership instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 1994 have been: Council elections *1973 Winchester City Council election *1976 Winchester City Council election (New ward boundaries) *1979 Winchester City Council election *1980 Winchester City Council election *1982 Winchester City Council election *1983 Winchester City Council election * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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