The 1996 Ipswich Borough Council election was an

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

to the

Ipswich Borough Council Ipswich Borough Council, founded in 1974 after the abolition of the County Borough of Ipswich, governs the non-metropolitan district of Ipswich in Suffolk. It is the second tier of a two-tier system, fulfilling functions such as refuse collectio ...

under the arrangement, whereby a third of the councillors were to stand for election, each time. It took place as part of the 1996 United Kingdom local elections. There were 16 wards each returning one councillor plus three bye-elections, one each for Chantry, Stoke Park and Town Wards. The Labour Party retained control of the Council.

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Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...