The 2015 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. As a unitary authority, it has the combined powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council and is administratively separate from the rest of ...
in England.
This was on the same day as other
local elections
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and the
general election
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.
Election result
After the election, results were as follows: Labour 21, Independent 14, Conservative 7, UKIP 2. The
Labour Party lost 14 seats, with gains for the
Conservatives
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,
Independent candidates
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Some politicians have political views th ...
and
UKIP
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.
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Turnout
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Ward results
Abbey Hulton and Townsend
Baddeley, Milton and Norton
Bentilee and Ubberley
Birches Head and Central Forest Park
Blurton East
Blurton West and Newstead
Boothen and Oakhill
Bradeley and Chell Heath
Broadway and Longton East
Burslem Central
Burslem Park
Dresden and Florence
Eaton Park
Etruria and Hanley
Fenton East
Fenton West and Mount Pleasant
Ford Green and Smallthorne
Goldenhill and Sandyford
Great Chell and Packmoor
Hanford and Trentham
Hanley Park and Shelton
Hartshill and Basford
Hollybush and Longton West
Joiners Square
Lightwood North and Normacot
Little Chell and Stanfield
Meir Hay
Meir North
Meir Park
Meir South
Moorcroft
Penkhull and Stoke
Sandford Hill
Sneyd Green
Springfields and Trent Vale
Tunstall
Weston Coyney
References
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2015 English local elections
May 2015 events in the United Kingdom
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
2010s in Staffordshire