Castle is an electoral ward in
Colchester
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Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colches ...
and is within the
Colchester Borough Council
Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian.
Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colchest ...
boundary, to which it elects 3 councillors.
The ward covers central Colchester, England including the Town Centre, the historic Dutch Quarter neighbourhood and
Colchester Castle
Colchester Castle is a Norman castle in Colchester, Essex, England, dating from the second half of the eleventh century. The keep of the castle is mostly intact and is the largest example of its kind anywhere in Europe, due to its being built ...
, which lends its namesake to the ward.
History
Castle ward has existed since at least 1976 and is still in use today. The boundaries of the ward have seldom changed, with the exception of the amalgamation of the St. Marys neighbourhood (from St. Marys ward) into the west of Castle following boundary changes from the
2002 election.
The ward was originally held by the Labour Party and then changed hands between the Conservatives, Labour and the SDP-Liberal Alliance (later Liberal Democrats) until the
1990 election, when the Liberal Democrats solidly held the ward for the next 25 years. Recently, it has become a marginal ward, last won by the Green Party at the
2019 election.
Castle has the highest vote share for the
Green Party
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in a Colchester ward.
Ward Councillors
Current
Former
Elections
Election Results
Charts
Vote Share: 1976-2000
Vote Share: 2000-2015
Polling districts
''Electorate in brackets (as of 2015)'':
* AF: Castle (1,500)
* AE: Jumbo (1,201)
* AG: Riverside (2,247)
* AH: Cowdray Avenue (2,488)
References
{{Colchester politics
Electoral wards in Colchester