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Hastings Borough Council Hastings Borough Council is the local authority for the borough of Hastings, in the county of East Sussex, England. The borough is divided into 12 wards but has no civil parishes, the entire district being an unparished area. The council is based ...

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is elected every two years, while before 2002 the council was elected by thirds. Since the last boundary changes in 2002, 32

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s have been elected from 16

wards Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...

. The Council has been held by Labour since 2010.

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 leaders of the council since 2001 have been:

Council elections

1995 Hastings Borough Council election File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

1996 Hastings Borough Council election File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on ...

Borough result maps

File:Hastings UK local election 2002 map.svg, 2002 results map File:Hastings UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Hastings UK local election 2006 map.svg, 2006 results map File:Hastings UK local election 2008 map.svg, 2008 results map File:Hastings UK local election 2010 map.svg, 2010 results map File:Hastings UK local election 2021 map.svg, 2021 results map File:2022 Hastings Borough Council election.svg, 2022 results map

By-election results

1997-2001

2001-2005

2005-2009

2009-2013

2014-2019

References

By-election results

External links

Hastings Borough Council
{{East Sussex elections Politics of Hastings

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...