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Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

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

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, 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 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 * 1984 Winchester City Council election *

1986 Winchester City Council election The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter ...

(City boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1987 Winchester City Council election * 1988 Winchester City Council election * 1990 Winchester City Council election * 1991 Winchester City Council election * 1992 Winchester City Council election *

1994 Winchester City Council election File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

1995 Winchester City 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 str ...

1996 Winchester City 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 ...

1998 Winchester City Council election The 1998 Winchester Council election took place on 7 May 1998 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council. ...

1999 Winchester City Council election The 1999 Winchester Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council. ...

2000 Winchester City Council election The 2000 Winchester Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council. ...

2002 Winchester City Council election The 2002 Winchester Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000. The boundary chang ...

(New ward boundaries increased the number of seats by 2) *

2003 Winchester City Council election The 2003 Winchester Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council. ...

* 2004 Winchester City Council election * 2006 Winchester City Council election * 2007 Winchester City Council election * 2008 Winchester City Council election *

2010 Winchester City Council election The 2010 Winchester Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from ...

2011 Winchester City Council election The 2011 Winchester Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Winchester City Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election. The Conservatives won 11 seats, the Liberal Democrats 6, and Labour and I ...

2012 Winchester City Council election The 2012 Winchester Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England, on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party gained an overall majority on the council, which previously had ...

2014 Winchester City Council election The 2014 Winchester City Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. After the election, the composition of Winchester City Council was: *Co ...

2015 Winchester City Council election The 2015 Winchester City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Winchester City Council in England. In total, 20 out of 57 council seats were up for election. The Conservatives gained majority control of Winchester City Coun ...

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 numbe ...

(New ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk
The Winchester (Electoral Changes) Order 2015
Retrieved on 20 April 2016. *

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 bot ...

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 be ...

* 2021 Winchester City Council election * 2022 Winchester City Council election

District result maps

File:Winchester 2006 election map.png, 2006 results map File:Winchester 2007 election map.png, 2007 results map File:Winchester 2008 election map.png, 2008 results map File:Winchester 2010 election map.svg, 2010 results map File:Winchester 2012 election map.svg, 2012 results map File:Winchester 2014 election map.svg, 2014 results map File:Winchester 2015 election map.svg, 2015 results map File:Winchester UK ward map 2016.svg, 2016 results map (New Boundaries) File:Winchester Local Election Result 2018.svg, 2018 results map File:Winchester Local Election Result 2019.svg, 2019 results map File:Winchester UK local election 2021 map.svg, 2021 results map File:Winchester UK local election 2022 map.svg, 2022 results map N.b. White denotes no election held in ward that year; 2011 results are missing

By-election results

1997-2001

2001-2005

2005-2009

2009-2013

2017-2021

References

By-election results

External links

Winchester City Council
{{Hampshire elections Politics of Winchester Council elections in Hampshire District council elections in England