Worcestershire County Council elections are held every four years.

Worcestershire County Council Worcestershire County Council is the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire in England. The most recent elections to it were in 2021. Worcestershire County Council has its headquarters at County Hall in Worcester, wh ...

is the upper-tier local authority for the

non-metropolitan county A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county. The counties typically have populations of 300,000 to 1.8 million. The term ''shire county'' is, however, an unoffi ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

in England. Since the last boundary changes in 2005, 57

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s have been elected from 52 electoral divisions.

Political control

Worcestershire County Council was first established in 1889 under the

Local Government Act 1888 Local may refer to: Geography and transportation * Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand * Local, Missouri, a community in the United States * Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administrat ...

. The county council was abolished in 1974, with the area merging with neighbouring

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

to become a new non-metropolitan county called

Hereford and Worcester Hereford and Worcester was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge ...

, with

Hereford and Worcester County Council Hereford and Worcester County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Hereford and Worcester in west England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1974 and was abolished on 31 March 1998. The county council was based at Co ...

serving as the higher-tier authority of the new county. Hereford and Worcester was abolished 24 years later and split back into separate counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, with Worcestershire County Council being re-established in 1998. The first elections to the re-established Worcesteshire County Council were held in 1997, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1998. Political control of the council since 1998 has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 1998 have been:

Council elections

* 1997 Worcestershire County Council election * 2001 Worcestershire County Council election * 2005 Worcestershire County Council election (new division boundaries) * 2009 Worcestershire County Council election *

2013 Worcestershire County Council election An election to Worcestershire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 57 councillors were elected from 53 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first- ...

* 2017 Worcestershire County Council election * 2021 Worcestershire County Council election

County result maps

File:Worcestershire UK local election 2013 map.svg, 2013 results map File:Worcestershire UK local election 2017 map.svg, 2017 results map File:Worcestershire County Council Elections 2021 Results Map.svg, 2021 results map

By-election results

References

External links

County Council Elections
'' Worcestershire County Council''. Politics of Worcestershire Council elections in Worcestershire County council elections in England {{England-election-stub