Central Bedfordshire Council Central Bedfordshire Council is the local authority for the Central Bedfordshire unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. It was created from the merger of Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire District Councils ...

is the local authority for the a

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

Central Bedfordshire Central Bedfordshire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. It was created in 2009. Formation Central Bedfordshire was created on 1 April 2009 as part of a structural reform of local government in Bedfor ...

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council ...

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. It was created on 1 April 2009 replacing Mid Bedfordshire,

South Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire was, from 1974 to 2009, a non-metropolitan district of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. Its main towns were Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Leighton Buzzard. Creation The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as part of a gen ...

and

Bedfordshire County Council Bedfordshire County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Bedfordshire in England. It was established on 24 January 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 2009. The county council was based in Bedford. In 1997 Luton Borough ...

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 2009 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The first

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was Tricia Turner, who had also chaired the shadow authority in the year leading up to the new council coming into effect, being leader of the outgoing Mid Bedfordshire District Council. The leaders of the council since its creation in 2009 have been:

Council elections

* 2009 Central Bedfordshire Council election * 2011 Central Bedfordshire Council election (New ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk
The Central Bedfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2011
Retrieved on 3 November 2015. * 2015 Central Bedfordshire Council election

District result maps

By-election results

References

External links

Central Bedfordshire District Council elections in Bedfordshire Unitary authority elections in England {{England-election-stub