Cheshire East Council elections are held every four years.

Cheshire East Council Cheshire East Council is the local authority of the Borough of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It provides a full range of local government ...

is the local authority for the

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 ...

of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2011, 82

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s have been elected from 52 wards.

Political control

Cheshire East was created on 1 April 2009 replacing Congleton,

Crewe and Nantwich Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contained 69 civil parishes and one unparished area: the town of Crewe. It now fo ...

, Macclesfield and

Cheshire County Council Cheshire County Council was the county council of Cheshire. Founded on 1 April 1889, it was officially dissolved on 31 March 2009, when it and its districts were superseded by two unitary authorities; Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East. ...

. The first election to the new council was held in 2008, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its powers on 1 April 2009. Political control of the council since 2009 has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The first

leader of the council In England, local authorities are required to adopt one of three types of executive arrangements, having either an "elected mayor and cabinet", a "leader and cabinet", or a "committee system". The type of arrangement used determines how decisions ...

, Wesley Fitzgerald, had been the last leader of

Macclesfield Borough Council Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its ea ...

. The leaders of Cheshire East Council since 2009 have been:

Council elections

* 2008 Cheshire East Council election * 2011 Cheshire East Council election (new ward boundaries) * 2015 Cheshire East Council election * 2019 Cheshire East Council election

District result maps

File:Cheshire East UK local election 2011 map.svg, 2011 results map

Changes between elections

By-elections

Changes of affiliation

Michael Jones (Bunbury) left the Conservative Party in September 2017. His later resignation from the council triggered the by-election on 22 March 2018.

References

External links

By-election results

Cheshire East Council
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