Elections to

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were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election. The Labour Party lost control of the council to the

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for the first time since

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Election result

Political make-up

Ward results

A-C

Addiscombe

Ashburton

Bensham Manor

Broad Green

Coulsdon East

Coulsdon West

Croham

F-N

Fairfield

Fieldway

Heathfield

Kenley

New Addington

Norbury

P-S

Purley

Sanderstead

Selhurst

Selsdon and Ballards

Shirley

South Norwood

T-W

Thornton Heath

Upper Norwood

Waddon

West Thornton

Woodside

Wards

There are 24 wards which represent

. All Croydon Council seats were up for re-election for the first time since the 2002 elections, during the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

on 4 May 2006. Previously Labour held control of the council. In the election, the Conservatives took 10 seats from Labour and 1 from the Liberal Democrats. Since the defection of a Labour councillor to the Conservatives, giving the newly elected council's political composition as:

References

Election report
from Croydon Council (Dead link)
OMRLP Croydon Branch

External links

, ''

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'', 5 May 2006.
Labour kicked in the ballots
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'', 5 May 2006.
In Search of Selsdon Man
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'', 27 April 2006.
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