Eastbourne Borough Council Eastbourne Borough Council is the local authority for the borough of Eastbourne in East Sussex. Eastbourne is divided into 9 local wards, which each elect 3 borough councillors as local representatives, creating a total of 27 councillors. The B ...

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, is elected every four years. Until 2007 one third of the council was elected each year, followed by one year without an election. 27

councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

s are elected with 3 each from the 9

wards Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...

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 leaders of the council since 2001 have been:

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election which reduced the number of seats by 3, leading to the whole council being elected in that year. The council then switched from a system of by-third elections to whole council elections in 2007. * 1973 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1976 Eastbourne Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)The Borough of Eastbourne (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975 * 1979 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1980 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1982 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1983 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1984 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1986 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1987 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1988 Eastbourne Borough Council election * 1990 Eastbourne Borough Council election *

1991 Eastbourne Borough Council election File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Russian presidential election, elected as Russia's first President of Russia, president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated ...

Borough result maps

File:Eastbourne UK local election 2002 map.svg, 2002 results map File:Eastbourne UK local election 2003 map.svg, 2003 results map File:Eastbourne UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Eastbourne UK local election 2007 map.svg, 2007 results map

By-election results

By-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

s occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections; full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

References

External links

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{{East Sussex elections Council elections in East Sussex District council elections in England