Nottinghamshire County Council elections are held every four years.

Nottinghamshire County Council Nottinghamshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire in England. It consists of 66 county councillors, elected from 56 electoral divisions every four years. The most recent electi ...

is the upper-tier 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 ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...

. Since the last boundary changes in 2017, 66 county councillors have been elected from 56 electoral divisions.

Political control

Nottinghamshire County Council was first created in 1889. Its powers and responsibilities were significantly reformed under the

Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant Acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov ...

, with a new council elected in 1973 to act as a shadow authority ahead of the new powers coming into force in 1974. Since 1973, political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 2003 have been:

Council elections

1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election The 1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 12 April 1973. The election resulted in the Labour Party winning an overall majority of seats on the council. The election was the first to take place to the new non-metropo ...

* 1977 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 1981 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 1985 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 1989 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 1993 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 1997 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 2001 Nottinghamshire County Council election * 2005 Nottinghamshire County Council election (boundary changes increased the number of seats by 4) * 2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election *

2013 Nottinghamshire County Council election The Nottinghamshire County Council Election took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 67 councillors were elected from 54 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-p ...

2017 Nottinghamshire County Council election The 2017 Nottinghamshire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 United Kingdom local elections, 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. The whole council of 66 councillors was elected for a four-year term spannin ...

* 2021 Nottinghamshire County Council election

County result maps

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By-election results

1997-2001

2001-2005

2005-2009

2012-2016

2016-2022

2022-present

References

External links

Nottinghamshire County Council
{{English County Council Elections Council elections in the East Midlands Council elections in Nottinghamshire County council elections in England