Milton Keynes Council elections

Milton Keynes is a unitary authority in Buckinghamshire, England. Until 1 April 1997 it was a non-metropolitian district.

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[1]^[2]

Non-metropolitan district

Party in control		Years
	Labour	1973-1976
	Conservative	1976-1982
	No overall control	1982-1991
	Labour	1991-1992
	No overall control	1992-1997

Unitary authority

Party in control		Years
	Labour	1996-2000
	No overall control	2000-20002
	Liberal Democrats	2002-2006
	No overall control	2006–present

Council elections

Year		Labour		Conservative		Liberal Democrats		Independent		UKIP	Total seats	Elected in year	Control
1973	27		8		0		5		Did not stand		40	40	Labour win with a 7-seat majority.
1976¹	12		33				1				46	46	Conservatives win with a 10-seat majority.
1978	14		32				0					15 or 16	Conservatives hold with a 9-seat majority.
1979	15		31										Conservatives hold with a 8-seat majority.
1980	19		26		1								Conservatives hold with a 3-seat majority.
1982	17		22		6		1						No overall control
1983	18		20		7		1
1984	17 or 18		20 or 17		7 or 9		1 or 2
1986	19		12		13		2
1987	18		11		14		3
1988	18		13		13		2
1990	24				7		2						Labour win with a 1-seat majority.
1991	25				17		1						Labour hold with a 2-seat majority.
1992	21		15		9		1						No overall control
1994	19		14		11		2
1995	21		12		10		3
1996¹	30		2		18		1				51	51	Labour win with a 7-seat majority.
1998	27		4		19							17	Labour hold with a 1-seat majority.
1999	27		4		19								Labour hold with a 1-seat majority.
2000	22		8		20								No overall control
2002¹	16		8		27		0		0			51	Liberal Democrats win with a 1-seat majority.
2003			7				1					17	Liberal Democrats hold with a 1-seat majority.
2004			7				1						Liberal Democrats hold with a 1-seat majority.
2006	15		13		23		0						No overall control
2007	13		15		22		1
2008	10		20		21		0
2010	9		17		24		1
2011	9		21		18		3
2012	16		20		15		0
2014¹	25		18		13		0		1		57	57
2015	23		22		12		0		0		57	19

1.^ In 1976, 1996, 2002 and 2014, the whole council was elected after boundary changes.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

In 1991 borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same.^[8]^[9]

By ward

2002 to 2012

The composition of Milton Keynes Council following each election was as follows.

	2002	2003	2004	2006	2007	2008	2010	2011	2012
Bletchley & Fenny Stratford	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 2/Con 1	Con 2/Lab 1	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 2/Lab 1
Bradwell	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 2/Lab 1
Campbell Park	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 2/Lab 1
Danesborough	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1
Denbigh	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2
Eaton Manor	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2
Emerson Valley	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1	Con 2/Lib 1	Con 2/Lib 1
Furzton	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2
Hanslope	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1	Con 1
Linford North	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2
Linford South	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 2	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1
Loughton Park	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Middleton	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Con 2
Newport Pagnell North	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2
Newport Pagnell South	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2
Olney	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 2	Lib 1/Con 1	Lib 1/Con 1	Con 2	Con 2	Con 2	Con 2
Sherington	Lib 1	Lib 1	Lib 1	Lib 1	Lib 1	Lib 1	Lib 1	Con 1	Con 1
Stantonbury	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 1/Con 1	Lab 1/Con 1	Lab 1/Con 1	Lab 2
Stony Stratford	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Walton Park	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 3	Lib 2/Con 1	Con 2/Lib 1
Whaddon	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2
Wolverton	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 2/Lib 1	Lab 2/Lib 1	Lab 2/Lib 1	Lab 3
Woughton	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2	Lab 2

2014 to present

	2014	2015	2016
Bletchley East	Lab 2/UKIP 1	Lab 3	Lab 3
Bletchley Park	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1
Bletchley West	Lab 3	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1
Bradwell	Lab 2/Lib 1	Lib 2/Lab 1	Lib 3
Broughton	Con 2/Lib 1	Con 2/Lib 1	Con 2/Lib 1
Campbell Park & Old Woughton	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1
Central Milton Keynes	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3
Danesborough & Walton	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Loughton & Shenley	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1
Monkston	Lib 3	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1
Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Newport Pagnell South	Lib 3	Lib 3	Lib 3
Olney	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Shenley Brook End	Lib 3	Lib 2/Con 1	Lib 2/Con 1
Stantonbury	Lab 3	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1
Stony Stratford	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1	Lab 2/Con 1
Tattenhoe	Con 3	Con 3	Con 3
Wolverton	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3
Woughton & Fishermead	Lab 3	Lab 3	Lab 3

Borough result maps

2006 results map

By-election results

Stantonbury By-Election 17 July 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roy Millar	457	40.7	+14.8
	Labour	David Driver	353	31.4	-19.4
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Exon	253	22.5	+7.3
	Green	Alan Francis	61	5.4	-2.7
Majority			104	9.3
Turnout			1,124	16.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Whaddon By-Election 23 October 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gladstone McKenzie	1,066	50.0	+5.5
	Conservative	Sam McLeod	776	36.4	-2.5
	Liberal Democrat	Vanessa McPake	191	9.0	-7.7
	UKIP	Darren Winter	99	4.6	+4.6
Majority			290	13.6
Turnout			2,132	32.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Whaddon By-Election 28 June 2007^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Camilla Turnbull	1,108	43.8	+0.9
	Conservative	Donald Mcleod	914	36.1	-1.4
	England First	Anna Seymour	221	8.7	+8.7
	Liberal Democrat	Alfred Vella	129	5.1	-3.3
	UKIP	Michael MAylam	109	4.3	-3.4
	Independent	Samantha Browne	49	1.9	+1.9
Majority			194	7.7
Turnout			2,530	39.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Bletchley and Fenny Stratford By-Election 20 June 2013^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammed Khan	1356	33.9	-2.7
	UKIP	James Peddle	855	25.1	+14.3
	Conservative	John Bailey	779	22.9	-12.3
	Green	Keith Allen	277	8.1	-4
	Liberal Democrat	Rosemary Snell	128	3.7	0.9
Majority			501	8.8
Turnout			3,395	31.97
	Labour hold		Swing

Frequency

One third of the council is elected each year for 3 years, followed by one year without election, unless there is a substantial boundary change (when all seats are elected). Following an electoral review, changes to wards and an increase in the number of seats, 57 councillors were elected for all 19 wards from May 2014 onwards.^[12] After the previous reorganisation in 2002, 51 councillors were elected from 23 wards.^[13]

Wards

1973

The first elections to the newly created Milton Keynes Borough Council took place on 7 June 1973 There were 40 seats up for election spread over 16 Wards. All councilors were elected for three years

- Bletchley Central
- Danesborough
- Denbigh
- Eaton
- Loughton
- Newport Rural
- Newport Urban
- Newton
- Petsoe Manor
- Pineham
- Sherington
- Stantonbury
- Stony Stratford
- Watling
- Whaddon
- Wolverton

1976 to 1996

To Come

1996 to 2000

Between 1996 and 2000, there were 51 seats up for election. Boundary changes were made before the 2002 election but this did not affect the number of seats up for election.

2002 to 2012

Ward map 2010

From 2002 until the 2014 local elections, there were 23 wards in the Borough, which were represented by 51 councillors. The councillors corresponded to the wards in the following way:

There were 8 wards that represented by 3 councillors:
- Bletchley & Fenny Stratford
- Bradwell
- Campbell Park
- Emerson Valley
- Loughton Park
- Stony Stratford
- Walton Park
- Wolverton
There were 12 wards that represented by 2 councillors:
- Denbigh
- Eaton Manor
- Furzton
- Linford North
- Linford South
- Middleton
- Newport Pagnell North
- Newport Pagnell South
- Olney
- Stantonbury
- Whaddon
- Woughton
There were 3 wards that represented by 1 councillor:
- Danesborough
- Hanslope Park
- Sherington

2014 onwards

Ward map from May 2014

Following an electoral review and with effect from the Milton Keynes Council election, 2014 in May 2014, there were 57 Councillors representing 19 wards, each with having 3 councillors.^[14]

These wards are as follows:^[15]^[16]

References

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↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) Order 2014. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
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↑ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/22/contents/made
↑ http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/14057/milton-keynes-final-recommendations-final-2013-06-17-1.pdf

External links

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[4] slation.gov.uk - The Borough of Milton Keynes (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976. Retrieved on 19 November 2015.

[5] slation.gov.uk - The Borough of Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.

[6] slation.gov.uk - The Borough of Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.

[7] slation.gov.uk - The Milton Keynes (Electoral Changes) Order 2014. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.

[8] slation.gov.uk - The Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.

[9] slation.gov.uk - The Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.

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[15] ttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/22/contents/made

[16] ttp://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/14057/milton-keynes-final-recommendations-final-2013-06-17-1.pdf

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Milton Keynes Council elections

Contents

Political control

Council elections

By ward

2002 to 2012

2014 to present

Borough result maps

By-election results

Frequency

Wards

1973

1976 to 1996

1996 to 2000

2002 to 2012

2014 onwards

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