2011 Cheshire East Council election

Cheshire East Council Election, 2011

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5 May 2011

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All 82 seats in Cheshire East Council
42 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats
Seats before	59	6	12
Seats won	52	16	4
Seat change	7	10	8
Popular vote	91,736	51,167	24,206

	Fourth party

Party	Middlewich First

Elected Council Leader

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Elections to Cheshire East Council happened on Thursday 5 May 2011. Elections occurred in all 52 wards, with each ward returning between one and three councillors to the council.

The wards were all new, having been created in a boundary review which took effect in January 2011.^[1] They replaced the previous 27 three-seat wards used in the 2008 election, which were identical to the former Cheshire County Council wards.

Overall results

The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council, winning 52 out of 82 seats, with a majority of 22 councillors.^[2]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 52
Labour 16
Others 10
Liberal Democrat 4

Cheshire East Council election - 2011 - summary
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	52	−7	47.75	91,736	−6.4
Labour	16	+10	26.6	51,167	+12.7
Liberal Democrats	4	−8	12.6	24,206	−8.9
Middlewich First	3		2.4	4,578
Handforth 'Ratepayers' Association	2		1.6	3,010
Shavington First	1		0.3	608
Others	4	+6	8.7	16,804

Ward results

An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor.

Alderley Edge

Alderley Edge (1 Seat) ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Frank Keegan*	1,151	72.53
	Labour	Dominic James Brown	436	27.47
Majority			715	45.06
Turnout			1,587	43.40
	Conservative win

Councillor Keegan previously served as a member for the now dissolved Alderley ward.

Alsager

Alsager (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rod Fletcher*	1,895	16.63	−2.77
	Liberal Democrats	Derek Ian Hough*	1,760	15.44	−3.36
	Liberal Democrats	Shirley Jones*	1,648	14.46	−3.44
	Conservative	Andrew William Large	1,193	10.47	+0.47
	Conservative	Harriet Emily Weatherby Crompton	1,164	10.21	+2.31
	Labour	Bill Howell	947	8.31	+5.51
	Conservative	Richard Peers	822	7.21	−0.69
	Labour	Bob Ashley	805	7.06	+4.06
	Labour	Simon Henley Norman Bishop	725	6.36	+3.76
	Green	Hilary Robinson	439	3.85
Majority			455	3.99
Turnout			11,389	45.20
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Audlem

Audlem (1 Seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rachel Anne Bailey	1,451	79.86
	Labour	Louise Mary Taylor	366	20.14
Majority			1,085	59.72
Turnout			1,817	48.8
	Conservative win

Councillor Bailey previously served as a member for the now dissolved Cholmondeley ward.

Bollington

Bollington (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Harold Livesley*	814	13.59
	Conservative	Peter Hayes	813	13.57
	Bollington First	Amanda Stott	788	13.16
	Labour	Heidi Reid	778	12.99
	Bollington First	James Nicholas	758	12.66
	Labour	Malcolm Bailey	714	11.92
	Independent	Tony Mills	575	9.60
	Liberal Democrats	Shirley Sockett	436	7.28
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Christopher Owen	313	5.23
Majority			10	0.17
Turnout				48.3
	Conservative win
	Conservative win

Councillor Livesley previously served as a councillor for the now dissolved Prestbury and Tytherington ward.

Brereton Rural

The one seat for this ward was uncontested and the Conservative Party candidate, John Valentine Frank Wray, was elected unopposed.

References

^ "The Cheshire East (Electoral Changes) Order 2011" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
^ "Elections 2011 - results overview". Cheshire East Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
^ "Alderley Edge Ward". cheshireeast.gov.uk. Cheshire East Council. 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

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