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Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Dorking, and the district's other town is Leatherhead. The largest villages are Ashtead, Fetcham and Great Bookham, in the northern third of the district.
Epsom and Ewell is a constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Chris Grayling, a Conservative.
Mole Valley is a constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Paul Beresford, a Conservative.
One third of Mole Valley District Council in Surrey, England is elected each year, followed by one year when there is an election to Surrey County Council instead.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 4 May 2000. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The council stayed under no overall control.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 49.8%.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no overall control. Overall turnout was 49.0%.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 46.5%.
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 1 May 2008. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 46.5% a drop from the 47.2% seen in the 2007 election.
Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1980. These were the first annual local elections for the new Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Though the Conservatives in government lost seats, the projected share of the vote was close: Labour Party 42%, Conservative Party 40%, Liberal Party 13%. Labour were still being led by the former prime minister James Callaghan, who resigned later in the year to be succeeded by Michael Foot.
The 2014 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Mole Valley District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
The 2015 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect approximately one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England coinciding with other local elections held simultaneously with a general election which resulted in increased turnout compared to the election four years before. Some two-member wards such as Holmwoods did not hold a local election in this year, being contested in even-numbered years.
The 2016 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Mole Valley District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
The 2019 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect approximately one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England, coinciding with other local elections held simultaneously across 248 councils in England and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. The 2019 Mole Valley local election outcomes are outlined below in the summary results chart and the detailed results charts for each ward. The 2019 election results are compared against the results when these wards were last contested four years previously, on the same day as the General Election of May 2015. The difference in the results for certain political parties is stark. This is largely influenced by an excellent result for the Conservatives on their general election winning day in May 2015, but a terrible result for the Conservatives in May 2019 when, nationally, the Government of Theresa May had failed to ‘deliver Brexit’ by the anticipated date of 29 March 2019. But even taking the national backdrops of these two very different local elections into account, it was still a spectacularly poor set of results for the Conservatives in Mole Valley in these 2019 local elections and a very good set of results for the Liberal Democrats. Some Mole Valley wards did not hold a local election in 2019, being contested instead in even-numbered years.
The 2021 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England. This Mole Valley local election had been postponed from 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, so it took place instead alongside the scheduled 2021 Surrey County Council election and all the other local elections across the United Kingdom. The 2021 election results are compared against the results when these wards were last contested five years previously, in 2016.
The 2018 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect approximately one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England, coinciding with other local elections. The Conservatives went into the elections with a majority of 1, but lost control of the council, leaving it with no overall majority. The 2018 election results are compared against the results when these wards were last contested four years previously, in 2014.
The 2022 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England.
