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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.
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:
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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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 | |||||
An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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.
The one seat for this ward was uncontested and the Conservative Party candidate, John Valentine Frank Wray, was elected unopposed.
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