East Hampshire District Council election, 1999

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The 1999 East Hampshire District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of East Hampshire District Council in Hampshire England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council from the Liberal Democrats.^[1]

East Hampshire is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Petersfield. Other towns are Alton and Bordon.

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties in a two-tier arrangement.

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England. The county town, with city status, is Winchester, a frequent seat of the Royal Court before any fixed capital, in late Anglo-Saxon England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest of the area forms the administrative county, which is governed by Hampshire County Council.

Election result

East Hampshire Local Election Result 1999^[2]
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %
Conservative	21	+9	51.2
Liberal Democrat	17	-9	41.5
Independent	3	0	7.3

One seat was vacant at the time of the election.^[2]

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References

↑ "East Hampshire". BBC News Online . Retrieved 29 August 2011.
1 2 "How the nations voted". The Times . 8 May 1999. p. 48.

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