Rother District Council elections

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Rother District Council is the local authority for Rother District in East Sussex, England. The council is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 38 councillors representing 21 wards, with each ward electing one or two councillors. [1]

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Council elections

The table below is a summary of the council composition directly after each council election. Click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2003 election reducing the number of seats by 7. [2]

Composition of the council [3]
Year Conservative Liberal Democrats [a] Labour Green RAOIC [b] Independents
& Others
Council control
after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (45 seats)
1973 91530Independent
1976 1504026Independent
1979 2013021No overall control
New ward boundaries (45 seats)
1983 2443014Conservative
1987 2942010Conservative
1991 2016306No overall control
1995 1421505No overall control
1999 288504Conservative
New ward boundaries (38 seats) [4]
2003 258302Conservative
2007 288002Conservative
2011 275204Conservative
2015 312104Conservative
New ward boundaries (38 seats) [5]
2019 1473113No overall control
2023 1078382No overall control

District result maps

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections; [6] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-electionDateIncumbent partyWinning party
Bexhill Central19 September 1996 Liberal Democrats Conservative
Beckley and Peasmarsh27 February 1997 Conservative Conservative
Central25 September 1997 Liberal Democrats Conservative
Bexhill Central by-election 7 June 2001 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill St Mark's by-election 7 June 2001 Conservative Conservative
Fairlight by-election 1 November 2001 Conservative Conservative
Old Town by-election 17 October 2002 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats
Bexhill Sackville by-election 9 September 2004 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill St Stephens by-election 29 September 2005 Conservative Conservative
Ticehurst and Etchingham by-election 17 November 2005 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill Kewhurst by-election 4 May 2006 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill Sackville by-election 4 May 2006 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill St Marks by-election 4 May 2006 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill Collington by-election 12 June 2008 Conservative Conservative
Bexhill Sackville by-election 3 July 2008 Conservative Conservative
Darwell by-election 31 July 2014 Conservative Conservative
Battle Town by-election 16 July 2015 Conservative Liberal Democrats
Collington by-election 27 October 2016 Independent Independent
Darwell by-election Conservative Conservative
St Marks by-election 10 January 2019 Independent Independent
Eastern Rother by-election 6 May 2021 Conservative Conservative
Brede and Udimore by-election 16 June 2022 Conservative Conservative
Catsfield and Crowhurst by-election 26 June 2025 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats

Notes

  1. Includes totals for the predecessors of the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and SDP (both of which participated in the Alliance).
  2. Rother Association of Independent Councillors

References

  1. "The Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2016", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2016/1236, retrieved 25 June 2023
  2. "Local elections". BBC News Online . Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. "Composition calculator". Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher . The Elections Centre, Plymouth University . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  4. legislation.gov.uk - The District of Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
  5. legislation.gov.uk - The Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2016. Retrieved on 20 February 2024.
  6. "Local Authority Byelection Results" . Retrieved 14 July 2014.