Elections to Wiltshire Council, a new unitary authority, were held on 4 June 2009.
Wiltshire Council is a council for the unitary authority of Wiltshire in South West England, created in 2009. It is the successor authority to Wiltshire County Council (1889–2009) and the four district councils of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire, all of which were created in 1974 and abolished in 2009.
A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.
Contents
- Reorganization
- Results
- Electoral division results
- Aldbourne and Ramsbury
- Alderbury and Whiteparish
- Amesbury East
- Amesbury West
- Bourne and Woodford Valley
- Box and Colerne
- Bradford on Avon North
- Bradford on Avon South
- Brinkworth
- Bromham, Rowde and Potterne
- Bulford, Allington and Figheldean
- Burbage and the Bedwyns
- By Brook
- Calne Central
- Calne Chilvester and Abberd
- Calne North
- Calne Rural
- Calne South and Cherhill
- Chippenham Cepen Park and Derriads
- Chippenham Cepen Park and Redlands
- Chippenham Hardenhuish
- Chippenham Hardens and England
- Chippenham Lowden and Rowden
- Chippenham Monkton
- Chippenham Pewsham
- Chippenham Queens and Sheldon
- Corsham Pickwick
- Corsham Town
- Corsham Without and Box Hill
- Cricklade and Latton
- Devizes and Roundway South
- Devizes East
- Devizes North
- Downton and Ebble Valley
- Durrington and Larkhill
- Ethandune
- Fovant and Chalke Valley
- Hilperton
- Holt and Staverton
- Kington
- Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum
- Ludgershall and Perham Down
- Lyneham
- Malmesbury
- Marlborough East
- Marlborough West
- Melksham Central
- Melksham North
- Melksham South
- Melksham Without North
- Melksham Without South
- Mere
- Minety
- Nadder and East Knoyle
- Pewsey
- Pewsey Vale
- Purton
- Redlynch and Landford
- Roundway
- Salisbury Bemerton
- Salisbury Fisherton & Bemerton Village
- Salisbury Harnham
- Salisbury St Edmund & Milford
- Salisbury St Francis and Stratford
- Salisbury St Marks and Bishopdown
- Salisbury St Martins and Cathedral
- Salisbury St Pauls
- Sherston
- Southwick
- Summerham and Seend
- The Collingbournes and Netheravon
- The Lavingtons and Erlestoke
- Tidworth
- Till and Wylye Valley
- Tisbury
- Trowbridge Adcroft
- Trowbridge Central
- Trowbridge Drynham
- Trowbridge Grove
- Trowbridge Lambrok
- Trowbridge Park
- Trowbridge Paxcroft
- Urchfont and The Cannings
- Warminster Broadway
- Warminster Copheap and Wylye
- Warminster East
- Warminster West
- Warminster Without
- West Selkley
- Westbury East
- Westbury North
- Westbury West
- Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley
- Winsley and Westwood
- Winterslow
- Wootton Bassett East
- Wootton Bassett North
- Wootton Bassett South
- See also
- References
- External links
The whole council of ninety-eight members was up for election, with each member to be elected in a single-member electoral division. None of the new electoral divisions was identical to any of the divisions or wards of the council's predecessors, Wiltshire County Council and the four district councils within its area, Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire.
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils, while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities. Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward-population counts can vary substantially. As at the end of 2014 there were 9,456 electoral wards/divisions in the UK.
Wiltshire County Council was the county council of Wiltshire in the South West of England, an elected local Government body responsible for most local government services in the county.
The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision. There are a total of 317 districts made up of 36 metropolitan boroughs, 32 London boroughs, 192 non-metropolitan districts, and 55 unitary authorities, as well as the City of London and the Isles of Scilly which are also districts, but do not correspond to any of these categories. Some districts are styled as boroughs, cities, or royal boroughs; these are purely honorific titles, and do not alter the status of the district. All boroughs and cities, and a few districts, are led by a mayor who in most cases is a ceremonial figure elected by the district council, but—after local government reform—is occasionally a directly elected mayor who makes most of the policy decisions instead of the council.
As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the European elections of 2009. The Wiltshire County Council election, 2005, the last to the old county council, coincided with the general election of 2005, and the county elections of 1997 and 2001 had also coincided with general elections.
