Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 5 May 2005, with the whole council up for election. They proved to be the last to the original county council, as the elections four years later were the first to its successor, the new Wiltshire Council unitary authority.
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.
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
- Results
- Results by divisions
- Aldbourne and Ramsbury
- Alderbury
- Amesbury
- Avon and Pewsey
- Bedwyn and Colingbourne
- Bourne and Woodford Valley
- Box, Colerne, and Lacock
- Bradford on Avon
- Bromham and Potterne
- Calne
- Calne and Without
- Chalke and Nadder Valley
- Chippenham Central
- Chippenham North
- Chippenham Pewsham
- Chippenham West
- Corsham
- Cricklade and Purton
- Devizes North
- Devizes South
- Downton and Ebble Valley
- Durrington and Bulford
- Holt and Paxcroft
- Kington
- Lavington and Cannings
- Malmesbury
- Manor Vale
- Marlborough
- Melksham Central
- Melksham Without
- Mere and Tisbury
- Minety
- Salisbury East (two seats)
- Salisbury South (two seats)
- Salisbury West
- Tidworth and Ludgershall
- Trowbridge East (two seats)
- Trowbridge West
- Warminster East and Wylye
- Warminster West
- Westbury Ham and Dilton
- Westbury Laverton and Shearwater
- Whorwellsdown Hundred
- Wilton and Wylye
- Wootton Bassett North
- Wootton Bassett South
- References
Most electoral divisions had boundary changes, and several were new, including three new two-member divisions, in Salisbury and Trowbridge.
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne. The city is approximately 20 miles (32 km) from Southampton and 30 miles (48 km) from Bath.
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England, on the River Biss in the west of the county, 8 miles (13 km) south east of Bath, Somerset, from which it is separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west. The town is also 38 miles (61 km) south of Gloucester and 20 miles (32 km) south east of Bristol.
As with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election, 2005. The previous Wiltshire Council election, 2001, had also coincided with the 2001 general election.
The result was that the Conservatives held onto control.
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it is the largest in the House of Commons, with 313 Members of Parliament, and also has 249 members of the House of Lords, 18 members of the European Parliament, 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 8,916 local councillors.
