Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 6 May 1993. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party. This resulted in a no-party-control shared administration for the first year of the Council, with the three main party groups being briefed on a coequal basis. Following a by-election gain by the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives, giving the Liberal Democrats exactly half the seats on the Council, a Liberal Democrat administration was formed, but with a convention that committee chairpersons would not use their casting vote to force through policies.
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.
In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom, the term no overall control refers to a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats; and is analogous to a hung parliament. Of the 310 councils who had members up for election in the 2007 local elections, 85 resulted in a NOC administration.
The Liberal Democrats are a centrist, liberal political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Vince Cable. It has 11 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 96 members of the House of Lords, one member of the European Parliament, five Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Assembly and London Assembly. At the height of its influence, the party served as junior partners in a coalition government with the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2015.
Contents
- Results
- Results by divisions
- Aldbourne and Ramsbury
- Alderbury
- Amesbury
- Avon and Cannings
- Bedwyn and Pewsey
- Bourne Valley
- Bradford on Avon
- Bremhill and Calne
- Calne
- Chippenham Park
- Chippenham Sheldon
- Chippenham Town
- Collingbourne
- Corsham
- Cricklade and Purton
- Devizes
- Devizes South and Bromham
- Downton
- Durrington
- Haydon Wick
- Highworth
- Holt
- Kington
- Lavington
- Malmesbury
- Marlborough
- Melksham
- Melksham Without
- Mere
- Minety
- Pickwick with Box
- Salisbury Bemerton
- Salisbury Harnham
- Salisbury St Mark
- Salisbury St Martin
- Salisbury St Paul
- Southwick
- Stratton St Margaret, Coleview and Nythe
- Stratton St Margaret, St Margaret
- Stratton St Margaret, St Philip
- Swindon Central
- Swindon Covingham
- Swindon Dorcan South
- Swindon Eastcott
- Swindon Freshbrook
- Swindon Gorse Hill
- Swindon Lawns
- Swindon Moredon
- Swindon Parks
- Swindon Roughmoor
- Swindon Toothill
- Swindon Walcot
- Swindon Western
- Swindon Whitworth
- Tisbury
- Trowbridge East
- Trowbridge South
- Trowbridge West
- Upper Wylye Valley
- Wanborough
- Warminster East
- Warminster West
- Westbury
- Whorwellsdown
- Wilton and Wylye
- Wootton Bassett North
- Wootton Bassett South
- Wroughton
- References
When Swindon Borough Council was established as a new unitary authority on 1 April 1997, the members who had been elected to the county council from Haydon Wick, Highworth, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough, and Wroughton ceased to hold office. The size of the council fell from 68 to 47, and in the remaining month of the council's term of office the Liberal Democrats briefly took control, but they lost it at the Wiltshire Council election, 1997.
Swindon Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. As such, it is administratively separate from the rest of Wiltshire. It was formed in 1997, replacing Thamesdown Borough Council.
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.
The civil parish of Haydon Wick is a northern suburb of the town of Swindon, Wiltshire, in England. It has a population in excess of 20,000.
