Slough Borough Council elections

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Slough Borough Council is the local authority for Slough, a unitary authority in Berkshire, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district.

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Political control

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties: [1]

Non-metropolitan district

Party in controlYears
Labour 19731976
Conservative 19761983
Labour 19831998

Unitary authority

Party in controlYears
Labour 19982004
No overall control 20042008
Labour 20082023
No overall control 2023present

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 1997 have been: [2]

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Geoff Cutting Labour 17 May 1997
John Connolly Labour 20 May 1999Jun 2001
Rob Anderson [3] Labour Jun 2001Jun 2004
Richard Stokes Liberal 6 Jul 200415 May 2008
Rob Anderson [4] Labour 15 May 20086 Jun 2016
Sohail Munawar [5] Labour 6 Jun 201628 Nov 2017
James Swindlehurst Labour 28 Nov 20177 May 2023
Dexter Smith Conservative 18 May 2023

Council elections

Non-metropolitan district elections

Unitary authority elections

Election Results 1997–2008
Party1997199920002001200220032004200620072008
Conservative 44 (6)3 (8)1 (7)1 (6)4 (6)91 (5)3 (7)3 (6)
Labour 349 (32)6 (26)12 (27)10 (27)6 (26)158 (18)7 (19)8 (23)
Liberal Democrats 00 (0)1 (1)0 (1)0 (1)1 (1)61 (5)1 (4)1 (3)
Other parties31 (3)4 (6)1 (6)3 (7)3 (8)113 (13)3 (11)3 (9)
Total Seats4114 (41)14 (41)14 (41)14 (41)14 (41)4113 (41)14 (41)15 (41)

Note: The 1997 and 2004 elections were for the whole Council. For other elections the overall total, after the election, is given in brackets.

Borough result maps

By-election results

1994-1998

Kedermister By-Election 7 December 1997
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour D.A. Hewitt44260.22N/A
Conservative Mrs M.E. Collins20628.07N/A
Liberal Democrats P.L. Bayliss8611.72N/A
Majority23632.15N/A
Turnout 4,85815.11N/A
Labour hold Swing N/A

Resignation of Mrs B. L. Lopez (Labour).

1998-2002

Upton By-Election 4 February 1999
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mrs J.T. Long79959.85N/A
Labour B.B. Mittal35226.37N/A
Liberal Democrats Mrs S.A. Jenkins685.09N/A
P.P. Whitmore604.49N/A
Independent Labour D.A.J. Alford362.70N/A
Liberal P.E. Bradshaw201.50N/A
Majority44733.48N/A
Turnout 4,93127.07N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Death of M. G. Long (Conservative).

2002-2006

Britwell By-Election 18 October 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Britwellian Patrick Shine48853.80N/A
Labour Ms May Dodds26228.89N/A
Britwellian O. Isemia15724.92N/A
Majority22632.15N/A
Turnout 6,37614.26N/A
Britwellian gain from Britwellian Swing N/A

Death of Mrs Mavis L. Gallick (Britwellian).

Britwell By-Election 13 February 2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Britwellian Paul Janik53963.49+9.69
Labour Ms J.R. Rock31036.51+7.62
Majority22926.97-5.18
Turnout 6,31913.50-0.76
Britwellian gain from Labour Swing N/A

Death of Dennis McCarthy (Labour).

2006-2010

Langley St. Mary's By-Election 16 November 2006
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Diana Victoria Coad80550.50+13.79
Labour Sharanjeet Kaur Sandhu68242.79+6.42
Independent Dominic James Ashford1076.71+0.72
Majority1237.72+7.37
Turnout ...29.97-8.49
Conservative gain from Ind. Langley Res. Swing N/A

Resignation of Mrs P. F. Key (Independent Langley Residents).

2010-2014

Baylis and Stoke By-Election 8 March 2012 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mohammed Nazir1,30059.0-21.4
Independent Pervez Choudhury76434.7+34.7
UKIP Allan Deverill723.3+3.3
Independent Ivan Dukes683.1+3.1
Majority53624.3
Turnout 2,204
Labour hold Swing

Disqualification of Azhar Qureshi (Labour) for non-attendance.

2014-2018

Haymill and Lynch Hill By-Election 4 May 2017 [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Kelly1,03649.0+3.6
Labour Jemma Davis89942.5+4.7
Liberal Democrats Gary Griffin1296.1+6.1
Independent Paul Janik522.5+2.5
Majority1376.5
Turnout 2,116
Conservative hold Swing

Death of Darren Morris (Conservative ).

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