South Oxfordshire District Council elections

South Oxfordshire District Council in Oxfordshire, England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2003, 48 councillors have been elected from 29 wards.^[1]

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[2]

Party in control	Years
No overall control	1973 - 1976
Conservative	1976 - 1995
No overall control	1995 - 2003
Conservative	2003 - present

Council elections

Wallingford District Council election, 1973
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1976
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1979 (Some new ward boundaries & district boundary changes also took place)^[3]^[4]
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1983 (New ward boundaries)^[5]
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1987 (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[6]
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1991 (Some new ward boundaries & district boundary changes also took place)^[7]^[8]^[9]
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1995
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 1999
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 2003 (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 2)^[10]^[11]
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 2007
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 2011
South Oxfordshire District Council election, 2015 (New ward boundaries)^[12]

By-election results

1995-1999

Didcot South By-Election 14 November 1996
Party		Votes	%
	Labour	567	49.7
	Liberal Democrat	319	28.0
	Conservative	254	22.3
Majority		248	21.7
Turnout		1,140	24.5
	Labour hold	Swing

Kidmore End By-Election 6 February 1997
Party		Votes	%
	Conservative	409	62.0
	Liberal Democrat	215	32.6
	Labour	36	5.4
Majority		194	29.4
Turnout		660
	Conservative hold	Swing

Horspath By-Election 9 December 1998
Party		Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	452	80.0	+14.0
	Conservative	113	20.0	+20.0
Majority		339	60.0
Turnout		565	53.1
	Liberal Democrat hold	Swing

1999-2003

Cholsey By-Election 16 March 2000
Party		Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	652	55.5	+1.2
	Conservative	524	44.6	-1.2
Majority		128	10.9
Turnout		1,176	38.2
	Liberal Democrat hold	Swing

Henley By-Election 22 February 2001
Party		Votes	%	±
	Conservative	827	49.8	+12.7
	Independent	585	35.2	+8.5
	Independent	249	15.0	+15.0
Majority		242	14.6
Turnout		1,661	19.2
	Conservative hold	Swing

Didcot South By-Election 11 October 2001^[13]
Party		Votes	%	±
	Labour	676	52.1	+2.0
	Conservative	310	23.9	-4.9
	Liberal Democrat	270	20.8	+8.2
	Green	42	3.2	-5.2
Majority		366	28.2
Turnout		1,298
	Labour hold	Swing

Sonning Common By-Election 1 November 2001
Party		Votes	%	±
	Conservative	561	50.4	+15.7
	Liberal Democrat	253	31.7	-0.9
	Labour	200	18.0	-2.2
Majority		208	18.7
Turnout		1,014	36.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat	Swing

Watlington By-Election 10 October 2002^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Crossman	441	61.1	+23.8
	Liberal Democrat		281	38.9	-23.8
Majority			160	22.2
Turnout			722	32.2
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

2003-2007

Sonning Common By-Election 23 September 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bruce Harrison	591	70.6	-0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Caroline Wardle	177	21.1	-7.8
	Labour	Mary Stiles	69	8.2	+8.2
Majority			414	49.5
Turnout			837	19.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Shiplake By-Election 5 May 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nigel Jones	1,649	63.9
	Liberal Democrat	Caroline Wardle	535	20.7
	Labour	Janet Matthews	397	15.4
Majority			1,114	43.2
Turnout			2,581
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wallingford North By-Election 27 October 2005^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Imran Lokhan	479	51.5	+23.5
	Liberal Democrat	Alec Hayton	374	40.7	+13.9
	Green	Melanie Belgrove Jones	72	7.8	+7.8
Majority			100	10.8
Turnout			920	22.0
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Watlington By-Election 23 March 2006^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Angela Paterson	737	72.9	+19.9
	Liberal Democrat	Bernard Moseley	274	27.1	-19.9
Majority			463	45.8
Turnout			1,011	24.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

2007-2011

Thame North By-Election 30 October 2008^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Welply	423	50.5	+8.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jeannette Matelot	287	34.3	-9.5
	Labour	May Stiles	127	15.2	+1.3
Majority			136	16.2
Turnout			837	18.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chiltern Woods By-Election 19 March 2009^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Judith Nimmo-Smith	382	79.4	+9.4
	Liberal Democrat	Julian Allison	99	20.6	+5.2
Majority			283	58.8
Turnout			481	25.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Henley South By-Election 11 February 2010^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Residents	Elizabeth Hodgkin	642	52.5	+0.6
	Conservative	David Silvester	472	38.6	+10.5
	Liberal Democrat	George Levy	110	9.0	+0.2
Majority			170	13.9
Turnout			1,224
	Conservative hold		Swing

Crowmarsh By-Election 3 June 2010^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	John Griffin	327	55.9	+10.1
	Conservative	Kristina Crabbe	258	44.1	-10.1
Majority			69	11.8
Turnout			585	32.0
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

References

↑ "Past local elections results". South Oxfordshire District Council. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
↑ "South Oxfordshire". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Berkshire and Oxfordshire (Areas) Order 1977. Retrieved on 18 November 2015.
↑ The Berkshire and Oxfordshire (Areas) (Amendment) Order 1977
↑ The District of South Oxfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980
↑ The Oxfordshire (District Boundaries) Order 1985
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Oxfordshire (District Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 6 November 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
↑ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The District of South Oxfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The South Oxfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2014. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
↑ "Big gains for Labour in council byelections". guardian.co.uk. 2001-10-12. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "Tories take Watlington". guardian.co.uk. 2002-10-11. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "Lib Dems falter in local byelections". guardian.co.uk. 2005-10-28. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "BNP suffers defeat in Bradford byelection". guardian.co.uk. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "Thame By-Election". South Oxfordshire District Council. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "Chiltern Woods By-election". South Oxfordshire District Council. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
↑ "I did this for Terry". Henley Standard. 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
↑ "Clean sweep for Lib Dems in latest council by-elections". 24dash.com. 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2010-06-04.

By-election results

External links

South Oxfordshire District Council

Council elections in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

Cherwell District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Oxford City Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

South Oxfordshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Vale of White Horse District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

West Oxfordshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

See also: Wards Boundary changes

The district of South Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Council elections District Council elections Henley County Constituency Wantage County Constituency

Towns	Didcot Henley-on-Thames Thame (Moreton) Wallingford Watlington (Christmas Common, Northend)

Large villages	Benson (Preston Crowmarsh) Berinsfield Brightwell-cum-Sotwell (Brightwell, Mackney, Sotwell) Chalgrove Chinnor (Emmington, Henton, Oakley) Cholsey (Winterbrook) Crowmarsh (Crowmarsh Gifford, North Stoke, Mongewell, Newnham Murren) Ewelme Garsington Goring-on-Thames Great Milton Horspath (Bullingdon Green) Sandford-on-Thames Shiplake (Lower Shiplake) Sonning Common Wheatley (Littleworth) Woodcote

Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets)	Adwell Aston Rowant Aston Tirrold Aston Upthorpe Baldons, (Baldon Row, Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon) Beckley and Stowood (Beckley, Stowood) Berrick Salome (Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh) Binfield Heath Bix and Assendon (Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon) Brightwell Baldwin Britwell Salome Checkendon Clifton Hampden (Burcot) Crowell Cuddesdon and Denton (Cuddesdon, Denton) Culham Cuxham with Easington (Cuxham, Easington) Dorchester Drayton St. Leonard East Hagbourne (Coscote) Elsfield Eye and Dunsden (Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch) Forest Hill with Shotover (Forest Hill, Shotover) Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond) Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote) Harpsden Highmoor (Satwell) Holton Ipsden Kidmore End (Gallowstree Common) Lewknor (Postcombe, South Weston) Little Milton Little Wittenham Long Wittenham Mapledurham (Trench Green, Chazey Heath) Moulsford Nettlebed Newington (Great Holcombe) North Moreton Nuffield Nuneham Courtenay Pishill with Stonor (Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water) Pyrton (Clare, Standhill) Rotherfield Greys Rotherfield Peppard Shirburn South Moreton (Fulscot) South Stoke (Littlestoke) Stadhampton (Chiselhampton, Brookhampton, Ascott) Stanton St. John (Woodperry) Stoke Row Stoke Talmage Swyncombe Sydenham (Kingston Stert) Tetsworth Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury) Towersey Warborough (Shillingford) Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley) Waterstock West Hagbourne Wheatfield Whitchurch-on-Thames Wilcote Woodeaton

Former districts and boroughs	Bullingdon Rural District Municipal Borough of Henley-on-Thames Henley Rural District Thame Urban District Municipal Borough of Wallingford Wallingford Rural District Crowmarsh Rural District Culham Rural District Goring Rural District Headington Rural District Thame Rural District

Former constituencies	Oxfordshire County Constituency Wallingford Borough Constituency Abingdon Borough Constituency Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency Abingdon County Constituency

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire List of places in Oxfordshire List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire

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