Chesterfield Borough Council elections

Chesterfield Borough Council in Derbyshire, England is elected every four years. 48 councillors are elected from 20 wards with between one and three elected from each ward.^[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]

Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1973
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1976
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1979 (New ward boundaries)^[3]
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1983
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1987
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1991 (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[4]
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1995
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 1999
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 2003 (New ward boundaries increased the number of seats by one)^[5]^[6]
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 2007
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 2011^[7]
Chesterfield Borough Council election, 2015

Holmbrook By-Election 10 April 1997
Party		Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	1,068	54.5
	Labour	812	41.5
	Conservative	78	4.0
Majority		256	13.0
Turnout		1,958	51.5
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour	Swing

New Whittington By-Election 15 March 2001
Party		Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	1,115	64.8	+3.1
	Labour	569	33.1	-2.5
	Conservative	37	2.1	-0.6
Majority		546	31.7
Turnout		1,721	45.6
	Liberal Democrat hold	Swing

Loundsley Green By-Election 22 April 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Barr	895	65.8	+5.1
	Labour	Thomas Murphy	431	31.6	-5.6
	Conservative	Gary Hatton	36	2.6	+2.6
Majority			464	34.2
Turnout			1,362	40.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Brimington South By-Election 6 May 2010^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	John Haywood	1,500	47.9	+4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Hartley	1,134	36.2	-12.6
	Conservative	Gary Hatton	499	15.9	+8.5
Majority			366	11.7
Turnout			3,133	65.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

↑ "Chesterfield Borough Council". Chesterfield Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
↑ "Chesterfield". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
↑ The Borough of Chesterfield (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Derbyshire (District Boundaries) Order 1988. Retrieved on 6 November 2015.
↑ "Chesterfield". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
↑ legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Chesterfield (Electoral Changes) Order 1999. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
↑ "England council elections". BBC News.
↑ "Declaration of Result of Poll" (PDF). Chesterfield Borough Council. Retrieved 2010-05-20.

Council elections in Derbyshire

Derbyshire 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

Amber Valley Borough 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

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

Chesterfield Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Derby City 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

Derbyshire Dales District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Erewash Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

High Peak Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

North East Derbyshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

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

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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