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Council Compositions 1997

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Authority	Majority	Total	Composition ( Con Lab Lib SNP/PC Other)
Aberdeen	Lab	50	9 30 10 1 0
Aberdeenshire	NOC	47	4 0 15 15 13
Adur	LD	39	3 6 28 0 2
Allerdale	Lab	55	6 37 4 0 8
Alnwick	NOC	29	2 6 12 0 9
Amber Valley	Lab	43	3 38 0 0 2
Angus	SNP	26	2 0 2 21 1
Argyll & Bute	Ind	33	3 2 4 4 20
Arun	Con	56	29 10 14 0 3
Ashfield	Lab	33	0 33 0 0 0
Ashford	NOC	49	19 13 14 0 3
Aylesbury Vale	LD	58	12 5 33 0 8
Babergh	NOC	42	9 12 8 0 13
Barking & Dagenham	Lab	51	0 47 1 0 3
Barnet	NOC	60	29 25 6 0 0
Barnsley	Lab	66	1 63 0 0 2
Barrow-In-Furness	Lab	36	2 29 0 0 5
Basildon	Lab	42	1 24 17 0 0
Basingstoke & Deane	NOC	57	23 14 17 0 3
Bassetlaw	Lab	48	6 34 3 0 5
Bath & North East Somerset	NOC	65	16 21 28 0 0
Bedford	NOC	53	10 22 16 0 5
Bedfordshire	Con	49	25 14 10 0 0
Berwick-Upon-Tweed	NOC	28	2 2 12 0 12
Bexley	NOC	62	24 24 14 0 0
Birmingham	Lab	117	13 87 17 0 0
Blaby	NOC	39	12 17 9 0 1
Blackburn with Darwen	Lab	62	12 46 4 0 0
Blackpool	Lab	44	7 34 3 0 0
Blaenau Gwent	Lab	42	1 33 0 1 7
Blyth Valley	Lab	47	0 39 7 0 1
Bolsover	Lab	37	0 35 0 0 2
Bolton	Lab	60	6 48 6 0 0
Boston	NOC	34	5 15 8 0 6
Bournemouth	NOC	57	19 6 28 0 4
Bracknell Forest	Con	40	23 17 0 0 0
Bradford	Lab	90	14 70 6 0 0
Braintree	Lab	60	10 37 6 0 7
Breckland	NOC	53	19 25 1 0 8
Brent	NOC	66	33 28 5 0 0
Brentwood	LD	39	12 2 25 0 0
Bridgend	Lab	47	0 45 0 1 1
Bridgnorth	Ind	33	3 6 4 0 20
Brighton & Hove	Lab	78	23 54 0 0 1
Bristol	Lab	68	5 52 11 0 0
Broadland	NOC	49	12 20 12 0 5
Bromley	Con	60	32 7 21 0 0
Bromsgrove	Lab	39	12 24 3 0 0
Broxbourne	Con	42	25 13 4 0 0
Broxtowe	Lab	49	7 36 5 0 1
Buckinghamshire	Con	54	38 5 10 0 1
Burnley	Lab	44	1 34 8 0 1
Bury	Lab	48	4 41 3 0 0
Caerphilly	Lab	68	0 56 0 9 3
Calderdale	Lab	54	8 36 9 0 1
Cambridge	Lab	42	1 23 18 0 0
Cambridgeshire	Con	59	33 10 16 0 0
Camden	Lab	59	7 47 5 0 0
Cannock Chase	Lab	42	0 40 2 0 0
Canterbury	NOC	49	10 15 24 0 0
Caradon	NOC	41	1 2 18 0 20
Cardiff	Lab	67	1 56 9 1 0
Carlisle	Lab	51	14 33 3 0 1
Carmarthenshire	NOC	80	1 37 3 7 32
Carrick	NOC	45	7 8 21 0 9
Castle Morpeth	NOC	34	6 12 6 0 10
Castle Point	Lab	39	5 34 0 0 0
Ceredigion	Ind	45	0 1 12 7 25
Charnwood	Lab	52	15 30 5 0 2
Chelmsford	LD	56	13 7 32 0 4
Cheltenham	LD	41	3 1 34 0 3
Cherwell	Lab	52	15 28 9 0 0
Cheshire	NOC	48	20 20 8 0 0
Chester	NOC	60	14 27 18 0 1
Chester-Le-Street	Lab	33	1 30 1 0 1
Chesterfield	Lab	47	0 37 10 0 0
Chichester	NOC	50	21 1 24 0 4
Chiltern	NOC	50	22 1 24 0 3
Chorley	Lab	48	5 35 7 0 1
Christchurch	NOC	25	8 0 11 0 6
Clackmannan	Lab	12	1 8 0 3 0
Colchester	LD	60	11 15 33 0 1
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar	Ind	27	0 0 0 0 27
Congleton	LD	45	5 11 28 0 1
Conwy	NOC	60	10 18 17 2 13
Copeland	Lab	49	13 36 0 0 0
Corby	Lab	27	1 24 2 0 0
Cornwall	NOC	79	7 8 39 0 25
Cotswold	Ind	45	3 5 8 0 29
Coventry	Lab	54	4 49 0 0 1
Craven	NOC	34	7 6 17 0 4
Crawley	Lab	32	2 28 2 0 0
Crewe & Nantwich	Lab	57	15 38 3 0 1
Croydon	Lab	70	30 40 0 0 0
Cumbria	Lab	83	23 44 12 0 4
Dacorum	Lab	58	19 33 4 0 2
Darlington	Lab	52	13 36 2 0 1
Dartford	Lab	47	10 36 0 0 1
Daventry	NOC	35	15 15 2 0 3
Denbighshire	NOC	50	0 20 3 7 20
Derby	Lab	44	3 39 2 0 0
Derbyshire	Lab	64	12 45 6 0 1
Derbyshire Dales	NOC	39	15 8 16 0 0
Derwentside	Lab	55	0 50 0 0 5
Devon	LD	54	13 4 31 0 6
Doncaster	Lab	63	2 59 2 0 0
Dorset	NOC	42	15 5 21 0 1
Dover	Lab	56	14 38 4 0 0
Dudley	Lab	72	8 60 4 0 0
Dumfries & Galloway	NOC	70	2 21 10 9 28
Dundee	Lab	36	4 28 0 3 1
Durham	Lab	61	2 53 2 0 4
Durham	Lab	49	0 38 7 0 4
Ealing	Lab	71	20 48 3 0 0
Easington	Lab	51	0 44 3 0 4
East Ayrshire	Lab	30	0 22 0 8 0
East Cambridgeshire	Ind	37	0 4 12 0 21
East Devon	Con	60	31 0 20 0 9
East Dorset	LD	36	13 0 23 0 0
East Dunbartonshire	Lab	26	2 15 9 0 0
East Hampshire	LD	42	13 0 26 0 3
East Hertfordshire	NOC	50	23 8 16 0 3
East Lindsey	Ind	60	1 15 3 0 41
East Lothian	Lab	18	3 15 0 0 0
East Northamptonshire	Lab	36	9 25 2 0 0
East Renfrewshire	NOC	20	9 8 2 0 1
East Riding Of Yorkshire	NOC	67	19 23 18 0 7
East Staffordshire	Lab	46	4 36 3 0 3
East Sussex	NOC	44	21 7 16 0 0
Eastbourne	LD	30	9 0 21 0 0
Eastleigh	LD	45	7 7 31 0 0
Eden	Ind	37	0 2 4 0 31
Edinburgh	Lab	58	14 33 10 1 0
Ellesmere Port & Neston	Lab	41	5 36 0 0 0
Elmbridge	NOC	60	22 8 9 0 21
Enfield	Lab	66	25 41 0 0 0
Epping Forest	NOC	59	15 17 15 0 12
Epsom & Ewell	Ind	39	0 3 3 0 33
Erewash	Lab	52	10 39 1 0 2
Essex	Con	79	40 23 15 0 1
Exeter	Lab	36	2 24 7 0 3
Falkirk	Lab	36	2 23 0 8 3
Fareham	NOC	42	10 8 21 0 3
Fenland	NOC	40	15 20 2 0 3
Fife	Lab	92	0 54 25 10 3
Flintshire	Lab	71	3 46 5 1 16
Forest Heath	NOC	25	10 4 6 0 5
Forest Of Dean	Lab	49	1 30 5 0 13
Fylde	NOC	49	18 6 4 0 21
Gateshead	Lab	66	1 50 13 0 2
Gedling	Lab	57	20 29 7 0 1
Glasgow	Lab	84	3 77 1 1 2
Gloucester	Lab	35	2 25 8 0 0
Gloucestershire	NOC	63	21 18 22 0 2
Gosport	LD	30	4 7 17 0 2
Gravesham	Lab	44	10 34 0 0 0
Great Yarmouth	Lab	48	9 38 1 0 0
Greenwich	Lab	62	8 47 3 0 4
Guildford	NOC	45	14 6 22 0 3
Gwynedd	PC	83	0 9 3 45 26
Hackney	Lab	60	6 44 10 0 0
Halton	Lab	56	1 47 8 0 0
Hambleton	NOC	47	21 4 3 0 19
Hammersmith & Fulham	Lab	50	15 34 1 0 0
Hampshire	Con	74	43 8 21 0 2
Harborough	NOC	37	12 8 13 0 4
Haringey	Lab	59	2 57 0 0 0
Harlow	Lab	42	0 39 3 0 0
Harrogate	LD	59	10 4 44 0 1
Harrow	NOC	63	17 14 29 0 3
Hart	NOC	35	12 0 15 0 8
Hartlepool	Lab	47	2 39 5 0 1
Hastings	LD	32	0 15 17 0 0
Havant	NOC	42	8 11 20 0 3
Havering	NOC	63	11 31 4 0 17
Herefordshire	LD	60	8 2 33 0 17
Hertfordshire	NOC	77	38 30 9 0 0
Hertsmere	Lab	39	8 22 8 0 1
High Peak	Lab	44	5 30 6 0 3
Highland	Ind	72	1 7 4 10 50
Hillingdon	Lab	69	25 44 0 0 0
Hinckley & Bosworth	NOC	34	5 13 16 0 0
Horsham	LD	43	18 0 23 0 2
Hounslow	Lab	60	6 49 5 0 0
Huntingdonshire	Con	53	33 5 13 0 2
Hyndburn	Lab	47	3 44 0 0 0
Inverclyde	Lab	20	1 13 6 0 0
Ipswich	Lab	48	6 41 1 0 0
Isle Of Anglesey	Ind	40	1 6 0 7 26
Isle of Wight	LD	48	6 3 33 0 6
Islington	Lab	52	1 39 12 0 0
Kennet	NOC	40	9 9 8 0 14
Kensington & Chelsea	Con	54	39 15 0 0 0
Kent	Con	84	46 23 15 0 0
Kerrier	NOC	44	1 14 13 0 16
Kettering	Lab	45	6 33 3 0 3
King's Lynn & West Norfolk	Lab	60	13 38 6 0 3
Kingston Upon Hull	Lab	60	0 58 1 0 1
Kingston Upon Thames	LD	50	18 6 26 0 0
Kirklees	Lab	72	6 45 18 0 3
Knowsley	Lab	66	0 64 2 0 0
Lambeth	NOC	64	16 24 24 0 0
Lancashire	Lab	78	23 47 7 0 1
Lancaster	Lab	60	11 35 4 0 10
Leeds	Lab	99	8 82 9 0 0
Leicester	Lab	56	7 40 9 0 0
Leicestershire	NOC	54	25 17 11 0 1
Lewes	LD	48	16 2 28 0 2
Lewisham	Lab	67	1 63 3 0 0
Lichfield	Lab	56	19 34 2 0 1
Lincoln	Lab	33	0 33 0 0 0
Lincolnshire	Con	76	43 19 11 0 3
Liverpool	Lab	99	1 51 41 0 6
Luton	Lab	48	3 36 9 0 0
Macclesfield	Con	60	33 12 11 0 4
Maidstone	NOC	55	12 18 20 0 5
Maldon	NOC	30	12 7 1 0 10
Malvern Hills	NOC	42	10 1 20 0 11
Manchester	Lab	99	0 84 15 0 0
Mansfield	Lab	46	1 45 0 0 0
Medway	Lab	80	20 39 21 0 0
Melton	NOC	26	8 5 9 0 4
Mendip	NOC	43	9 9 20 0 5
Merthyr Tydfil	Lab	33	0 29 0 0 4
Merton	Lab	57	10 40 3 0 4
Mid Bedfordshire	NOC	53	22 21 5 0 5
Mid Devon	LD	40	0 1 21 0 18
Mid Suffolk	NOC	40	7 17 12 0 4
Mid Sussex	NOC	54	19 4 27 0 4
Middlesbrough	Lab	53	2 45 4 0 2
Midlothian	Lab	15	0 13 0 2 0
Milton Keynes	NOC	51	2 30 18 0 1
Mole Valley	NOC	41	12 2 18 0 9
Monmouthshire	Lab	42	11 26 1 0 4
Moray	SNP	18	0 3 0 13 2
Neath Port Talbot	Lab	65	0 52 1 3 9
New Forest	LD	58	23 0 32 0 3
Newark & Sherwood	Lab	54	11 36 5 0 2
Newcastle Upon Tyne	Lab	78	0 65 13 0 0
Newcastle-Under-Lyme	Lab	56	4 42 10 0 0
Newham	Lab	60	0 59 1 0 0
Newport	Lab	47	1 46 0 0 0
Norfolk	NOC	84	36 34 13 0 1
North Ayrshire	Lab	29	1 26 0 1 1
North Cornwall	Ind	38	1 0 12 0 25
North Devon	LD	44	1 0 31 0 12
North Dorset	LD	33	1 1 19 0 12
North East Derbyshire	Lab	53	4 45 3 0 1
North East Lincolnshire	Lab	42	2 32 7 0 1
North Hertfordshire	Lab	50	16 27 6 0 1
North Kesteven	NOC	39	5 15 8 0 11
North Lanarkshire	Lab	69	0 59 0 8 2
North Lincolnshire	Lab	42	7 35 0 0 0
North Norfolk	NOC	46	4 19 12 0 11
North Shropshire	Ind	40	3 7 2 0 28
North Somerset	LD	59	17 6 30 0 6
North Tyneside	Lab	60	8 45 6 0 1
North Warwickshire	Lab	34	4 29 0 0 1
North West Leicestershire	Lab	40	3 35 0 0 2
North Wiltshire	LD	52	12 6 30 0 4
North Yorkshire	NOC	74	35 12 21 0 6
Northampton	Lab	43	1 34 8 0 0
Northamptonshire	Lab	68	27 37 4 0 0
Northumberland	Lab	66	13 43 8 0 2
Norwich	Lab	48	0 37 11 0 0
Nottingham	Lab	55	3 50 2 0 0
Nottinghamshire	Lab	63	17 42 4 0 0
Nuneaton & Bedworth	Lab	45	3 42 0 0 0
Oadby & Wigston	LD	26	1 0 25 0 0
Oldham	Lab	60	0 35 24 0 1
Orkney Islands	Ind	27	0 0 0 0 27
Oswestry	Ind	29	2 8 4 0 15
Oxford	Lab	51	0 39 9 0 3
Oxfordshire	NOC	70	27 22 19 0 2
Pembrokeshire	Ind	60	0 11 3 4 42
Pendle	LD	51	3 19 29 0 0
Penwith	NOC	34	4 9 11 0 10
Perth & Kinross	SNP	32	2 5 6 18 1
Peterborough	Lab	57	24 27 2 0 4
Plymouth	Lab	60	13 47 0 0 0
Poole	LD	39	13 3 23 0 0
Portsmouth	Lab	39	6 21 12 0 0
Powys	Ind	83	3 10 9 1 60
Preston	Lab	57	13 32 12 0 0
Purbeck	NOC	22	3 3 11 0 5
Reading	Lab	45	3 36 6 0 0
Redbridge	NOC	62	24 29 9 0 0
Redcar & Cleveland	Lab	59	1 49 7 0 2
Redditch	Lab	29	4 24 1 0 0
Reigate & Banstead	NOC	49	15 14 14 0 6
Renfrewshire	Lab	40	2 22 3 13 0
Restormel	LD	44	1 4 27 0 12
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Lab	75	0 58 0 13 4
Ribble Valley	NOC	39	19 1 19 0 0
Richmond Upon Thames	LD	52	7 2 43 0 0
Richmondshire	Ind	34	3 0 7 0 24
Rochdale	Lab	60	6 36 18 0 0
Rochford	LD	40	2 11 23 0 4
Rossendale	Lab	36	5 31 0 0 0
Rother	NOC	45	15 5 20 0 5
Rotherham	Lab	66	1 65 0 0 0
Rugby	NOC	48	11 22 5 0 10
Runnymede	NOC	42	21 14 1 0 6
Rushcliffe	NOC	54	26 17 10 0 1
Rushmoor	NOC	46	13 14 18 0 1
Rutland	Ind	20	2 2 5 0 11
Ryedale	NOC	21	4 1 9 0 7
Salford	Lab	60	0 57 3 0 0
Salisbury	LD	58	8 11 31 0 8
Sandwell	Lab	72	2 60 9 0 1
Scarborough	NOC	49	13 24 4 0 8
Scottish Borders	Ind	58	3 2 15 8 30
Sedgefield	Lab	49	0 45 0 0 4
Sedgemoor	NOC	49	22 13 12 0 2
Sefton	NOC	69	13 32 24 0 0
Selby	Lab	50	12 29 1 0 8
Sevenoaks	NOC	53	17 11 20 0 5
Sheffield	Lab	87	1 55 31 0 0
Shepway	NOC	56	19 14 20 0 3
Shetland Islands	Ind	25	0 0 0 0 25
Shrewsbury & Atcham	NOC	48	9 22 12 0 5
Shropshire	NOC	44	17 8 13 0 6
Slough	Lab	41	4 34 3 0 0
Solihull	NOC	51	16 16 12 0 7
Somerset	LD	57	17 3 37 0 0
South Ayrshire	Lab	25	4 21 0 0 0
South Bedfordshire	NOC	53	11 24 15 0 3
South Buckinghamshire	NOC	40	20 0 4 0 16
South Cambridgeshire	NOC	55	13 10 11 0 21
South Derbyshire	Lab	34	6 26 0 0 2
South Gloucestershire	NOC	70	8 31 30 0 1
South Hams	NOC	44	19 2 9 0 14
South Holland	NOC	38	8 11 0 0 19
South Kesteven	NOC	57	14 16 6 0 21
South Lakeland	NOC	52	11 6 23 0 12
South Lanarkshire	Lab	73	2 61 2 8 0
South Norfolk	LD	47	12 3 30 0 2
South Northamptonshire	NOC	40	15 10 6 0 9
South Oxfordshire	NOC	50	9 13 21 0 7
South Ribble	Lab	54	16 29 9 0 0
South Shropshire	Ind	40	0 1 7 0 32
South Somerset	LD	60	9 1 45 0 5
South Staffordshire	Con	50	27 13 4 0 6
South Tyneside	Lab	60	0 52 6 0 2
Southampton	Lab	45	3 29 13 0 0
Southend-on-Sea	NOC	39	18 7 14 0 0
Southwark	Lab	64	3 34 27 0 0
Spelthorne	Con	40	21 16 3 0 0
St Albans	LD	57	5 11 39 0 2
St Edmundsbury	NOC	44	15 22 5 0 2
St Helens	Lab	54	1 44 9 0 0
Stafford	Lab	60	13 33 10 0 4
Staffordshire	Lab	62	20 40 2 0 0
Staffordshire Moorlands	NOC	56	8 27 7 0 14
Stevenage	Lab	39	0 38 1 0 0
Stirling	Lab	22	7 13 0 2 0
Stockport	NOC	63	2 27 31 0 3
Stockton-On-Tees	Lab	55	7 44 4 0 0
Stoke-on-Trent	Lab	60	0 60 0 0 0
Stratford-on-Avon	NOC	55	17 5 24 0 9
Stroud	Lab	55	7 28 10 0 10
Suffolk	NOC	80	31 33 15 0 1
Suffolk Coastal	NOC	55	20 15 15 0 5
Sunderland	Lab	75	4 68 2 0 1
Surrey	Con	76	47 6 17 0 6
Surrey Heath	Con	36	22 4 8 0 2
Sutton	LD	56	4 5 47 0 0
Swale	NOC	49	6 19 23 0 1
Swansea	Lab	73	1 56 7 1 8
Swindon	Lab	54	3 41 9 0 1
Tameside	Lab	57	0 54 1 0 2
Tamworth	Lab	30	0 27 0 0 3
Tandridge	NOC	42	16 7 19 0 0
Taunton Deane	LD	53	14 5 31 0 3
Teesdale	Ind	31	2 10 0 0 19
Teignbridge	NOC	58	6 6 25 0 21
Telford & Wrekin	Lab	54	9 38 4 0 3
Tendring	Lab	60	8 37 7 0 8
Test Valley	LD	44	21 0 23 0 0
Tewkesbury	Ind	36	4 4 8 0 20
Thanet	Lab	54	4 44 4 0 2
Three Rivers	NOC	48	17 8 23 0 0
Thurrock	Lab	39	3 36 0 0 0
Tonbridge & Malling	NOC	55	23 11 21 0 0
Torbay	LD	36	11 2 23 0 0
Torfaen	Lab	44	1 41 1 0 1
Torridge	NOC	36	2 5 13 0 16
Tower Hamlets	Lab	50	0 43 7 0 0
Trafford	Lab	63	23 35 5 0 0
Tunbridge Wells	LD	48	14 6 27 0 1
Tynedale	NOC	47	11 19 13 0 4
Uttlesford	NOC	42	12 4 19 0 7
Vale of Glamorgan	Lab	46	5 36 0 5 0
Vale Of White Horse	LD	51	11 5 34 0 1
Vale Royal	Lab	60	15 42 3 0 0
Wakefield	Lab	63	4 58 0 0 1
Walsall	NOC	60	12 26 5 0 17
Waltham Forest	NOC	57	16 27 14 0 0
Wandsworth	Con	61	45 16 0 0 0
Wansbeck	Lab	46	0 46 0 0 0
Warrington	Lab	60	4 45 11 0 0
Warwick	NOC	45	13 17 11 0 4
Warwickshire	NOC	62	22 31 8 0 1
Watford	Lab	36	6 21 9 0 0
Waveney	Lab	48	2 44 2 0 0
Waverley	LD	57	18 2 36 0 1
Wealden	NOC	58	29 0 24 0 5
Wear Valley	Lab	40	0 35 2 0 3
Wellingborough	NOC	34	15 16 0 0 3
Welwyn Hatfield	Lab	47	16 31 0 0 0
West Berkshire	LD	54	15 0 38 0 1
West Devon	NOC	30	0 1 15 0 14
West Dorset	NOC	55	20 5 12 0 18
West Dunbartonshire	Lab	22	0 14 0 8 0
West Lancashire	Lab	55	20 35 0 0 0
West Lindsey	LD	37	2 3 19 0 13
West Lothian	Lab	27	1 15 0 11 0
West Oxfordshire	NOC	49	9 11 14 0 15
West Somerset	NOC	32	10 8 3 0 11
West Sussex	Con	71	37 9 24 0 1
West Wiltshire	LD	43	8 6 26 0 3
Westminster	Con	60	45 15 0 0 0
Weymouth & Portland	NOC	35	0 15 14 0 6
Wigan	Lab	72	0 69 2 0 1
Wiltshire	NOC	47	22 4 20 0 1
Winchester	LD	55	9 6 36 0 4
Windsor & Maidenhead	NOC	58	22 0 29 0 7
Wirral	Lab	66	16 41 9 0 0
Woking	LD	35	10 7 18 0 0
Wokingham	Con	54	31 0 23 0 0
Wolverhampton	Lab	60	12 46 2 0 0
Worcester	Lab	36	9 23 3 0 1
Worcestershire	NOC	57	25 22 8 0 2
Worthing	LD	36	11 0 25 0 0
Wrexham	Lab	51	3 33 4 0 11
Wychavon	NOC	49	13 10 16 0 10
Wycombe	NOC	60	25 15 18 0 2
Wyre	Lab	56	19 31 4 0 2
Wyre Forest	Lab	42	3 26 8 0 5
York	Lab	53	3 30 18 0 2

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