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Council Compositions 1998

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

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