Oxford City Council
Oxford City Council | |
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Half of council elected every other year | |
Type | |
Type | |
Houses | Unicameral |
Term limits | None |
History | |
Founded | 1 April 1974 |
Leadership | |
Leader | |
Colin Cook since 15 May 2018[2] | |
Structure | |
Seats | 48 |
35 / 48 | |
9 / 48 | |
2 / 48 | |
2 / 48 | |
Elections | |
First past the post | |
Last election | 2018 (half of councillors) |
Next election | 2021 |
Motto | |
Fortis Est Veritas | |
Meeting place | |
Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford | |
Website | |
http://www.oxford.gov.uk |
Oxford City Council is the lower tier local government authority for the city of Oxford in England, providing such services as leisure centres and parking. Social Services, Education and Highways services (amongst others) are provided by Oxfordshire County Council.
Overview
Between the 2004 local elections, and 2010 the council was in minority administration, first by councillors from the Labour Party, with the Liberal Democrats being the official opposition. In 2006 these roles were reversed, although two years later the council returned to being run by a minority Labour administration.[3] before they took full control in 2010. Despite the stereotypical view of Oxford as a conservative city, there are no elected Conservatives on the city council. The Independent Working Class Association was represented for a decade between 2002 and 2012.
Since 2002, elections have been held for Oxford City Council in even years, with each councillor serving a term of four years. Each electoral ward within Oxford is represented by two councillors, thus all wards elect one councillor at each election. Prior to 2002, the City Council was elected by thirds.
In early 2003, the Oxford City Council submitted a bid to become a unitary authority.[4] This was received by the Department for Communities and Local Government[5] but subsequently rejected.[6][7][8]
Since 2008, Oxford City Council has been undergoing a programme of Business Transformation which has now been delivered in to the City Council.[9]
Oxford City Council contains all of the Oxford East parliamentary constituency, which was won by Labour in the 2010 General Election with an increased majority but was until then a highly marginal seat with the Liberal Democrats.[10] Labour massively increased its majority following the collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote at the 2015 general election. The Council also covers part of the Oxford West and Abingdon parliamentary constituency, which was won from the Conservatives by the Liberal Democrats at the 2017 General Election.
In 2016, Oxfordshire County Council put forward a 'One Oxfordshire' proposal which would see Oxford City Council and the four other district councils in Oxfordshire abolished and replaced with a single unitary county council for Oxfordshire.[11] In 2017, Oxford City Council voiced their opposition to the proposal[12] and it was subsequently dropped.
In 2018, the electoral ward boundaries were changed due to population shifts in the city. Therefore all 48 councillors will be elected in 2020, as opposed to half of them. The system of halves will return from 2022 onwards.
Statistics
- Partisan composition
Year | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Liberal Democrat | style="background-color: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Green | style="background-color: Template:Independent Working Class Association/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | IWCA | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Independent | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Conservative | Source | Controlling party | |
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2018 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [13] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2016 | 35 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [14] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2014 | 33 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [15] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2012 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | [16] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2010 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | [17][18] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2008 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | [3] | style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | No overall control | ||||||
2006 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | [19] | style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | No overall control | ||||||
2004 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | [20] | style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | No overall control | ||||||
2002 | 29 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | [21] | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | Labour | ||||||
2000 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | [21] | style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color; width: 3px;" | | No overall control |
- Partisan control
Years | Party | |
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2010–present
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | |
2004–2010
style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control | |
2002–2004
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | |
2000–2002
style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control | |
1980–2000
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | |
1976–1980
style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | |
1973–1976
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour |
Councillors
Ward | Name | Party | Next Election | First Elected | |
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Barton and Sandhills | Martyn Rush
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Barton and Sandhills | Mike Rowley
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2010 (by election) | |
Blackbird Leys | Rae Humberstone
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2005 | |
Blackbird Leys | Linda Smith
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | Nov 2014 | |
Carfax | Richard Howlett
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Carfax | Alex Hollingsworth
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 (by election) | |
Churchill | Susan Brown
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 | |
Churchill | Mark Lygo
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2008 | |
Cowley | David Henwood
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 (by election) | |
Cowley | Christine Simm
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 | |
Cowley Marsh | Lubna Arshad
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Cowley Marsh | Sajjad Malik
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2004 (as a Lib Dem) | |
Headington | Mohammed Altaf-Khan
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2006 (in HH&N) | |
Headington | Stef Garden
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2018 (by election) | |
Headington Hill and Northway | Joe McManners
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Headington Hill and Northway | Nigel Chapman
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2016 | |
Hinksey Park | Alex Donnelly
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Hinksey Park | Marie Tidball
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2016 | |
Holywell | Nadine Bely-Summers
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Holywell | Dan Iley-Williamson
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2016 | |
Iffley Fields | Richard Tarver
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 | |
Iffley Fields | Stephen John Curran
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2016 | |
Jericho and Osney | Susanna Pressel
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 1996 | |
Jericho and Osney | Colin Cook
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2005 (by election) | |
Littlemore | Tiago Corais
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Littlemore | John Tanner
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2002 | |
Lye Valley | Ben Lloyd-Shogbesan
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | 2020 | 2010 | |
Lye Valley | Pat Kennedy
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2012 | |
Marston | Mary Clarkson
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | c. 1998 | |
Marston | Mick Haines
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | 2020 | 2012 | |
North | Louise Upton
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2013 (by election) | |
North | James Fry
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2012 | |
Northfield Brook | Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Northfield Brook | Sian Taylor
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | Nov 2014 | |
Quarry and Risinghurst | Roz Smith
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2018 | |
Quarry and Risinghurst | Chewe Munkonge
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 (by election) | |
Rose Hill and Iffley | Shaista Aziz
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2018 | |
Rose Hill and Iffley | Edward Turner
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2002 | |
St Clement's | Tom Hayes
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2014 | |
St Clement's | Jamila Begum Azad
style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 2020 | 2016 | |
St Margaret's | Paul Harris
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2018 | |
St Margaret's | Tom Landell Mills
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2016 | |
St Mary's | Dick Wolff
style="width: 2px; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | |
Green | 2020 | 2010 | |
St Mary's | Craig Simmons
style="width: 2px; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | |
Green | 2020 | 2012 | |
Summertown | Michael Gotch
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2018 | |
Summertown | Andrew Gant
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2014 | |
Wolvercote | Steve Goddard
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 1996 | |
Wolvercote | Liz Wade
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 2020 | 2018 |
Climate change
Oxford City Council became the first UK authority to divest from fossil fuel companies in September 2014.[22]
In 2011, Oxford City Council had reduced their carbon footprint by 25% (against a baseline of 2005/6) and continues to reduce carbon emissions from its own estate by 5% year on year.
In 2014, Oxford City Council was named 'Most Sustainable Local Authority' in the Public Sector Sustainability Awards.
Oxford City Council leads the Low Carbon Oxford network – a collaboration of over 40 organisations working together to reduce emissions in the city by 40% by 2020.
Oxford City Council also leads on delivering the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week festival, which uses culture, creativity and community to inspire local people to take action on climate change. In 2015, the festival saw over 60 local organisations partner to deliver over 100 events across the city and attract over 40,000 visitors.
Energy Superhub Oxford
Energy Superhub Oxford is a power optimisation project. It will include a lithium-ion battery of 48/50MWh, a flow battery of 2/5MWh, 20 ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargers for public use and ground-source heat pumps for residential properties.[23]
See also
References
- ^ "Oxford City Council elects Councillor Susan Brown as new Leader". Oxford City Council. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Williams, Tom (15 May 2018). "Oxford welcomes new Lord Mayor Colin Cook with traditional ceremony". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ a b Election 2008: Oxford council, BBC, 2008
- ^ Oxford City Council: the case for unitary status, draft version, 18 January 2007.
- ^ Communities and Local Government press release: Kelly welcomes proposals to improve local services: 26 local authorities bid to move to single tier local Government, 26 January 2007.
- ^ Communities and Local Government: rejection letter to Oxford City Council’s unitary authority bid.
- ^ Communities and Local Government press release: Woolas announces sixteen successful bids for unitary status to improve local services, 27 March 2007.
- ^ Oxford City Council press release: Government backs off Oxfordshire reorganisation, 27 March 2007.
- ^ Oxford City Council website: Business Transformation Strategy, October 2008.
- ^ Bookies: Oxford East a two-horse race[permanent dead link], Steve Goddard website Archived 3 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, January 2009
- ^ One Oxfordshire, February 2017.
- ^ Oxford City Council website: Hands off Oxford City, February 2017.
- ^ "Election results - 3 May 2018". Oxford City Council. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ [1], Oxford City Council, 2016
- ^ Election results, Oxford City Council, 2014
- ^ Election results, Oxford City Council, 2012.
- ^ Election results, Oxford City Council, 2010.
- ^ "Labour win Lib Dem seat at by-election". The Oxford Times. 22 October 2010.
- ^ Article, BBC, 2006.
- ^ Article, BBC, 2004.
- ^ a b Article, BBC, 2002.
- ^ Climate change: how to make the big polluters really pay Naomi Klein The Guardian 17 October 2014
- ^ https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/1049/41m_project_to_support_oxford_on_journey_to_zero_carbon