Bristol City Council elections

Bristol is a unitary authority and ceremonial county in England. Until 1 April 1996 it was a non-metropolitan district in Avon. Since 2012 it has also had a directly elected mayor.

Political control

Directly elected mayor

Party in control		Years
style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" \|	Independent	2012-2016
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Labour	2016–present

City council

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[1]

Non-metropolitan district

Party in control		Years
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Labour	1973-1983
style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color" \|	No overall control	1983-1986
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Labour	1986-1996

Unitary authority

Party in control		Years
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Labour	1995-2003
style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color" \|	No overall control	2003-2009
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" \|	Liberal Democrats	2009-2011
style="background-color: Template:No overall control/meta/color" \|	No overall control	2011-2016
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Labour	2016–present

Current councillors

Party		Councillors
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Labour	37
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Conservative	14
style="background-color: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Green	11
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Liberal Democrats	8

Ward	Party		Councillor
Ashley	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Jude English
Ashley	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mike Davies
Ashley	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Carole Johnson
Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Donald Alexander
Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Matt Melias
Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Jo Sargeant
Bedminster	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Celia Phipps
Bedminster	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mark Bradshaw
Bishopston & Ashley Down	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Tom Brook
Bishopston & Ashley Down	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Eleanor Combley
Bishopsworth	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Richard Eddy
Bishopsworth	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Kevin Quarterly
Brislington East	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Tony Carey
Brislington East	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mike Langley
Brislington West	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Harriet Bradley
Brislington West	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Jos Clark
Bristol Central	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Kye Dudd
Bristol Central	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Paul Smith
Clifton	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Paula O'Rourke
Clifton	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Jerome Thomas
Clifton Down	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Carla Denyer
Clifton Down	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Clive Stevens
Cotham	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Cleo Lake
Cotham	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Negus
Easton	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Ruth Pickersgill
Easton	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Afzal Shah
Eastville	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mahmadur Khan
Eastville	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mhairi Threlfall
Filwood	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Chris Jackson
Filwood	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Jeff Lovell
Frome Vale	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Lesley Alexander
Frome Vale	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Nicola Bowden-Jones
Hartcliffe & Withywood	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Mark Brain
Hartcliffe & Withywood	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Helen Legg
Hartcliffe & Withywood	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Paul Goggin
Henbury & Brentry	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Chris Windows
Henbury & Brentry	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Mark Weston
Hengrove & Whitchurch Park	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Tim Kent
Hengrove & Whitchurch Park	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Harriet Clough
Hengrove & Whitchurch Park	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Barry Clark
Hillfields	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Craig Cheney
Hillfields	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Anna Keen
Horfield	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Claire Hiscott
Horfield	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Olly Mead
Hotwells & Harbourside	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Mark Wright
Knowle	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies
Knowle	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Gary Hopkins
Lawrence Hill	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Marg Hickman
Lawrence Hill	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Hibaq Jama
Lockleaze	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Gill Kirk
Lockleaze	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Estella Tincknell
Redland	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Martin Fodor
Redland	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Fi Hance
Southmead	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Brenda Massey
Southmead	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Helen Teige
Southville	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Charlie Bolton
Southville	style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Green	Stephen Clarke
St George Central	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Nicola Beech
St George Central	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Steve Pearce
St George Troopers Hill	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Fabian Breckels
St George West	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Asher Craig
Stockwood	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Steve Jones
Stockwood	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Graham Morris
Stoke Bishop	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Peter Abraham
Stoke Bishop	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	John Goulandris
Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze	style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Liberal Democrats	Clare Campion-Smith
Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Geoff Gollop
Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze	style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Conservative	Liz Radford
Windmill Hill	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Jon Wellington
Windmill Hill	style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;width:3px" \|	Labour	Lucy Whittle

Mayoral elections

By-election results

Brislington West By-Election 17 June 1997^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Edna Norman	1,453	52.5	+11.6
	Labour	Jane Veronica Painter	1,002	36.2	−0.6
	Conservative	Robert Andrew Britton	310	11.2	−8.6
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Mary Beryl Wood	47	1.7
	Socialist Labour	Paul Francis Williams	16	0.6
Majority			451	16.3
Turnout			2,765	32.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	+6.1

Cabot By-Election 12 March 1998^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anne White	1,035	59.4	+18.0
	Labour	Alison Claire Wilson	392	22.5	−12.6
	Conservative	Ashley Peter Fox	250	14.4	−1.0
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Charles Nicholas Bolton	65	3.7	−4.5
	Socialist Labour	Kay Sandra Carter	59	3.4	+3.4
Majority			643	36.9
Turnout			1,801	17.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+15.3

Ashley By-Election 18 June 1998^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Ernest Riddlestone	812	38.6	+24.6
	Labour	Raymond John Sefia	694	33.0	−29.9
	Socialist Labour	Bernard Joseph Kennedy	263	12.5	+12.5
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	David Mark Simpson	222	10.6	−4.6
	Conservative	Richard Jonathan Chambers	111	5.3	−2.7
Majority			118	5.6
Turnout			2,102	25.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	+27.3

Lockleaze By-Election 10 February 2000^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Emmett	1,288	52.4	+28.7
	Labour	Kathleen Rosalie Walker	888	36.1	−12.7
	Conservative	Lewis William Price	283	11.5	−9.8
Majority			400	16.3
Turnout			2,459	30.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	+20.7

Southville By-Election 19 October 2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josephine Hargreaves	1,415	43.7	−8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Freeman	1,076	33.2	+17.0
	Conservative	Philip Arthur Cobbold	529	16.3	−0.8
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Charles Nicholas Bolton	160	4.9	−7.1
	Socialist Alliance	Peter Henry Wearden	58	1.8	−0.6
Majority			339	10.5
Turnout			3,238	39.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-12.8

Lawrence Hill By-Election 20 May 2004^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sue O'Donnell	961	41.2	−5.1
	Labour	Diane Elizabeth Bunyan	879	37.7	+2.6
	Conservative	Seva Singh	148	6.4	+0.4
	Bristolian	Julien George Weston	127	5.5	−3.2
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Michael Crawford	127	5.5	+1.6
	UKIP	Ilse Elisabeth Temple	88	3.8	+3.8
Majority			82	3.5
Turnout			2,330	28.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-3.9

St George West By-Election 9 October 2008^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Potter	924	34.0	+9.1
	Labour	Kevin Herniman	816	30.1	−8.1
	Conservative	Colin Bretherton	509	18.8	−18.1
	Independent	Angelo Agathangelou	257	9.5	+9.5
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Nick Foster	116	4.3	+4.3
	English Democrat	Michael Blundell	93	3.4	+3.4
Majority			107	3.9
Turnout			2,720	32.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	8.6

Southmead By-Election 8 September 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brenda Massey	1,109	45.5	+14.1
	Conservative	Ronda Brace	765	31.4	+12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Cash	365	15.0	−17.1
	Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales	Chris Millman	120	4.9	−1.3
	English Democrat	Stephen Wright	77	3.2	−8.3
Majority			344
Turnout			2,443	28.6
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

References

^ "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 17 Jun 1997". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 12 Mar 1998". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 18 Jun 1998". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 10 Feb 2000". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 19 Oct 2000". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 20 May 2004". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bristol City Council Election Results for 9 Oct 2008". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

[1] "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[brislington-2] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 17 Jun 1997". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[cabot-3] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 12 Mar 1998". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[ashley-4] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 18 Jun 1998". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[lockleaze-5] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 10 Feb 2000". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[southville-6] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 19 Oct 2000". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[lawrence-7] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 20 May 2004". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[george-8] "Bristol City Council Election Results for 9 Oct 2008". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 2009-09-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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