Malvern Hills District Council elections are held every four years. Malvern Hills District Council is the local authority for the
non-metropolitan district
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of
Malvern Hills
The Malvern Hills are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit aff ...
in
Worcestershire
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, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2003, 38
councillor
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Canada
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s have been elected from 22
wards.
Political control
The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until it came into its powers on 1 April 1974. A shadow authority was again elected in 1997 ahead of the significant district boundary changes which came into effect on 1 April 1998, when the upper-tier authority for the district also changed from being
Hereford and Worcester County Council
Hereford and Worcester County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Hereford and Worcester in west England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1974 and was abolished on 31 March 1998. The county council was based at Co ...
(which was abolished) to the re-established
Worcestershire County Council
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. Political control of the district council since 1974 has been held by the following parties:
Leadership
The
leaders of the council since 2000 have been:
Council elections
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1973 Malvern Hills District Council election
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1976 Malvern Hills District Council election
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1979 Malvern Hills District Council election (New ward boundaries)
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1983 Malvern Hills District Council election
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1987 Malvern Hills District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
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1991 Malvern Hills District Council election
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1995 Malvern Hills District Council election
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1997 Malvern Hills District Council election (Elections to shadow authority on new boundaries, councillors took office on 1 April 1998)
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2000 Malvern Hills District Council election
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2003 Malvern Hills District Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 4)
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2007 Malvern Hills District Council election
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2011 Malvern Hills District Council election
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2015 Malvern Hills District Council election
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2019 Malvern Hills District Council election
By-election results
1995-1997
1997-2000
2000-2003
2003-2007
2007-2011
2011-2015
2015-2019
2019-2023
References
By-election results
External links
{{Worcestershire elections
Malvern Hills District
Council elections in Worcestershire
District council elections in England
Council elections in Hereford and Worcester