Milton Keynes City Council Milton Keynes City Council is the local authority of the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It has both borough status ...

is the local authority for the

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, a

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in Buckinghamshire,

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. Until 1 April 1997 it was a

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Council elections

:1.In 1976, 1996, 2002 and 2014, the whole council was elected after boundary changes. In 1991 borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same.

By ward

2002 to 2012

The composition of Milton Keynes Council following each election was as follows.

2014 to present

In 2014 the boundaries were revised so that there were 57 seats and each ward had three seats each ee below Elections were held for all seats in that year, before returning to the one-third model for subsequent years.

Borough result maps

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By-election results

Frequency

One third of the council is elected each year for 3 years, followed by one year without election, unless there is a substantial boundary change (when all seats are elected). Following an electoral review, changes to wards and an increase in the number of seats, 57

councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

s were elected for all 19 wards from May 2014 onwards. After the previous reorganisation in 2002, 51 councillors were elected from 23 wards.

Wards

1973

The first elections to the newly created Milton Keynes Borough Council took place on 7 June 1973 There were 40 seats up for election spread over 16 Wards. All councillors were elected for three years

1976

In November 1975, the Boundary Commission proposed new ward boundaries. (These wards are generally larger than the civil parishes that give them their names. Some parishes are divided between wards. For details, see the Boundary Commission report.) * Bletchley Central * Danesborough * Denbigh * Eaton * Loughton * Newport Rural * Newport Urban * Newton * Petsoe Manor * Pineham * Sherington * Stantonbury * Stony Stratford * Watling * Whaddon * Wolverton

1996 to 2000

Between 1996 and 2000, there were 51 seats up for election. Boundary changes were made before the 2002 election but this did not affect the number of seats up for election.

2002 to 2012

From 2002 until the 2014 local elections, there were 23 wards in the Borough, which were represented by 51 councillors. The councillors corresponded to the wards in the following way: * There were 8 wards that represented by 3 councillors: ** Bletchley & Fenny Stratford ** Bradwell ** Campbell Park ** Emerson Valley **

Loughton Loughton () is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex. Part of the metropolitan and urban area of London, the town borders Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill, and is northeast of Chari ...

Park ** Stony Stratford ** Walton Park **

Wolverton Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located at the northern edge of Milton Keynes, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse. It is the administrative seat of Wolverton and G ...

* There were 12 wards that represented by 2 councillors: ** Denbigh **

Eaton Manor Eaton may refer to: Buildings Canada * Eaton Centre, the name of various shopping malls in Canada due to having been anchored by an Eaton's store * Eaton's / John Maryon Tower, a cancelled skyscraper in Toronto * Eaton Hall (King City), a conferen ...

Furzton Furzton is a district in south-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and in the civil parish of Shenley Brook End The man-made Furzton Lake is a balancing lake that covers approximately half of the district. History The housing in Sout ...

** Linford North ** Linford South ** Middleton ** Newport Pagnell North ** Newport Pagnell South ** Olney ** Stantonbury ** Whaddon **

Woughton Woughton is an area of south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It takes its name from the original ecclesiastic parish of Woughton and its original village, Woughton on the Green. For administrative purposes, the area is divided ...

* There were 3 wards that represented by 1 councillor: ** Danesborough **

Hanslope Hanslope is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about west northwest of Newport Pagnell, about north of Stony Stratford and north of Central Milt ...

Park ** Sherington

2014 onwards

Following an electoral review and with effect from the 2014 Milton Keynes Council election in May 2014, there were 57 Councillors representing 19 wards, each with having 3 councillors. These wards are as follows: *

Bletchley Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south-west of Milton Keynes, and is split between the civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley. Bletchley is best know ...

East * Bletchley Park * Bletchley West * Bradwell * Broughton * Campbell Park &

Old Woughton Old Woughton ( ) is a district and civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The parish was established in April 2012 by the division into two parts of Woughton parish. The original (undivided) civil parish was its ...

Central Milton Keynes Central Milton Keynes is the central business district of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and a civil parish in its own right, with a town council. The district is approximately long by wide and occupies some of the highest land in Mi ...

* Danesborough &

Walton Walton may refer to: People * Walton (given name) * Walton (surname) * Susana, Lady Walton (1926–2010), Argentine writer Places Canada * Walton, Nova Scotia, a community ** Walton River (Nova Scotia) *Walton, Ontario, a hamlet United Kingdo ...

Shenley Shenley is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, between Barnet and St Albans. The village is located 14 miles from Central London. History The history of Shenley stretches back a thousand years or more – it is mentioned in ...

* Monkston * Newport Pagnell North &

* Newport Pagnell South * Olney *

Shenley Brook End Shenley Brook End is a village, district and wider civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with its neighbouring districts of Shenley Church End, Shenley Wood and Shenley Lodge, the districts are collectively known as ...

* Stantonbury * Stony Stratford *

Tattenhoe St. Giles's Church Tattenhoe and Tattenhoe Park are adjacent neighbourhoods of Milton Keynes, England, in the ancient ecclesiastic parish of Tattenhoe. They are located at the south-western edge of the city, next to Whaddon in Aylesbury Vale ...

& Fishermead

References

External links

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{{Unitary authorities of England Politics of Milton Keynes Council elections in Buckinghamshire Unitary authority elections in England