The 1996 Ipswich Borough Council election was an

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

to the

Ipswich Borough Council Ipswich Borough Council is the local authority for Ipswich, a non-metropolitan district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Suffolk, England. It is the second tier of a two-tier system, fulfilling functions such as refuse ...

under the arrangement, whereby a third of the councillors were to stand for election, each time. It took place as part of the

1996 United Kingdom local elections The 1996 United Kingdom local elections were held on 2 May 1996. They were the last local elections until 2010 United Kingdom local elections, 2010 to show a decline in the number of Conservative Councillor#United Kingdom, councillors and an incr ...

. There were 16 wards each returning one councillor plus three bye-elections, one each for Chantry, Stoke Park and Town Wards. The Labour Party retained control of the Council.

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Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...