Elections to West Wiltshire

West Wiltshire

West Wiltshire was a local government district in Wiltshire, England, formed on 1 April 1974, further to the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former urban districts of Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury, along with Bradford and Melksham Rural District and...

 District Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats held their overall control, winning twenty-seven seats while the Conservatives

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 took ten, Independents

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

 four and the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 two.

Three single-member wards, Ethandune, Melksham Roundpond, and Westbrook, had only one candidate in each case and thus were uncontested.

Election Result

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Blackmore Forest

Bradford-on-Avon North

Bradford-on-Avon South

Corsley

Dilton Marsh

Ethandune

Holt

Manor Vale

Melksham Forest

Melksham Lambourne

Melksham Roundpond

Melksham Town

Melksham Woodrow

Mid Wylye Valley

Paxcroft

Shearwater

Summerham

Trowbridge Adcroft

Trowbridge College

Trowbridge Drynham

Trowbridge John of Gaunt

Trowbridge Park

Warminster East

Warminster West

Weavers

Westbrook

Westbury with Storridge

Wylye Valley