Gloucestershire County Council
| Gloucestershire County Council | |
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| Type | |
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| Seats | 53 |
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25 / 53
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14 / 53
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9 / 53
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2 / 53
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1 / 53
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1 / 53
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1 / 53
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| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
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Last election
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2 May 2013 |
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Next election
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4 May 2017 |
| Website | |
| www |
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Gloucestershire County Council is a county council which administers the most strategic local government services in the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire, in the South West of England.
The council's principal functions are county roads and rights of way, social services, education and libraries, but it also provides many other local government services in the area it covers. This does not include South Gloucestershire, which is a unitary authority with all the functions of a county and a non-metropolitan district.
The Conservative Party lost 13 notional seats, although the numerical loss was larger due to the reduction in the total number of councillors. The Liberal Democrats remained the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, while the Labour Party had the largest net gain of five seats. UKIP won representation on the county council for the first time, winning three seats.
The number of Independent councillors rose to two, while both the Green Party and People Against Bureaucracy saw their only councillors re-elected.
In July 2016 UKIP group leader Alan Preest defected to the Conservatives, claiming that the party lacked a purpose following the EU Referendum. He was followed shortly thereafter by UKIP councillor Colin Guyton, who left UKIP to serve as an independent. He later resigned from the County Council entirely. A by-election was not held in his division due to the short length of time between it and the 2017 Local Elections.
2 by-elections were held to Gloucestershire County Council in the 2013-2017 term of office. They are illustrated in the table below.
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