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Council election results 2011

Annual Council Meeting for 2011 on 19 May

last updated 5.35pm on 19 May 2011

The first full council meeting since the local election has been held. This was the Annual Council Meeting for 2011. The council has elected Councillor Anne Meadows as the new mayor and Councillor Geoff Wells as deputy mayor.

Councillor Bill Randall has been appointed as leader of the council. After the meeting Cllr Randall appointed a new cabinet.

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It's proposed that areas of responsibility for the cabinet will be divided up in a different way to the previous cabinet. Other appointments, for example membership of cabinet committees have been agreed. You can download the proposals and an agenda for the Annual Council Meeting from the council meetings pages of our website. The web pages relating to these other appointments will be updated across the web site over the next few days.

Local elections held on Thursday 5 May 2011

The results from the council election on Thursday 5 May are shown below. 

  • Full details of the votes for each wards are available on our election results pages.
  • Find out which ward you are in by entering your postcode into our Brighton & Hove map and then clicking on 'local information' on the left-hand-side.
  • If you know your ward find your councillors using the councillor finder.

We are in the process of updating councillor information on the rest of our website.

There is no overall control by one political party of the city council following the election. The Greens are now the largest party with 23 seats out of a possible 54. The Conservatives have 18 seats and Labour 13. The overall turnout was 41%.

A new leader was appointed at the Annual Council Meeting on 19 May.

For the Brighton & Hove results in the referendum on the Alternative Vote, see the Declaration of Count Totals. The full national results are available at www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/referendumresults.

Seats by party

Party No. of seats
Conservative Party 18
Green Party 23
Independent 0
Liberal Democrats 0
The European Citizens Party 0
The Labour Party 13
Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts 0
UK Independence Party 0
Total seats announced so far 54  / 54

Rottingdean Parish Council - nine seats

Elected for Rottingdean Parish Council on 5 May 2011 were: 

  • John Alan Bryant
  • John Richard Bustard
  • Frank Considine
  • Anthony Laurence Delow
  • Kenneth Richard Humphreys
  • Brian Reginald Frank Parsons
  • Geoffrey William Rhodes
  • Bill Spencer
  • Bob Webzell

Not elected:

  • Barry Pinchen
  • Raymond Ernest Sheath

See full details of the Rottingdean Parish Council election.

 

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