Gloucestershire County Council

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.

Gloucestershire County Council
Type
Type
Leadership
Chairman of Council
Cllr Ray Theodolou
since 16th May 2019
Leader of the Council
Cllr Mark Hawthorne MBE, Conservative
since 19 May 2010
Deputy Leader
Cllr Richard Boyles, Conservative
Leader of the Opposition
Cllr Paul Hodgkinson, Liberal Democrat
Chief Executive
Pete Bungard
since May 2007
Structure
Seats53 councillors[1]
Political groups
Administration (29)
  Conservative (29)
Other parties (23)
  Liberal Democrat (14)
  Labour (5)
  Green (2)
  People Against Bureaucracy (1)
  Independent (1)
  Vacant (1)
Length of term
4 years
Elections
First past the post
Last election
4 May 2017
Next election
6 May 2021
Meeting place
The Shire Hall
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
Website
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk

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.

Political control

Electoral Wards of Cotswold District Council

Since the foundation of the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[2]

Party in controlYears
No overall control1973–2005
Conservative2005–2013
No overall control2013 - 2017
Conservative2017–


Cabinet

Council Leader Mark Hawthorne appointed the following Cabinet as of May 2019.

Office PartyName
Leader Conservative Mark Hawthorne
Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Children's Safeguarding and Early Years Conservative Richard Boyles
Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning Conservative Carole Allaway Martin
Cabinet Member for Highways and Flood Conservative Vernon Smith
Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Delivery Conservative Kathy Williams
Cabinet Member for Environment and Planning Conservative Nigel Moor
Cabinet Member for Finance and Change Conservative Lynden Stowe
Cabinet Member for Public Protection, Parking and Libraries Conservative Dave Norman
Cabinet Member for Economy, Education and Skills Conservative Patrick Molyneux
Cabinet Member for Public Health and Communities Conservative Tim Harman

Notable members

Elections and changes

2013 Gloucestershire County Council elections

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.

By-elections and defections, 2013 to 2017

In July 2016 UKIP group leader Alan Preest defected to the Conservatives, claiming that the party lacked a purpose following the EU Referendum.[8] He was followed shortly thereafter by UKIP councillor Colin Guyton, who left UKIP to serve as an independent.[9] 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.[10]

Two by-elections were held to Gloucestershire County Council in the 2013–2017 term of office:

By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Churchdown 5 May 2016 Bill Whelan Liberal Democrats Jack Williams Liberal Democrats Death
Mitcheldean 23 October 2014 Norman Stephens Independent Brian Robinson Conservative Death

See also

Notes

  1. http://opencouncildata.co.uk/council.php?c=9&y=0
  2. "Cotswold". BBC News Online. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
  3. F. W. S. Craig, British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1983 edition), p. 359
  4. 'ELWES, Sir Henry (William George)' in Who's Who 2013 (London: A & C Black, 2012)
  5. 'GIRLING, Julie McCulloch', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014); online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 17 January 2014
  6. Watson, Sarah Phaedre (24 January 2018). "Can you help uncover the history of a 'dangerous woman' of Stroud?". Stroud Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. "No. 57683". The London Gazette. 23 June 2005. p. 8169.
  8. "UKIP council leader defects to Tories saying party 'doesn't have a point any more' after EU Referendum".
  9. "Ukip's Gloucestershire gang of three down to one". 1 July 2016.
  10. "Former UKIP councillor delays resignation to avoid by-election". 23 November 2016.


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