Slough Borough Council elections

Slough Borough Council is the local authority for Slough, a unitary authority in Berkshire, England.

Council elections

Composition of the council^[1]

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats[a]	UKIP	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (40 seats)
1973	2	34	4	–	0		Labour
1976	27	11	2	–	0		Conservative
1979[2]	21	14	5	–	0		Conservative
New ward boundaries (39 seats)[3]
1983	15	21	3	–	0		Labour
1984	15	21	3	–	0		Labour
1986	12	24	3	–	0		Labour
1987	11	24	3	–	0		Labour
1988	8	26	5	–	0		Labour
1990	6	28	5	–	0		Labour
1991[4]	4	30	5	–	0		Labour
1992	5	29	5	–	0		Labour
1994	4	28	0	0	7		Labour
1995[5]	3	30	1	0	6		Labour
1996	0	36	3	0	1		Labour
Slough becomes a unitary authority; new ward boundaries (41 seats)
1997	4	34	3	0	0		Labour
1999	6	32	0	0	3		Labour
2000	7	27	1	0	6		Labour
2001	8	26	1	0	6		Labour
2002	6	27	2	0	6		Labour
2003	6	26	2	0	7		Labour
New ward boundaries (41 seats)[6]
2004	9	15	6	0	11[b]		No overall control
2006	6	18	5	0	11[b]		No overall control
2007	7	19	4	0	11[b]		No overall control
2008	6	23	3	0	9[b]		No overall control
2010	8	24	3	0	6[c]		Labour
2011	9	27	2	0	3[d]		Labour
2012	5	35	1	0	0		Labour
New ward boundaries (42 seats)[7]
2014	8	33	0	1	0		Labour
2015	9	32	0	0	1		Labour
2016	8	33	0	0	1		Labour
2018	6	35	0	0	1		Labour
2019	4	37	0	0	0		Labour
2021	5	34	0	0	3		Labour
2022	6	33	0	0	3		Labour
New ward boundaries (42 seats)[8][e]
2023	21	18	3	0	0		No overall control

Borough result maps

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  2004 results map
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  2006 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2008 results map
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  2010 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2012 results map
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  2014 results map
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  2015 results map
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  2016 results map
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  2018 results map
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  2019 results map
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  2021 results map
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  2022 results map
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  2023 results map

By-election results

1994-1998

Kedermister By-Election 7 December 1997

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D.A. Hewitt	442	60.22	N/A
	Conservative	Mrs M.E. Collins	206	28.07	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	P.L. Bayliss	86	11.72	N/A
Majority			236	32.15	N/A
Turnout			4,858	15.11	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Resignation of Mrs B. L. Lopez (Labour).

1998-2002

Upton By-Election 4 February 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mrs J.T. Long	799	59.85	N/A
	Labour	B.B. Mittal	352	26.37	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mrs S.A. Jenkins	68	5.09	N/A
		P.P. Whitmore	60	4.49	N/A
	Independent Labour	D.A.J. Alford	36	2.70	N/A
	Liberal	P.E. Bradshaw	20	1.50	N/A
Majority			447	33.48	N/A
Turnout			4,931	27.07	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Death of M. G. Long (Conservative).

2002-2006

Britwell By-Election 18 October 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Britwellian	Patrick Shine	488	53.80	N/A
	Labour	Ms May Dodds	262	28.89	N/A
	Britwellian	O. Isemia	157	24.92	N/A
Majority			226	32.15	N/A
Turnout			6,376	14.26	N/A
	Britwellian gain from Britwellian		Swing	N/A

Death of Mrs Mavis L. Gallick (Britwellian).

Britwell By-Election 13 February 2003

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Britwellian	Paul Janik	539	63.49	+9.69
	Labour	Ms J.R. Rock	310	36.51	+7.62
Majority			229	26.97	−5.18
Turnout			6,319	13.50	−0.76
	Britwellian gain from Labour		Swing	N/A

Death of Dennis McCarthy (Labour).

2006-2010

Langley St. Mary's By-Election 16 November 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diana Victoria Coad	805	50.50	+13.79
	Labour	Sharanjeet Kaur Sandhu	682	42.79	+6.42
	Independent	Dominic James Ashford	107	6.71	+0.72
Majority			123	7.72	+7.37
Turnout			...	29.97	−8.49
	Conservative gain from Ind. Langley Res.		Swing	N/A

Resignation of Mrs P. F. Key (Independent Langley Residents).

2010-2014

Baylis and Stoke By-Election 8 March 2012^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammed Nazir	1,300	59.0	−21.4
	Independent	Pervez Choudhury	764	34.7	+34.7
	UKIP	Allan Deverill	72	3.3	+3.3
	Independent	Ivan Dukes	68	3.1	+3.1
Majority			536	24.3
Turnout			2,204
	Labour hold		Swing

Disqualification of Azhar Qureshi (Labour) for non-attendance.

2014-2018

Haymill and Lynch Hill By-Election 4 May 2017^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Kelly	1,036	49.0	+3.6
	Labour	Jemma Davis	899	42.5	+4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Gary Griffin	129	6.1	+6.1
	Independent	Paul Janik	52	2.5	+2.5
Majority			137	6.5
Turnout			2,116
	Conservative hold		Swing

Death of Darren Morris (Conservative ).

Notes

1. Includes totals for the predecessors of the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and SDP (both of which participated in the Alliance).
2. Including 3 Liberals.
3. Including 2 Liberal.
4. Including 1 Liberal.
5. Change from staggered to whole council elections

References

1. "Composition calculator". Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher. The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
2. The Berkshire and Buckinghamshire (Areas) Order 1977
3. The Borough of Slough (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980
4. legislation.gov.uk - The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
5. legislation.gov.uk - The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
6. legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
7. legislation.gov.uk - The Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2012. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
8. legislation.gov.uk - The Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2023. Retrieved on 3 November 2024.
9. "Local Elections Archive Project — Baylis and Stoke Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
10. "Local Elections Archive Project — Haymill and Lynch Hill Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

• Local newspapers (1863-date) and Slough Borough Council documents at the Robert Taylor Library in Slough

External links

• Slough Borough Council
• The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough