Rother District Council elections
Rother District Council is the local authority for Rother District in East Sussex, England. The council is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 38 councillors representing 21 wards, with each ward electing one or two councillors.[1]
Council elections
The table below is a summary of the council composition directly after each council election. Click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2003 election reducing the number of seats by 7.[2]
| Year | Conservative | Liberal Democrats[a] | Labour | Green | RAOIC[b] | Independents & Others |
Council control after election | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local government reorganisation; council established (45 seats) | ||||||||
| 1973 | 9 | 1 | 5 | – | – | 30 | Independent | |
| 1976 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 26 | Independent | |
| 1979 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 21 | No overall control | |
| New ward boundaries (45 seats) | ||||||||
| 1983 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | – | 14 | Conservative | |
| 1987 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | 10 | Conservative | |
| 1991 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 0 | – | 6 | No overall control | |
| 1995 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 0 | – | 5 | No overall control | |
| 1999 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 0 | – | 4 | Conservative | |
| New ward boundaries (38 seats)[4] | ||||||||
| 2003 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 0 | – | 2 | Conservative | |
| 2007 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | Conservative | |
| 2011 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | 4 | Conservative | |
| 2015 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 4 | Conservative | |
| New ward boundaries (38 seats)[5] | ||||||||
| 2019 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | – | 13 | No overall control | |
| 2023 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | No overall control | |
District result maps
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2003 results map
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2007 results map
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2011 results map
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2015 results map
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2019 results map
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2023 results map
By-election results
By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;[6] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.
Notes
- ^ Includes totals for the predecessors of the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and SDP (both of which participated in the Alliance).
- ^ Rother Association of Independent Councillors
References
- ^ "The Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2016", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2016/1236, retrieved 25 June 2023
- ^ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ^ "Composition calculator". Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher. The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ legislation.gov.uk - The District of Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2001. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
- ^ legislation.gov.uk - The Rother (Electoral Changes) Order 2016. Retrieved on 20 February 2024.
- ^ "Local Authority Byelection Results". Retrieved 14 July 2014.