South Oxfordshire District Council elections

South Oxfordshire District Council, a non-metropolitan district council in Oxfordshire, England is elected every four years.

Following the boundary changes in 2003, 48 councillors were elected from 29 wards.^[1] As a result of The South Oxfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2014, the number of councillors/wards reduced to 36/21 from the 2015 local elections.^[2]

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Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats^[a]	Green^[b]	HRG	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Year							Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (62 seats)
1973	25	9	7	–	–	21		No overall control
1976	35	7	4	0	–	16		Conservative
New ward boundaries (59 seats)^[4]^[5]
1979	36	8	2	0	–	13		Conservative
New ward boundaries (56 seats)^[6]
1983	37	7	4	0	–	8		Conservative
1987^[7]	38	8	4	0	–	6		Conservative
New ward boundaries (50 seats)^[8]^[9]^[10]
1991	29	5	8	0	–	8		No overall control
1995	9	13	21	0	–	7		No overall control
1999	20	7	20	0	–	3		No overall control
New ward boundaries (48 seats)^[11]^[12]
2003	27	4	9	0	4	4		Conservative
2007	38	1	6	0	1	2		Conservative
2011	33	4	4	0	2	5		Conservative
New ward boundaries (36 seats)^[13]
2015	33	1	1	0	1	0		Conservative
2019	10	3	12	5	3	3		No overall control
2023	1	3	21	8	3	0		Liberal Democrats

	Overall control		Conservative		Lib Dem		Labour		Green		HRG		Independent
2023	Liberal Democrat	1		21		3		8		3		-
2019	NOC	10		12		3		5		3		3
2015	Conservative	33		1		1		-		1		-
2011	Conservative	33		4		4		-		2		5
2007	Conservative	38		6		1		-		1		2
2003	Conservative	27		9		4		-		4		4

Party		Votes	%
	Labour	567	49.7
	Liberal Democrats	319	28.0
	Conservative	254	22.3
Majority		248	21.7
Turnout		1,140	24.5
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%
	Conservative	409	62.0
	Liberal Democrats	215	32.6
	Labour	36	5.4
Majority		194	29.4
Turnout		660
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	452	80.0	+14.0
	Conservative	113	20.0	+20.0
Majority		339	60.0
Turnout		565	53.1
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

South Oxfordshire District Council elections

Council elections

Election results

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By-election results

1995-1999

1999-2003

2003-2007

2007-2011

2011-2015

2015-2019

2019-2023

2023-2027

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Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	652	55.5	+1.2
	Conservative	524	44.6	−1.2
Majority		128	10.9
Turnout		1,176	38.2
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	827	49.8	+12.7
	Independent	585	35.2	+8.5
	Independent	249	15.0	+15.0
Majority		242	14.6
Turnout		1,661	19.2
	Conservative hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	676	52.1	+2.0
	Conservative	310	23.9	−4.9
	Liberal Democrats	270	20.8	+8.2
	Green	42	3.2	−5.2
Majority		366	28.2
Turnout		1,298
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	561	50.4	+15.7
	Liberal Democrats	253	31.7	−0.9
	Labour	200	18.0	−2.2
Majority		208	18.7
Turnout		1,014	36.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Crossman	441	61.1	+23.8
	Liberal Democrats		281	38.9	−23.8
Majority			160	22.2
Turnout			722	32.2
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bruce Harrison	591	70.6	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Wardle	177	21.1	−7.8
	Labour	Mary Stiles	69	8.2	+8.2
Majority			414	49.5
Turnout			837	19.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nigel Jones	1,649	63.9
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Wardle	535	20.7
	Labour	Janet Matthews	397	15.4
Majority			1,114	43.2
Turnout			2,581
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Imran Lokhan	479	51.5	+23.5
	Liberal Democrats	Alec Hayton	374	40.7	+13.9
	Green	Melanie Belgrove Jones	72	7.8	+7.8
Majority			100	10.8
Turnout			920	22.0
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Paterson	737	72.9	+19.9
	Liberal Democrats	Bernard Moseley	274	27.1	−19.9
Majority			463	45.8
Turnout			1,011	24.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Welply	423	50.5	+8.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jeannette Matelot	287	34.3	−9.5
	Labour	May Stiles	127	15.2	+1.3
Majority			136	16.2
Turnout			837	18.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chiltern Woods By-Election 19 March 2009^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Judith Nimmo-Smith	382	79.4	+9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Allison	99	20.6	+5.2
Majority			283	58.8
Turnout			481	25.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Henley South By-Election 11 February 2010^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Elizabeth Hodgkin	642	52.5	+0.6
	Conservative	David Silvester	472	38.6	+10.5
	Liberal Democrats	George Levy	110	9.0	+0.2
Majority			170	13.9
Turnout			1,224
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chinnor By-Election 10 May 2012^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lynn Lloyd	591	48.3	−1.4
	Independent	Martin Wright	449	36.7	+36.7
	Labour	Simon Stone	184	15.0	−0.4
Majority			142	11.6
Turnout			1,224
	Conservative hold		Swing

Didcot All Saints By-Election 25 October 2012^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denise MacDonald	436	47.0	+4.3
	Conservative	Jane Murphy	340	36.7	−5.7
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Jones	151	16.3	+1.4
Majority			96	10.4
Turnout			927
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Griffin	327	55.9	+10.1
	Conservative	Kristina Crabbe	258	44.1	−10.1
Majority			69	11.8
Turnout			585	32.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Lawson	290	42.8	−4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thompson	249	36.7	+16.3
	Labour	Jim Merritt	89	13.1	−3.7
	Green	Sam Casey-Rerhaye	50	7.4	−8.3
Majority			41	6.0
Turnout			678
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Hall	635	66.0	+5.6
	Labour	David Winchester	200	20.8	+4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Cooper	127	13.2	+2.5
Majority			435	45.2
Turnout			962
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mocky Khan	631	43.6	+12.6
	Conservative	Jackie Billington	528	36.5	+4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Veronika Williams	127	20.0	+3.7
Majority			103	7.1
Turnout			1,448
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Snowdon	429	43.2	+3.4
	Labour	Denise Macdonald	393	39.5	+12.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Smith	172	17.3	+1.3
Majority			36	3.6
Turnout			994
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Caroline Newton	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Cooper	1,048	57.4	+27.2
	Conservative	Domenic Papa	658	36.0	−10.6
	Labour	William Sorenson	121	6.6	−4.0
Majority			390	21.3
Turnout			1,827
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrea Warren	1,113	40.7	+21.8
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Giesberg	953	34.8	+9.6
	Labour	Nick Hards	670	24.5	+8.0
Majority			160	5.8
Turnout			2,736
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Bearder	907	64.3	+8.1
	Conservative	John Walsh	503	35.7	+1.7
Majority			404	28.7
Turnout			1,410
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Crispin Topping	949	62.2
	Conservative	Alan Thompson	362	23.7
	SDP	Kym Pomlett	116	7.6
	Labour	Jim Broadbent	71	4.7
	Independent	Karen Shoobridge	28	1.8
Majority			587	38.5
Turnout			1,526
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Benjamin Higgins	679	46.1	−23.5
	Conservative	Richard Riley	585	39.7	+9.3
	Green	Lucie Ponsford	174	11.8	+11.8
	Labour	Nicholas Palmer	34	2.3	+2.3
Majority			94	6.4
Turnout			1,472
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Ramsdale	573	46.7	−19.9
	Conservative	Daniel Masters	428	34.9	+1.5
	Green	Amanda Rowe-Jones	148	12.1	+12.1
	Labour	Craig Wilson	79	6.4	+6.4
Majority			145	11.8
Turnout			1,228
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing