Elections to Wiltshire County Council were held on 6 May 1993. The whole council was up for election and the result was no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party. This resulted in a no-party-control shared administration for the first year of the Council, with the three main party groups being briefed on a coequal basis. Following a by-election gain by the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives, giving the Liberal Democrats exactly half the seats on the Council, a Liberal Democrat administration was formed, but with a convention that those chairing committees would not use their casting vote.
When Swindon Borough Council was established as a new unitary authority on 1 April 1997, the members who had been elected to the county council from Haydon Wick, Highworth, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough, and Wroughton ceased to hold office. The size of the council fell from 68 to 47, and in the remaining month of the council's term of office the Liberal Democrats briefly gained control, but they lost it at the 1997 Wiltshire Council election, when there was a return to no overall control.
Results
Results by divisions
Aldbourne and Ramsbury
Alderbury
Amesbury
Avon and Cannings
Bedwyn and Pewsey
Bourne Valley
Bradford on Avon
Bremhill and Calne
Calne
Chippenham Park
Chippenham Sheldon
Chippenham Town
Collingbourne
Corsham
Cricklade and Purton
Devizes
Devizes South and Bromham
Downton
Durrington
Haydon Wick
Highworth
Holt
Kington
Lavington
Malmesbury
Marlborough
Melksham
Melksham Without
Mere
Minety
Pickwick with Box
Salisbury Bemerton
Salisbury Harnham
Salisbury St Mark
Salisbury St Martin
Salisbury St Paul
Southwick
Stratton St Margaret, Coleview and Nythe
Stratton St Margaret, St Margaret
Stratton St Margaret, St Philip
Swindon Central
Swindon Covingham
Swindon Dorcan South
Swindon Eastcott
Swindon Freshbrook
Swindon Gorse Hill
Swindon Lawns
Swindon Moredon
Swindon Parks
Swindon Roughmoor
Swindon Toothill
Swindon Walcot
Swindon Western
Swindon Whitworth
Tisbury
Trowbridge East
Trowbridge South
Trowbridge West
Upper Wylye Valley
Wanborough
Warminster East
Warminster West
Westbury
Whorwellsdown
Wilton and Wylye
Wootton Bassett North
Wootton Bassett South
Wroughton
References
- Wiltshire County Council Diary 1993/4 (Trowbridge: Wiltshire County Council, 1993)
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