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East Sussex County Council election, 2013

East Sussex County Council election, 2013
England
← 2009 2 May 2013 2017 →

All 49 seats to East Sussex County Council
25 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Party Conservative Liberal Democrat
Seats won 20 10
Seat change Decrease9 Decrease3

  Third party Fourth party
 
Party UKIP Labour
Seats won 7 7
Seat change Increase7 Increase3

East Sussex UK local election 2013 map.svg
Map showing the results of the 2013 East Sussex County Council election. Striped electoral divisions have mixed representation.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

No Overall Control


Conservative

No Overall Control

The East Sussex County Council election, 2013 took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. All 49 councillors of East Sussex County Council were elected from 44 electoral divisions, which return either one or two councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009. No elections were held in Brighton and Hove, which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council.

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.

At this election, the Conservative Party was seeking to retain overall control of the council, previously having a majority of four seats, and the Liberal Democrats to maintain or better their position of 13 seats.


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