Gloucestershire County Council election, 2013
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All 53 seats to Gloucestershire County Council 27 seats needed for a majority |
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Map showing the results of the 2013 Gloucestershire County Council elections.
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4Elections to Gloucestershire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. 53 electoral divisions elected one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. No elections were held in South Gloucestershire, which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council.
Control of the council went from the Conservative Party to no party having overall control. Turnout across the county was 32% with 151,250 votes cast. The Conservatives gained most votes in four of the six parliamentary seats, the Liberal Democrats coming first in Cheltenham and UKIP in the Forest of Dean. The Conservatives were the only party to win a county council seat in every district.
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.
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