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Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency

MP: Mike Hall (Labour)

2005 General Election

The result of the election held on 5 May 2005:

The change from 2001 represents a swing of about 3.58% from Labour to Conservative.

Electorate 69,072; votes cast: 39,420 (57.07%)

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2001 General Election

MP: Mike Hall (Labour) was re-elected on 07 June 2001. The full result of the election was:

The swing required from 1997 results to unseat the Labour Candidate was about 14%, the actual swing from Labour to Conservative was 1.65%.

The electorate was 68,236; turnout 39,271 (57.55%).

1997 General Election

Weaver Vale was a new constituency at the 1997 election, created by a Boundary Commission review of Cheshire. It includes parts of the old Warrington South, Tatton, Halton and Eddisbury Constituencies. Included within the boundary are parts of Runcorn together with Frodsham, Helsby, Weaverham, Hartford and most of Northwich. Before 1st May 1997 Frodsham had been in the Eddisbury Constituency and Alastair Goodlad (Conservative) was MP.

In the General Election on May 1st 1997 the result was:

73.2% of those eligible to vote did so. The notional swing from Conservative to Labour was 7.4%.

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Cheshire West and Chester Local Authority

Cheshire was divided into two unitary authorities from April 1 2009. This marked the end of Cheshire County Council and the various district councils. The local elections on May 1 2008 were be for the representatives of the new unitary authorities. There are three councillors for the combined Frodsham and Helsby ward (instead of one county councillor and six district councillors for the same area). In total the new authority has 72 councillors. It was a "shadow authority" until April 1 2009 when it took on the full powers and responsibilities of the unitary authority.

Elections on May 1 2008

The election returned 72 councillors: 55 Conservative, 13 Labour and 4 Liberal Democrats.

The councillors returned for Frodsham and Helsby were

The detailed result for Frodsham and Helsby ward:

There were ten rejected ballot papers. Turnout was 37.56%.

Frodsham Town Council

The Borough of Vale Royal (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2846) abolished the existing wards of the parish of Frodsham. It divided Frodsham into four parish wards: Frodsham East, Frodsham North, Frodsham South and Frodsham West and defined their boundaries. It set the number of councillors to be elected for each of the parish wards as Frodsham North 4, Frodsham South 4, Frodsham East 5 and Frodsham West 3. The same SI also set the number of borough councillors returned by Frodsham as 3 from Frodsham North (the North, East and West parish wards taken together) and 1 from Frodsham South.