The 2019 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 42 councillors in 18 wards for Bracknell Forest Borough Council in England.
The Conservative Party has controlled the council since its establishment as a unitary authority in 1998, and ended up securing a seventh term in office.
Background Bracknell Forest Borough Council held local elections on 2 May 2019 along with councils across England as part of the 2019 local elections. The council elects its members in all-out elections, with all its councillors up for election every four years. Councillors defending their seats in this election were previously elected in 2015. In that election, forty-one Conservative councillors and one Labour councillor were elected.
The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since the unitary authority was first elected in 1997. The predecessor district council had been controlled by both the Labour and Conservative parties.
Overall results After the previous election, and immediately before this election, the composition of the council was:
+ ↓ 41 1 Conservative Labour The Conservatives held the council losing just three seats with two going to Labour and one to the Liberal Democrats.
Following the 2019 election, the composition of the council was:
+ ↓ 38 3 1 Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Ward results An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent councillor standing for re-election Ascot
Binfield with Warfield
Bullbrook
Central Sandhurst
College Town
Crown Wood
Crowthorne
Great Hollands North
Great Hollands South
Hanworth
Harmans Water
Little Sandhurst and Wellington
Old Bracknell
Owlsmoor
Priestwood and Garth
Warfield Harvest Ride
Wildridings & Central
Winkfield & Cranbourne
Changes 2019–2023 By-elections Old Bracknell
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Conservative councillor Malcolm Tullett, who left the party's group on the council in July 2021 after a dispute over his membership at Bracknell Town Council.
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