Eleições municipais na Inglaterra (2007)

As eleições municipais de 2007 na Inglaterra realizaram-se no dia 3 de Maio de 2007. Nestas eleições serão renovados 10.445 dos 19.585 cargos municipais em 312 dos 386 municípios ingleses.[1]

Cargos em disputa

Foram eleitos membros para vários tipos de assembleias:[1]

• Um terço dos lugares de todas as 36 juntas metropolitanas.
• A totalidade dos lugares dos conselhos municipais, em 25 municípios com autoridades unitárias.
• Um terço dos lugares dos conselhos municipais, em 20 municípios com autoridades unitárias.
• A totalidade dos lugares de 153 conselhos distritais.
• Um terço dos lugares de 78 conselhos distritais.

Eleitorado

Estão recenseadas para estas eleições cerca de 32,8 milhões de pessoas nos 312 municípios ingleses.[2]

Estas eleições foram aguardadas com grande expectativa uma vez que mostrarão até que ponto se mantém a popularidade de Tony Blair, que deverá anunciar a sua saída após as eleições de 3 de Maio.

Resultados

O Partido Conservador conseguiu o controlo da grande maioria dos municípios, numas eleições que mostram o final da época Blair e indicam uma viragem do eleitorado britânico.

Partido	Municípios	Vereadores
Conservative	163	5.215
Liberal Democrats	23	2.159
Labour	34	1.857
Associação de Residentes	1	67
Green	0	62
British National Party	0	10
Liberal	0	9
UK Independence	0	5
Respect	0	3
Outros	4	928
Sem controle total (No overall control)	85

Juntas metropolitanas

A maior parte das juntas metropolitanas mantém as mesmas forças políticas na liderança. São excepção apenas quatro Juntas Metropolitanas:

• Oldham, anteriormente dominada pelo Labour Party e agora sem controlo total de nenhum partido.
• Rochdale, anteriormente sem controlo total de nenhum partido e agora sob o domínio dos Liberal Democratas.
• Sheffield, anteriormente dominada pelo Labour Party e agora sem controlo total de nenhum partido.
• Solihull, anteriormente dominada pelo Conservative Party e agora sem controlo total de nenhum partido.

Os Trabalhistas ficam com o controlo de 13 Juntas Metropolitanas, enquanto os Conservadores e os Liberais Democratas ficam com o domínio em 4 juntas cada um. As restantes 15 juntas metropolitanas não têm o controlo total de nenhum partido.

Área Metropolitana	Controlo Anterior	Controlo Actual
Barnsley	Labour Party	Labour Party
Birmingham	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Bolton	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Bradford	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Bury	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Calderdale	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Coventry	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Doncaster	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Dudley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Gateshead	Labour Party	Labour Party
Kirklees	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Knowsley	Labour Party	Labour Party
Leeds	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Liverpool	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Manchester	Labour Party	Labour Party
Newcastle upon Tyne	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
North Tyneside	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Oldham	Labour Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Rochdale	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Liberal Democrats
Rotherham	Labour Party	Labour Party
Salford	Labour Party	Labour Party
Sandwell	Labour Party	Labour Party
Sefton	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Sheffield	Labour Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Solihull	Conservative Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
South Tyneside	Labour Party	Labour Party
St Helens	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Stockport	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Sunderland	Labour Party	Labour Party
Tameside	Labour Party	Labour Party
Trafford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wakefield	Labour Party	Labour Party
Walsall	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wigan	Labour Party	Labour Party
Wirral	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Wolverhampton	Labour Party	Labour Party

Autoridades unitárias

Realizaram-se eleições em 45 municípios com autoridades unitárias. Em 25 delas foi eleita a totalidade dos membros dos conselhos e na restantes 20 apenas um terço dos mesmos.

Total do conselho eleito

Nos municípios em que a totalidade dos membros dos conselhos foram eleitos notou-se uma clara ascensão dos Conservadores, com a conquista do controlo de 7 municípios (1 dos Trabalhistas, 3 dos Liberais Democratas e os restantes 3 em municípios onde nenhum partido tinha controlo total) e a perda para o Partido Liberal de apenas um (North Lincolnshire)

Quanto aos Trabalhistas ganharam três municípios (um à custa dos conservadores e os outros 2 onde nenhum partido tinha controlo total) e perderam um município para os Conservadores.

Os Liberais Democratas perderam os 4 municípios que detinham, três para os Conservadores e o quarto a ficar sem controlo total de qualquer partido.

Destes 25 municípios os Conservadores passaram a deter o controlo de 12, os Trabalhistas de 6 e os restantes 7 ficaram sem controlo total de qualquer partido.

Município	Controlo Anterior	Controlo Actual
Bath and North East Somerset	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Blackpool	Labour Party	Conservative Party
Bournemouth	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
Bracknell Forest	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Brighton & Hove	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Darlington	Labour Party	Labour Party
East Riding of Yorkshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Herefordshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Leicester	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Labour Party
Luton	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Labour Party
Medway	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Middlesbrough	Labour Party	Labour Party
North Lincolnshire	Conservative Party	Labour Party
North Somerset	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Nottingham	Labour Party	Labour Party
Poole	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Redcar and Cleveland	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Rutland	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Gloucestershire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Stockton-on-Tees	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Telford and Wrekin	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Torbay	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
West Berkshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Windsor and Maidenhead	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
York	Liberal Democrats	Sem controlo total (No overall control)

Um Terço do conselho eleito

Entre os 20 municípios que votaram um terço dos conselhos, os Conservadores ficaram com o controlo de 5, os Trabalhistas de 3 e os Liberais Democratas de 1. Nos restantes 11 nenhum partido conseguiu o controlo total.

Tanto os Conservadores como os Liberais Democratas conquistaram um município que não tinha controlo de qualquer partido (Plymouth para os primeiros e Kingston upon Hull para os segundos).

Tanto os Conservadores como os Trabalhistas perderam um município cada (Thurrockno caso dos primeiros e Blackburn with Darwen no caso dos segundos), ficando estes sem o domínio total de qualquer partido.

Município	Controlo Anterior	Controlo Actual
Blackburn with Darwen	Labour Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Bristol	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Derby	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Halton	Labour Party	Labour Party
Hartlepool	Labour Party	Labour Party
Kingston upon Hull	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Liberal Democrats
Milton Keynes	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
North East Lincolnshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Peterborough	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Plymouth	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Portsmouth	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Reading	Labour Party	Labour Party
Slough	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Southampton	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Southend-on-Sea	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Stoke-on-Trent	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Swindon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Thurrock	Conservative Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Warrington	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Wokingham	Conservative Party	Conservative Party

Conselhos Distritais

Realizaram-se eleições em 231 distritos. Em 153 deles foi eleita a totalidade dos membros dos conselhos e nos restantes 78 apenas um terço dos membros dos mesmos.

Total do conselho eleito

Em 153 municípios com conselho distrital foi eleita a totalidade dos membros desses mesmos conselhos. O Partido Conservador teve uma clara vitória conseguindo ficar com o controle de 99 municípios.

Município	Controlo Anterior	Controlo Actual
Allerdale	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Alnwick	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Arun	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Ashfield	Labour Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Ashford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Aylesbury Vale	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Babergh	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Berwick-upon-Tweed	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Blaby	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Blyth Valley	Labour Party	Labour Party
Bolsover	Labour Party	Labour Party
Boston (Inglaterra)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Independente
Braintree	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Breckland	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Bridgnorth	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Broadland	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Bromsgrove	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Broxtowe	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Cantuária	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Caradon	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Liberal Democrats
Carrick	Liberal Democrats	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Castle Morpeth	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Charnwood	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Chelmsford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Chester-le-Street	Labour Party	Labour Party
Chesterfield	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Chichester	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Chiltern	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Christchurch	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Copeland	Labour Party	Labour Party
Corby	Labour Party	Labour Party
Cotswold	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Dacorum	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Dartford	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Derbyshire Dales	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Derwentside	Labour Party	Labour Party
Dover	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Durham	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Easington	Labour Party	Labour Party
Eastbourne	Conservative Party	Liberal Democrats
East Cambridgeshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
East Devon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
East Dorset	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
East Hampshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
East Hertfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
East Lindsey	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
East Northamptonshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
East Staffordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Eden	Independente	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Epsom and Ewell	Associação de Residentes de Epsom e Ewell	Associação de Residentes de Epsom e Ewell
Erewash	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Fenland	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Forest Heath	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Forest of Dean	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Fylde	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Gedling	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Gravesham	Labour Party	Conservative Party
Guildford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Hambleton	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Harborough	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
High Peak	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Hinckley and Bosworth	Conservative Party	Liberal Democrats
Horsham	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Kennet	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Kerrier	Independente	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Kettering	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Lancaster	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Lewes	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Lichfield	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Lincoln	Labour Party	Conservative Party
Maldon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Malvern Hills	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Mansfield	Independente	Independente
Melton	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Mendip	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Mid Devon	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Mid Suffolk	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Mid Sussex	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
New Forest	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Newark and Sherwood	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
North Cornwall	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
North Devon	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
North Dorset	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
North East Derbyshire	Labour Party	Labour Party
North Hertfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
North Kesteven	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
North Norfolk	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
North Shropshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
North Warwickshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
North West Leicestershire	Labour Party	Conservative Party
North Wiltshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Northampton	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Liberal Democrats
Oadby and Wigston	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Oswestry	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Restormel	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Ribble Valley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Richmondshire	Independente	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Rother	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Rushcliffe	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Ryedale	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Salisbury	Conservative Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Scarborough	Conservative Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Sedgefield	Labour Party	Labour Party
Sedgemoor	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Selby	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Sevenoaks	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Shepway	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
South Bucks	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Derbyshire	Labour Party	Conservative Party
South Hams	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Holland	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Kesteven	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Norfolk	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
South Northamptonshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Oxfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Ribble	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
South Shropshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
South Somerset	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
South Staffordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Spelthorne	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
St Edmundsbury	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Stafford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Staffordshire Moorlands	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Suffolk Coastal	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Surrey Heath	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Taunton Deane	Conservative Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Teesdale	Independente	Independente
Teignbridge	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Tendring	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Test Valley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Tewkesbury	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Thanet	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Tonbridge and Malling	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Torridge	Independente	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Tynedale	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Uttlesford	Liberal Democrats	Conservative Party
Vale of White Horse	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Vale Royal	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Wansbeck	Labour Party	Labour Party
Warwick	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Waverley	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Wealden	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wear Valley	Labour Party	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Wellingborough	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
West Devon	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
West Dorset	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
West Somerset	Conservative Party	Independente
West Wiltshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Wychavon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wycombe	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wyre	Conservative Party	Conservative Party

Um Terço do conselho eleito

Em 78 municípios com conselhos distritais foi eleito um terço dos membros desses mesmos conselhos. Em 45 destes municípios foi o mais uma vez o Partido Conservador que conseguiu ficar com o controle.

Município	Controlo Anterior	Controlo Actual
Amber Valley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Barrow-in-Furness	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Basildon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Basingstoke and Deane	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Bassetlaw	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Bedford	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Brentwood	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Broxbourne	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Burnley	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Cambridge	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Cannock Chase	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Carlisle	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Castle Point	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Cherwell	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Chester	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Chorley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Colchester	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Congleton	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Craven	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Crawley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Crewe and Nantwich	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Daventry	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Eastleigh	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Ellesmere Port and Neston	Labour Party	Labour Party
Elmbridge	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Epping Forest	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Exeter	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Gloucester	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Great Yarmouth	Conservative Party	Conservative Partyold
Harlow	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Harrogate	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Hart	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Havant	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Hertsmere	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Huntingdonshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Hyndburn	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Ipswich	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Macclesfield	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Maidstone	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Mole Valley	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Norwich	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Pendle	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Penwith	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Preston	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Purbeck	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Redditch	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Reigate and Banstead	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Rochford	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Rossendale	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Rugby	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Runnymede	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Rushmoor	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Shrewsbury and Atcham	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Bedfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
South Cambridgeshire	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
South Lakeland	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
St Albans	Liberal Democrats	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Stevenage	Labour Party	Labour Party
Stratford-on-Avon	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Stroud	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Swale	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Tamworth	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Tandridge	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Three Rivers	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Tunbridge Wells	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Watford	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
Waveney	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Welwyn Hatfield	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
West Lancashire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
West Lindsey	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrats
West Oxfordshire	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Weymouth and Portland	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)
Winchester	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Woking	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Conservative Party
Worcester	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Worthing	Conservative Party	Conservative Party
Wyre Forest	Sem controlo total (No overall control)	Sem controlo total (No overall control)

Fontes

1. http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200705/95f6c491-f673-4232-bf29-e91621a8910e.htm
2. Tony Blair enfrenta prova final^[ligação inativa]