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2019 Chorley Borough Council election

2019 UK local government election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ65069183 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2019 Chorley Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Chorley Borough Council in Chorley, Lancashire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day are entitled to vote in the local elections.

Labour retained its majority on the council.

Results summary

The results of the 2019 elections are summarised below.

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The public source identifies “2019 Chorley Borough Council election” as 2019 UK local government election. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chorley, Borough and Council.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chorley, Borough and Council providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2019 Chorley Borough Council election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.