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2019 Nottingham City Council election

2 May 2019 election of all 55 members to Nottingham City Council across 20 wards

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ65079178 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2019 elections to Nottingham City Council were held on 2 May 2019 to elect all 55 members to the council across 20 wards.

Overall results

In total, Labour won 50 seats, the Nottingham Independents won 3 and the Conservatives won 2. Turnout was 29%.

Results by ward

Source: Sandeman, Kit (4 May 2019). "Full list of candidates for Nottingham City Council elections 2019". Nottingham Post. Reach plc. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2019.

Aspley

Basford

Berridge

Bestwood

Bilborough

Bulwell

Bulwell Forest

Castle

Clifton East

Clifton West

Dales

Hyson Green and Arboretum

Leen Valley

Lenton and Wollaton East

Mapperley

Meadows

Radford

Sherwood

St Ann's

Wollaton West

Carl James Husted (suspended by the Conservative Party after comparing people who voted for Remain in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum to those who voted for the Nazi Party)

Changes 2019–2023

By-elections

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2019 Nottingham City Council election” is 2 May 2019 election of all 55 members to Nottingham City Council across 20 wards. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nottingham, City and Council, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2020, 2016, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nottingham, City and Council is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2 May 2019 election of all 55 members to Nottingham City Council across 20 wards” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65079178. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2020, 2016 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “2019 Nottingham City 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.