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1995 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election

1995 UK local government election

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ21061734 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1995 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council elections were held on Thursday, 4 May 1995, with one third of the council up for election. Prior to the election there had been a by-election in Tong after incumbent Labour councillor, Gerry Sutcliffe, was selected as their candidate for the Bradford South by-election, which Labour successfully defended. Labour retained control of the council.

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“1995 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election” enters the record as 1995 UK local government election. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what City, Bradford and Metropolitan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around City, Bradford and Metropolitan.
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“1995 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, City, Bradford and Metropolitan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21061734. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “1995 City of Bradford Metropolitan District 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.