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2015 Peterborough City Council election

Local election in Peterborough, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ20127988 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2015 Peterborough City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Peterborough City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

Election result

Ward results

Bretton North

Bretton South

Central

Dogsthorpe

East

Fletton and Woodston

North

Northborough

Orton Longueville

Orton Waterville

Orton with Hampton

Park

Paston

Ravensthorpe

Stanground Central

Stanground East

Werrington North

Werrington South

West

By-elections

West

A by-election was called due to the resignation of Cllr Nick Arculus.

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The public source identifies “2015 Peterborough City Council election” as local election in Peterborough, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peterborough, City and Council.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Peterborough, City and Council providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20127988. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “2015 Peterborough 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.