1996 Ipswich Borough Council election

2 May 1996

16 seats
25 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Labour	Conservative

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

The 1996 Ipswich Borough Council election was an election to the Ipswich Borough Council under the arrangement, whereby a third of the councillors were to stand for election, each time.

It took place as part of the 1996 United Kingdom local elections. ^[1]

There were 16 wards each returning one councillor plus three bye-elections, one each for Chantry, Stoke Park and Town Wards.^[2] The Labour Party retained control of the Council.^[1]

References

1 2 Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (1996). Local Elections Handbook 1996. Plymouth: Elections Centre, Plymouth University.
↑ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Ipswich Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). electionscentre.co.uk. Elections Centre Plymouth University. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

(1995 ←) 1996 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1997)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bournemouth Brighton and Hove Darlington Derby Hartlepool Leicester Luton Milton Keynes Poole Portsmouth Rutland Southampton Stoke-on-Trent Thamesdown
District councils	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Brentwood Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Leominster Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Herefordshire South Lakeland Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest
Ad-hoc election	Northern Ireland Forum

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

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