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The 2022 Somerset Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Somerset County Council.The number of councillors was doubled from 55 to 110 at this election, in preparation for the county council becoming a unitary authority on 1 April 2023, when it was renamed Somerset Council.
Somerset Council elections are held every four years to elect Somerset Council, the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England.From 1889 until 2023 the council was called Somerset County Council and it was an upper tier county council, with district-level functions being provided by the area's district councils.
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Somerton and Frome took place on 20 July 2023, following the resignation of the incumbent MP David Warburton on 17 June. It was the first by-election in Somerset since the 1970 Bridgwater by-election. [1] The seat was won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Dyke. [2]
Somerset voters cast their ballots at Somerset Berkley Regional High School on Monday, April 8, 2024. McNamara was elected to the board in 2016 and won re-election in 2019.
In the tightest race, Democrat Shawn Guerra edged Republican Mark Speed by one vote for a seat on the Bound Brook Borough Council, 698 to 697.
Monday’s annual town election was a night for newcomers, as the Board of Selectman got a new member, as did the two school committees. Somerset election results: Several new faces on town boards ...
With effect from 1 April 2023, the Districts of Mendip and South Somerset were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of Somerset. [5] Consequently, the constituency now comprises the following electoral divisions of Somerset from the 2024 general election:
Live updates throughout the day as Somerset County voters head to the ballot box for the 2022 general election.