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Taunton Deane was a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England.Its council was based in Taunton.. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District.
Taunton Deane Borough Council in Somerset, England was elected every four years. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, ahead of it coming into being in 1974. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, ahead of it coming into being in 1974.
Somerset West and Taunton was a local government district in Somerset, England, from 2019 to 2023. It was established on 1 April 2019 by the Somerset West and Taunton (Local Government Changes) Order 2018. [2] [3] The council replaced the Taunton Deane and West Somerset councils, which governed the same area from 1974.
The 2015 Taunton Deane Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all members (councillors) of Taunton Deane Borough Council in Somerset, England. The council changed from being under no overall control to a Conservative majority having won 36 seats, while local Liberal Democrats took by keeping existing seats 14.
Taunton Deane Council, once based at the Municipal Buildings in Corporation Street, [37] moved to modern facilities at Deane House on Belvedere Road in spring 1987. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Taunton Deane merged with West Somerset to form Somerset West and Taunton in 2019, [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] and was abolished on 1 April 2023 when Somerset Council took over.
The 2019 Somerset West and Taunton District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Somerset West and Taunton District Council in Somerset, England. This was the first election since the West Somerset District Council and Taunton Deane merged, with the whole council being up for election.
In 2019 the former districts Taunton Deane and West Somerset (a largely rural area, with a population of 35,712) [5] were merged to form the largest district, Somerset West and Taunton. [6] South Somerset covers an area of 958 square kilometres (370 sq mi) from the borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels. [7]
The Taunton Deane seat was won by the Conservatives in the 2015 general election with a large majority. The last general election in which either party polled less than 38% of the vote, thus allowing a larger majority, was in 1987, taking into account only one of their notionally equivalent predecessors, the Social Democratic Party – their ...