2008 Cheshire East Council election

Elections to the newly created Cheshire East Council took place on 1 May 2008. Elections occurred in all 27 wards, with each ward returning three councillors to the council. The wards were identical to the former Cheshire County Council wards.

From May 2008 until April 2009, the elected members formed a "shadow" council, which made preparations for the changeover from the county and borough structure to the new unitary authority structure. Thereafter, the members serve for two years from May 2009 with the next elections scheduled for May 2011.

Results
The Conservative Party took overall control of the council with a majority of 37 councillors.

After the election, the composition of the council was:


 * Conservative 59
 * Liberal Democrat 12
 * Labour 6
 * Middlewich First 3
 * Nantwich Independent 1

N.B. The change in voting percentages refers to the change since the 2005 Cheshire Council election, the last time that voting took place in the same wards.



Comparison with projections based on the 2005 results
At the 2005 Cheshire County Council election, there were 15 Conservative controlled wards, 6 Labour controlled wards, 5 Liberal Democrat controlled wards and 1 ward controlled by an independent. Based on the 2005 results, the Cheshire East Council election would have resulted in 45 Conservative councillors, 18 Labour councillors, 15 Liberal Democrat councillors and 3 independents; the projected results would have given the Conservatives overall control of the council, with a majority of 9 councillors.

Alderley ward
Current county councillor: Mark Asquith (Conservative)

Alsager ward
Current county councillor: Rod Fletcher (Liberal Democrat)

Bollington and Disley ward
Current county councillor: Sylvia Roberts (Liberal Democrat)

Broken Cross ward
Current county councillor: David Freear (Conservative)

Bucklow ward
Current county councillor: Steve Wilkinson (Conservative)

Cholmondeley ward
Current county councillor: Allan Richardson (Conservative)

Congleton Rural ward
Current county councillor: Ken Oliver (Conservative)

Congleton Town East ward
Current county councillor: Peter Mason (Conservative)

Congleton Town West ward
Current county councillor: Bill Wolstencroft (Conservative)

Crewe East ward
Current county councillor: Gordon Fyffe (Labour)

Crewe North ward
Current county councillor: Peter Nurse (Labour)

Crewe South ward
Current county councillor: Dorothy Flude (Labour)

Crewe West ward
Current county councillor: David Newton (Labour)

Doddington ward
Current county councillor: David Brickhill (Conservative)

Knutsford ward
Current county councillor: Bert Grange (Conservative)

Macclesfield Forest ward
Current county councillor: Barrie Hardern (Conservative)

Macclesfield Town ward
Current county councillor: Nell Carter (Labour)

Macclesfield West ward
Current county councillor: Ken Edwards (Labour)

Middlewich ward
Current county councillor: Mark Dickson (Conservative)

Nantwich ward
Current county councillor: Arthur Moran (Independent)

Poynton ward
Current county councillor: Chris Claxton (Conservative)

Prestbury and Tytherington ward
Current county councillor: Paul Findlow (Conservative)

Rope ward
Current county councillor: Margaret Simon (Conservative)

Sandbach ward
Current county councillor: Neville Price (Independent) (elected as a Conservative in 2005)

Sandbach East and Rode ward
Current county councillor: Roy Giltrap (Liberal Democrat)

Wilmslow North ward
Current county councillor: Adrian Bradley (Liberal Democrat)

Wilmslow South ward
Current county councillor: Pat Fearnley (Liberal Democrat)