The Broxbourne Council election, 2012 was held on 3 May 2012 to elect council members of the Broxbourne Borough Council, the local government authority of the borough of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.
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This was a whole council election in which all of the 30 council seats in the 10 new wards were contested.
New ward names
The 10 new wards created under the 2011 LGBCE review were named:
Election results
Results summary
An election was held in all 10 of the newly created wards on Thursday 3 May 2012.
The Conservative retained control of the council winning 27 of the 30 seats.
Labour managed to retain 3 seats in Waltham Cross ward albeit with reduced majorities compared with 2011.
The new political balance of the council following this election was:
The next Local Government Election is scheduled for Thursday 1 May 2014 when a single seat will be contested in each of the 10 wards.
It should be noted that this election may be deferred until June 2012 in order to coincide with the scheduled elections to the European Parliament.