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 are 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: 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. Results by ward. 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)