2004 West Oxfordshire District Council election

[1] After the election, the composition of the council was: After the last election in 2003 the Conservatives controlled the council with 29 seats, while the Liberal Democrats had 12, there were six Independent councillors and the Labour Party had two seats.

[4] The Conservatives remained in control of the council with 29 councillors, after winning 12 of the 17 seats contested.

[5] 13 of the 14 councillors who were standing again were re-elected, with only Conservative councillor James Mills losing his seat in Standlake, Aston and Stanton Harcourt ward to Liberal Democrat Elisabeth Bickley.

[4] The Liberal Democrats took four seats and therefore finished with 13 councillors on the council.,[5] while all three members of the Conservative council cabinet were re-elected, including the council leader Barry Norton in North Leigh ward.

[6] Conservative Andrew Creery also gained one seat in Witney Central from Labour, after the Labour councillor for the previous 30 years, Ted Cooper, stood down at the election.

Map of the results of the 2004 West Oxfordshire District Council election. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independent in light grey. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2004.