The fourteen seats were previously contested in the whole Council election of 2004 following the redrawing of the ward boundaries in the Borough.
However the Conservative Party unseated the longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons.
Labour finished the count with a net gain of one, which leaves Slough in no overall control.
The existing coalition administration (broadly supported by all Councillors not in the Labour group) is likely to continue in office for the next year.
This was the first time since the nineteenth century that a Slough local election result was overturned by the courts.
The Independent Langley Residents Councillor joined The Slough Party, just before the 2007 election.
During the 2006–2007 term the Conservative Party gained one seat from Independent Langley Residents in a by-election.
One Independent candidate (Dominic Ashford in Wexham Lea) was nominated but withdrew before the poll.
The Independent Langley Residents have not nominated an official BILLD candidate in their ward, but their incumbent Councillor has proposed the nominee of The Slough Party in the area who would presumably join the BILLD Group if elected.
The turnout box figures given below include a number of spoilt ballots – see the official results on the Slough Borough Council website for further details.
The 2007 Borough election is being held at the same time as the vote to fill the thirteen seats on Britwell Parish Council.
The Labour Party, which before the rise of the IBR had dominated the Parish Council, has not nominated any candidates.
It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s.
In 2007, after a closely contested election, the Conservatives ousted the incumbent Labour councillor.
At a hearing of the High Court held in Slough Town Hall on 18 March 2008, the 2007 result was declared void because of bogus electoral registrations and postal votes.
This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporating the Windsor Meadows development.
This estate caused the large population growth in the area, since the 1983 redistribution of wards.
Foxborough (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south-east Langley in the eastern part of the Borough.
It is named after a 4-acre (16,000 m2) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809.
Kedermister (sometimes locally pronounced Keddermeister) (1983–) is a three-member ward in south-west Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough.
The Conservative Councillor increased his majority to seven in 2006 (over Labour, with ILR in third place), for the only Tory victory of the 2006 Slough election.
In a 2006 by-election the Conservative Party gained a seat from the Independent Langley Residents (with the Labour candidate in second place).
Upton (born 1930), part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), is a ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930.
In the early nineteenth century Upton was a village about a mile and a half south-west of the hamlet of Slough (see Central ward).
This was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive.
The ward was formerly safely Labour but is now securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004.