It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.

[2] The Conservatives won the election, being returned to power with 55 seats, a net gain of eleven, while the Liberal Democrats won eleven (a gain of two) and thus replaced Labour as the main opposition party, Labour losing seventeen seats overall and ending with only four.

Despite mounting strong challenges in the divisions lost to the Liberal Democrats in subsequent by-elections, they failed to regain them.

The Liberal Democrats had fought a strong campaign and held all of their divisions and added a further two Councillors to their tally.

Labour itself was left with a severely reduced tally, and returned to Endeavour House with just four Councillors, all from Ipswich.