Brighton and Hove City Council elections

Brighton and Hove City Council is a unitary authority in East Sussex, England.

It was created as Brighton and Hove Borough Council on 1 April 1997 replacing Brighton and Hove Borough Councils.

See Brighton Borough Council elections or Hove Borough Council elections for election prior to 1996 [4][5] For the first election in 1996 the wards of the former Borough of Brighton and Borough of Hove were used.

There were originally 26 wards each with three councillors each, totalling 78 councillors in the newly created Brighton and Hove Borough Council: The 2001 boundary review[6][2][3] reduced the wards to 21 wards with a mix of two or three councillors each totalling 54 councillors for the then city council.

These boundary were used in the 2003 election for the first time with the following wards: Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, East Brighton, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, Hanover and Elm Grove, Hollingbury and Stanmer (which then became Hollingdean and Stanmer in 2007), Stanford (which became Hove Park in 2007), Moulsecoomb and Bevendean, North Portslade, Patcham, Preston Park, Queen's Park, Regency, Rottingdean Coastal, South Portslade, St Peter's and North Laine, Westbourne, Wish, Withdean, Woodingdean.