Ellesmere Port and Neston

The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the borough of Ellesmere Port and the urban district of Neston.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=6 September 2022}} The district was originally called just Ellesmere Port, with the council changing the name in 1976.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=6 September 2022}}{{cite news |title=Name change move |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=6 September 2022 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=18 March 1976 |page=7}}{{cite web |title=Database of Local Government Orders |url=https://www.lgbce.org.uk/resources/database-of-local-government-orders/north-west/cheshire |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |access-date=6 September 2022}} The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chairman of the council to take the title of mayor.{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/mar/28/district-councils-and-boroughs#S5CV0871P0_19740328_CWA_145|title=District Councils and Boroughs|date=28 March 1974|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|access-date=3 September 2022}}

In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government considered reorganising Cheshire's administrative structure as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The decision to merge Ellesmere Port and Neston with the districts of Chester and Vale Royal to create a single unitary authority was announced on 25 July 2007, following a consultation period in which a proposal to create a single Cheshire unitary authority was rejected.{{citation|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/6916055.stm |title=County split into two authorities|work=BBC News|date=25 July 2007|access-date=27 July 2007}}

Ellesmere Port and Neston was abolished on 31 March 2009, with the area becoming part of the new unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester from 1 April 2009.{{citation|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080634_en_2#pt2-l1g4 |title=Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 |publisher=Office of Public Sector Information |access-date=4 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517000027/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080634_en_2 |archive-date=17 May 2009 }}

The entire borough was initially unparished. A civil parish of Ince was created in 1987,{{cite web |title=The Ellesmere Port and Neston (Parishes) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/195) |url=https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/12286/ellesmere-port-and-neston-parishes-order-1987.pdf |website=Database of Local Government Orders |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |access-date=6 September 2022}} and a Neston parish was created in 2008.{{cite web |title=The Ellesmere Port and Neston (Parish) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/3578) |url=https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/12594/the-ellesmere-port-and-neston-parish-order-2007.pdf |website=Database of Local Government Orders |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |access-date=6 September 2022}}

The town of Ellesmere Port had been a municipal borough from 1955 to 1974 with a borough council.{{cite web |title=Ellesmere Port Urban District / Municipal Borough |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10081610 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=6 September 2022}} The first elections to the new Ellesmere Port Borough Council created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control the council from 1974 until its abolition in 2009 was always held by the Labour Party:{{cite web |title=Compositions calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3825 |website=The Elections Centre | date=4 March 2016 |access-date=10 August 2022}}

The first leader of the council, Fred Venables, had been the leader of the old Ellesmere Port Borough Council since 1970. The leaders of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council were:

The political composition of the council at its abolition in 2009 was:

File:Ellesmere Port Town Centre - geograph.org.uk - 2724556.jpg

The council was based at the Ellesmere Port Council Offices at 4 Civic Way, Ellesmere Port, which had been built for the old borough council in 1969.{{cite news |title=Borough of Ellesmere Port |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=6 September 2022 |work=Cheshire Observer |date=12 December 1969 |location=Chester |page=11 |quote=...at the new Municipal Offices, 4 Civic Way, Ellesmere Port...}} Council meetings were held at nearby Whitby Hall until 1992 when an extension containing a council chamber was opened at the Municipal Buildings.{{cite news |title=So that's what it looks like inside... |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=6 September 2022 |work=Ellesmere Port Pioneer |date=29 January 1992 |page=18}} Following the abolition of the council the Council Offices were used by its successor, Cheshire West and Chester Council, until 2022 when they were replaced by a new building called "The Portal" on Wellington Road.{{cite news |last1=Porter |first1=Gary |title=New Cheshire West and Chester Council HQ in Ellesmere Port to open in May |url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/new-cheshire-west-chester-council-23598339 |access-date=6 September 2022 |work=Cheshire Live |date=5 April 2022}}

• 1973 Ellesmere Port Borough Council election
• 1976 Ellesmere Port Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk - [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/197/made The Borough of Ellesmere Port (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976]. Retrieved on 19 November 2015.
• 1979 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1980 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1982 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1983 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1984 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1986 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1987 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1988 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1990 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1991 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1992 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1994 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)legislation.gov.uk - [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1992/made The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992]. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
• 1995 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1996 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1998 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 1999 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk - [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2844/made The Borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston (Electoral Changes) Order 1998]. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
• 2000 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 2002 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 2003 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 2004 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 2006 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
• 2007 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election

File:Ellesmere Port and Neston UK ward map 2002.svg|2002 results map

File:Ellesmere Port and Neston UK ward map 2003.svg|2003 results map

File:Ellesmere Port and Neston UK ward map 2004.svg|2004 results map

File:Ellesmere Port and Neston UK ward map 2006.svg|2006 results map

File:Ellesmere Port and Neston UK ward map 2007.svg|2007 results map

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{{Election box begin | title=Little Neston By-Election 5 October 2006}}

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{{Election box begin | title=Rossmore By-Election 18 October 2007}}

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|candidate = Susan Pugh

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|candidate = Michael English

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|candidate = Mike McCusker

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