Council Affiliation
In the 2007 local elections, South Ribble witnessed a landslide Conservative victory, gaining 24 seats to hold 44 of 55 on the borough council.
As of April 2011, the council stood as a Conservative majority run borough., and the Conservatives, despite losing a handful of seats, were relatively comfortably re-elected in May of that year.
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