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South Bucks District Council was elected every four years from 1973 until 2020.^[1]

Political control

From the first election to the council in 1973 until its merger into Buckinghamshire Council in 2020, political control of the council was held by the following parties:^[2]

Party in control		Years
	Conservative	1973–1995
	No overall control	1995–1999
	Conservative	1999–2020

Leadership

The leaders of the council from 1999 until its abolition in 2020 were:^[3]

Councillor		From	To
Trevor Egleton^[4]	Conservative	25 May 1999	4 May 2003
Peter Hardy	Conservative	20 May 2003	22 May 2007
Adrian Busby^[5]	Conservative	22 May 2007	10 May 2015
Ralph Bagge^[6]	Conservative	26 May 2015	26 Sep 2017
Nick Naylor	Conservative	19 Oct 2017	31 Mar 2020

Council elections

1973 Beaconsfield District Council election
1976 Beaconsfield District Council election
1979 Beaconsfield District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[7]
1983 South Bucks District Council election (New ward boundaries & district boundary changes also took place)^[8]^[9]
1987 South Bucks District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[10]
1991 South Bucks District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[11]^[12]
1995 South Bucks District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[13]^[14]
1999 South Bucks District Council election
2003 South Bucks District Council election (New ward boundaries)^[15]
2007 South Bucks District Council election (Some new ward boundaries)^[16]
2011 South Bucks District Council election
2015 South Bucks District Council election (New ward boundaries)^[17]

Council composition

Year	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Beaconsfield IEA	Independent	Council control after election
Year					Council control after election
2003	33	1	0	6		Conservative
2007	36	2	2	0		Conservative
2011	38	1	1	0		Conservative
2015	27	0	0	1		Conservative

District result maps

2003 results map
2007 results map
2011 results map
2015 results map

By-election results

2003-2007

Burnham Lent Rise By-Election 19 August 2004^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda Hazell	335	70.1	+22.4
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Tucker	143	29.9	+6.0
Majority			192	40.2
Turnout			478
	Conservative hold		Swing

Beaconsfield North By-Election 5 May 2005^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Nicholls	1,306	54.6	−3.7
	Independent	John Meredith	794	33.2	+33.2
	Labour	Stephen Lathrope	294	12.3	−0.5
Majority			512	21.4
Turnout			2,394
	Conservative hold		Swing

Burnham Church By-Election 5 May 2005^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Capel	1,254	58.7	+9.1
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Lathrope	881	41.3	+13.3
Majority			373	17.5
Turnout			2,135
	Conservative hold		Swing

Beaconsfield South By-Election 14 July 2005^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jacquetta Lowen-Cooper	347	77.1	+22.2
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Henry	103	22.9	−8.9
Majority			244	54.2
Turnout			450
	Conservative hold		Swing

2007-2011

Burnham Church By-Election 26 August 2010^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Kelly	459	56.3	−11.5
	UKIP	Peter Price	276	33.9	+33.9
	Liberal Democrats	David Linsdall	80	9.8	−22.4
Majority			183	22.5
Turnout			815
	Conservative hold		Swing

2011-2015

Iver Heath By-Election 14 June 2012^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Luisa Sullivan	404	61.0	−5.6
	UKIP	Adam Pamment	196	29.6	+29.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Chapman	62	9.4	−24.0
Majority			208	31.4
Turnout			662
	Conservative hold		Swing

Iver Village and Richings Park By-Election 12 December 2013^[24]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Griffin	422	46.9	−6.0
	UKIP	Ken Wight	377	41.9	+41.9
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Chapman	101	11.2	−35.9
Majority			45	5.0
Turnout			900
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

2015-2020

Farnham and Hedgerley By-Election 5 May 2016^[25]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Claire Lewis	962	62.5	−15.6
	UKIP	Delphine Gray-Fisk	339	22.0	+0.1
	Green	Ryan Sains	239	15.5	+15.5
Majority			623	40.5
Turnout			1,540
	Conservative hold		Swing

Burnham Lent Rise and Taplow By-Election 5 October 2017^[26]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matt Bezzant	699	65.9	+23.6
	Labour	Alexa Collins	166	15.6	−0.4
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Linton	136	12.8	+12.8
	Green	Zoe Hatch	60	5.7	−7.7
Majority			533	50.2
Turnout			1,061
	Conservative hold		Swing