67 councillors were elected to represent 54 electoral divisions. A party therefore needed 34 councillors to become the ruling party. The table below shows the winning line in red and the number of seats won by each party.

Labour has won over half of the seats, and is therefore the ruling party.

The Leader of the Council, the Cabinet positions and the Chairs of the Committees were announced at the Annual Meeting of the County Council on 19 May 2005.



Overall number of division results returned = 54.

Party No. of seats
34		 No. of seats
Labour Labour have won 38 seats 38
Conservative Conservative have won 25 seats 25
Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrat have won 4 seats 4

Share of vote %


Party %
Labour  38.97%
Conservative  32.70%
Liberal Democrat  16.97%
Independent  7.63%
Green  2.94%
British National  0.23%
Ashfield Independents  0.21%
no party  0.20%
UK Independence  0.11%
Veritas  0.03%

Turnout


Votes cast 476024
Turnout 58.91%

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