Politics
See also: Alnwick local electionsElections to the district council were held every 4 years from 1973 to the last election in 2007. Independents, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats held majorities on the council at different times, but from 1995 onwards no party had a majority. As of the last election in 2007 the council was composed of the following councillors:-
| Year | Liberal Democrat | Conservative | Independent | Labour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 2 |
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“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
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—Stefan Zweig (18811942)