Elections and Political Control
The political composition of the council at its abolition in 2009 was:
| Party | Councillors | |
| Conservative | 38 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 12 | |
| Labour | 6 | |
| Handforth Ratepayer | 2 | |
| Independent | 2 | |
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“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
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