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However, 32 seats are needed for a true majority, so either the Conservatives or Labour would need to join them. The Conservatives have 22 seats currently, and Labour 15. It is understood that an outcome of coalition talks between Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens is likely tonight or early tomorrow morning, though no indication has been given of whether these three parties will join a coalition together yet. If they did, the combined group would have a majority of 39 seats. In Milton Keynes and Cambridgeshire, the Lib Dems and Labour have formed coalition councils in the aftermath of the elections. The various political parties elected their group leaders over the last week, with Liz Leffman announced as the new leader of the Lib Dems.
Richard Webber of the Oxfordshire Lib Dems, and Liz Brighouse of the Oxfordshire Labour Party. LIBERAL Democrats and Greens are set to seize control of the council which runs roads, schools and social care services in Oxfordshire. When the result of the May 6 local election was counted last weekend, the county council – previously run by the Conservatives – was left with no overall controlling political party. But negotiations are now taking place between the political parties to form a ruling coalition. The Lib Dems and Greens are already on the verge of forming a joint group, which would make them the largest political grouping on the council with 24 seats, made up of the 21 Lib Dems and three Greens.
The council has been left with no overall majority control as a result of the election. The Conservative group remains the largest on the council, but it now has only 22 seats, far short of the all out majority of 32 needed to claim power. Following them were the Liberal Democrats with 21 seats, the Labour Party with 15, the Greens with three and the Henley Residents Group with one. One seat went to independent candidate, Les Sibley, of Bicester West. It remains to be seen what kind of governing group will now be formed. Ian Hudspeth, the leader of the council and councillor for Woodstock, was among the Tory councillors who lost their seats.