BRENTWOOD Council will tonight consider changing its current election cycle after consulting with residents and interested parties on how often they would prefer to vote for their Councillors.

The Council currently operates an election by thirds system where voters go to the polls three times over a four year period. There are 37 Councillors who are elected for a four year term. Each year, one third of Councillors are up for election with the exception of the fourth year in which no Borough elections take place.

Over the last six weeks, residents were asked the Council should change the way in which it elects it’s Councillors.

The results of the consultation showed that 59 percent of respondents favoured whole council elections and 41 percent favoured election by thirds. A total of 433 people responded to consultation.

The council’s deputy leader, Councillor William Llloyd, said: “When we launched this consultation I said the basic principle of democracy is asking the people what they want before you consider changing the process of democracy.

“That is what we have done and the answer we got was 59 percent of our residents said yes to Whole Council Elections.

“I would like to thank everyone who took part because it was really important that we found out what our residents wanted before we are back in the Council Chamber where Councillors will have their say”.