An agreement has been reached by negotiators from the Labour and Liberal Democrat groups on Lancashire County Council under which the Liberal Democrats will support the Labour Party in a minority administration. The agreement was put to meetings of the Labour and Liberal Democrat groups before being ratified at the Annual Meeting of Full Council on Thursday 23rd May 2013.
The county council held its elections on 2nd May 2013 at which point no party had gained the 43 seats necessary to take control of the council. The full results were:
Labour 39
Conservatives 35
Liberal Democrats 6
Independent 3
Green Party 1
Labour group leader Jenny Mein becomes the new Leader of LCC (photograph taken from the Lancashire Evening Post) and a story has been run in the Lancashire Telegraph regarding the meeting:
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