2014 West Oxfordshire District Council election councillors after gaining one seat, while the Liberal Democrats dropped to three seats and only one independent councillor remained on the council. The UK Independence Party failed to win any seats, but came second in seven of the wards they contested, coming closest in Witney South where James Robertshaw was 152 votes behind Conservative David Harvey. All ten sitting councillors who stood were re-elected and overall turnout at the election was 39.03%. 2014 West Oxfordshire District Council election The 2014 West Oxfordshire District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of West Oxfordshire District Council in
Colin Cameron (Malawian politician) against Michael Hill Blackwood, Cameron requested that he be given a seat with a realistic change of winning, and was instead nominated in the Soche constituency, where he ran as a pro-Malawi Congress Party independent. Cameron succeeded in winning one of the eight seats on the higher roll (largely reserved for European and Asian voters), and was appointed Minister of Works and Transport, later becoming Minister of Transport and Communications. In the 1964 elections Cameron was re-elected, the only European to be elected as an MCP candidate. Following the elections, he was appointed Minister of Works, and was the only