 Elections to the borough council are held every four years, with all of the 55 councillors, representing 42 wards, on the council being elected at each election.After being under no overall control from the 1999 election, the Conservative party gained a majority at the 2003 election and has held one ever since, although losing a large number of seats due to the resurgence of the Independent Group in 2019.This means that at the election the Conseravatives were cut back to 28 seats, and opposition parties 27.Following the United Kingdom local elections, 2019 the political composition of King's Lynn and West Norfolk council is as follows