The Balance of Power

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is currently led by a four-party coalition. It's been controversial and successful in varying degrees across a whole range of subjects in the last year, especially with the implementation of budget cuts.

But where is the balance of power? Where does it really lie? Well, the truth is, exactly where the electorate results should hope (at least according to their voting...)

I have created a spreadsheet which outlines the members of committees and the cabinet and their political alleigances.

I then added a table and a couple of graphs comparing the % spread of power in the committees and cabinet against the % spread of the 60 elected councillors.

***The graphs don't seem to appear when uploaded to google docs. But the correlation is hopefully easy to read in the tables***

View the document here