Tower Division, Suffolk
Tower Division is an electoral division in Suffolk which returns two county councillors to Suffolk County Council.
Geography
It is made up of the central and North West Bury St Edmunds and consists of the West [Suffolk |West Suffolk council] wards of Miden, St Olaves, Tollgate, and Abbeygate along with a small part of Westgate ward between the River Linnet, Hospital Road, and Petticoat lane.History
The first elections for this division were held as part of the 2005 [United Kingdom local elections], after the two seat Suffolk County Council division was created through The County of Suffolk Order 2004. The first two councillors elected for this new division were David Lockwood with 3,181 votes, and Paul Hopfensperger with 2,747 votes. To date, these are the highest number of votes received at any election for a Tower Division candidate.The seats of the division are currently held by one Independent councillor after David Nettleton defected to the Conservatives in December 2019 having been originally elected as an independent, then becoming an independent again in July 2025, and one Reform councillor, Martin Lewis Robinson. Robinson is the first ever Reform councillor to be elected in Suffolk, who won a by-election on July 3, 2025 following the death of Cllr Robert Everitt in April 2025.