West Sussex County Council was created in 1888. At the May 2017 local elections, the Conservative Party secured 56 of the 70 seats on the council. At June's general election, the party's candidates also took all eight of the area's parliamentary constituencies.
The 2011 census estimated the West Sussex population to be 807,000, of which 181,400 (22 per cent) were aged 0 to 19 (see right). The total population is expected to grow by more than 100,000 by 2026, with a bulge in the children's population seeing a double digit rise in 10- to 14-year-olds by 2021 and 14- to 19-year-olds by 2026.
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