The low voter turnout at this year's Oxfordshire County Council elections has been put down to political apathy and the scorching weather.
Across the county, the turnout was at 35.6 per cent, across the 69 seats up for grabs.
Some seats had turnouts in the low 20s with the highest being in the mid-40s.
The electorate in Oxfordshire is around 540,000.
Speaking before the results were announced, Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock Calum Miller said: “There is a great deal of disappointment if I'm honest on the doorstep.
Many people, if they have voted for Labour or not, have no seen the changes from this new government they were hoping for. That has led a lot of people to feel quite anxious about the future. I'm sure that has contributed partly.
“I also think we should take account of the weather, it was certainly very hot for those of us who were out campaigning yesterday, knocking on doors. Many of the people I spoke with said they were planning on voting later in the day, if they did in the end in another question.
“So probably two factors, one to do with people's mood and how they are feeling and one genuinely to do with the weather conditions.”
The temperatures on the day of the poll, May 1, were at around 25 degrees.
Oxfordshire Labour leader Liz Brighouse added: “I suppose last year we had two elections, one for the city and a general election. There's always a lot of voter apathy when there's a new government so I think that played into it.”
