Congleton was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It included the towns of Congleton, Alsager, Middlewich and Sandbach. The headquarters of the borough council were located in Sandbach.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the former borough of Congleton, the urban districts of Alsager, Middlewich and Sandbach, and the Congleton Rural District. The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chairman of the council to take the title of mayor.

In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government considered reorganising Cheshire's administrative structure as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The decision to merge the boroughs of Congleton, Macclesfield, and Crewe and Nantwich to create a single unitary authority was announced on 25 July 2007, following a consultation period in which a proposal to create a single Cheshire unitary authority was rejected.

The Borough of Congleton was abolished on 31 March 2009, with the area becoming part of the unitary authority of Cheshire East on 1 April 2009.

Congleton was divided into 23 civil parishes and included no unparished areas. Of the 23 civil parishes, four were administered at this level of local government by town councils: Alsager, Middlewich, Sandbach, and Congleton; with the remainder having parish councils. There are two pairs of civil parishes that are grouped together so that they share a parish council. These are Hulme Walfield and Somerford Booths, whose single parish council is called "Hulme Walfield and Somerford Booths Parish Council", and Newbold Astbury and Moreton cum Alcumlow, whose single parish council is called "Newbold Astbury-cum-Moreton Parish Council".

The following civil parishes were included in the borough:

The resident population of the borough, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 90,655, of which 49 per cent were male and 51 per cent were female.

The percentage of people of each religion in the borough (trom the Census 2001):

Stated religion	Percentage
Christian	81.46%
Buddhist	0.12%
Hindu	0.11%
Jewish	0.06%
Muslim	0.17%
Sikh	0.04%
Other religions	0.16%
No religion	11.46%
Religion not stated	6.43%

The town of Congleton had been a municipal borough from 1836 to 1974 with a borough council. The first elections to the new Congleton Borough created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1974 until its abolition in 2009 was held by the following parties:

Party in control		Years
	No overall control	1974–1976
	Conservative	1976–1982
	No overall control	1982–1983
	Conservative	1983–1986
	No overall control	1986–1991
	Liberal Democrats	1991–1992
	No overall control	1992–1994
	Liberal Democrats	1994–2002
	No overall control	2002–2003
	Conservative	2003–2009

The leaders of the council from 1987 were:

Councillor	Party		From	To
Dennis Round		Liberal	1987	14 July 1987
Linda Short		Liberal Democrats	1987	14 December 2000
Rod Fletcher		Liberal Democrats	2001	2002
Roland Domleo		Conservative	2002	31 March 2009

The political composition of the council at its abolition in 2009 was:

Party		Councillors
	Conservative	25
	Liberal Democrat	13
	Middlewich First	6
	Independent	4

The council was based at Westfields on Middlewich Road in Sandbach. This was a large nineteenth century house which had been bought in 1960 by the Congleton Rural District Council, one of the council's predecessors. In 2005–2007 a replacement headquarters building, also called Westfields, was built in front of the old house, which was then demolished. The new building was formally opened on 25 January 2008. After Congleton Borough Council's abolition, Westfields became the headquarters for the new Cheshire East Council.

The following people and military units received the Freedom of the Borough of Congleton or were an Alderman of the Borough of Congleton.

• C. W. Harrison (Alderman 4 October 1984)
• A. G. Smith (Alderman 4 October 1984)
• C. H. Kelly (Alderman 25 September 1986)
• L. Yarwood (Alderman 29 September 1988)
• J. M. Telfer (Alderman 28 September 1989)
• F. Bowers (Alderman 5 November 1992)
• W. Vickers (Alderman 5 November 1992)
• E. Henshall (Alderman 22 September 1994)
• R. Tomlinson (Alderman 29 October 1998)
• R. C. Parry (Alderman 29 January 2004)
• K. A. Hemsley (Alderman 29 January 2004)
• K. A. Thompson (Alderman 29 January 2004)
• M. J. Cooper (Alderman 2009)
• T. Farrell (Alderman 2009)
• R. A. Giltrap (Alderman 2009)
• L. Morris (Alderman 2009)
• F. Walton (Alderman 2009)
• D. Brown (Alderman 2009)
• R. M. Domleo (Alderman 2009)
• P. J. Edwards (Alderman 2009)
• R. I. Fletcher (Alderman 2009)
• D. I. Hough (Alderman 2009)
• G. Chambers (Freeman 2009)

• The Cheshire Yeomanry: 1906.
• The Cheshire Regiment: 1969.
• First Battalion of the Mercian Regiment:???
• First Battalion of the Mercian Regiment (Freeman ???)

• 1973 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1976 Congleton Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
• 1979 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1980 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1982 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1983 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1984 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1986 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1987 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1988 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1990 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1991 Congleton Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
• 1992 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1994 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1995 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1996 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1998 Congleton Borough Council election
• 1999 Congleton Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
• 2000 Congleton Borough Council election
• 2002 Congleton Borough Council election
• 2003 Congleton Borough Council election
• 2004 Congleton Borough Council election
• 2006 Congleton Borough Council election
• 2007 Congleton Borough Council election

Congleton North By-Election 10 August 2000

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Atkin	303	50.9	+9.6
	Liberal Democrats		156	26.2	−24.9
	Conservative		136	22.9	+15.3
Majority			147	24.7
Turnout			595	21.6
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Congleton North West By-Election 10 August 2000

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Appleton	275	37.2	+11.3
	Liberal Democrats		251	34.0	−8.3
	Labour		213	28.8	−3.0
Majority			24	3.2
Turnout			739	24.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Congleton North By-Election 26 August 2004 (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative		191
	Conservative		174
	Labour		142
	Labour		133
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Davey	111
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Jones	108
Turnout			859	15.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Congleton West By-Election 28 October 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative		491	53.7	−1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Davey	275	30.1	+6.2
	Labour		148	16.2	−4.8
Majority			261	23.6
Turnout			914	20.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Alsager Central By-Election 17 February 2005

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Burgess	532	56.1	−14.2
	Conservative	Warwick Till	365	38.5	+8.8
	Labour	William Howell	52	5.5	+5.5
Majority			167	17.6
Turnout			949	34.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Congleton North West By-Election 24 November 2005

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Davey	341	54.8	+54.8
	Conservative	Matthew Carey	191	30.7	−13.3
	Labour	Lisa Bossons	90	14.5	−9.2
Majority			150	24.1
Turnout			622	21.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Sandbach West By-Election 18 October 2007

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stella Furlong	445	45.1	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Darnes	382	38.7	−3.1
	Labour	Keith Haines	160	16.2	−0.5
Majority			63	6.4
Turnout			987	19.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

• Education in Congleton Borough

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