South Wight was a non-metropolitan district with the status of a borough on the Isle of Wight in England from 1974 to 1995.
The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of Sandown-Shanklin and Ventnor urban districts and Isle of Wight Rural District. It was one of two districts on the island formed in 1974 – the other was Medina. It was originally intended for there to be 1 single district for the Isle of Wight and for the Isle of Wight to be a district of Hampshire, it was later decided to have the Isle of Wight as a separate county and split it into 2 districts. At the time of creation in 1974 "Sandown-Shanklin" was the only unparished area, it was split into the parishes of Lake, Sandown and Shanklin in 1984.
Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the island's county council and two district councils.
See also South Wight Borough Council elections
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