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Revision as of 14:33, 3 December 2021
This page documents political party strengths in the United Kingdom's principal local authorities (commonly known as local councils). The last major change to council compositions was the 6 May 2021 local elections, but changes in party representation arise frequently due to resignations, deaths, by-elections, co-options and changes of affiliation.
Since April 2020 there have been 404 principal local authorities in the UK. England has 339 councils of seven types: 25 county and 188 district councils (two tiers with separate responsibilities covering the same physical area), 56 unitary authorities plus the sui generis Council of the Isles of Scilly, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 32 London boroughs plus the ancient, sui generis City of London Corporation. Scotland has 32 councils, Wales has 22 councils and Northern Ireland has 11 councils. This list does not include parish and town councils, the lowest tier of local government with limited powers.
The 2020 local government elections in England were postponed until 6 May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Councillors elected in 2021 in elections that would otherwise have been held in 2020 will only serve three-year terms, so that the next elections for those seats will take place in 2024 as they would have without the pandemic.[2]
Information on political compositions is drawn from council websites and council data aggregators.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Summary
![]() | This section needs to be updated.(November 2021) |
This table numbers the seats held by each party as of November 2021.
Party | Total | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | ||||||
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Two-tier | London | Metro. | UA | S.G. | |||||||
County | District | ||||||||||
style="color: white; background:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color;" | | Conservative | 7,530 | 1,055 | 3,622 | 509 | 484 | 1,424 | 171 | 263 | ||
style="color: white; background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color;" | | Labour | 5,796 | 207 | 1,294 | 1,095 | 1,515 | 981 | 5 | 450 | 243 | |
style="color: black; background:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color;" | | Liberal Democrats | 2,481 | 230 | 1,298 | 158 | 209 | 457 | 61 | 68 | ||
style="color: black; background:Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color;" | | SNP | 395 | 395 | ||||||||
style="color: white; background:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color;" | | Green (all) | 485 | 46 | 238 | 14 | 65 | 97 | 17 | 8 | ||
style="color: white; background:Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color;" | | Plaid Cymru | 199 | 199 | ||||||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color;" | | DUP | 114 | 114 | ||||||||
style="color: white; background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color;" | | Sinn Féin | 104 | 104 | ||||||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color;" | | UUP | 74 | 74 | ||||||||
style="color: white; background:Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color;" | | UKIP | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color;" | | SDLP | 56 | 56 | ||||||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color;" | | Alliance | 53 | 53 | ||||||||
style="colour: black; background:Template:Alba Party/meta/color; " | | Alba Party | 14 | 14 | ||||||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Brexit Party/meta/color;" | | Reform UK | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
style="color: black; background:Template:Independent/meta/color" | | Others[a] | 2,528 | 94 | 1,118 | 53 | 114 | 415 | 111 | 367 | 219 | 50 |
Vacancies | 50 | 3 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 | |
Total | 20,224 | 1,635 | 7,610 | 1,833 | 2,396 | 3,386 | 116 | 1,253 | 1,227 | 462 |
- ^ "Others" includes lesser known parties and independents. For further detail, see the URLs to council webpages in the tables below.
Technical information
Councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland[10] elect to each of their seats once every four years, while in Scotland elections are held every five years. English councils may elect to all of their seats at once, roughly half at a time, or roughly one third at a time; councils elsewhere in the UK elect to all of their seats at once. Following boundary changes, councils which normally elect in parts often elect to all seats, and the cycle timing may change (for example in Northern Ireland, the new councils elected in 2014 shadowed the old councils for a year, delaying the second election to 2019). Breakdowns of election schedules are given in the sections for each council type. 16 councils in England are distinguished by having a directly elected mayor, elected every four years (indicated by (M) beside the council name).
Elections in England and Wales use first-past-the-post voting, while Scotland and Northern Ireland use the single transferable vote (STV) system. To facilitate STV, Scottish council wards elect multiple members, while Northern Ireland wards are grouped into District Electoral Areas with the number of councillors elected matching the number of wards.[11]
In the tables below, two "Control" columns indicate political control in each council. The first column indicates the party with a majority, if any. Councils with directly elected mayors have the affiliation of the mayor in the second column. For non-mayoral councils with no overall control (NOC) the second column gives the membership and format of the governing coalition, minority government, or if unknown the largest party followed by ellipsis (...).
England: two-tier council system
County councils
Non-metropolitan counties elect their councillors all at once every four years. 22 of the 25 counties had elections in May 2021 and the next elections for them are expected in May 2025. 3 of the 25 counties had elections in May 2017, and their next elections are expected on 5 May 2022
Last full update 12 May 2021.
Council | Control | Web | Total | CON | LAB | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | Next election | |
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Cambridgeshire | NOC | LD+LAB+IND | URL | 61 | 28 | 9 | 20 | 4 | May 2025 | ||
Cumbria | NOC | LAB+LD | URL | 84 | 38 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 5 May 2022 | |
Derbyshire | CON | maj | URL | 64 | 45 | 14 | 4 | 1 | May 2025 | ||
Devon | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 39 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | May 2025 | |
East Sussex | CON | maj | URL | 50 | 25 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 3 | May 2025 | |
Essex | CON | maj | URL | 75 | 52 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 9 | May 2025 | |
Gloucestershire | CON | maj | URL | 53 | 28 | 5 | 16 | 4 | May 2025 | ||
Hampshire | CON | maj | URL | 78 | 56 | 3 | 17 | 2 | May 2025 | ||
Hertfordshire | CON | maj | URL | 78 | 46 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 1 | May 2025 | |
Kent | CON | maj | URL | 81 | 61 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | May 2025 |
Lancashire | CON | maj | URL | 84 | 48 | 32 | 2 | 2 | May 2025 | ||
Leicestershire | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 42 | 4 | 9 | May 2025 | |||
Lincolnshire | CON | maj | URL | 70 | 54 | 4 | 3 | 9 | May 2025 | ||
Norfolk | CON | maj | URL | 84 | 58 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | May 2025 |
North Yorkshire | CON | maj | URL | 72 | 54 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 May 2022 | ||
Nottinghamshire | CON | Maj | URL | 66 | 37 | 15 | 1 | 13 | May 2025 | ||
Oxfordshire | NOC | LD/GRN[c 1] +LAB | URL | 63 | 22[c 2] | 15[c 2] | 21 | 3 | 2 | May 2025 | |
Somerset | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 35 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 May 2022 | |
Staffordshire | CON | maj | URL | 62 | 57 | 4 | 1 | May 2025 | |||
Suffolk | CON | maj | URL | 75 | 55 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | May 2025 | |
Surrey | CON | maj | URL | 81 | 47 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 16 | May 2025 | |
Warwickshire | CON | maj | URL | 57 | 42 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | May 2025 | |
West Sussex | CON | maj | URL | 70 | 48 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | May 2025 | |
Worcestershire | CON | maj | URL | 57 | 45 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | May 2025 |
- ^ The LD and GRN councillors formed a single group, the Liberal Democrat Green Alliance, in advance of wider coalition negotiations.[12]
- ^ a b An administrative error in the 2021 election count for the Banbury Ruscote ward resulted in the Conservative candidate being declared elected instead of the Labour candidate. The Labour Party have announced their intention to launch a legal challenge to rectify the result, which if successful will result in the Conservative Party having 21 councillors and the Labour Party 16.[13]
District councils
Geographically, non-metropolitan districts are subdivisions of non-metropolitan counties. They have complementary powers to counties and some have ceremonial statuses of borough, royal borough or city. They vary in whether they elect all, half or one-third of their seats at once:
- The seven that elect to half of their seats at a time do so in even years;
- The 58 that elect to a third of their seats all do so in years divisible by 4, two years after that and three years after, so they would held elections in 2016, 2018 and 2019;
- but note that Weymouth and Portland's 2018 election was cancelled pending a merger and all 2020 elections were postponed to 2021;[u 1]
- Of the 137 that elect to all of their seats at once:
- two (Gloucester and Stroud) elect in years divisible by 4 (: 2012, 2016, 2021, 2024...),
- four elect two years after a year divisible by 4 (: 2014, 2018, 2022, ...),
- and 131 do so three years after a year divisible by 4 (: 2015, 2019, 2023, ...).
69 of the 201 district councils had elections on 3 May 2018 ().
Copeland and Mansfield have directly elected mayors. Folkestone & Hythe was known as Shepway before 1 April 2018. Six district councils in Dorset will be subsumed into unitary authorities in 2019.[u 1] The single county and four district councils of Buckinghamshire were subsumed into a single unitary authority in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 202 councillors from all five councils are united in a Shadow Authority until the postponed elections in 2021.[14][u 2]
Last full update 4 May 2019.
Council | Control | Web | Total | CON | LAB | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | Cycle | Next election | |
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Adur | CON | maj | URL | 29 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | halves | 5 May 2022 | ||
Allerdale | NOC | IND+CON | URL | 49 | 15 | 14 | 20 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Amber Valley | CON | maj | URL | 45 | 28 | 16 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Arun | NOC | LD min | URL | 54 | 21 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 8 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Ashfield | IND | maj | URL | 35 | 3 | 2 | 30 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Ashford | CON | maj | URL | 47 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 12 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Babergh | NOC | CON+LD+IND | URL | 32 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Barrow-in-Furness | LAB | maj | URL | 36 | 12 | 24 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
Basildon | CON | maj | URL | 42 | 22 | 12 | 8 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Basingstoke and Deane | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 33 | 10 | 5 | 6 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Bassetlaw | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 5 | 37 | 1 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Blaby | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 25 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | all, | 23 May 2023 | |
Bolsover | NOC | LAB+9 IND | URL | 37 | 3 | 17 | 17 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Boston | CON | maj | URL | 30 | 16 | 2 | 12 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Braintree | CON | maj | URL | 49 | 34 | 2 | 6 | 7[d 1] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Breckland | CON | maj | URL | 49 | 37 | 6 | 2 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Brentwood | CON | maj | URL | 37 | 22 | 2 | 13 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Broadland | CON | maj | URL | 47 | 32 | 2 | 12 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Bromsgrove | CON | maj | URL | 31 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 6[d 2] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Broxbourne | CON | maj | URL | 30 | 27 | 3 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||||
Broxtowe | NOC | LAB+LD+IND | URL | 44 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Burnley | NOC | LAB... | URL | 45 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Cambridge | LAB | maj | URL | 42 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Cannock Chase | CON | maj | URL | 41 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 5 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Canterbury | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 23 | 10 | 6 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Carlisle | NOC | CON min | URL | 52 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Castle Point | CON | maj | URL | 41 | 21 | 20 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||||
Charnwood | CON | maj | URL | 52 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Chelmsford | LD | maj | URL | 57 | 21 | 31 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Cheltenham | LD | maj | URL | 40 | 8 | 30 | 2 | halves | 5 May 2022 | |||
Cherwell | CON | maj | URL | 48 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Chesterfield | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 28 | 17 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Chichester | NOC | CON min | URL | 36 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Chorley | LAB | maj | URL | 47 | 13 | 29 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||||
Colchester | NOC | CON+IND | URL | 51 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 3 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Copeland (M) | LAB | IND Mayor | URL | 33 | 10 | 19 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Cotswold | LD | maj | URL | 34 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Craven | NOC | CON min | URL | 30 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | TBC | TBC | |
Crawley | NOC | CON... | URL | 36 | 18 | 17 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Dacorum | CON | maj | URL | 51 | 31 | 19 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Dartford | CON | maj | URL | 44 | 29 | 10 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Derbyshire Dales | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Dover | CON | maj | URL | 32 | 19 | 12 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
East Cambridgeshire | CON | maj | URL | 28 | 15 | 13 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
East Devon | NOC | EDA+IND+LD+GRN+LAB | URL | 60 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 27[d 3] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
East Hampshire | CON | maj | URL | 43 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
East Hertfordshire | CON | maj | URL | 50 | 40 | 2 | 6 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
East Lindsey | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 18 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
East Staffordshire | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
East Suffolk | CON | maj | URL | 88 | 39 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Eastbourne | LD | maj | URL | 27 | 9 | 18 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
Eastleigh | LD | maj | URL | 39 | 2 | 32 | 5 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Eden | NOC | LD+LAB+IND | URL | 38 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Elmbridge | NOC | CON... | URL | 48 | 22 | 9 | 16 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Epping Forest | CON | maj | URL | 58 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 15[d 4] | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Epsom and Ewell | IND | IND | URL | 38 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 32[d 5] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Erewash | CON | maj | URL | 47 | 27 | 19 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Exeter | LAB | maj | URL | 39 | 6 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Fareham | CON | maj | URL | 31 | 23 | 5 | 3 | halves | 5 May 2022 | |||
Fenland | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Folkestone and Hythe | NOC | CON+GRN+LD+IND | URL | 30 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4[d 6] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Forest of Dean | NOC | IND+GRN+LAB | URL | 48 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Fylde | CON | maj | URL | 51 | 31 | 1 | 19 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Gedling | LAB | maj | URL | 41 | 8 | 29 | 2 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Gloucester | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 26 | 3 | 10 | all, | 1 May 2025 | |||
Gosport | CON | maj | URL | 34 | 19 | 1 | 14 | halves | 5 May 2022 | |||
Gravesham | LAB | maj | URL | 44 | 18 | 24 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Great Yarmouth | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 20 | 15 | 4 | TBC | TBC | |||
Guildford | NOC | LD+R4GV | URL | 48 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 19[d 7] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Hambleton | CON | maj | URL | 28 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Harborough | CON | maj | URL | 37 | 22 | 1 | 11 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Harlow | CON | maj | URL | 33 | 20 | 13 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||||
Harrogate | CON | maj | URL | 40 | 31 | 7 | 2 | all, | 5 May 2022 | |||
Hart | NOC | LD+IND | URL | 33 | 12 | 10 | 11[d 8] | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Hastings | LAB | maj | URL | 32 | 12 | 19 | 1 | halves | 5 May 2022 | |||
Havant | CON | maj | URL | 38 | 36 | 1 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Hertsmere | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 29 | 7 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
High Peak | LAB | maj | URL | 43 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Hinckley and Bosworth | LD | maj | URL | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Horsham | CON | maj | URL | 44 | 32 | 13 | 2 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Huntingdonshire | CON | maj | URL | 52 | 30 | 4 | 7 | 11 | all, | 5 May 2022 | ||
Hyndburn | LAB | maj | URL | 35 | 12 | 22 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Ipswich | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 15 | 30 | 3 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
King's Lynn and West Norfolk | CON | maj | URL | 62 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 15 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Lancaster | NOC | LAB+GRN+LD | URL | 60 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 19 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Lewes | NOC | LD+GRN+LAB+IND | URL | 41 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Lichfield | CON | maj | URL | 47 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Lincoln | LAB | maj | URL | 33 | 10 | 22 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Maidstone | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 29 | 4 | 17 | 5 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Maldon | CON | maj | URL | 31 | 17 | 14 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
Malvern Hills | NOC | IND+LD+GRN | URL | 38 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Mansfield (M) | NOC | LAB Mayor | URL | 36 | 2 | 15 | 19 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Melton | CON | maj | URL | 28 | 22 | 1 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Mendip | NOC | LD min | URL | 47 | 10 | 22 | 10 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Mid Devon | NOC | IND+LD | URL | 42 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Mid Suffolk | NOC | CON+IND | URL | 34 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Mid Sussex | CON | maj | URL | 54 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Mole Valley | LD | maj | URL | 41 | 12 | 22 | 7 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
New Forest | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 46 | 13 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Newark and Sherwood | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | NOC | CON min | URL | 44 | 17 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 1 | all, | 5 May 2022 | |
North Devon | LD | maj | URL | 43 | 11 | 21 | 2 | 8 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
North East Derbyshire | CON | maj | URL | 53 | 30 | 18 | 3 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
North Hertfordshire | NOC | CON... | URL | 49 | 23 | 15 | 11 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
North Kesteven | IND | IND | URL | 43 | 20 | 23 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
North Norfolk | LD | maj | URL | 40 | 6 | 30 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
North Warwickshire | CON | maj | URL | 35 | 21 | 14 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
North West Leicestershire | CON | maj | URL | 38 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Norwich | LAB | maj | URL | 39 | 26 | 3 | 9 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Nuneaton and Bedworth | CON | CON maj | URL | 34 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | halves | 5 May 2022 | ||
Oadby and Wigston | LD | maj | URL | 26 | 2 | 24 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
Oxford | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 2 | halves | 5 May 2022 | ||
Pendle | CON | maj | URL | 33 | 18 | 10 | 5 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Preston | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 11 | 30 | 7 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Redditch | CON | maj | URL | 29 | 25 | 4 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||||
Reigate and Banstead | CON | maj | URL | 51 | 28 | 3 | 7 | 7 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Ribble Valley | CON | maj | URL | 40 | 28 | 10 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Richmondshire | NOC | 9 IND+LD+GRN | URL | 34 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Rochford | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 8[d 9] | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Rossendale | NOC | LAB... | URL | 36 | 15 | 18 | 3 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Rother | NOC | IND+LD | URL | 38 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 13 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Rugby | CON | maj | URL | 42 | 25 | 8 | 9 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Runnymede | CON | maj | URL | 42 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 11 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Rushcliffe | CON | maj | URL | 44 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Rushmoor | CON | maj | URL | 39 | 29 | 9 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Ryedale | NOC | CON min | URL | 30 | 12 | 2 | 16 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Scarborough | NOC | LAB+10 IND | URL | 50 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Sedgemoor | CON | maj | URL | 48 | 28 | 12 | 7 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Selby | CON | maj | URL | 31 | 16 | 8 | 7 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Sevenoaks | CON | maj | URL | 54 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Somerset West and Taunton | LD | maj | URL | 59 | 9 | 3 | 32 | 2 | 13 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
South Cambridgeshire | LD | maj | URL | 45 | 11 | 2 | 30 | 2 | all, | 5 May 2022 | ||
South Derbyshire | CON | maj | URL | 36 | 22 | 14 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
South Hams | CON | maj | URL | 31 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
South Holland | CON | maj | URL | 37 | 24 | 13 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
South Kesteven | CON | maj | URL | 56 | 40 | 3 | 2 | 11 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
South Lakeland | LD | maj | URL | 51 | 14 | 3 | 33 | 1 | TBC | TBC | ||
South Norfolk | CON | maj | URL | 46 | 35 | 1 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
South Oxfordshire | NOC | LD+GRN | URL | 36 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 4[d 10] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
South Ribble | NOC | LAB min | URL | 50 | 23 | 21 | 5 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
South Somerset | LD | maj | URL | 60 | 15 | 41 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
South Staffordshire | CON | maj | URL | 49 | 35 | 1 | 3 | 10 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Spelthorne | NOC | CON min | URL | 39 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 |
St Albans | LD | maj | URL | 58 | 23 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
Stafford | CON | maj | URL | 40 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 7 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Staffordshire Moorlands | NOC | CON min | URL | 56 | 25 | 13 | 1 | 17 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Stevenage | LAB | maj | URL | 39 | 11 | 22 | 6 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Stratford-on-Avon | CON | maj | URL | 36 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Stroud | NOC | CON... | URL | 50 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 13 | all, | 2 May 2024 | ||
Surrey Heath | CON | maj | URL | 40 | 18 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Swale | NOC | LAB+LD+10 IND | URL | 47 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 13 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Tamworth | CON | maj | URL | 30 | 26 | 3 | 1[d 11] | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Tandridge | NOC | CON... | URL | 42 | 14 | 9 | 18[d 12] | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Teignbridge | LD | maj | URL | 46 | 12 | 26 | 9 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Tendring | NOC | CON+UKIP+9 IND | URL | 48 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 22[d 13] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Test Valley | CON | maj | URL | 48 | 24 | 12 | 7 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Tewkesbury | CON | maj | URL | 38 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 6[d 14] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Thanet | NOC | LAB min | URL | 56 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 9[d 15] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Three Rivers | LD | maj | URL | 39 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Tonbridge and Malling | CON | maj | URL | 54 | 39 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3[d 16] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Torridge | NOC | n/a[d 17] | URL | 36 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Tunbridge Wells | NOC | CON... | URL | 48 | 24 | 5 | 13 | 6[d 18] | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Uttlesford | RFU | maj | URL | 39 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 27[d 19] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Vale of White Horse | LD | maj | URL | 38 | 7 | 30 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Warwick | NOC | CON+RA | URL | 44 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 3[d 20] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Watford | LD | maj | URL | 36 | 10 | 24 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Waverley | NOC | RA+LD | URL | 57 | 21 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 17[d 21] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Wealden | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 6[d 22] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Welwyn Hatfield | CON | maj | URL | 48 | 28 | 9 | 11 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
West Devon | NOC | n/a[d 23] | URL | 31 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 12 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
West Lancashire | NOC | LAB... | URL | 54 | 20 | 26 | 8 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
West Lindsey | NOC | CON+GI+2 IND | URL | 36 | 17 | 12 | 7[d 24] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
West Oxfordshire | CON | maj | URL | 49 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |
West Suffolk | CON | maj | URL | 64 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 19[d 25] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Winchester | LD | maj | URL | 45 | 16 | 27 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Woking | NOC | CON... | URL | 30 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Worcester | CON | maj | URL | 35 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 4 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Worthing | NOC | CON min | URL | 37 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | ||
Wychavon | CON | maj | URL | 45 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Wyre | CON | maj | URL | 50 | 37 | 8 | 5[d 26] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Wyre Forest | NOC | ICHC+IND+GRN min | URL | 33 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14[d 27] | all, | 4 May 2023 |
- ^ 4 Halstead Residents' Association Party
- ^ 1 Wythall Residents' Association
- ^ 13 East Devon Alliance
- ^ 13 Loughton Residents Association; 1 For Britain Movement
- ^ 32 Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell
- ^ 2 UKIP
- ^ 15 Residents for Guildford and Villages, 4 Guildford Greenbelt Group
- ^ 9 Community Campaign Hart
- ^ 2 Rochford District Residents
- ^ 3 Henley Residents Group
- ^ 1 UKIP
- ^ 8 Oxted & Limpsfield Residents Group
- ^ 4 Tendring First, 3 Holland-on-Sea and Eastcliff Matters
- ^ 2 Tewkesbury and Twyning Independents
- ^ 6 Thanet Independents
- ^ 3 Independent Alliance (Kent)
- ^ Torridge uses a committee system of governance; thus, there is no partisan council cabinet
- ^ 5 Tunbridge Wells Alliance
- ^ 24 Residents for Uttlesford, 2 Uttlesford Independent Group
- ^ 3 Whitnash Residents' Association
- ^ 15 Farnham Residents
- ^ 4 Independent Democrats
- ^ West Devon uses a committee system of governance; thus, there is no partisan council cabinet
- ^ 2 Gainsborough Independents; 2 Lincolnshire Independents
- ^ 6 West Suffolk Independents
- ^ 3 Wyre Alliance; 2 Wyre Residents' Group
- ^ 9 Independent Community and Health Concern
England: unitary authorities
Unitary authorities vary in whether they elect to all or a third of their seats at a time.
- The 17 that elect by thirds do so in leap years except 2020 (: 2016, 2021, 2024...), two years after leap years (: 2018, 2022...) and three years after (: 2019, 2023...), as in district and metropolitan borough councils.
- Of the other 38 councils that elect to all of their seats at once:
- two, Warrington and Bristol, elect in leap years (),
- six elect in the year after leap years (: 2017, 2021...),
- and 30 elect three years after leap years ().
Five UAs have directly elected mayors.
Last full update 4 May 2019.
Council | Control | Web | Total | CON | LAB | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | Schedule | Next election | |
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Bath and North East Somerset | LD | maj | URL | 59 | 11 | 5 | 37 | 6 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Bedford (M) | NOC | LD Mayor | URL | 40 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Blackburn with Darwen | LAB | maj | URL | 51 | 13 | 36 | 2 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | |||
Blackpool | LAB | maj | URL | 42 | 15 | 23 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | NOC | CON min | URL | 76 | 36 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 19[u 3] | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 |
Bracknell Forest | CON | maj | URL | 42 | 38 | 3 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Brighton & Hove | NOC | GRN min | URL | 54 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 4[u 4] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Bristol (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 70 | 14 | 36 | 9 | 11 | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
Buckinghamshire | CON | Maj | URL | 147 | 113 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 14 | TBC | TBC | |
Central Bedfordshire | CON | maj | URL | 59 | 41 | 1 | 3 | 14 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Cheshire East | NOC | LAB+IND | URL | 82 | 32 | 24 | 4 | 21[u 5] | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Cheshire West and Chester | NOC | LAB min | URL | 75 | 27 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Cornwall | NOC | LD+IND | URL | 123 | 45 | 4 | 35 | 38[u 6] | 1 | all, | 6 May 2021 | |
Darlington | NOC | CON min | URL | 50 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 4 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Derby | NOC | CON min | URL | 51 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 8[u 7] | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Dorset | CON | maj | URL | 82 | 43 | 1 | 29 | 4 | 5 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Durham | LAB | maj | URL | 126 | 10 | 74 | 14 | 28[u 8] | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
East Riding of Yorkshire | CON | maj | URL | 67 | 48 | 9 | 10[u 9] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Halton | LAB | maj | URL | 56 | 2 | 51 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Hartlepool | NOC | IND UNION + CON + VET min | URL | 32 | 4 | 10 | 18[u 10] | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Herefordshire | NOC | IND+OUR COUNTY+GRN | URL | 53 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 26[u 11] | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Isle of Wight | CON | maj | URL | 40 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 12[u 12] | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
Kingston upon Hull | LAB | maj | URL | 57 | 2 | 31 | 24 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Leicester (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 54 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Luton | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 4 | 32 | 12 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Medway | CON | maj | URL | 55 | 33 | 20 | 2 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Middlesbrough (M) | NOC | IND Mayor | URL | 46 | 3 | 20 | 23 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Milton Keynes | NOC | LAB min | URL | 57 | 19 | 23 | 15 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
North East Lincolnshire | CON | maj | URL | 42 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
North Lincolnshire | CON | maj | URL | 43 | 27 | 16 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||||
North Northamptonshire | CON | maj | URL | 78 | 60 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 1 | TBC | TBC | |
North Somerset | NOC | IND+LD+GRN | URL | 50 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 17 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Northumberland | NOC | CON min | URL | 67 | 33 | 24 | 3 | 7[u 13] | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
Nottingham | LAB | maj | URL | 55 | 2 | 50 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Peterborough | NOC | CON min | URL | 60 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 |
Plymouth | CON | min | URL | 57 | 25 | 23 | 9 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Portsmouth | NOC | LD min | URL | 42 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Reading | LAB | maj | URL | 46 | 10 | 30 | 2 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Redcar & Cleveland | NOC | IND+LD | URL | 59 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 20 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Rutland | CON | min | URL | 27 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |
Shropshire | CON | maj | URL | 74 | 48 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | all, | 6 May 2021 |
Slough | LAB | maj | URL | 42 | 5 | 37 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||||
South Gloucestershire | CON | maj | URL | 70 | 33 | 11 | 17 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Southampton | LAB | LAB | URL | 48 | 18 | 29 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Southend-on-Sea | NOC | LAB+IND+LD | URL | 51 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 10 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Stockton-on-Tees | NOC | LAB min | URL | 56 | 14 | 24 | 2 | 16 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Stoke-on-Trent | NOC | CON+11 IND | URL | 44 | 15 | 15 | 14 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Swindon | CON | maj | URL | 57 | 31 | 24 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Telford & Wrekin | LAB | maj | URL | 54 | 13 | 34 | 4 | 1 | all, | 4 May 2023 | ||
Thurrock | CON | CON min | URL | 49 | 29 | 16 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Torbay | NOC | LD+IND[15] | URL | 36 | 15 | 13 | 8 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Warrington | LAB | maj | URL | 58 | 1 | 44 | 12 | 1 | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
West Berkshire | CON | maj | URL | 52 | 24 | 16 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
West Northamptonshire | CON | maj | URL | 93 | 66 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | TBC | TBC | |
Wiltshire | CON | maj | URL | 98 | 63 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 1 | all, | 6 May 2021 | |
Windsor & Maidenhead Royal | CON | maj | URL | 57 | 23 | 9 | 9[u 14] | all, | 4 May 2023 | |||
Wokingham | CON | maj | URL | 54 | 31 | 3 | 16 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
York | NOC | LD+GRN | URL | 47 | 2 | 17 | 21 | 4 | 3 | all, | 4 May 2023 |
- ^ a b On 1 April 2019, Bournemouth and Poole unitary authorities and the Borough of Christchurch in Dorset County will be replaced by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority, and the remaining five districts of Dorset County by Dorset unitary authority (entailing the abolition of the county, the six districts and the two unitary authorities). First elections to the two new councils will be on 2 May 2019. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council elections will take place every 4 years after that (elections in years), while the first two terms of Dorset Council will last 5 years (), with terms reverting to 4 years from 2029 (). – S.I. 2018/648. The one-third elections originally scheduled for Weymouth West and Portland District Council on 3 May 2018 were cancelled. – Weymouth & Portland area elections and referendums www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ The members of the county council and four district councils of Buckinghamshire combined into a Shadow Authority for the new Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority on 1 April 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic the first elections to the new 147-seat structure were postponed until 6 May 2021.
- ^ 5 Poole People; 1 Alliance for Local Living
- ^ 1 Independent Councillor elected in 2019. 1 Labour Councillor lost the whip and became an independent in 2020, whilst 2 others resigned the whip shortly thereafter; all three now sit as Independents. These events lead to Labour allowing the Greens to form a minority administration in July 2020.
- ^ 2 Real Independent Group; 2 independent - non grouped
- ^ 4 Mebyon Kernow; 2 Standalone Independent
- ^ 5 Brexit Party
- ^ 7 Derwentside Independents; 5 Spennymoor Independents; 3 North East Party
- ^ 2 Yorkshire Party
- ^ 6 Independent Union; 4 Socialist Labour Party; 3 Putting Seaton First; 1 For Britain Movement; 1 Veterans and People's Party
- ^ 12 Herefordshire Independents; 8 It's our County; 5 True Independents
- ^ 8 Island Independents
- ^ 3 Bedlington Independents
- ^ 3 West Windsor Residents Association (WWRA); 3 tBf - the Borough first; 2 Old Windsor Residents Association; 1 National Flood Prevention Party
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is a similar single-tier authority, which had all its seats up for election in May 2017. All candidates stood independently.
Council | Control | Web | Total | IND | Vacant | Last change | |
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Isles of Scilly | IND | IND | URL | 16 | 16 | Election, 4 May 2017 |
England: metropolitan borough councils
Of the 36 metropolitan borough councils:
- three elect to all of their seats at once:
- Rotherham in a leap year except 2020 (: 2016, 2021, 2024...),
- Doncaster in the year after a leap year (: 2017, 2021...),
- Birmingham two years after (: 2018, 2022...);
- the other 33 boroughs hold elections for one third of their seats at a time, all with seats elected to either in , or years.
Doncaster, Liverpool and Salford are mayoral metropolitan boroughs.
Last full update 4 May 2019.
Council | Control | Web | Total | CON | LAB | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | Schedule | Next election | |
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Barnsley | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 3 | 49 | 4 | 7 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | ||
Birmingham | LAB | maj | URL | 101 | 25 | 67 | 8 | 1 | all, | 5 May 2022 | ||
Bolton | NOC | CON min | URL | 60 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 11 | 1 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | |
Bradford | LAB | maj | URL | 90 | 22 | 52 | 9 | 2 | 5 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | |
Bury | LAB | maj | URL | 51 | 16 | 29 | 4 | 2 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | ||
Calderdale | LAB | maj | URL | 51 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 2 | thirds | 4 May 2023 | ||
Coventry | LAB | maj | URL | 54 | 13 | 40 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Doncaster (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 55 | 7 | 43 | 5 | all, | 6 May 2021 | |||
Dudley | NOC | CON min | URL | 72 | 35 | 35 | 1 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Gateshead | LAB | maj | URL | 66 | 52 | 14 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||||
Kirklees | LAB | maj | URL | 69 | 16 | 36 | 10 | 3 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
Knowsley | LAB | maj | URL | 45 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Leeds | LAB | maj | URL | 99 | 23 | 58 | 8 | 3 | 7 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
Liverpool (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 90 | 72 | 10 | 4 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Manchester | LAB | maj | URL | 96 | 93 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||||
Newcastle upon Tyne | LAB | maj | URL | 78 | 52 | 20 | 6 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
North Tyneside | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 7 | 51 | 1 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Oldham | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 4 | 45 | 8 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Rochdale | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 9 | 47 | 4 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Rotherham | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 44 | 1 | 15 | 3 | all, | 6 May 2021 | ||
Salford (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 60 | 8 | 50 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Sandwell | LAB | maj | URL | 72 | 10 | 60 | 2 | thirds | 5 May 2022 | |||
Sefton | LAB | maj | URL | 66 | 6 | 43 | 12 | 5 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Sheffield | LAB | maj | URL | 84 | 46 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
Solihull | CON | maj | URL | 51 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
South Tyneside | LAB | maj | URL | 54 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 6 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
St Helens | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 3 | 37 | 4 | 2 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
Stockport | NOC | LAB min | URL | 63 | 8 | 26 | 26 | 12 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Sunderland | LAB | maj | URL | 75 | 18 | 42 | 12 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Tameside | LAB | maj | URL | 57 | 5 | 51 | 1 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Trafford | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 20 | 36 | 4 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Wakefield | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 11 | 49 | 1 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | ||
Walsall | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 32 | 26 | 2 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Wigan | LAB | maj | URL | 75 | 8 | 57 | 10 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |||
Wirral | NOC | LAB min | URL | 66 | 22 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 3 | thirds | 6 May 2021 | |
Wolverhampton | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 16 | 43 | 1 | thirds | 5 May 2022 |
London borough councils
The London Assembly is (together with the elected Mayor of London) the governing body for the Greater London Authority. Within its administrative area, the 32 borough councils perform lower functions.
Elections to all seats of all 32 London boroughs were last held in May 2018 and will next be held in May 2022.
Last full update 28 March 2019.
Council | Control | Web | Total | CON | LAB | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | |
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Barking & Dagenham | LAB | maj | URL | 51 | 51 | |||||
Barnet | CON | maj | URL | 63 | 37 | 24 | 2[l 1] | |||
Bexley | CON | maj | URL | 45 | 34 | 10 | 1 [l 2] | |||
Brent | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 3 | 59 | 1 | |||
Bromley | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 50 | 8 | 2 [l 3] | |||
Camden | LAB | maj | URL | 54 | 7 | 43 | 3 | 1 | ||
Croydon | LAB | maj | URL | 70 | 29 | 41 | ||||
Ealing | LAB | maj | URL | 69 | 8 | 57 | 4 | |||
Enfield | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 16 | 44 | 3 [l 4] | |||
Greenwich | LAB | maj | URL | 51 | 9 | 42 | ||||
Hackney (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 57 | 5 | 52 | ||||
Hammersmith & Fulham | LAB | maj | URL | 46 | 11 | 35 | ||||
Haringey | LAB | maj | URL | 57 | 41 | 15 | 1 [l 2] | |||
Harrow | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 28 | 35 | ||||
Havering | NOC | CON+6 IND | URL | 54 | 26 | 5 | 23 [l 5] | |||
Hillingdon | CON | maj | URL | 65 | 44 | 21 | ||||
Hounslow | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 9 | 51 | ||||
Islington | LAB | maj | URL | 48 | 47 | 1 | ||||
Kensington & Chelsea | CON | maj | URL | 50 | 36 | 13 | 1 | |||
Kingston upon Thames | LD | maj | URL | 48 | 9 | 38 | 1 | |||
Lambeth | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 1 | 57 | 5 | |||
Lewisham (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 54 | 53 | 1 [l 2] | ||||
Merton | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 17 | 34 | 6 | 3[l 6] | ||
Newham (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 60 | 60 | |||||
Redbridge | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 12 | 51 | ||||
Richmond upon Thames | LD | maj | URL | 54 | 11 | 39 | 4 | |||
Southwark | LAB | maj | URL | 63 | 49 | 14 | ||||
Sutton | LD | maj | URL | 54 | 18 | 33 | 3 [l 7] | |||
Tower Hamlets (M) | LAB | LAB Mayor | URL | 45 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 2 [l 8] | ||
Waltham Forest | LAB | maj | URL | 60 | 14 | 46 | ||||
Wandsworth | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 33 | 26 | 1 [l 9] | |||
Westminster | CON | maj | URL | 60 | 41 | 19 |
The 100-member Court of Common Council of the City of London, a municipal corporation, was last elected in March 2017. Most members are non-aligned; the largest party is Temple & Farringdon Together[16] and the only national party represented is Labour.
Council | Control | Web | Total | IND | TFT | LAB | Vacant | Last change | |
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City of London Corporation | IND | IND | URL | 100 | 85 | 10 | 5 | By-election, 30 April 2019 |
- ^ 1 ex-Labour, 1 ex-Conservative
- ^ a b c 1 Independent (ex-Labour)
- ^ 2 Independents
- ^ 1 Suspended from Conservative Party, 2 ex-Labour
- ^ 22 various Residents Associations, 1 Independent
- ^ Merton Park Independent Residents
- ^ 3 Sutton Independent Residents
- ^ 1 Aspire, 1 Independent (ex-Conservative)
- ^ 1 Independent
Scotland
All 32 Scottish unitary authorities had all their seats up for election by Single Transferable Vote in May 2017. Elections are on a five-year cycle and are next due on 5 May 2022. Currently, none of the mainland councils are controlled by the "big four" parties in Scotland, and the three island councils are controlled by local independents.
Political control may be held by minority governments (min), coalitions (co), joint leadership arrangements (j.l.) or partnership working arrangements (p.w.).[7]
Last update 30 March 2021.[17][18]
Council | Control | Web | Total | SNP | CON | LAB | LD | SGP | Alba | Other | Vacant | Upcoming by-elections | |
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Aberdeen | NOC | CON+ALAB[s 1]+IND co | URL | 45 | 19 | 10 | 9[s 1] | 3 | 4 | ||||
Aberdeenshire | NOC | CON+LD+IND co | URL | 70 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 17 | |||
Angus | NOC | CON+IND+LD co | URL | 28 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 10 | |||||
Argyll & Bute | NOC | CON+LD+IND co[19] | URL | 36 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 10 | |||||
Clackmannanshire | NOC | SNP min[20] | URL | 18 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |||||
Dumfries & Galloway | NOC | LAB+SNP co | URL | 43 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Dundee | NOC | SNP+IND co | URL | 29 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | ||||
East Ayrshire | NOC | SNP min | URL | 32 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 3 | |||||
East Dunbartonshire | NOC | LD+CON co[21] | URL | 22 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||||
East Lothian | NOC | LAB min | URL | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
East Renfrewshire | NOC | SNP+LAB co | URL | 18 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | |||||
Edinburgh | NOC | SNP+LAB co[22] | URL | 63 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 5 | |||
Falkirk | NOC | SNP min[23] | URL | 29 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 2 | |||||
Fife | NOC | SNP+LAB j.l.[24] | URL | 75 | 29 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | ||||
Glasgow | NOC | SNP min[25] | URL | 85 | 35 | 7 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 5 | |||
Highland | NOC | IND+LD+LAB co | URL | 74 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 32 | ||||
Inverclyde | NOC | LAB min | URL | 22 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
Midlothian | NOC | LAB min | URL | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
Moray | NOC | SNP min | URL | 26 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 8 | |||||
Na h-Eileanan Siar | IND | IND | URL | 31 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | ||||
North Ayrshire | NOC | LAB min | URL | 33 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 4 | ||||
North Lanarkshire | NOC | LAB min | URL | 77 | 26 | 8 | 31 | 2 | 10 | ||||
Orkney | IND | IND | URL | 21 | 1 | 20 | |||||||
Perth & Kinross | NOC | CON min | URL | 40 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||
Renfrewshire | NOC | SNP min | URL | 43 | 19 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Scottish Borders | NOC | CON+IND co | URL | 34 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 9 | |||||
Shetland | IND | IND | URL | 22 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
South Ayrshire | NOC | SNP+LAB+IND p.w. | URL | 28 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | |||||
South Lanarkshire | NOC | SNP min | URL | 64 | 25 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 7 | ||||
Stirling | NOC | SNP+LAB | URL | 23 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
West Dunbartonshire | NOC | SNP+IND | URL | 22 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 2 | |||||
West Lothian | NOC | LAB min | URL | 33 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
Wales
All 22 Welsh unitary authorities had all of their seats up for election in May 2017, and the next elections are expected on 6 May 2022. The deaths of two candidates postponed the elections in one ward in Merthyr Tydfil and one in Ceredigion to 8 June, the day of the 2017 general election. No-one stood for election in one single-member ward in Powys, necessitating a by-election on 22 June for which six parties stood.[26][27][28]
Last update 14 November 2021.
Council | Control | Web | Total | LAB | PC | CON | LD | GP | Other | Vacant | |
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Blaenau Gwent | IND | IND | URL | 42 | 13 | 29[w 1] | |||||
Bridgend | NOC | LAB min | URL | 54 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 19[w 2] | ||
Caerphilly | LAB | maj | URL | 73 | 49 | 18 | 6[w 3] | ||||
Cardiff | LAB | maj | URL | 75 | 39 | 21 | 11 | 4[w 4] | |||
Carmarthenshire | NOC | PC+IND | URL | 74 | 17 | 38 | 19[w 5] | ||||
Ceredigion | NOC | PC+IND | URL | 42 | 20 | 8 | 14[w 6] | ||||
Conwy | NOC | CON+IND | URL | 59 | 8 | 10[w 7] | 14 | 4 | 23[w 8] | ||
Denbighshire | NOC | CON+PC+IND | URL | 47 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 11[w 9] | |||
Flintshire | NOC | LAB min | URL | 70 | 34 | 6 | 6[w 10] | 24[w 11] | |||
Gwynedd | PC | maj | URL | 75 | 1 | 40 | 1 | 33[w 12] | |||
Isle of Anglesey | NOC | PC+IND | URL | 30 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 13[w 13] | |||
Merthyr Tydfil | IND | maj | URL | 33 | 15[w 7] | 18[w 14] | |||||
Monmouthshire | CON | maj | URL | 43 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 5[w 15] | |||
Neath Port Talbot | LAB | maj | URL | 64 | 39 | 15 | 1 | 9[w 16] | |||
Newport | LAB | maj | URL | 50 | 31 | 12 | 2 | 5[w 15] | |||
Pembrokeshire | IND | IND+LAB+LD+PC | URL | 60 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 35[w 17] | ||
Powys | NOC | IND+CON | URL | 73 | 8[w 18] | 2 | 17 | 14[w 18] | 1 | 31[w 19] | |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | LAB | maj | URL | 75 | 47 | 17 | 3 | 8[w 20] | |||
Swansea | LAB | maj | URL | 72 | 48 | 9 | 7 | 8[w 21] | |||
Torfaen | LAB | maj | URL | 44 | 27 | 4 | 13[w 22] | ||||
Vale of Glamorgan | NOC | LAB+IND | URL | 47 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 16[w 23] | |||
Wrexham | NOC | IND+CON | URL | 52 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 26[w 24] |
- ^ 29 Independents including 1 ex-Plaid Cymru
- ^ 18 Independents
- ^ 6 Independents
- ^ 1 Independent, 3 Propel
- ^ 19 Independents
- ^ 14 Independents including 1 ex-Labour
- ^ a b 1 ex-Independent
- ^ 23 Independents including 1 ex-Plaid, 2 ex-Conservative
- ^ 11 Independents
- ^ Includes 1 Independent who sits with the Lib Dems Group
- ^ 24 Independents
- ^ 33 Independents including 1 ex-Plaid
- ^ 13 Independents including 1 ex-Lib Dem
- ^ 18 Independents
- ^ a b 5 Independents
- ^ 8 Independents, 1 Welsh National Party (ex-Plaid),
- ^ 13 Independents, 22 non-aligned
- ^ a b 1 ex-Conservative
- ^ 30 Independents, 1 Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party
- ^ 7 Independents including 1 ex-Lib Dem, 1 Cynon Valley Party
- ^ 7 Independents, 1 non-aligned
- ^ 13 Independents
- ^ 15 Independents
- ^ 25 Independents, 1 non-aligned
Northern Ireland
Elections were held for 11 newly created councils in Northern Ireland in May 2014, and May 2019 and on a four-year cycle after that.[29] All seats are filled at once by Single Transferable vote within district electoral areas of 5 to 7 wards.
The councils have ceremonial mayors elected by council members. Uniquely in the UK, vacancies are filled by co-option by whichever party won the seat at the previous election.
Last update 23 November 2021.[30]
See also
- List of political parties in the United Kingdom by representation
- Local government in the United Kingdom
References
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- ^ Deans, David (2 May 2017). "Pretty vacant - the seat no-one wants". BBC News. BBC.
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External links
- Open Council Data UK: All UK councillors with parties and wards
- Edkins, Keith: Local Council Political Compositions
- A to Z of Local Councils. Directgov.