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United Kingdom local elections, 2017

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34 English councils
All 32 Scottish councils
All 22 Welsh councils
8 directly elected mayors in England
  Tim Farron
Leader Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Tim Farron
Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader since 13 July 2016 12 September 2015 16 July 2015
Popular vote[n 1] 38% 27% 18%
Swing[n 2] Increase8% Decrease4% Increase3%
Councils 28 9 0
Councils +/– Increase11 Decrease7 Steady
Councillors 1,899 1,152 441
Councillors +/– Increase563 Decrease382 Decrease42

  Nicola Sturgeon
Leader Nicola Sturgeon Leanne Wood
Party SNP Plaid Cymru
Leader since 14 November 2014 16 March 2012
Councils 0 1
Councils +/– Decrease1 Increase1
Councillors 431 208
Councillors +/– Decrease 7[1] Increase38

Map showing council control (left) and largest party by ward or division (right) following the election.
  Labour
  No election on 4 May 2017

The 2017 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 4 May 2017. Local elections were held across Great Britain, with elections to 35 English local authorities and all councils in Scotland and Wales.

Newly created combined authority mayors were directly elected in six areas of England: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, the West Midlands, and the West of England.[2] In addition, Doncaster and North Tyneside re-elected local authority mayors.[2] Local by-elections for 107 council seats also took place on 4 May.[3]

The Conservative Party enjoyed the best local election performance in a decade, making significant gains at the expense of the Labour Party, this despite the party having been in government for nearly seven years.[4] The UK Independence Party lost every seat they were defending, but gained just one seat at the expense of the Labour Party.[4] The Liberal Democrats lost 41 seats, despite their vote share increasing.[5][6][7] The Conservatives won four out of six metro-mayoral areas,[8] including in the traditionally Labour-voting Tees Valley and West Midlands.

The local elections were followed by a general election on 8 June.

Eligibility to vote

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over (or aged 16 or over in Scotland)[9] on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections.[10] A person who had two homes (such as a university student having a term-time address and living at home during holidays) could register to vote at both addresses as long as they were not in the same electoral area, and could vote in the local elections for the two different local councils.[11]

Individuals had to be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day (13 April 2017 in England and Wales; 17 April 2017 in Scotland).[12][13] Anyone qualifying as an anonymous elector had until midnight on 25 April 2017 to register.[14]

Seats held prior to the election

In total, 4,851 council seats were up for election in 88 councils; additionally six new mayors were directly elected.[15] Approximately 10,000 people were candidates for election.[16] All 32 councils in Scotland (1,227 seats) and all 22 councils in Wales (1,254 seats) were up for election; an additional 34 councils (2,370 seats) in England were up for election.[15] Of the 35 English councils up for election, 27 were county councils, seven were unitary authorities, and one was the Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.[17]

According to a BBC News estimate, taking into account boundary changes, the major political parties were effectively defending the following notional results in council seats on election day:

  • Labour – 1,535 seats
  • Conservatives – 1,336 seats
  • Lib Dems – 484 seats
  • SNP – 438 seats
  • Plaid Cymru – 170 seats
  • UKIP – 146 seats
  • Green Party – 34 seats

There were also 687 independent councillors and 4 Mebyon Kernow councillors. The remaining 217 seats were held by residents' associations and minor parties.[18] A by-election for the parliamentary constituency of Manchester Gorton (caused by the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman, the sitting MP) was due to be held on the same day as the local election, but the by-election was cancelled after the general election was called for the following month.[16]

Results

Overview map of council election results
  Conservative hold
  Conservative gain from No overall control
  Conservative gain from Labour
  Labour hold
  Labour lose to Independent majority or No overall control
  Scottish National Party lose to No overall control (Dundee City)
  Plaid Cymru hold
  Majority of independent councillors lose to No overall control
  No overall control, no change
  No election on 4 May 2017

Overall results - Great Britain

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005B54;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00B140;" data-sort-value="Scottish Green Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #666666;" data-sort-value="Residents' association" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #006400;" data-sort-value="Llais Gwynedd" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #d5c229;" data-sort-value="Mebyon Kernow" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: hotpink;" data-sort-value="Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6D3177;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #EB7A43;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |
Party Councils[19] Councillors
Number Change Change Number
Conservative 28 Increase11 1,899 Increase563
Labour 9 Decrease7 1,152 Decrease382
Independent 6 Increase1 656 Decrease13
Liberal Democrats 0 Steady 441 Decrease42
SNP 0 Decrease1 431 Decrease7
Plaid Cymru 1 Increase1 208 Increase38
Green 0 Steady 21 Increase1
Scottish Green 0 Steady 19 Increase5
RA 0 Steady 11 Decrease2
Llais Gwynedd 0 Steady 6 Decrease7
Mebyon Kernow 0 Steady 4 Steady
Health Concern 0 Steady 2 Decrease1
UKIP 0 Steady 1 Decrease145
Liberal 0 Steady 0 Decrease3
Others 0 Steady 0 Steady
No overall control 44 Decrease4 n/a n/a
Total 4,851

As elections were not held throughout the country, the BBC calculated a Projected National Vote Share (PNV), which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be "if the results were repeated at a general election". The BBC's preliminary Projected National Vote Share was 38% for the Conservatives, 27% for Labour, 18% for the Liberal Democrats and 5% for UKIP, with others on around 12%.[20]

This is the highest vote share for the Conservatives in local elections since 2008, when they faced Labour a decade into government and suffering from the financial crisis. The Liberal Democrats have performed better than at any election since 2010, whilst Labour has not performed so badly since 2010.[citation needed]

UKIP lost 145 of their 146 seats. Prominent former UKIP members talked of the party being finished and that it should disband.[21][22][23]

Results by nation

England

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6D3177;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |
Party Votes[24] Vote % +/- Councils[25] +/- Seats +/-
Conservative 3,036,709 46.5% Increase12.2% 27 Increase10 1,439 Increase319
Labour 1,299,846 19.9% Decrease1.6% 2 Decrease1 418 Decrease142
Liberal Democrats 1,164,779 17.8% Increase4.2% 0 Steady 312 Decrease28
UKIP 302,368 4.6% Decrease15.6% 0 Steady 1 Decrease143
Green 284,735 4.4% Increase0.8% 0 Steady 20 Steady
Others 438,985 6.7% Decrease0.2% 0 Steady 199 Decrease6
No overall control n/a n/a n/a 5 Decrease9 n/a n/a
Total 6,545,055 100 34 2,389

Note that unlike in Scotland and Wales, where all local authorities were up for election, the England results are for only 34 councils out of 353, and should not be taken as reflective of the whole of England.

Wales

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005B54;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6D3177;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DDDDBB;" data-sort-value="Other" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |
Party Votes[26] % +/- Councils +/- Seats +/-
Labour 294,989 30.4% Decrease4.5% 7 Decrease3 468 Decrease112
Independent 218,817 22.5% Decrease1.3% 3 Increase1 309 Increase2
Conservative 182,520 18.8% Increase6.3% 1 Increase1 184 Increase79
Plaid Cymru 160,519 16.5% Increase0.5% 1 Increase1 208 Increase38
Liberal Democrats 66,022 6.8% Decrease1.2% 0 Steady 63 Decrease10
Green 12,441 1.3% Increase0.2% 0 Steady 1 Increase1
UKIP 11,006 1.1% Increase0.3% 0 Steady 0 Decrease2
Other 24,594 2.5% Decrease0.3% 0 Steady 21 Decrease7
No overall control n/a n/a n/a 10 Increase1 n/a n/a
Total 970,908 100 22 1,254

For comparative purposes, the table above shows changes since 2012 including Anglesey's council, which was last elected in 2013.

Scotland

Following boundary changes:

e • d Summary of the 4 May 2017 Scottish council election results[27][28]
Party First-preference votes Councils +/- 2012 seats 2017 seats Seat change
Seats won Notional Seats won Seat % vs Notional
style="background-color:Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"| Scottish National Party 610,454 32.3% Steady0.0 0 Decrease1 425 438 431 35.1% Decrease7
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color"| Conservative 478,073 25.3% Increase12.0% 0 Steady 115 112 276 22.5% Increase164
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"| Labour 380,957 20.2% Decrease11.4% 0 Decrease3 394 395 262 21.4% Decrease133
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color"| Independents 196,438 10.4% Decrease1.4% 3 Steady 196 198 168 14.1% Decrease30
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color"| Liberal Democrats 130,243 6.9% Increase0.3% 0 Steady 71 70 67 5.5% Decrease3
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color"| Green 77,682 4.1% Increase1.8% 0 Steady 14 14 19 1.6% Increase5
style="background-color:Template:Orkney Manifesto Group/meta/color"| Orkney Manifesto Group 894 0.0% 0 Steady 2 0.1% New
style="background-color:Template:West Dunbartonshire Community Party/meta/color"| West Dunbartonshire Community 2,413 0.1% 0 Steady 1 0.1% New
The Rubbish Party 784 0.0% 0 Steady 1 0.1% New
style="background-color:Template:UKIP/meta/color"| UKIP 2,920 0.2% Decrease0.1% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire 2,823 0.2% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition/meta/color"| TUSC 1,403 0.1% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:A Better Britain – Unionist Party/meta/color"| A Better Britain – Unionist Party 1,196 0.1% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Socialist Party/meta/color"| Scottish Socialist 928 0.0% Decrease0.3% 0 Steady 1 0 0.0% Decrease1
style="background-color:Template:Solidarity (Scotland)/meta/color"| Solidarity 883 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Libertarian Party/meta/color"| Libertarian 776 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance/meta/color"| RISE 186 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
Scottish Independent Network 145 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Unionist Party (1986)/meta/color"| Scottish Unionist 129 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990)/meta/color"| Social Democratic 112 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Scottish Christian Party/meta/color"| Scottish Christian 104 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"| Socialist Labour 76 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:National Front (UK)/meta/color"| National Front 39 0.0% 0 Steady 0.0% Steady
style="background-color:Template:No Overall Control/meta/color"| No Overall Control 29 Increase4
Total 1,889,658 100.0 ±0.0 32 Steady 1,223 1,227 1,227 100.00 Steady

The table has been arranged according to popular vote, not the number of seats won.

There were boundary changes in many of these councils, with an increase in council seats across the country from 1,223 to 1,227, making direct comparisons with the 2012 results problematic. Notional seats and seat change are based on a notional 2012 result calculated by the BBC.[29][30]

Maps

Council control
(voting areas only)
Council control
(whole UK)
Before elections After elections Before elections After elections
  No council election on 4 May 2017
Largest party by popular vote
(including mayoral elections)
Conservative
Labour
SNP
Plaid Cymru
Independents
0 10 20 30 40 %
and its vote share and the size of its majority
  No election on 4 May 2017

England

Map of previous control of councils up for election.
  Labour
  No election on 4 May 2017

Non-metropolitan county councils

All 27 county councils for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance had all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.[citation needed]

Council Previous control Result Details
Buckinghamshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Cambridgeshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Cumbria

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Lab. and Lib. Dem. coalition)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Lab. and Lib. Dem. coalition) Details
Derbyshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Devon

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Dorset

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
East Sussex

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Essex

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Gloucestershire[31]

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Hampshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Hertfordshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Kent

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Lancashire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Lab. plurality w. Lib. Dem. support)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Leicestershire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Lincolnshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. and Lib. Dem. coalition)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Norfolk

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)†

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
North Yorkshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Northamptonshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Nottinghamshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. and independent coalition)[32][33] Details
Oxfordshire[34]

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. and independent coalition)[35] [36] Details
Somerset

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Staffordshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Suffolk

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Surrey

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Warwickshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control[37] (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
West Sussex

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Worcestershire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
‡ New electoral division boundaries [38]
† The Conservatives lost control in 2013, and were replaced by a Labour/UKIP/Lib Dem coalition with Independent/Green support. The Conservatives regained the council leadership in May 2016 after the Green Party abstained in the annual Council leadership election, and by-elections and defections later brought the Conservative total to 42 seats, giving them exactly 50% of the seats.[39]

Unitary authorities

Seven single-tier unitary authorities held elections, with all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions or wards.[citation needed]

Council Council
seats up
for election
Previous control Result Details
Cornwall All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control[40] (Lib. Dem. and independents coalition)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Lib. Dem. and independents coalition)[41][42] Details
Durham All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Isle of Wight All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Isles of Scilly All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |

Independent

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |

Independent Details
Northumberland All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Lab. plurality)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control (Cons. plurality)[43] Details
Shropshire All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Wiltshire All

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details

Metropolitan boroughs

One metropolitan borough, the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, had all of its seats up for election, after moving to whole council elections in 2015.[44] This was a first-past-the-post election in a mixture of two-member and three-member wards.

Council Previous control Result Details
Doncaster

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details

Mayoral elections

Map of the regional combined authority mayoralties up for election in 2017.

Combined authority mayors

Six elections were held for directly elected regional mayors. These newly established positions lead combined authorities set up by groups of local councils, as part of devolution deals giving the combined authorities additional powers and funding.

Combined authority Interim mayor/chair Result Details
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

#0087DC

Robin Howe (Conservative)

#0087DC

James Palmer (Conservative) Details
Greater Manchester

#E4003B

Tony Lloyd (Labour)

#E4003B

Andy Burnham (Labour) Details
Liverpool City Region

#E4003B

Joe Anderson (Labour)

#E4003B

Steve Rotheram (Labour) Details
Tees Valley

#E4003B

Sue Jeffrey (Labour)

#0087DC

Ben Houchen (Conservative) Details
West of England

#0087DC

Matthew Riddle (Conservative)

#0087DC

Tim Bowles (Conservative) Details
West Midlands

#0087DC

Bob Sleigh (Conservative)

#0087DC

Andy Street (Conservative) Details

Other planned mayoralties have been postponed or cancelled.[45] The election of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority mayor was postponed in January 2017[46] and, following legal action, will not happen in 2017 at all;[47] while devolution deals were also scrapped for the North East Combined Authority,[48] Norfolk and Suffolk[49] and Greater Lincolnshire.[50]

There were concerns at the low turnout recorded.[51][6]

Local authority mayors

Two elections for directly elected local district mayors will be held. These Mayors act as council leaders in their local authorities.

Local Authority Incumbent mayor Result Details
Doncaster

#E4003B

Ros Jones (Labour)

#E4003B

Ros Jones (Labour) Details
North Tyneside

#E4003B

Norma Redfearn (Labour)

#E4003B

Norma Redfearn (Labour) Details

Scotland

Map of the Scottish results.
Council Previous control Result Details
Aberdeen City

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Aberdeenshire

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SNP

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No overall control Details
Angus

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Argyll and Bute

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Clackmannanshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Dumfries and Galloway

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Dundee City

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SNP

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No overall control Details
East Ayrshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
East Dunbartonshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
East Lothian

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
East Renfrewshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
City of Edinburgh

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Falkirk

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Fife

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Glasgow City

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" |

Labour

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No overall control Details
Highland

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Inverclyde

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Midlothian

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Moray

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar

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Independent

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Independent Details
North Ayrshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
North Lanarkshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Orkney

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Independent

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Independent Details
Perth and Kinross

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Renfrewshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" |

Labour

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No overall control Details
Scottish Borders

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Shetland

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Independent

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Independent Details
South Ayrshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
South Lanarkshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" |

Labour

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No overall control Details
Stirling

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
West Dunbartonshire

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Labour

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No overall control Details
West Lothian

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No overall control

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No overall control Details

Wales

Map of the Welsh results.
Council Previous control Result Details
Isle of Anglesey

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Blaenau Gwent

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Labour

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Independent Details
Bridgend

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

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No overall control Details
Caerphilly

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

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Labour Details
Cardiff

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Labour

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Labour Details
Carmarthenshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Ceredigion

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Conwy

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No overall control
(PC, Lab., Lib. Dem., and independents coalition) †

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No overall control Details
Denbighshire

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No overall control
(PC, independents, and Cons. coalition) ‡

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No overall control Details
Flintshire

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No overall control

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No overall control Details
Gwynedd

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Plaid Cymru††

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Plaid Cymru Details
Merthyr Tydfil

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Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |

Independent Details
Monmouthshire

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No overall control

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative Details
Neath Port Talbot

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Newport

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Pembrokeshire

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |

Independent

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |

Independent Details
Powys

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Independent

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control Details
Rhondda Cynon Taff

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Swansea

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Torfaen

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour Details
Vale of Glamorgan

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control Details
Wrexham

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" |

No overall control Details
† In 2014, the only Welsh Liberal Democrat cabinet member defected to Welsh Labour; thus the Liberal Democrats left the coalition.[52]
In 2015, several Independent councillors created their own group within the council called Conwy First. This group later on went to support the council[clarification needed] instead of the remaining five independent councillors, so that the coalition was then made up of Plaid Cymru, Welsh Labour and Conwy First.[53]
‡ The Welsh Liberal Democrats later lost their only seat on the Council, thereby leaving the coalition.[54][55]
†† At the original election Plaid Cymru won exactly half the seats; they later took control of the council by winning a by-election.

Notes

  1. ^ All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC.
  2. ^ Swing figures are between the BBC national projected vote share extrapolation from United Kingdom local elections, 2016, and the BBC equivalent vote share projection from these local elections held in different areas.

See also

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  4. ^ a b "Tories set for best local election results in decade as UKIP obliterated". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
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