2022 United Kingdom local elections

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2022 United Kingdom local elections
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  • 146 unitary, metropolitan, district and London councils in England
  • All 32 councils in Scotland
  • All 22 councils in Wales
  • 7 directly elected mayors in England
Turnout 33.6% (England)[1]
44.8% (Scotland)[2]
38.0% (Wales)[3]
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Keir Starmer Boris Johnson Ed Davey
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrat
Leader since 4 April 2020 23 July 2019 27 August 2020[n 1]
Projected Popular vote[n 2] 35% 30% 19%
Swing[n 3] Increase6% Decrease6% Increase2%
Councillors 3,073 1,403 868
Councillors ± Increase108 Decrease485 Increase224
Councils 74[n 4] 35 16
Councils ± Increase5 Decrease11 Increase3
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Leader Nicola Sturgeon Adam Price Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay
Party SNP Plaid Cymru Green
Leader since 14 November 2014 28 September 2018 1 October 2021
Projected Popular vote[n 2] 34.1%[n 5] TBC 8.2%
Swing[n 3] Increase1.8% TBC TBC
Councillors 453 202 159
Councillors ± Increase22 Decrease6 Increase87
Councils 1[n 4] 4 0
Councils ± Increase1 Increase3 Steady
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Map showing party control of councils following the elections.
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Local authorities with elections:
  •   London borough
  •   Metropolitan borough
  •   Unitary authority
  •   District council
  •   City of London Corporation
  •   No election

The 2022 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, for all local authorities in Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and in Scotland and Wales in 2017. The elections coincided with the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election. In 91 cases, most of them in Wales, council seats were uncontested, each having only one candidate. Three seats in Scotland remained unfilled as no one nominated to fill them.

Overall

Across Great Britain, the Conservatives had a net loss of 485 seats in comparison to 2017 in Scotland and Wales and 2018 in England, whilst Labour gained 108 seats (22 in England, 20 in Scotland, and 66 in Wales). The Liberal Democrats and Greens made gains of 224 seats and 87 seats, respectively, which exceeded those of the Labour Party in England but were also seen to a more modest extent in Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party (SNP) gained 22 seats in Scotland whilst Plaid Cymru made a net loss of 6 seats in Wales.[5]

By party

Results of the 2022 council elections in Great Britain
Party Councils Councillors Mayors
Number Change Number Change Number Change
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 74 Increase 5 3,073 Increase 108 4 Decrease 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control 66 Steady N/A
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 35 Decrease 11 1,403 Decrease 485 1 Increase 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat 16 Increase 3 868 Increase 224 1 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru 4 Increase 3 202 Decrease 6 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 3 Decrease 2 606 Increase 15 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 1 Increase 1 453 Increase 22 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Aspire (political party)" | [[Aspire (political party)|Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/shortname]] 1 Increase 1 24 Increase 24 1 Increase 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | Green[n 6] 0 Steady 159 Increase 87 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #d3d3d3;" data-sort-value="Residents Association" | Residents[6] 0 Steady 52 Increase 7 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Reform UK/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Reform UK" | [[Reform UK|Template:Reform UK/meta/shortname]] 0 Steady 2 Increase 2 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:British Unionist Party/meta/color;" data-sort-value="British Unionist Party" | [[British Unionist Party|Template:British Unionist Party/meta/shortname]][7] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Gwlad/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Gwlad" | [[Gwlad|Template:Gwlad/meta/shortname]][8] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ff7300;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)" | Liberal[n 7] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Propel (political party)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Propel (political party)" | [[Propel (political party)|Template:Propel (political party)/meta/shortname]][9] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #7D26CD;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)" | Social Democratic[10] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:The Rubbish Party/meta/color;" data-sort-value="The Rubbish Party" | [[The Rubbish Party|Template:The Rubbish Party/meta/shortname]][11] 0 Steady 1 Steady 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #70147A;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | UKIP 0 Steady 0 Decrease 3 0 Steady
Total 6,848 200 7 Increase 1

Used to project a general election

The results may be further processed to project the result of a hypothetical concurrent general election.

Party Votes[12]
Votes Projected National Vote[n 2]
Labour 3,673,389 35%
Conservatives 2,772,087 30%
Liberal Democrats 1,496,309 19%
SNP 627,484 17%
Plaid Cymru 160,369
Greens[n 6] 862,657
Aspire 915,513
Reform UK
British Unionist[7]
Gwlad[8]
Liberal[13]
Propel[9]
SDP[10]
Rubbish[11]
UKIP
Residents' Association[6]
Independent
Total 10,507,808 100%

England

By party

Results of the 2022 council elections in England[14]
Party Councils Councillors Mayors
Number Change Number Change Number Change
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 65 Increase 3 2,265 Increase 22 4 Decrease 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 35 Decrease 10 1,078 Decrease 336 1 Increase 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control 29 Increase 3 N/A
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat 16 Increase 3 712 Increase 194 1 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Aspire (political party)" | [[Aspire (political party)|Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/shortname]] 1 Increase 1 24 Increase 24 1 Increase 1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 0 Steady 143 Increase 25 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | Green 0 Steady 116 Increase 63 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #d3d3d3;" data-sort-value="Residents Association" | Residents 0 Steady 51 Increase 7 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Reform UK/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Reform UK" | [[Reform UK|Template:Reform UK/meta/shortname]] 0 Steady 2 Increase 2 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ff7300;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)" | Liberal[13] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #7D26CD;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)" | Social Democratic[10] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #70147A;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | UKIP 0 Steady 0 Decrease 3 0 Steady
Total 4,393 146 7 +1

Councils

Background

In total, 4,411 council seats are being contested in England, including irregular by-elections.[15]

Most seats in England up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2018. The exceptions are local authorities which have undergone recent boundary reviews. In the 2018 local elections, the Labour Party made gains in London at the expense of the Conservative Party, who in turn made gains in the rest of England at the expense of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Few councils changed overall control.[16] Overall, UKIP lost 237 of the 243 seats it had held before the elections.[17] According to the BBC's analysis, the results reflected a national political situation with Labour and the Conservatives "neck-and-neck".[18]

County councils

County councils are the upper tier of a two-tier system of local government, with the area each council covers subdivided into district councils with different responsibilities. These are first-past-the-post or block voting elections, with a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions. County councils are elected in full every four years, with the last election having been in 2021. However, due to consultations about possible unitarisation, elections for three county councils were postponed to 2022.[19] The government has announced plans to replace the councils with unitary authorities pending Parliamentary approval.[20]

Elections to the new Somerset Council took place on 5 May 2022 for a unitary authority to run concurrently with the district councils until their abolition in April 2023.[21] In a similar way, members of North Yorkshire Council were elected at the same time, with its councillors to serve as county councillors for one year and then to serve an additional four-year term as unitary councillors.[22] Cumbria's two new unitary authorities were elected as "shadow authorities" which would go live after gaining their powers in 2023.[23]

London boroughs

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Main article: 2022 London local elections

Elections for all councillors in all thirty-two London boroughs were held in 2022 in line with their normal election schedule. All twenty-five London borough councils which have not had a boundary review since before 2013 were elected based on new boundaries.[24] The previous elections to London borough councils were held in 2018, which saw Labour win its second-best result in any London election and the Conservatives return their lowest-ever number of councillors in the capital. In 2018, Labour won control of Tower Hamlets council which had previously been under no overall control, but did not gain control of Barnet, Wandsworth or Westminster councils, which the party had targeted. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained control of Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames borough councils from the Conservatives.[25]

The 2022 elections saw Labour gain all three of Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster councils which they had unsuccessfully targeted in 2018. The Conservatives gained control of Harrow from Labour as well as winning the new position of mayor of Croydon, with Croydon's council under no overall control, having previously been control by Labour. Lutfur Rahman gained the position of mayor of Tower Hamlets from Labour, with his Aspire party winning a majority of seats.[26]

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Barking and Dagenham 51[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Barnet 63[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Bexley 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Brent 57[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Bromley 58[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Camden 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Croydon 70 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(Conservative minority)		 Details
Ealing 70[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Enfield 63[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Greenwich 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Hackney 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Hammersmith and Fulham 50[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Haringey 57[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Harrow 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Havering 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(Conservative/independent coalition)		 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(HRA/Labour coalition)		 Details
Hillingdon 53[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Hounslow 62[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Islington 51[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Kensington and Chelsea 50 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Kingston upon Thames 48[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Lambeth 63[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Lewisham 54[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Merton 57[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Newham 66[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Redbridge 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Richmond upon Thames 54[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Southwark 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Sutton 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Tower Hamlets 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Aspire (political party)" | [[Aspire (political party)|Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/shortname]] Details
Waltham Forest 60[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Wandsworth 58[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Westminster 54[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
All 32 councils 1,817

Metropolitan boroughs

There are thirty-six metropolitan boroughs, which are single-tier local authorities. Thirty-three of them elect a third of their councillors every year for three years, with no election in each fourth year. These councils hold their elections on the same timetable, which includes elections in 2022. Birmingham City Council holds its elections on a four-year cycle from 2018, so is also due to hold an election in 2022. Due to boundary changes, three councils which generally elect their councillors in thirds will elect all of their councillors in 2022. They will then return to the thirds schedule, apart from St Helens Council, which is moving to all-out elections every four years starting in 2022. Several other boundary reviews have been delayed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scheduled elections in Liverpool in 2022 have been cancelled and instead the city is expected to move to all-out elections from 2023 on new ward boundaries.[27]

Elections for all councillors

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Birmingham 101 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Bury 51[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Rochdale 60[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
St Helens 48[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
4 councils 260

Election for one third of councillors

By-elections or uncontested wards can cause the seats up for election to be above or below one third of the council.

Council Seats Party control Details
up of Previous New
Barnsley 21 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Bolton 20 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Bradford 30 90 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Calderdale 18 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Coventry 18 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Dudley 25 72 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Gateshead 22 66 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Kirklees 23 69 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Knowsley 15 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Leeds 35 99 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Manchester 32 96 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Newcastle upon Tyne 27 78 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
North Tyneside 20 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Oldham 21 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Salford 20 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Sandwell 24 72 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Sefton 22 66 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Sheffield 28 84 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Green coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Solihull 17 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
South Tyneside 19 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Stockport 21 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem minority) Details
Sunderland 25 75 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Tameside 19 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Trafford 22 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Wakefield 21 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Walsall 21 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Wigan 26 75 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Wirral 23 66 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Wolverhampton 20 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
All 29 councils 655 1,932

District councils

Election of all councillors

Some councils which elect all their councillors every four years did so in 2022. Gosport usually elects its councillors in halves, but all seats will be up for election due to new election boundaries. St Albans usually elects by thirds but all seats were up on new boundaries. Harrogate was due to elect all its councillors, but the election was cancelled due to the unitarisation of North Yorkshire, with councillors' terms being extended to April 2023, after which the district councils in North Yorkshire will cease to exist.[28]

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Gosport 28[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Huntingdonshire 52 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Independent/Labour/Green coalition) Details
Newcastle-under-Lyme 44 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
South Cambridgeshire 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
St Albans 56[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
All 5 councils 225

Election of councillors by halves

District councils which elect their candidates in halves did so in 2022.

Council Seats Party control Details
up of Previous New
Adur 14 29 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Cheltenham 21 40 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Fareham 16 31 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Hastings 16 32 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Green coalition) Details
Nuneaton and Bedworth 17 34 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Oxford 24 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
All 6 councils 108 214

Election of councillors by thirds

District councils which elect by thirds that held elections in 2022. Carlisle, Craven and South Lakeland had been due to have a third of councillors up for election but these were cancelled due to the creation of Cumberland, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland and Furness Unitary authorities.[29]

Council Seats Party control Details
up of Previous New
Amber Valley 15 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Basildon 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Basingstoke and Deane 19 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Brentwood 13 37 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Broxbourne 10 30 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Burnley 15 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
Cambridge 16 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Cannock Chase 13 41 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Castle Point 14 41 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (CIIP/PIP coalition) Details
Cherwell 17 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Chorley 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Colchester 18 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition) Details
Crawley 12 36 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Eastleigh 14 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Elmbridge 16 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition) Details
Epping Forest 20 58 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Exeter 17 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Harlow 12 33 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Hart 11 33 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition) Details
Havant 14 38 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Hyndburn 12 35 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Ipswich 17 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Lincoln 11 33 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Maidstone 18 55 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Mole Valley 14 41 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
North Hertfordshire 18 49 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
Norwich 13 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Pendle 12 33 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Preston 17 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Redditch 11 29 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Reigate and Banstead 15 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Rochford 13 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Rossendale 12 36 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Rugby 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Runnymede 14 41 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Rushmoor 13 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Stevenage 13 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Tamworth 10 30 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Tandridge 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)		 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)		 Details
Three Rivers 14 39 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Tunbridge Wells 16 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(Conservative minority)		 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control
(Lib Dem/Labour/Tunbridge Wells Alliance coalition)		 Details
Watford 12 36 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Welwyn Hatfield 17 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
West Lancashire 20 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
West Oxfordshire 16 49 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition) Details
Winchester 15 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Woking 10 30 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Worcester 13 35 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Worthing 14 37 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
All 49 councils 702 2,026

Unitary authorities

Election of all councillors

Reading Borough Council will have all its councillors elected on new ward boundaries. The new unitary authority Somerset Council will hold its first election under the old Somerset County Council boundaries, with twice as many councillors being elected as previously. Shadow authorities for the two new unitary authorities replacing Cumbria County Council and its districts will also be elected, as will councillors for the new North Yorkshire Council ahead of its creation in 2023.

Notably, the count for the Skipton West and West Craven seat ended in a tie between independent candidate Andy Solloway and the Labour candidate Peter Madeley. After various methods for deciding the tie were mooted, including drawing from a deck of cards, the candidates drew straws with Andy Solloway drawing the long straw, thus being declared the winner.[30]

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Cumberland 46[lower-alpha 2] No predecessor style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Reading 48[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
North Yorkshire 90 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Somerset 110[lower-alpha 3] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Westmorland and Furness 65[lower-alpha 2] No predecessor style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
All 5 councils 359

Election of councillors by thirds

Unitary authorities that elect councillors in thirds did so in 2022.

Council Seats Party control Details
up of Previous New
Blackburn with Darwen 18 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Derby 17 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Halton 18 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Hartlepool 13 36 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) Details
Hull 19 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat Details
Milton Keynes 19 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
North East Lincolnshire 16 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Peterborough 19 60 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Plymouth 19 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative majority after party changes) Details
Portsmouth 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem minority) Details
Slough 14 42 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Southampton 17 48 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Southend-on-Sea 18 51 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition) Details
Swindon 19 57 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Thurrock 16 49 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative Details
Wokingham 18 54 style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/independent coalition) Details
All 16 councils 274 808

City of London Corporation

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Main article: 2022 City of London Corporation election

The Court of Common Council is the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation, which governs the City of London. The 100 councillors were elected across twenty-five wards. Elections were due on 18 March 2021, but as a result of the coronavirus pandemic were delayed to 23 March 2022.[31][32]

After 2017 election Before 2022 election After 2022 election
Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 85 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 84 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 78
Temple and Farringdon Together 10 Temple and Farringdon Together 10 Temple and Farringdon Together 10
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 5 style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 6 Castle Baynard Independents 7
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 5

Mayors

There were six local authority mayoral elections and one metropolitan mayoral election.

Combined authorities

Combined authority Mayor before Mayor-elect Details
South Yorkshire style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Dan Jarvis | Dan Jarvis (Lab) style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Oliver Coppard | Oliver Coppard (Lab) Details

Local authorities

Council Mayor before Mayor-elect
Croydon New position style="background-color: #0087DC; " data-sort-value="Jason Perry | Jason Perry (Con)
Hackney style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Philip Glanville | Philip Glanville (Lab) style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Philip Glanville | Philip Glanville (Lab)
Lewisham style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Damien Egan | Damien Egan (Lab) style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Damien Egan | Damien Egan (Lab)
Newham style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Rokhsana Fiaz | Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab) style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="Rokhsana Fiaz | Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab)
Tower Hamlets style="background-color: #DC241f; " data-sort-value="John Biggs | John Biggs (Lab) style="background-color: Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/color; " data-sort-value="Luftur Rahman | Luftur Rahman ([[Aspire (political party)|Template:Aspire (political party)/meta/abbrev]])
Watford style="background-color: #FDBB30; " data-sort-value="Peter Taylor | Peter Taylor (Lib Dem) style="background-color: #FDBB30; " data-sort-value="Peter Taylor | Peter Taylor (Lib Dem)

There was also a referendum in Bristol on whether to continue using the mayor-and-cabinet system or to change to the committee system, with 59% voting to abolish the position of mayor.[33]

Scotland

By party

By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Scotland[34]
Party Councillors Councils
No. Change No. Change
No overall control N/A 27 −2
SNP 453 +22 1 +1
Labour 282 +20 1 +1
Conservatives 214 −63 0 0
Liberal Democrats 87 +20 0 0
Greens 35 +16 0 0
British Unionist[7] 1 +1 0 0
Rubbish[11] 1 0 0 0
West Dunbartonshire Community Party[6] 1 0 0 0
Independents 149 −16 3 0
Total 1,223 32

Councils

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Main article: 2022 Scottish local elections
File:Ballot paper for the 2022 Scottish local elections (Glasgow, Victoria Park ward).jpg
Ballot paper used for the elections in the Victoria Park ward of the Glasgow City Council. The vote is held using the single transferable vote, which allows voters to rank their choices.

Elections were held for all councillors in all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Local elections in Scotland are conducted by the single transferable vote (STV), which results in the number of seats won by each party more proportionally reflecting their share of the vote.[35] As a consequence, local elections in Scotland result more often in no overall control and local authorities being governed by minority or coalition administrations.[35] In this election two of the 32 councils came under one-party majorities - Dundee (SNP) and West Dunbartonshire (Labour).

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Aberdeen 45 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Lib Dem coalition) Details
Aberdeenshire 70 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition) Details
Angus 28 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Argyll and Bute 36 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) Details
Clackmannanshire 18 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Dumfries and Galloway 43 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/SNP coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/SNP/Lib Dem/independent coalition) Details
Dundee 29 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP Details
East Ayrshire 32 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
East Dunbartonshire 22 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
East Lothian 22 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
East Renfrewshire 18 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Labour/Independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/Independent minority) Details
Edinburgh 63 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Falkirk 30 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Fife 75 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Glasgow 85 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Highland 74 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Lib Dem/Labour coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/independent coalition) Details
Inverclyde 22 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Midlothian 18 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Moray 26 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar 29[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent Details
North Ayrshire 33[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
North Lanarkshire 77 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Orkney 21[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent Details
Perth and Kinross 40 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Renfrewshire 43 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) Details
Scottish Borders 34 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) Details
Shetland 23[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent Details
South Ayrshire 28 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Labour/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
South Lanarkshire 64 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
Stirling 23 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
West Dunbartonshire 22 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241F;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | Labour Details
West Lothian 33 style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) Details
All 32 councils 1,226

Wales

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Main article: 2022 Welsh local elections

Elections were held for all councillors in all 22 local authorities as well as for all community council seats in Wales. In all twenty-two councils, the elections were contested under new boundaries. This was the first time Welsh councils could choose between conducting the vote with the current first-past-the-post system or the proportional single transferable vote (STV) system, although practically this will not come into effect until at least 2027, as councils need to give advance notice of such a change.[36][37]

By party

By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Wales[38]
Party Councillors Councils
No. Change No. Change
No overall control N/A 10 −1
Labour 526 +66 8 +1
Plaid Cymru 202 −6 4 +3
Conservatives 111 −86 0 −1
Liberal Democrats 69 +10 0 0
Greens 8 +8 0 0
Gwlad[8] 1 +1 0 0
Propel[9] 1 +1 0 0
Independents 314 +6 0 −2
Total 1,232 22

Councils

Council Seats Party control Details
Previous New
Anglesey 35[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru Details
Blaenau Gwent 33[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Bridgend 51[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Caerphilly 69[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Cardiff 79[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Carmarthenshire 75[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru Details
Ceredigion 38[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru Details
Conwy 55[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Denbighshire 48[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Flintshire 66[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour minority) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Gwynedd 69[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru Details
Merthyr Tydfil 30[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Monmouthshire 46[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Neath Port Talbot 60[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Newport 51[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Pembrokeshire 60[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Labour/Plaid Cymru/Lib Dem coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Powys 68[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Rhondda Cynon Taf 75[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Swansea 75[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Torfaen 40[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour Details
Vale of Glamorgan 54[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Labour/independent coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Wrexham 56[lower-alpha 1] style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
All 22 councils 1,233

Opinion polling

England

Dates
conducted		 Pollster Client Area Sample
size		 Con Lab Lib Dem Green Independent
/others		 Lead
Template:Opdrts Survation Good Morning Britain England 2,587[lower-alpha 4] 34% 47% 10% 4% 6% 13%
rowspan="1" Template:Opdrts 2018 local elections[lower-alpha 5] 32% 41% 14% 7% 6% 9%

Scotland

First preference voting intention
Date(s)
conducted		 Polling organisation/client Sample size SNP Con Lab Lib Dem Green Alba Others
5 May 2022 2022 Scottish local elections N/A 34.1% 19.7% 21.8% 8.6% 6.0% 0.7% 9.2%
29 Apr–3 May 2022 Survation 893 41% 17% 23% 8% 5% 1% 4%
24–28 Mar 2022 Survation/Ballot Box Scotland 1,002 44% 18% 23% 6% 3% 1% 4%
20–26 Oct 2021 Panelbase/Scot Goes Pop 1,001 45% 22% 21% 6% 4% 2% <1%
4 May 2017 2017 Scottish local elections 1,889,658 32.30% 25.30% 20.16% 6.82% 4.1% - 10.4%

Northern Ireland

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Main article: 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election

The 2022 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place on 5 May 2022.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Davey served as Acting Leader from 13 December 2019 to 27 August 2020 alongside the Party Presidents Baroness Sal Brinton and Mark Pack, following Jo Swinson's election defeat in the 2019 general election. Davey was elected Leader in August 2020.[4]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC.
  3. ↑ Swing figures are between the BBC national projected vote share extrapolation from 2021 local elections, and the BBC equivalent vote share projection from these local elections held in different areas.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 One council was won in Scotland which uses the Single Transferable Vote for its voting system. The system means the number of Scottish councils won outright is far lower than in other parts of the UK.
  5. ↑ The SNP only ran in Scotland. The 34.1% result is the result within Scotland
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Includes the Green Party of England and Wales (124 councillors, gain of 71), as well as the Scottish Greens (35 councillors, gain of 16).
  7. ↑ Joy Andrews in Pickering, North Yorkshire.
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 New election boundaries
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shadow authority for a unitary council being created in 2023
  3. ↑ Old boundaries, with twice as many seats as previously
  4. ↑ Of these respondents, only those "in areas of England where there are local council elections in May 2022" were prompted.
  5. ↑ The listed figures are according to Survation, released under its above polling.

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  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Includes Jim Bollan in Leven, West Dunbartonshire. BBC website includes him as an independent.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 John Jo Leckie in Fortissat, North Lanarkshire. BBC website includes him as an independent.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gwyn Wigley Evans in Llanrhystyd, Ceredigion. BBC website includes him as an independent.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Neil McEvoy in Fairwater, Cardiff. BBC website includes him as an independent.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wayne Dixon in Middleton Park, Leeds. BBC website includes him as an independent.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sally Cogley in Irvine Valley, East Ayrshire. BBC website includes her as an independent.
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