The 2019 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2019 to elect members of

Leeds City Council Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of l ...

in England. It was held on the same day as other UK local elections across England and Northern Ireland. As per the election cycle, one third of the council's 99 seats were up for election. This followed the re-election of all of the 99 council seats in the 2018 all-out council election. It had resulted from an

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boundary review and saw the election of three councillors for each of the 33

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and their new ward boundaries. The third-placed candidate elected in every ward was granted a single year term and their seats are up for election this year. Elected councillors were granted the usual four-year term until 2023 in order to return to the typical election cycle of elections in three of every four years. The Labour Party maintained their majority control of the council despite losing four seats, also retaining their one Calverley and Farsley councillor by 27 votes.

Election summary

, - style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" ! scope="row" colspan="2" , Total , 175 , 33 , 4 , 4 , 0 , 100.0 , 100.0 , 172,076 , 366,927 The election result had the following consequences for the political composition of the council:

Councillors who did not stand for re-election

Incumbent Morley Borough Independent councillor, Tom Leadley, did not stand again for Morley North ward, standing unsuccessfully in the neighbouring ward of Ardsley & Robin Hood.

Ward results

Adel & Wharfedale

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Ardsley & Robin Hood

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Beeston & Holbeck

Bramley & Stanningley

Burmantofts & Richmond Hill

Calverley & Farsley

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Cross Gates & Whinmoor

Farnley & Wortley

Garforth & Swillington

Gipton & Harehills

Guiseley & Rawdon

Harewood

Headingley & Hyde Park

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Hunslet & Riverside

Killingbeck & Seacroft

Kippax & Methley

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Little London & Woodhouse

Middleton Park

Moortown

Morley North

Since vacating his seat at the 2018 Election to stand for Morley South ward, Robert Finnigan was re-elected to the council whilst incumbent MBI councillor Tom Leadley stood in Ardsley & Robin Hood ward.

Morley South

Otley & Yeadon

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Rothwell

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Temple Newsam Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), () is a Tudor- Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it ...

Weetwood Weetwood is an area between Headingley and Meanwood in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is bounded on the north by the A6120 road, A6120 (Outer Ring Road), on the west by the A660 road, A660 (Otley Road), on the east by Meanwood ...

Wetherby Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire, and lies approximately from Leeds City Centre, from York and from Harrogat ...

By-elections between 2019 and 2020

Notes

References

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