Lancaster City Council elections are held every four years.

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. Since the last boundary changes in 2023, 61

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Council elections

* 1973 Lancaster City Council election * 1976 Lancaster City Council election * 1979 Lancaster City Council election (New ward boundaries) * 1983 Lancaster City Council election * 1987 Lancaster City Council election * 1991 Lancaster City Council election (City boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1995 Lancaster City Council election * 1999 Lancaster City Council election *

2003 Lancaster City Council election Elections to Lancaster City Council took place on 3 May 2003. The whole council was up for election and it remained in No Overall Control. Following the election, the composition of the council was as follows: Election result , - ...

(New ward boundaries) * 2007 Lancaster City Council election *

2011 Lancaster City Council election Elections to Lancaster City Council were held on 5 May 2011. Lancaster City Council is a secondary-level district council in Lancashire. The whole council was up for election and, following the result, remains in No Overall Control. The Loc ...

* 2015 Lancaster City Council election (New ward boundaries) * 2019 Lancaster City Council election * 2023 Lancaster City Council election (New ward boundaries)

Election results

By-elections

1995–1999

1999–2003

2003–2007

2007–2011

2015–2019

Labour Cllr Karen Leytham (Skerton West) resigned in July 2017. A by-election was held: Independent Cllr Paul Woodruff (Halton-with-Aughton) resigned in July 2017. A by-election was held: Labour Cllr Roger Sherlock (Skerton West) died in November 2017. A by-election was held: University and Scotforth Rural ward Labour councillors Sam Armstrong (elected Green) and Lucy Atkinson retired in March 2018. A double by-election was held.

2019–2023

Conservative councillor Michael Smith (Overton), who is partially deaf resigned in November 2019 because he was "struggling to hear" in meetings. A by-election was held the next month, on the same day as the

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. In June 2020, Liberal Democrat councillor Michael Mumford (Kellet) died. Due to the

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, no council by-elections will take place in the UK until May 2021 at the earliest. Jack O'Dwyer-Henry, Eco-Socialist Independent (elected Labour) councillor for the University and Scotforth Rural ward, resigned from the council, triggering a by-election in the ward.

References

By-election results

External links

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