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''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.
: † In 2014, the only Welsh Liberal Democrat cabinet member defected to Welsh Labour; thus the Liberal Democrats left the coalition. In 2015, several Independent councillors created their own group within the council called Conwy First. This group later on went to support the council instead of the remaining five independent councillors, so that the coalition was then made up of Plaid Cymru, Welsh Labour and Conwy First.
: ‡ The Welsh Liberal Democrats later lost their only seat on the Council, thereby leaving the coalition.
: †† At the original election Plaid Cymru won exactly half the seats; they later took control of the council by winning a by-election.
The 2017 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 4 May 2017. Local elections were held across
BBC News (3 May 2017). Approximately 10,000 people were candidates for election.Elections 2017: Polls close across England
BBC News (4 May 2017). 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. Of the 35 English councils up for election, 27 were county councils, seven were
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 Great Britain
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, 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
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, the Liverpool City Region
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, Tees Valley
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The LEP was established in 2011 and the combined authority was establish ...
, the West Midlands
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, and the West of England
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. In addition, Doncaster and North Tyneside re-elected local authority mayors. Local by-election
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s for 107 council seats also took place on 4 May.
The Conservative Party led under Prime Minister
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Theresa May
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enjoyed the best local election performance in a decade, making significant gains at the expense of the Labour Party. The UK Independence Party lost every seat they were defending, but gained just one seat at the expense of the Labour Party. The Liberal Democrats lost 41 seats, despite their vote share increasing. The Conservatives won four out of six metro-mayoral areas, including in the traditionally Labour-voting Tees Valley
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The LEP was established in 2011 and the combined authority was establish ...
and West Midlands
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.
The local elections were followed by a general election on 8 June.
Eligibility to vote
All registered electors (British
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* British English, ...
, Irish
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over (or aged 16 or over in Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...
) on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections. 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.
Individuals had to be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day (13 April 2017 in England
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and Wales
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; 17 April 2017 in Scotland
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). Anyone qualifying as an anonymous elector
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Australia
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had until midnight on 25 April 2017 to register.
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.Local elections: Voters set to head for the pollsBBC News (3 May 2017). Approximately 10,000 people were candidates for election.Elections 2017: Polls close across England
BBC News (4 May 2017). 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. Of the 35 English councils up for election, 27 were county councils, seven were
unitary authorities
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, and one was the Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, based at the Doncaster Civic Office in Waterdale, central Doncaster. It is one of four local authories in South ...
.
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
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councillors. The remaining 217 seats were held by residents' associations and minor parties. A by-election
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for the parliamentary constituency of Manchester Gorton
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(caused by the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman
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, 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.
Results
Overall results - Great Britain
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...Conservatives
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, 27% for Labour
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, 18% for the Liberal Democrats and 5% for the UK Independence Party
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, with others on around 12%.
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.
UKIP lost 145 of their 146 seats. Prominent former UKIP members talked of the party being finished and that it should disband.
Results by nation
England
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
For comparative purposes, the table above shows changes since 2012 across 21 local authorities and the2013
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result from Anglesey Council.
Scotland
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, 478,073
, 25.3%
, 12.0%
, 0
,
, 115
, 112
, 276
, 22.5%
, style="background-color:#dfd", 164
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , Labour
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** Organized labour and the labour ...
, 380,957
, 20.2%
, 11.4%
, 0
, style="background-color:#ffe8e8;", 3
, 394
, 395
, 262
, 21.4%
, style="background-color:#ffe8e8;", 133
, -
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Independents
, 196,438
, 10.4%
, 1.4%
, 3
,
, 196
, 198
, 168
, 14.1%
, style="background-color:#ffe8e8;", 30
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Liberal Democrats
, 130,243
, 6.9%
, 0.3%
, 0
,
, 71
, 70
, 67
, 5.5%
, style="background-color:#ffe8e8;", 3
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Green
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, 77,682
, 4.1%
, 1.8%
, 0
,
, 14
, 14
, 19
, 1.6%
, style="background-color:#dfd", 5
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, 894
, 0.0%
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, 0
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, 2
, 0.1%
, style="background-color:#dfd", ''New''
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , West Dunbartonshire Community
, 2,413
, 0.1%
,
, 0
,
,
,
, 1
, 0.1%
, style="background-color:#dfd", ''New''
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , The Rubbish Party
, 784
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
, 1
, 0.1%
, style="background-color:#dfd", ''New''
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , UK Independence Party
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, 2,920
, 0.2%
, 0.1%
, 0
,
,
,
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, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire
, 2,823
, 0.2%
,
, 0
,
,
,
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, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , TUSC
, 1,403
, 0.1%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , A Better Britain – Unionist Party
, 1,196
, 0.1%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , Scottish Socialist
, 928
, 0.0%
, 0.3%
, 0
,
, 1
,
, 0
, 0.0%
, style="background-color:#ffe8e8;", 1
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Solidarity
, 883
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Libertarian
, 776
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , RISE
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, 186
, 0.0%
,
, 0
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,
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, 0.0%
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, style="text-align:left;" , Scottish Independent Network
, 145
, 0.0%
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, 0
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,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Scottish Unionist
, 129
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
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, - style="text-align:right;"
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, style="text-align:left;" , Social Democratic
, 112
, 0.0%
,
, 0
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,
,
,
, 0.0%
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, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , Scottish Christian
, 104
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Labour
, 76
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
,
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color:",
, style="text-align:left;" , National Front
, 39
, 0.0%
,
, 0
,
,
,
,
, 0.0%
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, style="background-color:",
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! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 1,889,658
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 100.0
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , ±0.0
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 32
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" ,
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 1,223
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 1,227
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 1,227
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , 100.00
, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" ,
Maps
England
Non-metropolitan county councils
All 27county councils
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Ireland
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for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance had all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post
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elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.
These were the last elections to Dorset and Northamptonshire county councils.
: ‡ New electoral division boundaries
: † 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.
Unitary authorities
Seven single-tierunitary authorities
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held elections, with all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post
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elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions or wards.
Metropolitan boroughs
One metropolitan borough, theMetropolitan Borough of Doncaster
The City of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. It is named after its principal settlement, Doncaster, and includes the surrounding suburbs of Doncaster as well as numerous towns and villages. The ...
, had all of its seats up for election, after moving to whole council elections in 2015. This was a first-past-the-post
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election in a mixture of two-member and three-member wards.
Mayoral elections
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. Other planned mayoralties have been postponed or cancelled. The election of theSheffield City Region Combined Authority
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mayor was postponed in January 2017 and, following legal action, did not occur until the 2018 local elections. The North East Combined Authority deal was scrapped as several councils in the region voted down the proposal, however the smaller North of Tyne combined authority
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was approved by the councils and by parliament for the 2019 local elections. The other devolution deals that were scrapped were for the Norfolk and Suffolk, Greater Lincolnshire and the Solent.
There were concerns at the low turnout recorded.
Local authority mayors
Two elections for directly elected local district mayors will be held. These Mayors act as council leaders in their local authorities.Scotland
Wales
: † In 2014, the only Welsh Liberal Democrat cabinet member defected to Welsh Labour; thus the Liberal Democrats left the coalition. In 2015, several Independent councillors created their own group within the council called Conwy First. This group later on went to support the council instead of the remaining five independent councillors, so that the coalition was then made up of Plaid Cymru, Welsh Labour and Conwy First.
: ‡ The Welsh Liberal Democrats later lost their only seat on the Council, thereby leaving the coalition.
: †† At the original election Plaid Cymru won exactly half the seats; they later took control of the council by winning a by-election.
See also
* 2017 City of London Corporation electionNotes
References
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