2022 United Kingdom local elections

2022 United Kingdom local elections
5 May 2022
Turnout35.6%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Keir Starmer Boris Johnson Ed Davey
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 4 April 2020 23 July 2019 27 August 2020
Seats before 5,911 seats
83 councils		 7,587 seats
137 councils		 2,531 seats
24 councils
Projected vote share 35%
6%		 30%
8%		 19%
2%
Seats won (2022) 3,073
74 councils		 1,403
35 councils		 868
16 councils
Councillors (after) 6,100
88 councils		 7,159
126 councils		 2,765
27 councils
Net change (notional) 108
5 councils		 485
11 councils		 224
3 councils
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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
Seats before 433 seats
0 councils		 207 seats
1 council		 473 seats
0 councils
Projected vote share n/a
n/a
11%
1%
Seats won (2022) 453
1 council		 202
4 councils		 159
0 councils
Councillors (after) 453
1 council		 202
4 councils		 568
0 councils
Net change (notional) 22
1 council		 6
3 councils		 86
0 councils
Map showing party control of councils following the elections.
  •   No election
  • otherwise see analysis table

The 2022 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, and 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.

The local elections took place amid the Partygate scandal, in which it was found that numerous parties had been held at 10 Downing Street during national COVID-19 lockdowns, and COVID-19 social distancing laws were breached by numerous individuals. Public dissatisfaction over the events led to a decline in public support for Boris Johnson, the government led by him, and the Conservatives as a whole.

Across Great Britain, the governing Conservative Party 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.

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