2024 United Kingdom local elections

2024 United Kingdom local elections

2 May 2024

107 of 369 councils in Great Britain
All seats in the London Assembly
11 directly elected mayors
37 Police and Crime Commissioners
Turnout30%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Keir Starmer Ed Davey
Party Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader since 4 April 2020 27 August 2020
Seats before 6,318 seats
99 councils
2,982 seats
35 councils
Projected vote share 34%
1%
17%
3%
Seats won (2024) 1,159
51 councils
522
12 councils
Councillors (after) 6,570
107 councils
3,090
37 councils
Net change (notional) 187
8 councils
104
2 councils

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Rishi Sunak Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay
Party Conservative Green
Leader since 24 October 2022 1 October 2021
Seats before 5,531 seats
76 councils
772 seats
1 council
Projected vote share 25%
1%
13%
1%
Seats won (2024) 515
6 councils
181
0 councils
Councillors (after) 5,158
66 councils
838
1 council
Net change (notional) 474
10 councils
74
0 councils

Map showing party control of councils following the elections.
  •   No election
  • otherwise see analysis table

The 2024 United Kingdom local elections took place on 2 May 2024 to choose 2,658 councillors on 107 councils in England, 11 directly elected mayors in England, the 25 members of the London Assembly, and 37 police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. The 2024 Blackpool South parliamentary by-election was held on the same day. These local elections were the last set of routine elections before the general election.

This election cycle returned to its usual four-year cycle after the majority of these elections were last held in the 2021 local elections, having been delayed by a year from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results were a strong showing for the Labour Party, who finished first at the expense of the governing Conservative Party, who finished third and suffered their worst local election defeat since 1996, losing over 400 council seats. The Liberal Democrats finished second for the first time in a local election cycle since 2009.