2022 United Kingdom local elections

Elections to local councils and mayoralties

2022 United Kingdom local elections
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  • 146 unitary, metropolitan, district and London councils in England
  • All 32 councils in Scotland
  • All 22 councils in Wales
  • 7 directly elected mayors in England
Turnout33.6% (England)[1]
44.8% (Scotland)[2]
38.0% (Wales)[3]
  First party Second party
 
Leader Keir Starmer Boris Johnson
Party Labour Conservative
Leader since 4 April 2020 23 July 2019
Popular vote[n 1] 35% 30%
Swing[n 2] Increase6% Decrease6%
Councillors 3,073 1,403
Councillors ± Increase108 Decrease485
Councils 74[n 3] 35
Councils ± Increase5 Decrease11
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Ed Davey Nicola Sturgeon
Party Liberal Democrats SNP
Leader since 27 August 2020[n 4] 14 November 2014
Popular vote[n 1] 19% 34.1%[n 5]
Swing[n 2] Increase2% Increase1.8%
Councillors 868 453
Councillors ± Increase224 Increase22
Councils 16 1[n 3]
Councils ± Increase3 Increase1
  Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Adam Price Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay
Party Plaid Cymru Green
Leader since 28 September 2018 1 October 2021
Popular vote[n 1] TBC 8.2%
Swing[n 2] TBC TBC
Councillors 202 159
Councillors ± Decrease6 Increase87
Councils 4 0
Councils ± Increase3 Steady
Map showing party control of councils following the elections.
  No election
  • otherwise see analysis table
    • Local authorities with elections:
    •   London borough
    •   Metropolitan borough
    •   Unitary authority
    •   District council
    •   City of London Corporation
    •   No election

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

    Overall

    Across Great Britain, the Conservatives 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. The Scottish National Party (SNP) gained 22 seats in Scotland whilst Plaid Cymru made a net loss of 6 seats in Wales.[5]

    By party

    Results of the 2022 council elections in Great Britain
    Party Councils Councillors Mayors
    Number Change Number Change Number Change
    Labour 74 Increase 5 3,073 Increase 108 4 Decrease 1
    No overall control 66 Steady —
    Conservative 35 Decrease 11 1,403 Decrease 485 1 Increase 1
    Liberal Democrats 16 Increase 3 868 Increase 224 1 Steady
    Plaid Cymru 4 Increase 3 202 Decrease 6 0 Steady
    Independent 3 Decrease 2 606 Increase 15 0 Steady
    SNP 1 Increase 1 453 Increase 22 0 Steady
    Aspire 1 Increase 1 24 Increase 24 1 Increase 1
    Green[n 6] 0 Steady 159 Increase 87 0 Steady
    Residents[6] 0 Steady 52 Increase 7 0 Steady
    Reform UK 0 Steady 2 Increase 2 0 Steady
    British Unionist Party[7] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    Gwlad[8] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    Liberal[n 7] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    Propel[9] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    SDP[10] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    Rubbish[11] 0 Steady 1 Steady 0 Steady
    UKIP 0 Steady 0 Decrease 3 0 Steady
    Total 6,848 200 7 Increase 1

    Used to project a general election

    The results may be further processed to project the result of a hypothetical concurrent general election.

    Party Votes[12]
    Votes Projected National Vote[n 1]
    Labour 3,673,389 35%
    Conservatives 2,772,087 30%
    Liberal Democrats 1,496,309 19%
    SNP 627,484 17%
    Plaid Cymru 160,369
    Greens[n 6] 862,657
    Aspire 915,513
    Reform UK
    British Unionist[7]
    Gwlad[8]
    Liberal[13]
    Propel[9]
    SDP[10]
    Rubbish[11]
    UKIP
    Residents' Association[6]
    Independent
    Total 10,507,808 100%

    England

    By party

    Results of the 2022 council elections in England[14]
    Party Councils Councillors Mayors
    Number Change Number Change Number Change
    Labour 65 Increase 3 2,265 Increase 22 4 Decrease 1
    Conservative 35 Decrease 10 1,078 Decrease 336 1 Increase 1
    No overall control 29 Increase 3 —
    Liberal Democrats 16 Increase 3 712 Increase 194 1 Steady
    Aspire 1 Increase 1 24 Increase 24 1 Increase 1
    Independent 0 Steady 143 Increase 25 0 Steady
    Green 0 Steady 116 Increase 63 0 Steady
    Residents 0 Steady 51 Increase 7 0 Steady
    Reform UK 0 Steady 2 Increase 2 0 Steady
    Liberal[13] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    SDP[10] 0 Steady 1 Increase 1 0 Steady
    UKIP 0 Steady 0 Decrease 3 0 Steady
    Total 4,393 146 7 +1

    Councils

    Background

    In total, 4,411 council seats are being contested in England, including irregular by-elections.[15]

    Most seats in England up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2018. The exceptions are local authorities which have undergone recent boundary reviews. In the 2018 local elections, the Labour Party made gains in London at the expense of the Conservative Party, who in turn made gains in the rest of England at the expense of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Few councils changed overall control.[16] Overall, UKIP lost 237 of the 243 seats it had held before the elections.[17] According to the BBC's analysis, the results reflected a national political situation with Labour and the Conservatives "neck-and-neck".[18]

    County councils

    County councils are the upper tier of a two-tier system of local government, with the area each council covers subdivided into district councils with different responsibilities. These are first-past-the-post or block voting elections, with a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions. County councils are elected in full every four years, with the last election having been in 2021. However, due to consultations about possible unitarisation, elections for three county councils were postponed to 2022.[19] The government has announced plans to replace the councils with unitary authorities pending Parliamentary approval.[20]

    Elections to the new Somerset Council took place on 5 May 2022 for a unitary authority to run concurrently with the district councils until their abolition in April 2023.[21] In a similar way, members of North Yorkshire Council were elected at the same time, with its councillors to serve as county councillors for one year and then to serve an additional four-year term as unitary councillors.[22] Cumbria's two new unitary authorities were elected as "shadow authorities" which would go live after gaining their powers in 2023.[23]

    London boroughs

    Elections for all councillors in all thirty-two London boroughs were held in 2022 in line with their normal election schedule. All twenty-five London borough councils which have not had a boundary review since before 2013 were elected based on new boundaries.[24] The previous elections to London borough councils were held in 2018, which saw Labour win its second-best result in any London election and the Conservatives return their lowest-ever number of councillors in the capital. In 2018, Labour won control of Tower Hamlets council which had previously been under no overall control, but did not gain control of Barnet, Wandsworth or Westminster councils, which the party had targeted. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained control of Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames borough councils from the Conservatives.[25]

    The 2022 elections saw Labour gain all three of Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster councils which they had unsuccessfully targeted in 2018. The Conservatives gained control of Harrow from Labour as well as winning the new position of mayor of Croydon, with Croydon's council under no overall control, having previously been control by Labour. Lutfur Rahman gained the position of mayor of Tower Hamlets from Labour, with his Aspire party winning a majority of seats.[26]

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Barking and Dagenham 51[a] Labour Labour Details
    Barnet 63[a] Conservative Labour Details
    Bexley 45 Conservative Conservative Details
    Brent 57[a] Labour Labour Details
    Bromley 58[a] Conservative Conservative Details
    Camden 55[a] Labour Labour Details
    Croydon 70 Labour No overall control
    (Conservative minority)     		Details
    Ealing 70[a] Labour Labour Details
    Enfield 63[a] Labour Labour Details
    Greenwich 55[a] Labour Labour Details
    Hackney 57 Labour Labour Details
    Hammersmith and Fulham 50[a] Labour Labour Details
    Haringey 57[a] Labour Labour Details
    Harrow 55[a] Labour Conservative Details
    Havering 55[a] No overall control
    (Conservative/independent coalition)     		No overall control
    (HRA/Labour coalition)     		Details
    Hillingdon 53[a] Conservative Conservative Details
    Hounslow 62[a] Labour Labour Details
    Islington 51[a] Labour Labour Details
    Kensington and Chelsea 50 Conservative Conservative Details
    Kingston upon Thames 48[a] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Lambeth 63[a] Labour Labour Details
    Lewisham 54[a] Labour Labour Details
    Merton 57[a] Labour Labour Details
    Newham 66[a] Labour Labour Details
    Redbridge 63 Labour Labour Details
    Richmond upon Thames 54[a] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Southwark 63 Labour Labour Details
    Sutton 55[a] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Tower Hamlets 45 Labour Aspire Details
    Waltham Forest 60[a] Labour Labour Details
    Wandsworth 58[a] Conservative Labour Details
    Westminster 54[a] Conservative Labour Details
    All 32 councils 1,817

    Metropolitan boroughs

    There are thirty-six metropolitan boroughs, which are single-tier local authorities. Thirty-three of them elect a third of their councillors every year for three years, with no election in each fourth year. These councils hold their elections on the same timetable, which includes elections in 2022. Birmingham City Council holds its elections on a four-year cycle from 2018, so is also due to hold an election in 2022. Due to boundary changes, three councils which generally elect their councillors in thirds will elect all of their councillors in 2022. They will then return to the thirds schedule, apart from St Helens Council, which is moving to all-out elections every four years starting in 2022. Several other boundary reviews have been delayed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scheduled elections in Liverpool in 2022 have been cancelled and instead the city is expected to move to all-out elections from 2023 on new ward boundaries.[27]

    Elections for all councillors

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Birmingham 101 Labour Labour Details
    Bury 51[a] Labour Labour Details
    Rochdale 60[a] Labour Labour Details
    St Helens 48[a] Labour Labour Details
    4 councils 260

    Election for one third of councillors

    By-elections or uncontested wards can cause the seats up for election to be above or below one third of the council.

    Council Seats Party control Details
    up of Previous New
    Barnsley 21 63 Labour Labour Details
    Bolton 20 60 No overall control (Conservative minority) No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    Bradford 30 90 Labour Labour Details
    Calderdale 18 51 Labour Labour Details
    Coventry 18 54 Labour Labour Details
    Dudley 25 72 Conservative Conservative Details
    Gateshead 22 66 Labour Labour Details
    Kirklees 23 69 No overall control (Labour minority) Labour Details
    Knowsley 15 45 Labour Labour Details
    Leeds 35 99 Labour Labour Details
    Manchester 32 96 Labour Labour Details
    Newcastle upon Tyne 27 78 Labour Labour Details
    North Tyneside 20 60 Labour Labour Details
    Oldham 21 60 Labour Labour Details
    Salford 20 60 Labour Labour Details
    Sandwell 24 72 Labour Labour Details
    Sefton 22 66 Labour Labour Details
    Sheffield 28 84 No overall control (Labour/Green coalition) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Solihull 17 51 Conservative Conservative Details
    South Tyneside 19 54 Labour Labour Details
    Stockport 21 63 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Lib Dem minority) Details
    Sunderland 25 75 Labour Labour Details
    Tameside 19 57 Labour Labour Details
    Trafford 22 63 Labour Labour Details
    Wakefield 21 63 Labour Labour Details
    Walsall 21 60 Conservative Conservative Details
    Wigan 26 75 Labour Labour Details
    Wirral 23 66 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Wolverhampton 20 60 Labour Labour Details
    All 29 councils 655 1,932

    District councils

    Election of all councillors

    Some councils which elect all their councillors every four years did so in 2022. Gosport usually elects its councillors in halves, but all seats will be up for election due to new election boundaries. St Albans usually elects by thirds but all seats were up on new boundaries. Harrogate was due to elect all its councillors, but the election was cancelled due to the unitarisation of North Yorkshire, with councillors' terms being extended to April 2023, after which the district councils in North Yorkshire will cease to exist.[28]

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Gosport 28[a] Conservative Liberal Democrats Details
    Huntingdonshire 52 Conservative No overall control (Lib Dem/Independent/Labour/Green coalition) Details
    Newcastle-under-Lyme 44 Conservative Conservative Details
    South Cambridgeshire 45 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    St Albans 56[a] Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    All 5 councils 225

    Election of councillors by halves

    District councils which elect their candidates in halves did so in 2022.

    Council Seats Party control Details
    up of Previous New
    Adur 14 29 Conservative Conservative Details
    Cheltenham 21 40 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Fareham 16 31 Conservative Conservative Details
    Hastings 16 32 Labour No overall control (Labour/Green coalition) Details
    Nuneaton and Bedworth 17 34 Conservative Conservative Details
    Oxford 24 48 Labour Labour Details
    All 6 councils 108 214

    Election of councillors by thirds

    District councils which elect by thirds that held elections in 2022. Carlisle, Craven and South Lakeland had been due to have a third of councillors up for election but these were cancelled due to the creation of Cumberland, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland and Furness Unitary authorities.[29]

    Council Seats Party control Details
    up of Previous New
    Amber Valley 15 45 Conservative Conservative Details
    Basildon 14 42 Conservative Conservative Details
    Basingstoke and Deane 19 54 Conservative Conservative Details
    Brentwood 13 37 Conservative Conservative Details
    Broxbourne 10 30 Conservative Conservative Details
    Burnley 15 45 No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    Cambridge 16 42 Labour Labour Details
    Cannock Chase 13 41 Conservative Conservative Details
    Castle Point 14 41 Conservative No overall control (CIIP/PIP coalition) Details
    Cherwell 17 48 Conservative Conservative Details
    Chorley 14 42 Labour Labour Details
    Colchester 18 51 No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition) Details
    Crawley 12 36 No overall control (Labour/independent coalition) Labour Details
    Eastleigh 14 39 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Elmbridge 16 48 No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition) No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition) Details
    Epping Forest 20 58 Conservative Conservative Details
    Exeter 17 39 Labour Labour Details
    Harlow 12 33 Conservative Conservative Details
    Hart 11 33 No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    Havant 14 38 Conservative Conservative Details
    Hyndburn 12 35 Labour No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Ipswich 17 48 Labour Labour Details
    Lincoln 11 33 Labour Labour Details
    Maidstone 18 55 Conservative Conservative Details
    Mole Valley 14 41 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    North Hertfordshire 18 49 No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    Norwich 13 39 Labour Labour Details
    Pendle 12 33 Conservative Conservative Details
    Preston 17 48 Labour Labour Details
    Redditch 11 29 Conservative Conservative Details
    Reigate and Banstead 15 45 Conservative Conservative Details
    Rochford 13 39 Conservative Conservative Details
    Rossendale 12 36 No overall control (Labour minority) Labour Details
    Rugby 14 42 Conservative Conservative Details
    Runnymede 14 41 Conservative Conservative Details
    Rushmoor 13 39 Conservative Conservative Details
    Stevenage 13 39 Labour Labour Details
    Tamworth 10 30 Conservative Conservative Details
    Tandridge 14 42 No overall control
    (independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)     		No overall control
    (independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)     		Details
    Three Rivers 14 39 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Tunbridge Wells 16 48 No overall control
    (Conservative minority)     		No overall control
    (Lib Dem/Labour/Tunbridge Wells Alliance coalition)     		Details
    Watford 12 36 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Welwyn Hatfield 17 48 Conservative Conservative Details
    West Lancashire 20 54 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    West Oxfordshire 16 49 Conservative No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition) Details
    Winchester 15 45 Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats Details
    Woking 10 30 No overall control (Conservative minority) Liberal Democrats Details
    Worcester 13 35 Conservative No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    Worthing 14 37 No overall control (Conservative minority) Labour Details
    All 49 councils 702 2,026

    Unitary authorities

    Election of all councillors

    Reading Borough Council will have all its councillors elected on new ward boundaries. The new unitary authority Somerset Council will hold its first election under the old Somerset County Council boundaries, with twice as many councillors being elected as previously. Shadow authorities for the two new unitary authorities replacing Cumbria County Council and its districts will also be elected, as will councillors for the new North Yorkshire Council ahead of its creation in 2023.

    Notably, the count for the Skipton West and West Craven seat ended in a tie between independent candidate Andy Solloway and the Labour candidate Peter Madeley. After various methods for deciding the tie were mooted, including drawing from a deck of cards, the candidates drew straws with Andy Solloway drawing the long straw, thus being declared the winner.[30]

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Cumberland 46[b] No predecessor Labour Details
    Reading 48[a] Labour Labour Details
    North Yorkshire 90 Conservative Conservative Details
    Somerset 110[c] Conservative Liberal Democrats Details
    Westmorland and Furness 65[b] No predecessor Liberal Democrats Details
    All 5 councils 359

    Election of councillors by thirds

    Unitary authorities that elect councillors in thirds did so in 2022.

    Council Seats Party control Details
    up of Previous New
    Blackburn with Darwen 18 51 Labour Labour Details
    Derby 17 51 No overall control (Conservative minority) No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    Halton 18 54 Labour Labour Details
    Hartlepool 13 36 No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) Details
    Hull 19 57 Labour Liberal Democrats Details
    Milton Keynes 19 57 No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    North East Lincolnshire 16 42 Conservative Conservative Details
    Peterborough 19 60 No overall control (Conservative minority) No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    Plymouth 19 57 No overall control (Conservative minority) No overall control (Conservative majority after party changes) Details
    Portsmouth 14 42 No overall control (Lib Dem minority) No overall control (Lib Dem minority) Details
    Slough 14 42 Labour Labour Details
    Southampton 17 48 Conservative Labour Details
    Southend-on-Sea 18 51 No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    Swindon 19 57 Conservative Conservative Details
    Thurrock 16 49 Conservative Conservative Details
    Wokingham 18 54 Conservative No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/independent coalition) Details
    All 16 councils 274 808

    City of London Corporation

    The Court of Common Council is the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation, which governs the City of London. The 100 councillors were elected across twenty-five wards. Elections were due on 18 March 2021, but as a result of the coronavirus pandemic were delayed to 23 March 2022.[31][32]

    After 2017 election Before 2022 election After 2022 election
    Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats
    Independent 85 Independent 84 Independent 78
    Temple and Farringdon Together 10 Temple and Farringdon Together 10 Temple and Farringdon Together 10
    Labour 5 Labour 6 Castle Baynard Independents 7
    Labour 5

    Mayors

    There were six local authority mayoral elections and one metropolitan mayoral election.

    Combined authorities

    Combined authority Mayor before Mayor-elect Details
    South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis (Lab) Oliver Coppard (Lab) Details

    Local authorities

    Council Mayor before Mayor-elect
    Croydon New position Jason Perry (Con)
    Hackney Philip Glanville (Lab) Philip Glanville (Lab)
    Lewisham Damien Egan (Lab) Damien Egan (Lab)
    Newham Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab) Rokhsana Fiaz (Lab)
    Tower Hamlets John Biggs (Lab) Luftur Rahman (Aspire)
    Watford Peter Taylor (Lib Dem) Peter Taylor (Lib Dem)

    There was also a referendum in Bristol on whether to continue using the mayor-and-cabinet system or to change to the committee system, with 59% voting to abolish the position of mayor.[33]

    Scotland

    By party

    By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Scotland[34]
    Party Councillors Councils
    No. Change No. Change
    No overall control — 27 −2
    SNP 453 +22 1 +1
    Labour 282 +20 1 +1
    Conservatives 214 −63 0 0
    Liberal Democrats 87 +20 0 0
    Greens 35 +16 0 0
    British Unionist[7] 1 +1 0 0
    Rubbish[11] 1 0 0 0
    West Dunbartonshire Community Party[6] 1 0 0 0
    Independents 149 −16 3 0
    Total 1,223 32

    Councils

    Ballot paper used for the elections in the Victoria Park ward of the Glasgow City Council. The vote is held using the single transferable vote, which allows voters to rank their choices.

    Elections were held for all councillors in all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Local elections in Scotland are conducted by the single transferable vote (STV), which results in the number of seats won by each party more proportionally reflecting their share of the vote.[35] As a consequence, local elections in Scotland result more often in no overall control and local authorities being governed by minority or coalition administrations.[35] In this election two of the 32 councils came under one-party majorities - Dundee (SNP) and West Dunbartonshire (Labour).

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Aberdeen 45 No overall control (Labour/Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control (SNP/Lib Dem coalition) Details
    Aberdeenshire 70 No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition) No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition) Details
    Angus 28 No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Argyll and Bute 36 No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition) Details
    Clackmannanshire 18 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Dumfries and Galloway 43 No overall control (Labour/SNP coalition) No overall control (Labour/SNP/Lib Dem/independent coalition) Details
    Dundee 29 No overall control (SNP minority) SNP Details
    East Ayrshire 32 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    East Dunbartonshire 22 No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative coalition) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    East Lothian 22 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    East Renfrewshire 18 No overall control (SNP/Labour/Independent coalition) No overall control (Labour/Independent minority) Details
    Edinburgh 63 No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Falkirk 30 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Fife 75 No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Glasgow 85 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Highland 74 No overall control (independent/Lib Dem/Labour coalition) No overall control (SNP/independent coalition) Details
    Inverclyde 22 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Midlothian 18 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Moray 26 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    Na h-Eileanan Siar 29[a] Independent Independent Details
    North Ayrshire 33[a] No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    North Lanarkshire 77 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Orkney 21[a] Independent Independent Details
    Perth and Kinross 40 No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Renfrewshire 43 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (SNP minority) Details
    Scottish Borders 34 No overall control (Conservative minority) No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) Details
    Shetland 23[a] Independent Independent Details
    South Ayrshire 28 No overall control (SNP/Labour/independent coalition) No overall control (Conservative minority) Details
    South Lanarkshire 64 No overall control (SNP minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    Stirling 23 No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    West Dunbartonshire 22 No overall control (SNP minority) Labour Details
    West Lothian 33 No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control (Labour minority) Details
    All 32 councils 1,226

    Wales

    Elections were held for all councillors in all 22 local authorities as well as for all community council seats in Wales. In all twenty-two councils, the elections were contested under new boundaries. This was the first time Welsh councils could choose between conducting the vote with the current first-past-the-post system or the proportional single transferable vote (STV) system, although practically this will not come into effect until at least 2027, as councils need to give advance notice of such a change.[36][37]

    By party

    By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Wales[38]
    Party Councillors Councils
    No. Change No. Change
    No overall control — 10 −1
    Labour 526 +66 8 +1
    Plaid Cymru 202 −6 4 +3
    Conservatives 111 −86 0 −1
    Liberal Democrats 69 +10 0 0
    Greens 8 +8 0 0
    Gwlad[8] 1 +1 0 0
    Propel[9] 1 +1 0 0
    Independents 314 +6 0 −2
    Total 1,232 22

    Councils

    Council Seats Party control Details
    Previous New
    Anglesey 35[a] No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) Plaid Cymru Details
    Blaenau Gwent 33[a] Independent Labour Details
    Bridgend 51[a] No overall control (Labour minority) Labour Details
    Caerphilly 69[a] Labour Labour Details
    Cardiff 79[a] Labour Labour Details
    Carmarthenshire 75[a] No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) Plaid Cymru Details
    Ceredigion 38[a] No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition) Plaid Cymru Details
    Conwy 55[a] No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control Details
    Denbighshire 48[a] No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition) No overall control Details
    Flintshire 66[a] No overall control (Labour minority) No overall control Details
    Gwynedd 69[a] Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru Details
    Merthyr Tydfil 30[a] Independent No overall control Details
    Monmouthshire 46[a] Conservative No overall control Details
    Neath Port Talbot 60[a] Labour No overall control Details
    Newport 51[a] Labour Labour Details
    Pembrokeshire 60[a] No overall control (independent/Labour/Plaid Cymru/Lib Dem coalition) No overall control Details
    Powys 68[a] No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) No overall control Details
    Rhondda Cynon Taf 75[a] Labour Labour Details
    Swansea 75[a] Labour Labour Details
    Torfaen 40[a] Labour Labour Details
    Vale of Glamorgan 54[a] No overall control (Labour/independent coalition) No overall control Details
    Wrexham 56[a] No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition) No overall control Details
    All 22 councils 1,233

    Opinion polling

    England

    Dates
    conducted     		Pollster Client Area Sample
    size     		Con Lab Lib Dem Green Independent
    /others     		Lead
    22–26 Apr Survation Good Morning Britain England 2,587[d] 34% 47% 10% 4% 6% 13%
    3 May 2018 2018 local elections[e] 32% 41% 14% 7% 6% 9%

    Scotland

    First preference voting intention
    Date(s)
    conducted     		Polling organisation/client Sample size SNP Con Lab Lib Dem Green Alba Others
    5 May 2022 2022 Scottish local elections N/A 34.1% 19.7% 21.8% 8.6% 6.0% 0.7% 9.2%
    29 Apr–3 May 2022 Survation 893 41% 17% 23% 8% 5% 1% 4%
    24–28 Mar 2022 Survation/Ballot Box Scotland 1,002 44% 18% 23% 6% 3% 1% 4%
    20–26 Oct 2021 Panelbase/Scot Goes Pop 1,001 45% 22% 21% 6% 4% 2% <1%
    4 May 2017 2017 Scottish local elections 1,889,658 32.30% 25.30% 20.16% 6.82% 4.1% - 10.4%

    Northern Ireland

    The 2022 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place on 5 May 2022.

    The Northern Ireland local elections are due in 2023.

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ a b All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC.
    2. ^ Swing figures are between the BBC national projected vote share extrapolation from 2021 local elections, and the BBC equivalent vote share projection from these local elections held in different areas.
    3. ^ a b One council was won in Scotland which uses the Single Transferable Vote for its voting system. The system means the number of Scottish councils won outright is far lower than in other parts of the UK.
    4. ^ Davey served as Acting Leader from 13 December 2019 to 27 August 2020 alongside the Party Presidents Baroness Sal Brinton and Mark Pack, following Jo Swinson's election defeat in the 2019 general election. Davey was elected Leader in August 2020.[4]
    5. ^ The SNP only ran in Scotland. The 34.1% result is the result within Scotland
    6. ^ a b Includes the Green Party of England and Wales (124 councillors, gain of 71), as well as the Scottish Greens (35 councillors, gain of 16).
    7. ^ Joy Andrews in Pickering, North Yorkshire.
    1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be New election boundaries
    2. ^ a b Shadow authority for a unitary council being created in 2023
    3. ^ Old boundaries, with twice as many seats as previously
    4. ^ Of these respondents, only those "in areas of England where there are local council elections in May 2022" were prompted.
    5. ^ The listed figures are according to Survation, released under its above polling.

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    7. ^ a b c John Jo Leckie in Fortissat, North Lanarkshire. BBC website includes him as an independent.
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