2021 Northumberland County Council election

2021 Northumberland County Council election[1]
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All 67 seats
to Northumberland County Council
34 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Glen Sanderson Susan Dungworth
Party Conservative Labour
Last election 33 24
Seats won 34 21
Seat change Increase1 Decrease3
  Third party Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Independent Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 7 3 0
Seats won 7 3 2
Seat change Steady Steady Increase2
Map of the results of the 2021 local election.
Control of Council before election


No overall control

Control of Council after election


Conservative

An election for the Northumberland County Council took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom.[2] All 67 councillors were elected from 66 electoral divisions which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.

The results saw the Conservative Party win 34 seats, a bare majority.[3]

  1. ^ "Northumberland County Council". BBC. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Elections 2021: Tories win Northumberland after dead-heat ballots". BBC News. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.