2024 Leeds City Council election

2024 Leeds City Council election
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33 of 99 seats on Leeds City Council
50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout34.2% (Increase 3.0%)
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Leader James Lewis Alan Lamb[1] Stewart Golton
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Last election 22 seats, 44.4% 4 seats, 22.3% 2 seats, 10.6%
Seats before 61 18 6
Seats won 19 5 2
Seats after 61 15[2] 6
Seat change Steady Decrease3 Steady
Popular vote 85,055 40,327 18,527
Percentage 43.3% 20.5% 9.4%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader David Blackburn Robert Finnigan Mark Dobson
Party Green Morley Borough Independents Garforth and Swillington Independents
Last election 1 seat, 14.2% 2 seats, 2.5% 1 seat, 1.9%
Seats before 3 4 3
Seats won 3 2 1
Seats after 5 4 3
Seat change Increase2 Steady Steady
Popular vote 32,085 4,538 3,469
Percentage 16.3% 2.3% 1.8%
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Wayne Dixon n/a
Party SDP Independent
Last election 1 seat, 1.4% 0 seats, 0.4%
Seats before 2 2
Seats won 1 0
Seats after 3 2
Seat change Increase1 Steady
Popular vote 3,173 1,554
Percentage 1.6% 0.8%
Map of Leeds City Council wards
Leader before election

James Lewis
Labour

Leader after election

James Lewis
Labour

The 2024 Leeds City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024. It was held on the same day as the second West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.[3]

The Labour Party maintained control of the council, with their seat count holding steady. For the third year in a row, the Conservative Party lost three seats, all to Labour; the party would additionally lose a seat in Pudsey two days after the election when Trish Smith, re-elected the previous year, resigned to sit as an independent.[4] The Green Party also succeeded in taking three seats from Labour and saw the largest popular vote share increase out of any of the parties, though Labour in turn unseated Green group leader David Blackburn, preventing the Greens from equalling the Liberal Democrats as the third-largest group on the council. The Social Democratic Party took the third seat in Middleton Park, wiping out the Labour Party's representation in the ward, and all other parties held level in their seat count.[5]

  1. ^ Spereall, David (19 May 2023). "End of an era as Leeds Conservative party group leader Andrew Carter steps down after 43 years". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ Seat count includes Pudsey councillor Trish Smith, who resigned from the Conservative Party two days after the election.
  3. ^ "Local elections 2024: What can't I do in a polling station?". BBC News. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  4. ^ Pudsey councillor Trish Smith quits Conservative party
  5. ^ Connolly, James (3 May 2024). "Leeds City Council election results 2024 in full as count confirms who has been elected in every ward". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 21 June 2024.