2024 Tamworth Borough Council election

2024 Tamworth Borough Council election
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10 of the 30 seats on Tamworth Borough Council
15 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
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Leader Carol Dean Thomas Jay
Party Labour Conservative
Seats before 9 14
Seats won 18 8
Seat change Increase 9 Decrease 9
Popular vote 7,803 5,453
Percentage 49.1 34.3
Swing Increase 5.2 Decrease 2.3
  Third party
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Party Independent
Seats before 7
Seats won 4
Popular vote 576
Percentage 3.6
Swing Decrease 11.7
Map of the results
Leader before election

Thomas Jay
Conservative
No overall control

Leader after election

Carol Dean
Labour

The 2024 Tamworth Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect 10 of the 30 councillors on Tamworth Borough Council in Staffordshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

In the previous election, the Conservatives lost control of the council losing 6 seats, whilst Labour gained 7 seats.[1] Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being led by a coalition administration of the Conservatives and some of the independent councillors, led by Conservative councillor Thomas Jay.[2]

In this election, the Conservatives lost 9 seats to Labour, giving Labour an overall majority on the council.[3] The Labour group leader, Carol Dean, was formally appointed as leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 21 May 2024.[4]

  1. ^ Perrin, Ben (2023-05-05). "Tamworth local elections results in full as Conservatives suffer major losses". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ^ Sutton, Jonathan (14 December 2023). "Borough council appoints new leader". BBC News. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Tamworth result - Local Elections 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  4. ^ "Council minutes, 21 May 2024". Tamworth Borough Council. Retrieved 21 July 2024.