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 Map showing party control of councils following the elections.
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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.[2] 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 500 council seats. The Liberal Democrats finished second for the first time in a local election cycle since 2009.[3]
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- ^ Stewart, Heather (27 August 2020). "'Wake up and smell the coffee': Ed Davey elected Lib Dem leader". The Guardian.
- ^ "Parliamentary by-election Blackpool South". Blackpool Council. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ "Britain's Conservatives trounced in local elections as Labour makes gains". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 5 May 2024.