2019 Exeter City Council election

2019 Exeter City Council election[1]
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13 of 39 seats (One Third) to Exeter City Council
20 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats before 29 8 1
Seats won 9 2 1
Seats after 29 6 2
Seat change Steady Decrease2 Increase1
Popular vote 11,897 8,713 5,873
Percentage 36.4% 26.7% 18.0%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Green Independent
Seats before 1 0
Seats won 1 1
Seats after 1 1
Seat change Steady Increase1
Popular vote 2,776 1,486
Percentage 8.5% 4.5%
Map showing the results of the 2019 Exeter City Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats, blue shows the Conservatives, yellow shows the Liberal Democrats, green shows the Green Party and silver shows and Independent.

The 2019 Exeter City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect the members of Exeter City Council in Devon, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. 14 of the 39 seats were up for re-election: those of the candidates who had finished second in the all-out election of 2016, with a double vacancy in Priory ward. The Labour Party remained in control with 29 seats, with the Conservatives as the main opposition party, with 6 seats.[2]

  1. ^ Andrew Teale. "Local Election Results 2019". Local Elections Archive Project.
  2. ^ Exeter Council [@ExeterCouncil] (3 May 2019). "The new political makeup of the council is: Labour - 29 Conservatives - 6 Liberal Democrats - 2 Green Party - 1 Independent [sic] - 1" (Tweet) – via Twitter.