2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election

2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
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All 44 seats to Stoke-on-Trent City Council
23 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Jane Ashworth Abi Brown Ann James
Party Labour Conservative City Independents
Last election 16 seats, 32.4% 15 seats, 34.8% 12 seats, 25.6%
Seats won 29 14 1
Seat change Increase 13 Decrease 1 Decrease 11
Popular vote 35,983 29,697 5,908
Percentage 46.9% 38.7% 7.7%
Swing Increase 14.5% Increase 3.9% Decrease 17.9%
Winner of each seat at the 2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election
Leader before election

Abi Brown
Conservative
No overall control

Leader after election

Jane Ashworth
Labour

The 2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.[1] New ward boundaries took effect for this election, although the number of councillors stayed the same at 44.[2]

Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being led by a Conservative minority administration. Labour took a majority of the seats at the election.[3][4] Labour group leader Jane Ashworth was appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 25 May 2023.[5]

Stoke-on-Trent is a city made up of six towns. These include Tunstall and Burslem in the North, Hanley and Stoke in its Central and Fenton and Longton in the South.

  1. ^ "Local elections 2023: What to expect from May's polls in England". BBC. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  2. ^ "The Stoke-on-Trent (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/665, retrieved 1 January 2024
  3. ^ Giddings, Andy (5 May 2023). "Stoke-on-Trent: Labour seizes back control of city council". BBC News. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  4. ^ Andrews, Rob (5 May 2023). "Every Stoke-on-Trent City Council election result as it happened". Stoke-on-Trent Live. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  5. ^ Price, Richard (25 May 2023). ""We're going to clean up Stoke-on-Trent" - First big interview with new council leader Jane Ashworth". Stoke-on-Trent Live. Retrieved 1 January 2024.