2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
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23 out of 69 seats to Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council
35 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Cathy Scott David Hall
Party Labour Conservative Independent
Last election 39 seats, 42.6% 18 seats, 30.4% 1 seat, 2.5%
Seats before 35 18 5
Seats won 7 5 6
Seats after 31 15 9
Seat change Decrease 4 Decrease 3 Increase 4
Popular vote 34,519 26,844 19,121
Percentage 31.2% 24.2% 17.3%
Swing Decrease 11.4% Decrease 6.2% Increase 14.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader John Lawson Andrew Cooper
Party Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 8 seats, 13.7% 3 seats, 10.5%
Seats before 8 3
Seats won 3 2
Seats after 10 4
Seat change Increase 2 Increase 1
Popular vote 13,655 15,357
Percentage 12.3% 13.9%
Swing Decrease 1.3% Increase 3.4%
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
Leader before election

Cathy Scott
Labour

Leader after election

Cathy Scott
Independent
No overall control

The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.[1]

Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the war in Gaza.[2] The four members subsequently formed the Kirklees Community Independents Group,[3] which had no seats up for election this year. With this exception, the pre-election council makeup had otherwise remained unchanged from the 2023 election.

Labour lost control of the council to no overall control.[4] Following the election, the leader of the council, Cathy Scott, was replaced as Labour group leader by Carole Pattison.[5] However, Cathy Scott managed to retain her position as leader of the council, leaving Labour along with four others to sit as a group of independents calling themselves the Community Alliance.[6]

  1. ^ "District Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayoral Elections 2024". Kirklees Council.
  2. ^ Shaw, Martin (2024-02-13). "Kirklees Council Labour group hit by resignation of four councillors in protest over Gaza and local leadership". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  3. ^ Marlow, Abigail (2024-02-20). "Ex-Labour members form new group on Kirklees Council after 'toxic swamp' resignations". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  4. ^ "Kirklees election result". BBC News.
  5. ^ Shaw, Martin (14 May 2024). "Kirklees Council to get new leader after Cathy Scott is ousted by Labour group". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  6. ^ Shaw, Martin (23 May 2024). "Council leader Cathy Scott quits Labour and pledges 'new era of collaboration and transparency'". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 21 June 2024.