Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

For the individual settlement, see Dudley. For the borough, see Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough
The word Dudley in blue text with a green arc over the top of the word.
Type
Type
Leadership
Hilary Bills,
Labour
since 16 May 2024[1]
Patrick Harley,
Conservative
since 16 May 2019
Kevin O'Keefe
since 2019[2]
Structure
Seats72 councillors
Representation of each seat as a coloured dot with colours referring to the political parties
Political groups
Administration (34)
  Conservative (34)
Other parties (38)
  Labour (34)
  Liberal Democrats (3)
  Independent (1)
Elections
First past the post
Last election
2 May 2024
Next election
7 May 2026
Motto
Unity and Progress
Meeting place
Council House, Priory Road, Dudley, DY1 1HF
Dudley Metropolitan Borough shown within West Midlands
Website
www.dudley.gov.uk

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Dudley Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. The town of Dudley had been a borough since the thirteenth century, being reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the West Midlands Combined Authority since 2016.

The council has been under no overall control since the 2024 election, with the leader of the council being a Conservative. It is based at Dudley Council House.

  1. ^ "Former headteacher named as new Mayor". Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. 16 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  2. ^ Poole, Danielle (1 May 2019). "New chief executive appointed at Dudley Council". Dudley News. Retrieved 13 February 2024.