Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 1999

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 1999. Refer to the live compositions page for links to other preserved historical files.

There are five tables for the different types of council in England: County Councils, Unitary Authorities, London Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs, and District Councils; followed by tables for Scottish Unitary Authorities, and Welsh Unitary Authorities

Keith Edkins - recreated and © 14/05/2022

County Councils
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Bedfordshire	Con	25	14	10
Buckinghamshire	Con	38	5	10	1
Cambridgeshire	Con	33	10	16
Cheshire		19	19	10
Cornwall		8	8	39	24
Cumbria	Lab	23	44	12	4
Derbyshire	Lab	12	45	6	1
Devon	LDm	14	4	31	5
Dorset		15	5	21	1
Durham	Lab	2	53	2	4
East Sussex		20	7	17
Essex		38	24	16	1
Gloucestershire		22	17	22	2
Hampshire	Con	41	9	22	2
Hertfordshire	Con	39	29	9
Kent	Con	45	23	8	1
Lancashire	Lab	23	47	7	1
Leicestershire		25	17	11	1
Lincolnshire	Con	43	19	11	3
Norfolk		36	34	13	1
North Yorkshire		35	12	21	6
Northamptonshire	Lab	27	37	4
Northumberland	Lab	14	42	8	2
Nottinghamshire	Lab	17	42	4
Oxfordshire		27	22	19	2
Shropshire		17	8	13	6
Somerset	LDm	17	3	37
Staffordshire	Lab	20	40	2
Suffolk		31	33	15	1
Surrey	Con	47	6	17	6
Warwickshire		22	31	8	1
West Sussex	Con	38	9	23	1
Wiltshire		23	4	19	1
Worcestershire		25	22	8	2
County Totals		881	744	490	81

Unitary Authorities
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Bath & N.E. Somerset		16	17	30	2
Blackburn	Lab	16	43	3
Blackpool	Lab	8	33	3
Bournemouth		25	6	20	6
Bracknell Forest	Con	23	17
Brighton & Hove	Lab	27	45	3	3
Bristol	Lab	10	37	23
Darlington	Lab	15	35	2
Derby	Lab	6	34	4
East Riding of Yorkshire		27	12	22	6
Halton	Lab	1	46	8
Hartlepool	Lab	6	30	10	1
Herefordshire	LDm	8	2	32	18
Isle of Wight		15	4	16	13
Kingston upon Hull	Lab	1	51	4	4
Leicester	Lab	10	30	16
Luton	Lab	3	36	9
Medway Towns		20	39	21
Middlesbrough	Lab	4	41	7	1
Milton Keynes	Lab	4	27	19	1
North East Lincolnshire	Lab	11	22	5	4
North Lincolnshire	Lab	19	23
North Somerset	Con	32	13	11	5
Nottingham	Lab	3	50	2	1
Peterborough		24	26	2	5
Plymouth	Lab	13	47
Poole		17	3	19
Portsmouth	Lab	10	20	9
Reading	Lab	3	36	6
Redcar & Cleveland	Lab	14	32	11	2
Rutland		1	2	4	13
Slough	Lab	6	32		3
South Gloucestershire	LDm	8	25	37
Southampton	Lab	4	27	14
Southend-on-Sea		19	8	12
Stockton-on-Tees	Lab	12	38	5
Stoke-on-Trent	Lab	2	48	4	6
Swindon	Lab	5	39	10
Thurrock	Lab	1	45
Torbay	LDm	14	2	20
Warrington	Lab	4	45	11
West Berkshire	LDm	15		38	1
Windsor & Maidenhead		21	1	29	7
Wokingham	Con	30		24
Wrekin	Lab	9	38	4	3
York	Lab	3	27	22	1
Unitary Totals		545	1234	551	106

London Borough Councils
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barking & Dagenham	Lab		49	1	3
Barnet		28	26	6
Bexley	Con	32	24	6
Brent	Lab	19	43	4
Bromley		28	7	25
Camden	Lab	11	42	6
Croydon	Lab	31	38	1
Ealing	Lab	15	53	3
Enfield	Lab	23	43
Greenwich	Lab	8	52	2
Hackney		12	29	16	3
Hammersmith & Fulham	Lab	14	35		1
Haringey	Lab	2	54	3
Harrow	Lab	20	32	9	2
Havering		14	29	3	17
Hillingdon		33	32	4
Hounslow	Lab	11	44	4	1
Islington			26	26
Kensington & Chelsea	Con	39	15
Kingston upon Thames		21	10	19
Lambeth	Lab	5	41	18
Lewisham	Lab	2	61	4
Merton	Lab	12	39	3	3
Newham	Lab		60
Redbridge		24	29	9
Richmond upon Thames	LDm	14	4	34
Southwark	Lab	4	33	27
Sutton	LDm	5	5	46
Tower Hamlets	Lab		41	9
Waltham Forest	Lab	14	30	12	1
Wandsworth	Con	50	11
Westminster	Con	47	13
London Totals		538	1050	300	31

Metropolitan Borough Councils
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barnsley	Lab	3	59	2	2
Birmingham	Lab	20	77	16	3
Bolton	Lab	10	41	9
Bradford	Lab	26	54	10
Bury	Lab	8	36	3	1
Calderdale		19	20	14	1
Coventry	Lab	8	44		2
Doncaster	Lab	5	37	9	12
Dudley	Lab	8	54	10
Gateshead	Lab		49	15	2
Kirklees		10	36	23	3
Knowsley	Lab		64	2
Leeds	Lab	12	71	14	2
Liverpool	LDm		28	60	11
Manchester	Lab		80	19
Newcastle upon Tyne	Lab		64	14
North Tyneside	Lab	13	38	8	1
Oldham	Lab	1	33	26
Rochdale	Lab	6	35	19
Rotherham	Lab	2	63	1
St Helens	Lab	3	37	14
Salford	Lab		56	4
Sandwell	Lab	2	61	9
Sefton		15	30	24
Sheffield	LDm	1	39	47
Solihull		24	15	11	1
South Tyneside	Lab		51	6	3
Stockport	LDm	2	25	32	4
Sunderland	Lab	8	64	3
Tameside	Lab	4	48	2	3
Trafford	Lab	27	33	3
Wakefield	Lab	3	57		3
Walsall	Lab	21	31	6	2
Wigan	Lab		70	2
Wirral	Lab	17	39	10
Wolverhampton	Lab	17	40	3
Metropolitan Totals		295	1679	450	56

District Councils
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Adur		8	15	13	3
Allerdale	Lab	8	33	7	5
Alnwick		2	2	13	13
Amber Valley	Lab	11	32
Arun	Con	36	8	10	2
Ashfield	Lab	1	29	1	2
Ashford		24	11	10	4
Aylesbury Vale		24	1	26	7
Babergh		10	5	13	14
Barrow-in-Furness		17	18		3
Basildon	Lab	11	23	8
Basingstoke & Deane		24	15	14	4
Bassetlaw	Lab	12	32	3	3
Bedford		9	19	18	7
Berwick-upon-Tweed	LDm	1	1	18	9
Blaby	Con	25	6	8
Blyth Valley	Lab	2	36	9	3
Bolsover	Lab		32		5
Boston		12	11	3	6
Braintree	Lab	16	31	4	9
Breckland	Con	34	14	2	3
Brentwood	LDm	9	2	25	3
Bridgnorth		4	4	4	21
Broadland	Con	25	12	9	3
Bromsgrove	Con	30	7		2
Broxbourne	Con	33	5
Broxtowe	Lab	10	27	11	1
Burnley	Lab	3	31	9	5
Cambridge		3	21	18
Cannock Chase	Lab	3	34	5
Canterbury		18	14	17
Caradon		1	2	18	20
Carlisle	Con	28	16	6	2
Carrick	LDm	9	2	27	7
Castle Morpeth		4	9	7	13
Castle Point	Lab	15	24
Charnwood		21	24	6	1
Chelmsford		21	5	28	2
Cheltenham		18	1	17	5
Cherwell		26	19	5	2
Chester		18	22	18	2
Chester-le-Street	Lab	1	30	1	1
Chesterfield	Lab		28	19
Chichester	Con	29		19	2
Chiltern	Con	29		19	2
Chorley	Lab	9	31	6	2
Christchurch		8		11	6
Colchester		18	15	26	1
Congleton	LDm	8	2	38
Copeland	Lab	18	30	1	2
Corby	Lab	1	27	1
Cotswold		14	2	7	22
Craven	Con	19	1	4	10
Crawley	Lab	5	25	2
Crewe & Nantwich	Lab	20	29	5	2
Dacorum		26	20	6
Dartford	Lab	14	28		5
Daventry	Con	20	13	3	2
Derbyshire Dales	Con	21	5	9	4
Derwentside	Lab		47		8
Dover		26	28	1	1
Durham	Lab		33	13	3
Easington	Lab		45	1	5
East Cambridgeshire	LDm	1	4	20	12
East Devon	Con	39	1	14	6
East Dorset	Con	26		9	1
East Hampshire	Con	21		17	4
East Hertfordshire	Con	31	8	9	2
East Lindsey		6	9	8	36
East Northamptonshire	Con	20	15		1
East Staffordshire	Lab	15	28	3
Eastbourne		15		15
Eastleigh	LDm	7	8	29
Eden			2	5	31
Ellesmere Port & Neston	Lab	5	37	1
Elmbridge		24	6	8	22
Epping Forest		19	14	15	11
Epsom & Ewell	Res		3	9	27
Erewash	Lab	15	29	4	4
Exeter	Lab	3	22	8	3
Fareham		21	5	16	2
Fenland	Con	28	7	1	3
Forest Heath	Con	21	1	2	1
Forest of Dean	Lab	1	30	6	12
Fylde		21	2	3	23
Gedling	Con	29	18	7	3
Gloucester	Lab	8	23	8
Gosport		10	11	7	2
Gravesham	Lab	15	29
Great Yarmouth	Lab	19	29
Guildford		17	6	20	2
Hambleton	Con	35	2	4	6
Harborough		16	3	14	4
Harlow	Lab	4	34	4
Harrogate	LDm	15	3	41
Hart		16		14	5
Hastings	Lab	2	19	11
Havant		16	8	11	7
Hertsmere	Con	20	13	6
High Peak	Lab	10	27	5	2
Hinckley & Bosworth		11	9	14
Horsham	Con	24		16	3
Huntingdonshire	Con	37		14	3
Hyndburn		23	23		1
Ipswich	Lab	10	37	1
Kennet		20	4	4	12
Kerrier		4	11	11	18
Kettering		18	22	1	4
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk		26	27	5	3
Lancaster		9	17	6	28
Lewes	LDm	16		30	2
Lichfield	Con	29	24	2	1
Lincoln	Lab	2	31
Macclesfield	Con	37	7	13	3
Maidstone		15	13	22	5
Maldon	Con	17	6		7
Malvern Hills		10	1	21	10
Mansfield	Lab	5	39	2
Melton		7	13		6
Mendip		18	10	16	2
Mid Bedfordshire	Con	34	7	6	6
Mid Devon		2	1	18	19
Mid Suffolk		15	6	14	5
Mid Sussex	Con	29	2	21	2
Mole Valley		17	1	16	7
New Forest	Con	30		25	3
Newark & Sherwood		20	26	5	3
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	7	36	12	1
North Cornwall		3		10	25
North Devon	LDm	5		26	13
North Dorset		16		10	6
North East Derbyshire	Lab	9	38	3	3
North Hertfordshire	Con	28	18	3
North Kesteven		14	7	10	9
North Norfolk		14	10	12	10
North Shropshire		8	5	2	25
North Warwickshire	Lab	9	22	2	1
North West Leicestershire	Lab	8	31		1
North Wiltshire		20	4	26	2
Northampton	Lab	8	28	11
Norwich	Lab		34	14
Nuneaton & Bedworth	Lab	5	40
Oadby & Wigston	LDm	4		22
Oswestry		4	6	4	15
Oxford	Lab		28	16	7
Pendle		7	20	23	1
Penwith		9	5	10	11
Preston		13	28	14	2
Purbeck	Con	13	1	5	5
Redditch	Lab	6	20	3
Reigate & Banstead		22	13	8	6
Restormel		13	1	17	13
Ribble Valley		19		18	2
Richmondshire		6		9	19
Rochford		11	12	13	4
Rossendale	Lab	15	21
Rother	Con	28	5	8	4
Rugby		11	22	7	8
Runnymede	Con	25	9	2	6
Rushcliffe	Con	31	11	11	1
Rushmoor		18	13	14
Ryedale		11	1	5	6
St Albans		21	16	21
St Edmundsbury	Con	23	16	2	3
Salisbury		27	11	16	4
Scarborough		17	13	5	14
Sedgefield	Lab		43	2	4
Sedgemoor	Con	31	16	2	1
Selby		15	19	2	5
Sevenoaks	Con	33	9	9	2
Shepway	Con	30	13	13
Shrewsbury & Atcham		13	20	11	4
South Bedfordshire		16	15	19	3
South Bucks	Con	27		3	10
South Cambridgeshire		15	9	15	16
South Derbyshire	Lab	9	24		1
South Hams	Con	29	3	4	4
South Holland		19	3	1	15
South Kesteven		29	12	3	14
South Lakeland		15	10	21	6
South Norfolk	LDm	16	2	27	2
South Northamptonshire	Con	28	7	3	4
South Oxfordshire		20	7	20	3
South Ribble		18	21	12	3
South Shropshire				14	26
South Somerset	LDm	13		41	6
South Staffordshire	Con	37	10	1	2
Spelthorne	Con	27	9	4
Stafford		23	28	8	1
Staffordshire Moorlands		13	15	9	19
Stevenage	Lab	3	33	3
Stratford-on-Avon		24	4	20	7
Stroud		17	24	5	9
Suffolk Coastal	Con	36	8	10	1
Surrey Heath	Con	22	7	7
Swale		9	17	23
Tamworth	Lab	2	27		1
Tandridge		18	7	17
Taunton Deane		21	5	23	5
Teesdale		1	10		20
Teignbridge		19	2	16	21
Tendring		16	23	9	12
Test Valley	Con	28		15	1
Tewkesbury		13	8	4	11
Thanet	Lab	16	35		3
Three Rivers	LDm	15	7	26
Tonbridge & Malling		27	7	21
Torridge		1	2	12	21
Tunbridge Wells	Con	28	7	12	1
Tynedale		22	14	10	6
Uttlesford		16	2	18	6
Vale of White Horse	LDm	15	2	33	1
Vale Royal	Lab	16	33	8
Wansbeck	Lab		25	19	1
Warwick		10	16	13	6
Watford	Lab	7	19	10
Waveney	Lab	5	38	3	2
Waverley	Con	31	2	24
Wealden	Con	34		22	2
Wear Valley	Lab		30	5	5
Wellingborough	Lab	15	20		1
Welwyn Hatfield		24	24
West Devon		8		8	14
West Dorset		21	4	15	14
West Lancashire	Lab	21	32		2
West Lindsey		10	3	16	8
West Oxfordshire		19	7	13	10
West Somerset	Con	17	6	1	7
West Wiltshire	LDm	10	2	27	4
Weymouth & Portland		2	15	12	6
Winchester	LDm	12	4	34	5
Woking		13	7	14	1
Worcester	Lab	11	20	2	3
Worthing	Con	19		16	1
Wychavon	Con	29	5	11	4
Wycombe	Con	42	9	7	2
Wyre	Con	35	19	2
Wyre Forest		5	18	4	15
District Totals		3697	3336	2447	1271

Scottish Unitary Authorities
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	SNP	Others
Aberdeen City	Lab	6	22	12	3
Aberdeenshire		7		28	23	10
Angus	SNP	2	1	2	21	3
Argyll & Bute		3	1	6	5	21
Clackmannanshire		1	8		9
Dumfries & Galloway		8	13	6	5	15
Dundee		4	14		10
East Ayrshire	Lab	1	17		14
East Dunbartonshire		3	11	10
East Lothian	Lab	5	17		1
East Renfrewshire		8	9	2		1
Edinburgh	Lab	13	31	13	1
Falkirk		2	15		9	6
Fife	Lab	1	43	21	9	4
Glasgow	Lab	1	74	1	2	1
Highland			10	12	8	50
Inverclyde	Lab	1	11	8
Midlothian	Lab		17	1
Moray		1	6	2	2	15
North Ayrshire	Lab	2	25		2	1
North Lanarkshire	Lab		56		12	2
Orkney						21
Perth & Kinross		11	6	6	16	2
Renfrewshire	Lab	1	21	3	15	0
Scottish Borders		1	1	14	4	14
Shetland				8		14
South Ayrshire	Lab	13	17
South Lanarkshire	Lab	2	54	1	10
Stirling		9	11		2
West Dunbartonshire	Lab		14		7	1
West Lothian	Lab	1	20		11
Western Isles			6		3	21
Scotland Totals		107	551	156	204	202

Welsh Unitary Authorities
	Ctrl	Con	Labour	LibDem	Pl.Cym	Others
Blaenau Gwent	Lab		34	1		7
Bridgend	Lab	1	41	5	2	5
Caerphilly	PlC		29	3	38	3
Cardiff	Lab	5	50	18	1	1
Carmarthenshire			28	1	14	31
Ceredigion			1	7	14	22
Conwy		5	20	14	7	13
Denbighshire		2	13	1	8	23
Flintshire	Lab	1	42	7		20
Gwynedd	PlC		12	6	44	21
Isle of Anglesey		1	4		9	26
Merthyr Tydfil			16		4	13
Monmouthshire		19	18	1		4
Neath & Port Talbot	Lab		40	2	10	11
Newport	Lab	5	40			2
Pembrokeshire		3	13	3	2	39
Powys		1	7	6		59
Rhondda Cynon Taff	PlC		26	2	42	5
Swansea	Lab	4	47	10	2	9
Torfaen	Lab	1	39	1		3
Vale of Glamorgan		22	19		6
Wrexham		4	26	7		15
Wales Totals		74	565	95	203	332

England, Scotland & Wales Totals	Con	Labour	LibDem	SNP	Pl.Cym	Others
	6137	9159	4489	204	203	2079

Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 1999

County Councils

Unitary Authorities

London Borough Councils

Metropolitan Borough Councils

District Councils

Scottish Unitary Authorities

Welsh Unitary Authorities

England, Scotland & Wales Totals