Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2000

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2000. 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 - last updated and © 03/06/2000

County Councils
	Control	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	37	26
Cumbria	Lab	24	43	12	4
Derbyshire	Lab	12	45	6	1
Devon	LDm	15	4	30	5
Dorset		15	5	21	1
Durham	Lab	2	52	3	4
East Sussex		20	7	17
Essex	Con + Ind	38	24	14	3
Gloucestershire		23	16	20	3
Hampshire	Con	42	8	22	2
Hertfordshire	Con	40	28	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		37	33	13	1
North Yorkshire	Con	38	11	19	6
Northamptonshire	Lab	27	37	4
Northumberland	Lab	14	42	8	2
Nottinghamshire	Lab	17	42	4
Oxfordshire		27	20	21	2
Shropshire		18	8	12	6
Somerset	LDm	18	3	36
Staffordshire	Lab	20	40	2
Suffolk		31	33	15	1
Surrey	Con	48	6	16	6
Warwickshire		22	31	8	1
West Sussex	Con	38	9	23	1
Wiltshire	Con	24	4	18	1
Worcestershire		25	22	8	2
County Totals		894	735	481	85

Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Bath & N.E. Somerset		16	17	30	2
Blackburn	Lab	20	36	6
Blackpool	Lab	16	24	4
Bournemouth		26	6	19	6
Bracknell Forest	Con	30	10
Brighton & Hove	Lab	27	45	3	3
Bristol	Lab	10	36	24
Darlington	Lab	15	35	2
Derby	Lab	9	29	6
East Riding of Yorkshire		27	12	22	6
Halton	Lab	2	43	7	4
Hartlepool		10	21	14	2
Herefordshire		20	4	21	5
Isle of Wight		15	4	16	13
Kingston upon Hull	Lab	2	44	10	4
Leicester	Lab	10	30	16
Luton	Lab	3	36	9
Medway Towns		38	25	15	2
Middlesbrough	Lab	4	41	7	1
Milton Keynes		8	22	20	1
North East Lincolnshire	Lab	11	22	5	4
North Lincolnshire	Lab	19	23
North Somerset	Con	32	13	11	5
Nottingham	Lab	11	40	4
Peterborough		27	22	2	6
Plymouth	Con	39	21
Poole		17	3	19
Portsmouth		16	15	8
Reading	Lab	3	36	6
Redcar & Cleveland	Lab	14	32	11	2
Rutland		1	2	4	13
Slough	Lab	7	27	1	6
South Gloucestershire	LDm	10	23	37
Southampton		7	22	16
Southend-on-Sea	Con	25	5	9
Stockton-on-Tees	Lab	12	38	5
Stoke-on-Trent	Lab	6	32	7	15
Swindon		23	28	8
Telford & Wrekin	Lab	15	30	4	5
Thurrock	Lab	10	38
Torbay	Con	32		4
Warrington	Lab	4	43	13
West Berkshire	LDm	25		28	1
Windsor & Maidenhead		29	1	21	7
Wokingham		27		27
York		3	27	22	1
Unitary Totals		734	1062	523	114

London Borough Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barking & Dagenham	Lab		48	2	3
Barnet		28	26	6
Bexley	Con	32	24	6
Brent	Lab	19	43	4
Bromley		29	7	24
Camden	Lab	11	42	6
Croydon	Lab	31	38	1
Ealing	Lab	16	52	3
Enfield	Lab	23	43
Greenwich	Lab	8	52	2
Hackney		12	29	17	2
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	LDm		25	27
Kensington & Chelsea	Con	39	15
Kingston upon Thames		21	10	19
Lambeth	Lab	5	41	18
Lewisham	Lab	2	60	4	1
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		540	1046	302	31

Metropolitan Borough Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barnsley	Lab	3	52	3	8
Birmingham	Lab	28	66	18	5
Bolton	Lab	15	34	11
Bradford		37	41	11	1
Bury	Lab	13	32	3
Calderdale	Con	28	10	15	1
Coventry	Lab	15	35	1	3
Doncaster	Lab	6	38	9	10
Dudley	Lab	19	40	11
Gateshead	Lab		47	18	1
Kirklees		15	25	29	3
Knowsley	Lab		61	4	1
Leeds	Lab	16	61	19	3
Liverpool	LDm		21	69	9
Manchester	Lab		78	21
Newcastle upon Tyne	Lab		62	16
North Tyneside	Lab	17	34	9
Oldham	LDm	2	25	31	2
Rochdale	Lab	8	31	21
Rotherham	Lab	4	59	1	2
St Helens	Lab	4	35	15
Salford	Lab	3	52	5
Sandwell	Lab	6	55	10	1
Sefton		19	22	25
Sheffield	LDm	1	37	49
Solihull	Con	28	14	9
South Tyneside	Lab		50	6	4
Stockport	LDm	6	22	32	3
Sunderland	Lab	10	62	2	1
Tameside	Lab	6	47	2	2
Trafford	Lab	27	33	3
Wakefield	Lab	6	55	1	1
Walsall		26	27	7
Wigan	Lab	1	69	2
Wirral	Lab	20	33	12
Wolverhampton	Lab	24	33	3
Metropolitan Totals		413	1498	503	61

District Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Adur		15	13	9	2
Allerdale	Lab	8	33	7	5
Alnwick		2	2	13	13
Amber Valley	Con	32	12		1
Arun	Con	36	8	10	2
Ashfield	Lab	1	29	1	2
Ashford		24	11	10	4
Aylesbury Vale		25	1	25	7
Babergh		10	5	13	14
Barrow-in-Furness		16	18		4
Basildon		18	20	4
Basingstoke & Deane		24	15	15	3
Bassetlaw	Lab	14	31	3	2
Bedford		13	18	16	6
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	10	2	25
Bridgnorth		4	4	4	21
Broadland	Con	32	7	8	2
Bromsgrove	Con	30	7		2
Broxbourne	Con	35	3
Broxtowe	Lab	11	26	11	1
Burnley		3	24	9	12
Cambridge	LDm	3	16	23
Cannock Chase	Lab	8	27	7
Canterbury		18	13	18
Caradon		1	2	18	20
Carlisle	Con	30	14	6	2
Carrick	LDm	9	2	27	7
Castle Morpeth		4	10	7	12
Castle Point	Lab	15	24
Charnwood		21	24	6	1
Chelmsford		22	5	27	2
Cheltenham	Con	24	2	12	3
Cherwell	Con	33	13	4	2
Chester		18	21	19	2
Chester-le-Street	Lab	1	30	1	1
Chesterfield	Lab		28	19
Chichester	Con	29		19	2
Chiltern	Con	29		19	2
Chorley		15	24	7	2
Christchurch		8		11	6
Colchester		22	14	23	1
Congleton	LDm	13	1	34
Copeland	Lab	18	30	1	2
Corby	Lab	1	27	1
Cotswold		14	2	7	22
Craven	Con	18		4	12
Crawley	Lab	6	24	2
Crewe & Nantwich	Lab	21	29	4
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	38	1	15	6
East Dorset	Con	26		9	1
East Hampshire	Con	22		17	3
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	Con	18		12
Eastleigh	LDm	9	7	28
Eden			2	5	31
Ellesmere Port & Neston	Lab	6	36	1
Elmbridge		22	1	9	28
Epping Forest		20	12	16	11
Epsom & Ewell	Residents		3	9	27
Erewash	Lab	15	29	4	4
Exeter	Lab	6	25	5	4
Fareham	Con	29	2	11
Fenland	Con	29	6	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	10	20	8	1
Gosport		13	11	6
Gravesham	Lab	15	29
Great Yarmouth	Con	26	22
Guildford		17	6	20	2
Hambleton	Con	35	2	4	6
Harborough		16	3	14	4
Harlow	Lab	8	26	8
Harrogate	LDm	18	1	40
Hart		17		12	6
Hastings	Lab	6	18	8
Havant		20	11	8	3
Hertsmere	Con	22	12	5
High Peak	Lab	10	27	5	2
Hinckley & Bosworth		11	9	14
Horsham	Con	24		16	3
Huntingdonshire	Con	37		13	3
Hyndburn	Con	31	15		1
Ipswich	Lab	15	31	2
Kennet	Con	22	4	4	10
Kerrier		4	11	10	19
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	4	29
Macclesfield	Con	37	6	14	3
Maidstone		16	12	22	5
Maldon	Con	17	6		7
Malvern Hills	Con	22		11	9
Mansfield	Lab	5	39	2
Melton		9	11		6
Mendip		18	10	16	2
Mid Bedfordshire	Con	35	7	6	5
Mid Devon		2	1	18	19
Mid Suffolk		15	6	14	5
Mid Sussex	Con	29	2	21	2
Mole Valley		19	1	14	7
New Forest	Con	30		25	3
Newark & Sherwood		20	26	5	3
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	9	30	16	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	29	18	2
North Kesteven		15	7	9	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	1	26	21
Nuneaton & Bedworth	Lab	10	35
Oadby & Wigston	LDm	4		22
Oswestry		4	6	4	15
Oxford	LibDem + Grn	1	21	21	8
Pendle		9	24	18
Penwith		10	3	7	14
Preston		17	24	12	4
Purbeck	Con	17		3	4
Redditch	Lab	10	17	2
Reigate & Banstead	Con	33	8	4	6
Restormel		13	1	17	13
Ribble Valley		19		18	2
Richmondshire		6		9	19
Rochford		19	9	9	3
Rossendale	Con	24	12
Rother	Con	28	5	8	4
Rugby		14	18	9	7
Runnymede	Con	33	3		6
Rushcliffe	Con	31	11	11	1
Rushmoor	Con	24	10	10	1
Ryedale		11	1	5	6
St Albans		19	15	23	1
St Edmundsbury	Con	23	16	2	3
Salisbury		27	11	16	4
Scarborough		17	11	6	15
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		16	18	11	3
South Bedfordshire		26	7	17	3
South Bucks	Con	27		3	10
South Cambridgeshire		20	5	15	15
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	9	23	5
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	Con	28	2	18	7
Stroud		23	18	6	8
Suffolk Coastal	Con	36	8	10	1
Surrey Heath	Con	22	7	7
Swale		15	12	22
Tamworth	Lab	13	16		1
Tandridge	Con	29	3	10
Taunton Deane		21	5	23	5
Teesdale		1	10		20
Teignbridge		19	1	17	21
Tendring		16	23	9	12
Test Valley	Con	28		15	1
Tewkesbury		13	8	4	11
Thanet	Lab	17	34		3
Three Rivers	LDm	15	7	26
Tonbridge & Malling		27	7	21
Torridge		1	2	12	21
Tunbridge Wells	Con	31	5	11	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		8	18	10
Waveney	Lab	13	28	4	3
Waverley	Con	31	2	24
Wealden	Con	34		22	2
Wear Valley	Lab		30	5	5
Wellingborough	Lab	15	20		1
Welwyn Hatfield	Lab	23	25
West Devon		9		8	13
West Dorset		21	4	15	14
West Lancashire	Lab	22	31		2
West Lindsey		9	3	16	9
West Oxfordshire	Con	26	2	13	8
West Somerset	Con	18	5	1	7
West Wiltshire	LDm	10	2	27	4
Weymouth & Portland		5	13	12	5
Winchester	LDm	10	4	36	5
Woking		14	5	16	1
Worcester		16	15	1	4
Worthing	Con	20		16
Wychavon	Con	29	5	11	4
Wycombe	Con	42	9	7	2
Wyre	Con	35	19	2
Wyre Forest		5	11	4	22
District Totals		4021	3069	2390	1272

Scottish Unitary Authorities
	Control	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	SNP	1	7		10
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	2	43	21	9	3
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		10	11		1
West Dunbartonshire	Lab		14		7	1
West Lothian	Lab	1	20		11
Western Isles			5		3	22
Scotland Totals		109	549	156	204	202

Welsh Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Pl.Cym	Others
Blaenau Gwent	Lab		34	1		7
Bridgend	Lab	1	40	6	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	14	1	8	22
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		4	13	3	2	38
Powys		1	6	6		60
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	0	6
Wrexham		4	26	7		15
Wales Totals		75	564	96	203	331

England, Scotland & Wales Totals	Con	Labour	LibDem	SNP	Pl.Cym	Others
	6786	8523	4451	204	203	2096

Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2000

County Councils

Unitary Authorities

London Borough Councils

Metropolitan Borough Councils

District Councils

Scottish Unitary Authorities

Welsh Unitary Authorities

England, Scotland & Wales Totals