Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2002

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2002. 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
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Bedfordshire	Con	26	13	10
Buckinghamshire	Con	40	5	9
Cambridgeshire	Con	34	9	16
Cheshire	Con	28	17	5	1
Cornwall		9	9	36	25
Cumbria	Con + LD	33	40	10	1
Derbyshire	Lab	13	43	7	1
Devon		23	5	21	5
Dorset	Con	23	4	14	1
Durham	Lab	2	53	4	2
East Sussex	Con	24	7	13
Essex	Con	49	19	10	1
Gloucestershire		27	19	16	1
Hampshire	Con	46	9	19
Hertfordshire	Con	40	26	10
Kent	Con	52	22	10
Lancashire	Lab	26	44	6	2
Leicestershire	Con	29	15	10
Lincolnshire	Con	49	21	4	3
Norfolk	Con	47	26	11
North Yorkshire	Con	41	12	17	4
Northamptonshire	Lab	33	39	1
Northumberland	Lab	17	38	9	3
Nottinghamshire	Lab	20	40	3
Oxfordshire		26	24	19	1
Shropshire	Lab/LD/Ind	17	11	9	7
Somerset		24	5	29
Staffordshire	Lab	22	36	4
Suffolk		31	35	12	2
Surrey	Con	51	6	13	6
Warwickshire		20	28	13	1
West Sussex	Con	42	11	18
Wiltshire	Con	28	3	14	2
Worcestershire		26	14	8	9
County Totals		1018	708	410	78

Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Bath & N.E. Somerset		16	17	30	2
Blackburn with Darwen	Lab	16	37	9
Blackpool	Lab	15	25	4
Bournemouth		27	6	18	6
Bracknell Forest	Con	30	10
Brighton & Hove	Lab	26	46	3	3
Bristol	Lab	10	36	24
Darlington	Lab	15	35	2
Derby	Lab	11	27	12	1
East Riding of Yorkshire		27	12	22	6
Halton	Lab	2	47	7
Hartlepool		8	23	12	4
Herefordshire		21	5	20	14
Isle of Wight		12	5	19	12
Kingston upon Hull		2	24	29	4
Leicester	Lab	10	29	17
Luton	Lab	3	36	9
Medway Towns		38	25	15	2
Middlesbrough	Lab	4	41	7	1
Milton Keynes	LDm	8	16	27
North East Lincolnshire	Lab	11	23	5	3
North Lincolnshire	Lab	19	23
North Somerset	Con	32	11	12	6
Nottingham	Lab	11	40	4
Peterborough	Con	30	18	4	5
Plymouth	Con	37	22	1
Poole		17	3	19
Portsmouth		15	14	13
Reading	Lab	3	36	6
Redcar & Cleveland	Lab	14	31	11	3
Rutland		1	1	4	14
Slough	Lab	6	27	2	6
South Gloucestershire	LDm	10	23	37
Southampton		11	19	18
Southend-on-Sea	Con	33	11	7
Stockton-on-Tees	Lab	12	38	5
Stoke-on-Trent		6	21	8	22
Swindon		22	29	8
Telford & Wrekin	Lab	15	30	4	5
Thurrock	Lab	9	37	1	2
Torbay	Con	30		6
Warrington	Lab	4	41	15
West Berkshire	LDm	25		28	1
Windsor & Maidenhead		29	1	21	7
Wokingham	Con	30	1	22	1
York		3	25	24	1
Unitary Totals		736	1027	571	131

London Borough Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barking & Dagenham	Lab	2	42	3	4
Barnet	Con	33	24	6
Bexley	Lab	30	32	1
Brent	Lab	16	35	9
Bromley	Con	41	6	13
Camden	Lab	11	35	8
Croydon	Lab	32	37	1
Ealing	Lab	17	48	4
Enfield	Con	39	24
Greenwich	Lab	9	38	4
Hackney	Lab	9	45	3
Hammersmith & Fulham	Lab	18	28
Haringey	Lab		42	15
Harrow		29	31	3
Havering		26	9	1	18
Hillingdon		31	27	7
Hounslow	Lab	15	36	5	4
Islington	LDm		10	38
Kensington & Chelsea	Con	42	12
Kingston upon Thames	LDm	15	3	30
Lambeth		7	28	28
Lewisham	Lab	2	45	4	3
Merton	Lab	25	32		3
Newham	Lab		59		1
Redbridge	Con	33	21	9
Richmond upon Thames	Con	39		15
Southwark		5	28	30
Sutton	LDm	8	3	43
Tower Hamlets	Lab		35	16
Waltham Forest		18	29	13
Wandsworth	Con	50	10
Westminster	Con	48	12
London Totals		650	866	309	33

Metropolitan Borough Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Barnsley	Lab	4	49	3	10
Birmingham	Lab	31	67	15	4
Bolton	Lab	16	31	13
Bradford		38	38	12	2
Bury	Lab	12	33	3
Calderdale		25	13	15	1
Coventry	Lab	19	31	1	3
Doncaster	Lab	7	42	9	5
Dudley	Lab	24	37	11
Gateshead	Lab		46	19	1
Kirklees		15	26	28	3
Knowsley	Lab		59	7
Leeds	Lab	18	57	20	4
Liverpool	LDm		26	66	3
Manchester	Lab		75	20
Newcastle upon Tyne	Lab		58	20
North Tyneside	Lab	19	34	7
Oldham		2	28	29	1
Rochdale	Lab	8	31	21
Rotherham	Lab	4	58		3
St Helens	Lab	5	34	15
Salford	Lab	2	52	6
Sandwell	Lab	9	56	6
Sefton		16	26	21
Sheffield		2	43	42
Solihull	Con	29	13	9
South Tyneside	Lab		50	6	4
Stockport	LDm	8	19	33	3
Sunderland	Lab	11	62	1
Tameside	Lab	6	46	2	3
Trafford	Lab	28	32	3
Wakefield	Lab	5	54	2	2
Walsall		24	28	7
Wigan	Lab	2	65	3	2
Wirral		20	31	14	1
Wolverhampton	Lab	21	34	5
Metropolitan Totals		430	1484	494	55

District Councils
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Others
Adur	Con	23	11	1	4
Allerdale	Lab	8	33	8	4
Alnwick		2	2	14	12
Amber Valley	Con	26	19
Arun	Con	37	8	9	2
Ashfield	Lab	1	29	1	2
Ashford		24	11	10	4
Aylesbury Vale		26	1	24	7
Babergh		10	5	13	14
Barrow-in-Furness		15	19		4
Basildon		21	18	3
Basingstoke & Deane		25	15	17	3
Bassetlaw	Lab	16	28	3	1
Bedford		25	14	11	4
Berwick-upon-Tweed	LDm	3	1	18	7
Blaby	Con	25	6	8
Blyth Valley	Lab	2	36	10	2
Bolsover	Lab		32		5
Boston		13	10	3	6
Braintree	Lab	16	31	4	9
Breckland	Con	34	14	2	3
Brentwood	LDm	14	2	20	1
Bridgnorth		4	4	4	21
Broadland	Con	26	6	10	7
Bromsgrove	Con	30	7		2
Broxbourne	Con	35	2		1
Broxtowe	Lab	11	26	11	1
Burnley	Lab	4	27	8	6
Cambridge	LDm	2	16	24
Cannock Chase	Lab	9	23	9
Canterbury		19	13	17
Caradon			2	20	19
Carlisle	Con	27	18	5	2
Carrick	LDm	9	2	28	6
Castle Morpeth		4	10	7	12
Castle Point	Lab	14	22		2
Charnwood		21	24	6	1
Chelmsford		23	5	26	2
Cheltenham	LDm	13	2	21	4
Cherwell	Con	37	11	2
Chester		19	21	19	1
Chester-le-Street	Lab	1	30	1	1
Chesterfield	Lab		28	19
Chichester	Con	29		19	2
Chiltern	Con	29		19	2
Chorley		16	22	6	3
Christchurch	Con	17		5	3
Colchester		24	6	26	4
Congleton		22	3	14	9
Copeland	Lab	18	30	1	2
Corby	Lab	1	27	1
Cotswold		14	1	8	22
Craven		13		9	8
Crawley	Lab	7	23	2
Crewe & Nantwich		22	23	5	6
Dacorum	Con	28	20	4
Dartford	Lab	13	29		5
Daventry	Con	26	9	1	2
Derbyshire Dales	Con	21	5	9	4
Derwentside	Lab		46		9
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	32	7	9	2
East Lindsey		6	9	8	36
East Northamptonshire	Con	20	15		1
East Staffordshire	Lab	15	28	3
Eastbourne	LDm	12		15
Eastleigh	LDm	9	4	31
Eden			1	5	32
Ellesmere Port & Neston	Lab	8	33	2
Elmbridge	Residents	20	1	8	31
Epping Forest		26	9	13	10
Epsom & Ewell	Residents		3	9	27
Erewash	Lab	16	29	3	4
Exeter	Lab	6	22	8	4
Fareham	Con	17		14
Fenland	Con	28	7	1	3
Forest Heath	Con	21	1	2	1
Forest of Dean	Lab	2	29	6	12
Fylde		22	2	3	22
Gedling	Con	29	18	7	3
Gloucester		14	12	10
Gosport		10	12	12
Gravesham	Lab	15	29
Great Yarmouth	Con	28	20
Guildford		17	6	20	2
Hambleton	Con	35	2	4	6
Harborough		17	3	15	4
Harlow		12	9	12
Harrogate		26		27	1
Hart	Con	22		10	3
Hastings	Lab	10	21	1
Havant	Con	23	6	9
Hertsmere	Con	24	9	5	1
High Peak	Lab	10	27	5	2
Hinckley & Bosworth		11	9	14
Horsham	Con	24		16	3
Huntingdonshire	Con	37		13	3
Hyndburn	Lab	17	18
Ipswich	Lab	9	35	4
Kennet	Con	22	4	4	10
Kerrier		4	11	10	19
Kettering	Lab	17	23	1	4
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk		26	27	5	3
Lancaster		9	16	7	28
Lewes	LDm	17		29	2
Lichfield	Con	30	24	2
Lincoln	Lab	6	26
Macclesfield	Con	36	7	13	4
Maidstone		19	12	21	3
Maldon	Con	18	5		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		3	1	17	19
Mid Suffolk		14	6	14	6
Mid Sussex	Con	29	2	21	2
Mole Valley		18	1	15	7
New Forest		29		26	3
Newark & Sherwood		21	25	5	3
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	10	29	18
North Cornwall		3		11	24
North Devon	LDm	5		26	13
North Dorset		16		10	6
North East Derbyshire	Lab	9	38	3	3
North Hertfordshire	Con	28	17	4
North Kesteven		16	6	10	8
North Norfolk		14	10	12	10
North Shropshire		10	5	3	22
North Warwickshire	Lab	9	22	2	1
North West Leicestershire	Lab	8	31		1
North Wiltshire	LDm	19	4	27	2
Northampton	Lab	8	28	11
Norwich	LDm	1	20	25	2
Nuneaton & Bedworth	Lab	8	26
Oadby & Wigston	LDm	4		22
Oswestry		4	5	5	15
Oxford	Lab		29	15	4
Pendle		11	19	19
Penwith		10	3	9	12
Preston		19	25	11	2
Purbeck	Con	16		4	4
Redditch		12	14	3
Reigate & Banstead	Con	33	6	6	6
Restormel		13	1	17	13
Ribble Valley		19		18	2
Richmondshire		7		9	18
Rochford	Con	28	4	4	3
Rossendale	Lab	12	24
Rother	Con	28	5	8	4
Rugby		18	16	10	4
Runnymede	Con	32	4		6
Rushcliffe	Con	30	11	12	1
Rushmoor	Con	25	6	10	1
Ryedale		11	1	5	6
St Albans		21	15	20	1
St Edmundsbury	Con	23	16	2	3
Salisbury		28	11	16	3
Scarborough		18	11	6	14
Sedgefield	Lab		43	3	3
Sedgemoor	Con	30	16	3	1
Selby		15	19	2	5
Sevenoaks	Con	33	8	9	3
Shepway	Con	29	11	16
Shrewsbury & Atcham	Con	22	9	6	3
South Bedfordshire	Con	28	7	15
South Bucks	Con	30		2	8
South Cambridgeshire		22	6	16	11
South Derbyshire	Lab	9	24		1
South Hams	Con	29	2	5	4
South Holland		19	3		16
South Kesteven	Con	30	11	3	14
South Lakeland		19	9	21	3
South Norfolk	LDm	16	2	27	2
South Northamptonshire	Con	30	5	3	4
South Oxfordshire		21	7	19	3
South Ribble		18	21	12	3
South Shropshire		1		17	22
South Somerset	LDm	13		41	6
South Staffordshire	Con	36	9	2	3
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	27	2	21	3
Stroud	Con	29	12	4	6
Suffolk Coastal	Con	37	7	10	1
Surrey Heath	Con	22	7	7
Swale	Con	25	10	12
Tamworth	Lab	8	22
Tandridge	Con	29	3	10
Taunton Deane		21	5	23	5
Teesdale		3	9		19
Teignbridge		20	1	17	20
Tendring		16	21	11	12
Test Valley	Con	30		14
Tewkesbury		13	8	4	11
Thanet	Lab	18	33		3
Three Rivers	LDm	15	7	26
Tonbridge & Malling		27	7	21
Torridge		1	2	12	21
Tunbridge Wells	Con	34	3	11
Tynedale		23	12	11	6
Uttlesford		15	1	18	8
Vale of White Horse	LDm	15	2	33	1
Vale Royal	Lab	16	33	8
Wansbeck	Lab		25	20
Warwick		10	17	13	5
Watford		7	15	13	1
Waveney		21	21	3	3
Waverley	Con	31	2	24
Wealden	Con	36		20	2
Wear Valley	Lab		30	5	5
Wellingborough	Lab	15	20		1
Welwyn Hatfield	Con	26	22
West Devon		9		8	13
West Dorset		21	4	15	14
West Lancashire	Con	30	24
West Lindsey		13	3	13	8
West Oxfordshire	Con	30	1	9	9
West Somerset	Con	19	5	1	6
West Wiltshire	LDm	11	2	26	4
Weymouth & Portland		6	14	11	4
Winchester	LDm	14	3	35	5
Woking		17	5	13	1
Worcester		18	12	1	5
Worthing	LDm	17		19
Wychavon	Con	30	4	11	4
Wycombe	Con	42	9	7	2
Wyre	Con	35	19	2
Wyre Forest	KHHC	6	5	2	29
District Totals		4154	2920	2353	1235

Scottish Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	SNP	Others
Aberdeen City	Lab	6	22	12	3
Aberdeenshire		8		27	23	10
Angus	SNP	2	1	2	21	3
Argyll & Bute		3	1	6	4	22
Clackmannanshire	SNP	1	7		10
Dumfries & Galloway		9	12	6	5	15
Dundee		4	12	1	11
East Ayrshire	Lab	1	17		14
East Dunbartonshire		3	11	10
East Lothian	Lab	5	16		2
East Renfrewshire		8	9	2		1
Edinburgh	Lab	13	31	13	1
Falkirk		2	14		10	6
Fife	Lab	3	40	21	11	3
Glasgow	Lab	1	74	1	2	1
Highland			11	10	8	51
Inverclyde		1	10	9
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	7	15	2
Renfrewshire	Lab	1	21	3	15	0
Scottish Borders		2	1	13	4	14
Shetland				8		14
South Ayrshire	Lab	13	17
South Lanarkshire	Lab	2	53	1	11
Stirling		10	11		1
West Dunbartonshire	Lab		14		7	1
West Lothian	Lab	1	20		11
Western Isles			5		3	22
Scotland Totals		113	540	155	208	204

Welsh Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	Pl.Cym	Others
Blaenau Gwent	Lab		33	3		6
Bridgend	Lab	1	40	6	2	5
Caerphilly	PlC		29	3	38	3
Cardiff	Lab	5	49	19	1	1
Carmarthenshire			29	1	14	30
Ceredigion			1	8	14	21
Conwy		5	20	13	8	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	7		59
Rhondda Cynon Taff	PlC		26	2	42	5
Swansea	Lab	5	46	10	2	9
Torfaen	Lab	1	39	1		3
Vale of Glamorgan		22	18	1	6
Wrexham		4	24	8		19
Wales Totals		76	559	102	204	331

England, Scotland & Wales Totals	Con	Labour	LibDem	SNP	Pl.Cym	Others
	7177	8104	4394	208	204	2067

Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2002

County Councils

Unitary Authorities

London Borough Councils

Metropolitan Borough Councils

District Councils

Scottish Unitary Authorities

Welsh Unitary Authorities

England, Scotland & Wales Totals