Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2006

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2006. 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

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Executive types shown for England (Local Government Act 2000):
LC = Leader & Cabinet    MC = Mayor & Cabinet    MM = Mayor & Council Manager
AA = Alternative Arrangements under Section 31 (councils with less than 85,000 population), or Section 27(2)(b) Fallback proposals after the defeat of a Mayoral Referendum

County Councils

Exec Control  Con   Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Bedfordshire LC Con 36 7 9
Buckinghamshire LC Con 44 2 11
Cambridgeshire LC Con 42 4 23
Cheshire LC Con 26 16 8 1
Cornwall LC LDm 8 4 45 20
Cumbria LC Con + LD 32 39 11 2
Derbyshire LC Lab 15 38 19 1
Devon LC LDm 23 4 33 2
Dorset LC Con 24 4 16 1
Durham LC Lab 2 53 5 3
East Sussex LC Con 29 5 14 1
Essex LC Con 52 13 8 2
Gloucestershire LC Con 33 13 13 4
Hampshire LC Con 45 4 27
Hertfordshire LC Con 46 16 14 1
Kent LC Con 57 21 6
Lancashire LC Lab 31 44 6 1 2
Leicestershire LC Con 30 13 12
Lincolnshire LC Con 45 21 8 3
Norfolk LC Con 46 22 14 1
North Yorkshire LC Con 42 9 18 3
Northamptonshire LC Con 45 20 8
Northumberland LC Lab 14 35 14 4
Nottinghamshire LC Lab 25 38 4
Oxfordshire LC Con 44 9 16 5
Shropshire LC Con 25 9 11 3
Somerset LC LDm 24 4 30
Staffordshire LC Lab 27 32 2
Suffolk LC Con 46 21 7 1
Surrey LC Con 58 2 12 8
Warwickshire LC Con (minority) 27 23 11 1
West Sussex LC Con 46 7 17
Wiltshire LC Con 28 3 16 2
Worcestershire LC Con 29 17 8 3
County Totals 1146 572 476 8 67

Unitary Authorities

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Bath & N.E. Somerset LC LD/Con/Ind 26 6 29 4
Blackburn with Darwen LC Lab 15 33 13 3
Blackpool LC Lab 13 25 4
Bournemouth LC LDm 12 3 30 2
Bracknell Forest LC Con 35 6 1
Brighton & Hove AA Lab (minority) 21 23 3 6 1
Bristol LC LD (minority) 13 23 33 1
Darlington LC Lab 15 35 3
Derby LC Lab (minority) 11 24 15 1
East Riding of Yorkshire LC Con/LD/Ind 29 8 22 8
Halton LC Lab 8 35 13
Hartlepool MC Lab 4 27 7 9
Herefordshire LC Con/Ind 21 4 17 16
Hull LC LD (minority) 2 25 26 6
Isle of Wight LC Con 35 2 5 6
Leicester LC LD + Con 10 20 24
Luton LC LD (minority) 4 21 21 2
Medway LC Con 30 17 6 2
Middlesbrough MC Ind mayor 7 31 6 4
Milton Keynes LC LD (minority) 13 15 23
North East Lincolnshire LC LD + Con 15 6 17 4
North Lincolnshire LC Con 22 21
North Somerset LC Con + LD 23 10 24 1 3
Nottingham LC Lab 7 35 8 2
Peterborough LC Con 35 4 5 12
Plymouth LC Lab (CV) 25 28 3
Poole LC Con 26 16
Portsmouth LC LD (CV) 16 5 21
Reading LC Lab 8 32 6
Redcar & Cleveland LC Con/LD/Ind 13 23 15 8
Rutland LC Con 14 4 8
Slough LC LibP/LD/Ind/Con/UKIP 5 18 5 13
South Gloucestershire LC All Party (3) 21 16 33
Southampton LC LD (minority) 16 16 16
Southend-on-Sea LC Con 30 9 8 4
Stockton-on-Tees LC Lab (minority) 12 27 8 9
Stoke-on-Trent MM Lab mayor 6 29 5 20
Swindon LC Con 40 14 3 2
Telford & Wrekin LC Lab 15 29 5 5
Thurrock LC Con 26 20 3
Torbay MC Con mayor 12 24
Warrington LC LD + Con 6 26 25
West Berkshire LC Con 27 24 1
Windsor & Maidenhead LC LDm 17 34 6
Wokingham LC Con 41 13
York LC LDm 15 29 2 1
Unitary Totals 802 766 652 10 165

London Borough Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Barking & Dagenham LC Lab 1 38 11
Barnet LC Con 37 20 6
Bexley LC Con 54 9
Brent LC 15 21 27
Bromley LC Con 49 4 7
Camden LC LD + Con 14 18 20 2
Croydon LC Con 43 27
Ealing LC Con 37 29 3
Enfield LC Con 34 27 2
Greenwich LC Lab 13 36 2
Hackney MC Lab 9 44 3 1
Hammersmith & Fulham LC Con 33 13
Haringey LC Lab 30 27
Harrow LC Con 38 24 1
Havering LC Con 34 2 1 17
Hillingdon LC Con 45 18 2
Hounslow LC Con + Ind 23 24 5 8
Islington LC LD (CV) 23 24 1
Kensington & Chelsea LC Con 45 9
Kingston upon Thames LC LDm 21 2 25
Lambeth LC Lab 6 39 17 1
Lewisham MC Lab mayor 3 26 17 6 2
Merton LC Con (minority) 30 27 3
Newham MC Lab 54 6
Redbridge LC Con 34 19 9 1
Richmond upon Thames LC LDm 18 36
Southwark LC LD + Con 6 28 28 1
Sutton LC LDm 22 32
Tower Hamlets LC Lab 7 26 6 12
Waltham Forest LC Lab + LD 15 26 19
Wandsworth LC Con 51 9
Westminster LC Con 48 12
London Totals 785 683 318 12 62

Metropolitan Borough Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Barnsley LC Lab 6 34 2 21
Birmingham LC Con + LD 41 43 33 3
Bolton LC Lab (minority) 21 22 17
Bradford LC Con (minority) 33 36 14 4 3
Bury LC Lab (minority) 22 23 6
Calderdale LC Con (minority) 20 10 16 5
Coventry LC Con 29 19 2 4
Doncaster MC Lab mayor 9 28 12 14
Dudley LC Con 40 26 5 1
Gateshead LC Lab 42 23 1
Kirklees LC Con (minority) 21 20 20 3 5
Knowsley LC Lab 51 12
Leeds LC Lab/LD/Con/Grn 24 40 26 3 6
Liverpool LC LDm 30 56 1 3
Manchester LC Lab 61 34 1
Newcastle upon Tyne LC LDm 30 48
North Tyneside MC Lab mayor 28 23 8 1
Oldham LC Lab 1 31 27 1
Rochdale LC LD (minority) 10 20 30
Rotherham LC Lab 6 55 2
St Helens LC LD + Con 6 23 19
Salford LC Lab 8 44 8
Sandwell LC Lab 11 50 5 6
Sefton LC All party (3) 19 21 26
Sheffield LC Lab 2 44 35 2 1
Solihull LC Con 26 7 15 3
South Tyneside LC Lab 3 34 4 13
Stockport LC LDm 10 15 35 3
Sunderland LC Lab 13 59 2 1
Tameside LC Lab 8 44 2 3
Trafford LC Con 39 20 4
Wakefield LC Lab 14 41 3 5
Walsall LC Con 34 19 6 1
Wigan LC Lab 9 43 8 15
Wirral LC All party (3) 21 26 19
Wolverhampton LC Lab 17 40 2 1
Metropolitan Totals 551 1174 584 14 122

District Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Adur AA Con 26 1 2
Allerdale LC Lab (minority) 17 27 3 7
Alnwick AA Ind/Con 2 2 11 14
Amber Valley LC Con 27 18
Arun LC Con 35 8 12 1
Ashfield LC Lab (minority) 1 16 2 14
Ashford LC Con 25 4 5 9
Aylesbury Vale LC Con 30 25 4
Babergh AA Con/LD/Ind 11 6 18 8
Barrow-in-Furness AA Lab/Con/Ind 17 18 3
Basildon LC Con 27 12 3
Basingstoke & Deane LC Con (minority) 30 12 15 3
Bassetlaw LC Con 28 14 1 5
Bedford MC Ind mayor 17 12 15 10
Berwick-upon-Tweed AA Con/LD/Ind 13 1 8 7
Blaby LC Con 25 4 9 1
Blyth Valley LC Lab 3 34 10 3
Bolsover LC Lab 31 6
Boston LC Con/LD/Ind 11 12 4 5
Braintree LC Con + Ind 27 20 4 2 7
Breckland LC Con 42 8 4
Brentwood AA Con 27 3 7
Bridgnorth AA Con/Ind/LD 10 2 8 14
Broadland LC Con 31 11 5
Bromsgrove LC Con 26 8 1 4
Broxbourne AA Con 35 2 1
Broxtowe LC Lab + LD 13 16 12 3
Burnley LC LD + Con 5 16 16 8
Cambridge LC LDm 13 29
Cannock Chase LC LD + Con 10 16 15
Canterbury LC Con 26 7 17
Caradon LC Ind + LD 4 1 16 22
Carlisle LC Con (minority) 19 24 8 1
Carrick LC LDm 11 1 29 6
Castle Morpeth AA Lab + LD 10 9 6 1 6
Castle Point AA Con 29 1 11
Charnwood LC Lab + LD 24 22 6
Chelmsford LC Con 35 2 20
Cheltenham LC Con (minority) 17 1 17 5
Cherwell LC Con 38 8 4
Chester LC LD + Lab 26 14 19 1
Chester-le-Street LC Lab 1 29 4
Chesterfield LC LDm 12 36
Chichester LC Con 24 22 2
Chiltern LC Con 27 12 1
Chorley LC Con 25 17 2 3
Christchurch AA Con 13 10 1
Colchester LC Con (CV) 30 7 21 2
Congleton LC Con 26 14 8
Copeland LC Lab 16 32 1 2
Corby AA Lab 9 18 2
Cotswold AA Con 26 8 10
Craven AA Ind + LD 13 6 11
Crawley LC Con 19 16 2
Crewe & Nantwich LC Con + Ind 25 19 6 6
Dacorum LC Con 31 14 7
Dartford LC Con + Ind 21 16 7
Daventry AA Con 34 2 2
Derbyshire Dales AA Con 25 5 8 1
Derwentside LC Lab 39 1 15
Dover LC Con 22 20 3
Durham LC LDm 17 29 4
Easington LC Lab 42 2 5
East Cambridgeshire AA All party (3) 16 17 6
East Devon LC Con 36 17 6
East Dorset AA Con 24 11 1
East Hampshire LC Con 26 18
East Hertfordshire LC Con 41 7 2
East Lindsey LC All party (4) 15 13 5 1 26
East Northamptonshire AA Con 33 3
East Staffordshire LC Con 22 16 1
Eastbourne LC Con 15 12
Eastleigh LC LDm 7 3 34
Eden AA Ind 8 4 26
Ellesmere Port & Neston AA Lab 15 26 2
Elmbridge LC Con (minority) 26 8 26
Epping Forest LC Con + Ind 29 1 13 15
Epsom & Ewell AA Residents 2 3 7 26
Erewash LC Con 27 20 3 1
Exeter LC Lab (minority) 8 16 12 4
Fareham LC Con 22 9
Fenland LC Con 36 3 1
Forest Heath AA Con 22 5
Forest of Dean LC All party (4) 15 17 5 11
Fylde AA Con 26 2 23
Gedling LC Con/Lab/LD 21 21 7 1
Gloucester LC Con (minority) 16 8 12
Gosport AA Con (minority) 17 8 9
Gravesham LC Lab 21 23
Great Yarmouth LC Con 22 16 1
Guildford LC Con 25 2 20 1
Hambleton LC Con 36 1 3 4
Harborough LC LD (minority) 16 1 18 2
Harlow AA Lab + LD 12 11 10
Harrogate LC Con (CV) 27 22 5
Hart LC LD + Ind 16 12 7
Hastings LC Con 17 10 5
Havant LC Con 30 4 4
Hertsmere LC Con 28 5 6
High Peak LC Con/LD/Ind 12 18 8 5
Hinckley & Bosworth LC Con 19 6 9
Horsham LC Con 23 19 2
Huntingdonshire LC Con 39 11 2
Hyndburn LC Con 19 15 1
Ipswich LC Con/Lab/LD 19 18 9 2
Kennet AA Con 28 1 3 11
Kerrier LC Ind 4 5 10 25
Kettering LC Con 29 14 2
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk LC Con 37 14 7 4
Lancaster LC Lab/LD/Grn 11 20 8 7 14
Lewes LC LDm 11 28 2
Lichfield LC Con 36 15 5
Lincoln LC Lab 11 20 2
Macclesfield LC Con 35 6 14 5
Maidstone LC Con (minority) 27 6 19 3
Maldon LC Con 21 2 8
Malvern Hills LC LD/Grn/Ind 13 20 1 4
Mansfield MC Ind mayor 1 16 4 25
Melton AA Con 19 4 5
Mendip LC Con 29 14 3
Mid Bedfordshire LC Con 36 12 4
Mid Devon AA Ind (minority) 12 1 8 1 20
Mid Suffolk LC Con/LD/Ind/Grn 19 2 13 1 5
Mid Sussex LC Con 28 2 24
Mole Valley AA Con 23 15 3
New Forest LC Con 32 27 1
Newark & Sherwood LC Con/LD/Ind 23 13 4 6
Newcastle-under-Lyme LC Con/LD 17 27 14 2
North Cornwall AA Ind + Con 3 15 18
North Devon LC LDm 9 22 12
North Dorset LC Con + Ind 14 12 7
North East Derbyshire LC Lab 7 36 6 4
North Hertfordshire LC Con 33 9 7
North Kesteven LC Con + Ind 18 3 6 13
North Norfolk LC LDm 15 29 4
North Shropshire AA Ind + Lab 16 4 1 19
North Warwickshire AA LD/Con 15 16 4
North West Leicestershire LC Lab 12 20 4 2
North Wiltshire LC LD + Lab 25 1 26 1
Northampton LC Con (minority) 20 9 17 1
Norwich LC Lab (minority) 2 16 12 9
Nuneaton & Bedworth LC Lab 15 18 1
Oadby & Wigston AA LDm 9 17
Oswestry LC Ind + LD 11 1 6 11
Oxford LC LD (minority) 17 19 8 4
Pendle LC LDm 13 5 30 1
Penwith AA Con (minority) 14 12 9
Preston LC Lab (minority) 17 24 12 4
Purbeck AA Con 14 8 1
Redditch LC Lab/Con/LD 11 14 3 1
Reigate & Banstead LC Con 39 2 4 6
Restormel LC LD/Ind/Con 9 23 13
Ribble Valley AA Con 22 1 15 2
Richmondshire AA Ind 6 9 19
Rochford AA Con 34 4 1
Rossendale AA Con 25 9 1 1
Rother LC Con 25 3 8 2
Rugby LC Con (minority) 24 13 10 1
Runnymede AA Con 36 6
Rushcliffe LC Con 34 4 10 1 1
Rushmoor LC Con 23 5 10 2
Ryedale LC Con/LD/Ind 13 8 9
St Albans LC LDm 18 8 31 1
St Edmundsbury LC Con 28 11 2 4
Salisbury LC Con 31 11 9 4
Scarborough LC Con (CV) 26 8 2 14
Sedgefield LC Lab 1 35 7 7
Sedgemoor LC Con 35 14 1
Selby AA Con 23 14 1 3
Sevenoaks LC Con 33 10 8 3
Shepway LC Con (minority) 19 15 12
Shrewsbury & Atcham LC Con 22 10 6 2
South Bedfordshire LC Con 35 4 11
South Bucks LC Con 33 1 6
South Cambridgeshire LC Con + Ind 25 1 19 12
South Derbyshire AA Lab 15 21
South Hams LC Con 28 3 7 2
South Holland LC Con 26 1 11
South Kesteven LC Con 32 10 5 11
South Lakeland LC LDm 18 2 31 1
South Norfolk LC LDm 18 28
South Northamptonshire LC Con 29 4 1 8
South Oxfordshire LC Con 28 4 9 7
South Ribble LC Lab + LD 19 17 15 4
South Shropshire LC All party (4) 10 14 1 9
South Somerset LC LDm 16 37 7
South Staffordshire LC Con 35 8 1 5
Spelthorne LC Con 35 4
Stafford LC Con 40 14 5
Staffordshire Moorlands LC RA/LD/Ind 20 7 11 18
Stevenage LC Lab 3 32 4
Stratford-on-Avon LC Con 30 20 3
Stroud LC Con 29 9 5 5 3
Suffolk Coastal LC Con 42 2 11
Surrey Heath LC Con 22 3 13 2
Swale LC Con 28 10 8 1
Tamworth LC Con 21 8 1
Tandridge AA Con 29 2 10 1
Taunton Deane LC Con 31 5 15 3
Teesdale AA Ind 3 9 20
Teignbridge LC LD + Ind 14 17 15
Tendring LC Con/LD/Ind 25 11 13 11
Test Valley LC Con 31 16 1
Tewkesbury AA Con (minority) 18 3 9 8
Thanet LC Con 30 24 1 1
Three Rivers LC LDm 11 7 30
Tonbridge & Malling LC Con 34 7 12
Torridge AA Ind 1 7 1 27
Tunbridge Wells LC Con 38 1 9
Tynedale AA Con 28 9 10 5
Uttlesford AA LDm 12 29 3
Vale of White Horse LC LDm 20 30 1
Vale Royal LC Con + LD 24 20 11 2
Wansbeck LC Lab 36 9
Warwick LC Lab + LD 16 14 10 6
Watford MC LDm 2 1 29 3 1
Waveney LC Con 29 12 3 4
Waverley LC LD (minority) 26 28 3
Wealden LC Con 34 15 6
Wear Valley AA Lab 25 10 5
Wellingborough AA Con 27 9
Welwyn Hatfield LC Con 32 12 3 1
West Devon AA Con + Ind 12 8 11
West Dorset LC Con 25 12 11
West Lancashire LC Con 32 22
West Lindsey AA LDm 17 18 2
West Oxfordshire LC Con 34 1 9 5
West Somerset LC Con 18 2 2 9
West Wiltshire LC Con + Ind 18 3 19 4
Weymouth & Portland AA LD + Con 11 7 13 5
Winchester LC Con 29 3 21 4
Woking LC LD (minority) 15 3 18
Worcester LC Con 18 11 3 3
Worthing LC Con 23 14
Wychavon LC Con 31 2 12
Wycombe LC Con 48 9 2 1
Wyre LC Con 33 21 1
Wyre Forest LC Con (minority) 18 4 2 18
District Totals 4963 1992 2393 45 1175

Scottish Unitary Authorities

Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green    SNP   Others 
Aberdeen LD + Con 3 14 20 6
Aberdeenshire LD + Ind 11 28 18 11
Angus SNP 2 1 3 17 6
Argyll & Bute Ind 3 8 3 22
Clackmannanshire Lab 1 10 7
Dumfries & Galloway Lab (minority) 11 14 5 5 12
Dundee Lab + LD (min) 5 10 2 11 1
East Ayrshire Lab 1 23 8
East Dunbartonshire LD (CV) 3 9 12
East Lothian Lab 4 17 1 1
East Renfrewshire Lab + LD 7 8 3 2
Edinburgh Lab 13 30 14 1
Eilean Siar Ind 4 3 24
Falkirk SNP + Ind 2 13 11 6
Fife Lab (minority) 2 36 23 12 5
Glasgow Lab 1 69 4 4 1
Highland Ind 8 9 6 57
Inverclyde LDm 6 13 1
Midlothian Lab 14 3 1
Moray Ind 1 5 1 3 16
North Ayrshire Lab 5 20 3 2
North Lanarkshire Lab 54 13 3
Orkney Ind 21
Perth & Kinross SNP/LD/Ind 10 5 9 15 2
Renfrewshire Lab 1 21 3 15
Scottish Borders Ind/Con 11 8 2 13
Shetland Ind 5 17
South Ayrshire Con (CV) 15 14 1
South Lanarkshire Lab 3 49 2 10 3
Stirling Lab (CV) 10 11 1
West Dunbartonshire Lab 17 2 3
West Lothian Lab 1 18 12 1
Scotland Totals 126 500 176 0 189 231

Welsh Unitary Authorities

Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Plaid  Others 
Blaenau Gwent Lab 31 3 8
Bridgend LD/Ind/Con 8 21 13 1 10
Caerphilly Lab 39 26 8
Cardiff LD (minority) 12 27 32 4
Carmarthenshire Ind + Lab 25 16 33
Ceredigion Ind/LD/Lab 1 9 16 16
Conwy Ind/Con/PlC/LD 14 12 4 9 19
Denbighshire Ind/Con/PlC 7 8 2 7 23
Flintshire Lab 4 37 10 1 18
Gwynedd Plaid 10 7 42 16
Isle of Anglesey Ind 2 1 1 8 28
Merthyr Tydfil Lab 17 16
Monmouthshire Con 24 9 3 2 5
Neath Port Talbot Lab 36 2 10 16
Newport Lab 11 31 6 1 1
Pembrokeshire Ind 12 3 5 40
Powys Ind 4 17 52
Rhondda Cynon Taff Lab 57 2 13 3
Swansea LD/Ind/Con 5 32 18 5 12
Torfaen Lab 1 34 2 7
Vale of Glamorgan Con (minority) 20 16 8 3
Wrexham All party 3 19 10 20
Wales Totals 111 479 144 0 182 346

England, Scotland & Wales Totals

 Con    Labour LibDem Green    SNP   Plaid  Others 
8484 6167 4742 89 189 182 2168