Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2007

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2007. 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 © 27/05/2007

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 43 4 22
Cheshire LC Con 26 16 8 1
Cornwall LC LDm 9 5 48 20
Cumbria LC Con + LD 32 39 11 2
Derbyshire LC Lab 15 38 10 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 46 4 28
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 47 22 13 2
North Yorkshire LC Con 42 8 19 3
Northamptonshire LC Con 45 20 8
Northumberland LC Lab 14 35 14 4
Nottinghamshire LC Lab 26 36 5
Oxfordshire LC Con 44 9 16 5
Shropshire LC Con 25 9 12 2
Somerset LC LDm 24 4 30
Staffordshire LC Lab 28 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 17 1
Worcestershire LC Con 29 17 8 3
County Totals 1152 570 473 9 65

Unitary Authorities

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Bath & N.E. Somerset LC 31 5 26 3
Blackburn with Darwen LC 17 31 13 3
Blackpool LC Con 26 13 3
Bournemouth LC Con 41 3 7 3
Bracknell Forest LC Con 39 3
Brighton & Hove AA 26 13 2 12 1
Bristol LC 13 25 31 1
Darlington LC Lab 18 29 6
Derby LC 12 24 13 2
East Riding of Yorkshire LC Con 47 3 12 5
Halton LC Lab 8 33 15
Hartlepool MC Ind Mayor 4 24 7 12
Herefordshire LC Con 31 2 10 1 14
Hull LC LDm 2 20 30 7
Isle of Wight LC Con 35 2 5 6
Leicester LC Lab 8 38 6 2
Luton LC Lab 5 26 17
Medway LC Con 33 13 8 1
Middlesbrough MC Ind Mayor 6 26 5 11
Milton Keynes LC 15 13 22 1
North East Lincolnshire LC 15 6 19 2
North Lincolnshire LC Lab 16 22 1 1
North Somerset LC Con 43 3 5 1 6
Nottingham LC Lab 7 42 6
Peterborough LC Con 40 2 4 11
Plymouth LC Con 31 26
Poole LC Con 25 17
Portsmouth LC 17 5 19 1
Reading LC Lab 14 25 7
Redcar & Cleveland LC 11 28 13 7
Rutland LC Con 19 2 5
Slough LC 7 19 4 11
South Gloucestershire LC 34 9 27
Southampton LC 18 18 12
Southend-on-Sea LC Con 30 7 10 4
Stockton-on-Tees LC 13 22 8 13
Stoke-on-Trent MM Lab + Con/Ind 3 24 5 28
Swindon LC Con 43 13 3
Telford & Wrekin LC 25 19 3 7
Thurrock LC 24 22 3
Torbay MC Con 23 9 1
Warrington LC 5 24 27 1
West Berkshire LC Con 36 16
Windsor & Maidenhead LC Con 36 16 5
Wokingham LC Con 43 11
York LC 8 18 19 2
Unitary Totals 1003 700 501 19 175

London Borough Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Barking & Dagenham LC Lab 1 38 12
Barnet LC Con 37 20 6
Bexley LC Con 54 9
Brent LC LD + Con 15 21 27
Bromley LC Con 49 4 7
Camden LC LD + Con 14 17 21 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 37 24 2
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 18 10 1
Richmond upon Thames LC LDm 18 36
Southwark LC LD + Con 6 28 27 1 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 784 682 319 12 64

Metropolitan Borough Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Barnsley LC Lab 5 33 2 23
Birmingham LC 44 41 32 3
Bolton LC 22 26 12
Bradford LC 32 39 14 3 2
Bury LC 23 20 8
Calderdale LC 19 11 15 5
Coventry LC Con 28 23 1 2
Doncaster MC Lab mayor 9 29 12 13
Dudley LC Con 39 28 5
Gateshead LC Lab 42 23 1
Kirklees LC 20 22 18 4 5
Knowsley LC Lab 50 13
Leeds LC 22 43 24 3 7
Liverpool LC LDm 35 51 1 3
Manchester LC Lab 60 34 1
Newcastle upon Tyne LC LDm 31 45
North Tyneside MC Lab mayor 28 23 9
Oldham LC 3 30 26 1
Rochdale LC LDm 8 20 32
Rotherham LC Lab 7 54 2
St Helens LC 6 21 20 1
Salford LC Lab 10 42 8
Sandwell LC Lab 10 51 6 4
Sefton LC 18 22 26
Sheffield LC 1 41 39 2 1
Solihull LC 24 7 17 3
South Tyneside LC Lab 3 35 3 13
Stockport LC LDm 9 15 36 3
Sunderland LC Lab 16 54 1 4
Tameside LC Lab 8 45 1 3
Trafford LC Con 39 20 4
Wakefield LC Lab 16 40 3 4
Walsall LC Con 33 18 6 3
Wigan LC Lab 10 46 6 13
Wirral LC 21 25 20
Wolverhampton LC Lab 18 36 3 3
Metropolitan Totals 551 1178 575 14 122

District Councils

Exec Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Others 
Adur AA Con 26 1 2
Allerdale LC 19 21 4 12
Alnwick AA 9 2 11 8
Amber Valley LC Con 28 17
Arun LC Con 42 3 9 2
Ashfield LC 3 9 9 12
Ashford LC Con 28 2 8 5
Aylesbury Vale LC Con 37 21 1
Babergh AA 19 16 8
Barrow-in-Furness AA 19 16 3
Basildon LC Con 28 11 3
Basingstoke & Deane LC Con 31 11 15 3
Bassetlaw LC Con 27 16 5
Bedford MC Ind mayor 19 12 16 7
Berwick-upon-Tweed AA 10 1 13 5
Blaby LC Con 27 4 7 1
Blyth Valley LC Lab 2 32 13 3
Bolsover LC Lab 27 10
Boston LC Ind 5 27
Braintree LC Con 42 9 1 2 6
Breckland LC Con 48 3 3
Brentwood AA Con 28 3 6
Bridgnorth AA 13 1 3 17
Broadland LC Con 35 9 3
Bromsgrove LC Con 26 6 1 6
Broxbourne AA Con 36 2
Broxtowe LC 16 8 15 3
Burnley LC 6 17 18 4
Cambridge LC LDm 13 28 1
Cannock Chase LC 10 16 14
Canterbury LC Con 29 2 19
Caradon LC LDm 9 23 10
Carlisle LC 19 25 7 1
Carrick LC 19 1 18 9
Castle Morpeth AA 12 6 12 1 2
Castle Point AA Con 26 15
Charnwood LC Con 32 13 5 2
Chelmsford LC Con 33 24
Cheltenham LC Con (minority) 17 1 17 5
Cherwell LC Con 42 4 4
Chester LC Con 33 13 13 1
Chester-le-Street LC Lab 2 26 1 5
Chesterfield LC LDm 10 38
Chichester LC Con 34 11 3
Chiltern LC Con 30 9 1
Chorley LC Con 25 15 3 4
Christchurch AA Con 17 4 3
Colchester LC 30 6 21 3
Congleton LC Con 27 14 7
Copeland LC Lab 19 31 1
Corby AA Lab 8 16 5
Cotswold AA Con 38 4 2
Craven AA 13 6 11
Crawley LC Con 22 12 3
Crewe & Nantwich LC 28 17 6 5
Dacorum LC Con 44 2 5
Dartford LC Con 26 12 6
Daventry AA Con 35 1 2
Derbyshire Dales AA Con 26 4 8 1
Derwentside LC Lab 29 2 24
Dover LC Con 28 15 2
Durham LC LDm 17 30 3
Easington LC Lab 47 2 2
East Cambridgeshire AA Con 24 13 2
East Devon LC Con 43 10 6
East Dorset AA Con 25 11
East Hampshire LC Con 30 14
East Hertfordshire LC Con 43 4 3
East Lindsey LC 25 8 3 1 20
East Northamptonshire AA Con 39 1
East Staffordshire LC Con 25 12 2
Eastbourne LC LDm 7 20
Eastleigh LC LDm 5 2 36 1
Eden AA 14 5 19
Ellesmere Port & Neston AA Lab 17 24 2
Elmbridge LC 28 8 24
Epping Forest LC Con 32 1 11 14
Epsom & Ewell AA Ind 2 11 25
Erewash LC Con 30 18 2 1
Exeter LC 10 14 12 4
Fareham LC Con 22 9
Fenland LC Con 39 1
Forest Heath AA Con 22 2 3
Forest of Dean LC Con 30 8 2 8
Fylde AA Con 27 2 22
Gedling LC Con 28 9 9 4
Gloucester LC 15 9 12
Gosport AA Con (minority) 17 7 9 1
Gravesham LC Con 26 16
Great Yarmouth LC Con 22 17
Guildford LC Con 26 22
Hambleton LC Con 39 2 3
Harborough LC Con 26 11
Harlow AA 12 12 8 1
Harrogate LC 25 23 6
Hart LC 15 12 8
Hastings LC 15 12 5
Havant LC Con 31 4 3
Hertsmere LC Con 28 4 7
High Peak LC Con 24 9 6 4
Hinckley & Bosworth LC LDm 13 2 19
Horsham LC Con 31 11 2
Huntingdonshire LC Con 39 11 2
Hyndburn LC Con 18 15 2
Ipswich LC 20 18 9 1
Kennet AA Con 34 1 8
Kerrier LC Ind 5 2 11 26
Kettering LC Con 28 6 2
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk LC Con 52 4 4 2
Lancaster LC 12 14 5 12 17
Lewes LC LDm 17 23 1
Lichfield LC Con 44 7 4 1
Lincoln LC Con 17 15 1
Macclesfield LC Con 38 6 12 4
Maidstone LC 26 4 21 4
Maldon LC Con 25 4
Malvern Hills LC Con 29 5 1 3
Mansfield MC Ind 1 12 4 29
Melton AA Con 20 3 5
Mendip LC Con 24 23
Mid Bedfordshire LC Con 38 11 1 3
Mid Devon AA 17 10 15
Mid Suffolk LC Con 22 10 2 6
Mid Sussex LC Con 31 1 22
Mole Valley AA Con 22 16 3
New Forest LC Con 44 14 2
Newark & Sherwood LC Con 26 6 4 10
Newcastle-under-Lyme LC Con + LD 20 20 18 2
North Cornwall AA 6 14 16
North Devon LC Con 22 17 4
North Dorset LC Con 17 13 3
North East Derbyshire LC Lab 10 29 7 7
North Hertfordshire LC Con 30 10 9
North Kesteven LC Con 25 4 14
North Norfolk LC LDm 16 30 2
North Shropshire AA Con 26 2 1 11
North Warwickshire AA Con 21 14
North West Leicestershire LC Con 27 5 3 3
North Wiltshire LC Con 40 1 13
Northampton LC LDm 15 5 26 1
Norwich LC 3 15 11 10
Nuneaton & Bedworth LC Lab 15 18 1
Oadby & Wigston AA LDm 5 21
Oswestry LC Con 16 4 9
Oxford LC LD/Lab/Grn 2 18 16 8 4
Pendle LC LDm 14 6 27 1
Penwith AA 17 1 12 5
Preston LC 20 24 10 3
Purbeck AA Con 13 9 2
Redditch LC 11 14 3 1
Reigate & Banstead LC Con 42 1 2 6
Restormel LC 10 20 15
Ribble Valley AA Con 29 10 1
Richmondshire AA 13 6 15
Rochford AA Con 32 5 2
Rossendale AA Con 22 12 1 1
Rother LC Con 28 8 2
Rugby LC Con 27 11 10
Runnymede AA Con 36 6
Rushcliffe LC Con 34 2 11 2 1
Rushmoor LC Con 28 5 8 1
Ryedale LC 14 8 8
St Albans LC 19 8 29 2
St Edmundsbury LC Con 36 3 3 3
Salisbury LC 22 10 19 4
Scarborough LC 23 4 6 2 15
Sedgefield LC Lab 1 28 6 15
Sedgemoor LC Con 35 11 4
Selby AA Con 29 9 3
Sevenoaks LC Con 41 5 7 1
Shepway LC Con 34 10 2
Shrewsbury & Atcham LC Con 22 10 5 3
South Bedfordshire LC Con 34 4 12
South Bucks LC Con 36 2 2
South Cambridgeshire LC Con 29 1 17 10
South Derbyshire AA Con 20 15 1
South Hams LC Con 28 9 3
South Holland LC Con 26 11
South Kesteven LC Con 35 2 6 15
South Lakeland LC LDm 15 2 34 1
South Norfolk LC Con 39 7
South Northamptonshire LC Con 35 1 6
South Oxfordshire LC Con 38 1 6 3
South Ribble LC Con 44 8 1 2
South Shropshire LC Con 18 11 1 4
South Somerset LC LDm 17 38 5
South Staffordshire LC Con 42 1 1 3
Spelthorne LC Con 31 8
Stafford LC Con 40 13 4 2
Staffordshire Moorlands LC Con 29 5 6 16
Stevenage LC Lab 3 32 4
Stratford-on-Avon LC Con 37 14 2
Stroud LC Con 31 9 4 5 2
Suffolk Coastal LC Con 45 1 9
Surrey Heath LC Con 30 2 7 1
Swale LC Con 26 10 6 5
Tamworth LC Con 23 5 2
Tandridge AA Con 30 1 10 1
Taunton Deane LC 25 1 26 4
Teesdale AA Ind 4 6 22
Teignbridge LC 19 21 6
Tendring LC 28 6 6 20
Test Valley LC Con 33 15
Tewkesbury AA 19 17 2
Thanet LC Con 33 19 4
Three Rivers LC LDm 11 6 31
Tonbridge & Malling LC Con 46 7
Torridge AA 13 8 2 13
Tunbridge Wells LC Con 41 7
Tynedale AA Con 30 8 11 3
Uttlesford AA Con 26 15 3
Vale of White Horse LC LDm 17 34
Vale Royal LC 27 17 10
Wansbeck LC Lab 26 16 3
Warwick LC Con 24 9 9 4
Watford MC LDm 3 2 28 3
Waveney LC Con 30 12 3 1 2
Waverley LC Con 51 3 3
Wealden LC Con 34 12 2 7
Wear Valley AA 19 16 5
Wellingborough AA Con 30 4 2
Welwyn Hatfield LC Con 35 10 3
West Devon AA 14 7 10
West Dorset LC Con 26 16 6
West Lancashire LC Con 33 21
West Lindsey AA LDm 16 20 1
West Oxfordshire LC Con 35 1 8 4
West Somerset LC Ind 13 1 1 16
West Wiltshire LC Con 26 14 4
Weymouth & Portland AA 14 6 11 5
Winchester LC Con 29 1 23 4
Woking LC Con 19 17
Worcester LC Con 18 12 3 2
Worthing LC Con 24 12 1
Wychavon LC Con 35 10
Wycombe LC Con 49 5 4 2
Wyre LC Con 45 9 1
Wyre Forest LC 18 3 2 19
District Totals 5685 1506 2228 56 1084

Scottish Unitary Authorities

 Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green    SNP   Others 
Aberdeen 5 10 15 12 1
Aberdeenshire 14 24 22 8
Angus 5 2 3 13 6
Argyll & Bute 3 7 10 16
Clackmannanshire 1 8 1 7 1
Dumfries & Galloway 18 14 3 10 2
Dundee 3 10 2 13 1
East Ayrshire 3 14 14 1
East Dunbartonshire 5 6 3 8 2
East Lothian 2 7 6 7 1
East Renfrewshire 7 7 1 3 2
Edinburgh 11 15 17 3 12
Eilean Siar Ind 2 4 25
Falkirk 2 14 13 3
Fife 5 24 21 23 5
Glasgow Lab 1 45 5 5 22 1
Highland 7 21 17 35
Inverclyde 1 9 4 5 1
Midlothian 9 3 6
Moray 3 2 9 12
North Ayrshire 3 12 2 8 5
North Lanarkshire Lab 1 40 1 23 5
Orkney Ind 21
Perth & Kinross 12 3 8 18
Renfrewshire 2 17 4 17
Scottish Borders 11 10 6 7
Shetland Ind 22
South Ayrshire 12 9 8 1
South Lanarkshire 8 30 2 24 3
Stirling 4 8 3 7
West Dunbartonshire 10 9 3
West Lothian 1 14 13 4
Scotland Totals 143 348 166 8 363 194

Welsh Unitary Authorities

 Control  Con    Labour LibDem Green  Plaid  Others 
Blaenau Gwent Lab 31 3 8
Bridgend LD/Con/Ind/PC 8 22 13 1 10
Caerphilly Lab 40 26 7
Cardiff LD (minority) 12 27 32 4
Carmarthenshire Ind + Lab 1 25 16 32
Ceredigion Ind/LD/Lab 1 9 16 16
Conwy Ind/Con/PlC/LD 15 12 4 11 17
Denbighshire Ind/Con/PlC 7 8 2 7 23
Flintshire Lab 4 36 10 1 19
Gwynedd Plaid 10 7 42 16
Isle of Anglesey Ind 2 1 1 7 29
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 56 2 13 4
Swansea LD/Ind/Con 5 32 18 5 12
Torfaen Lab 1 34 2 7
Vale of Glamorgan Lab/PlC 20 16 8 3
Wrexham All party 4 19 10 19
Wales Totals 114 479 144 0 183 344

England, Scotland & Wales Totals

 Con    Labour LibDem Green    SNP   Plaid  Others 
9432 5463 4406 118 363 183 2048