Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2015

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2015. 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 © 22/05/2015

Executive types shown for England (Local Government Act 2000):
LC = Leader & Cabinet MC = Mayor & Cabinet
AA = Alternative Arrangements under Section 31 (option for councils with less than 85,000 population at 30 June 1999), or Schedule 2 of the Localism Act 2011.

Parties shown in the Others column:
ICHC = Independent Community & Health Concern, Lib = Liberal Pty, MK = Mebyon Kernow - the Party for Cornwall, RA = Residents Assns, SSP = Scottish Socialist Pty.
If not marked, they are "Ind", i.e. Independents and very local "parties"

County Councils
	Exec	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Others
Buckinghamshire	LC	Con	36	1	5	6		1
Cambridgeshire	LC		32	7	14	12		4
Cumbria	LC		26	36	16			6
Derbyshire	LC	Lab	18	43	3
Devon	LC	Con	38	7	9	4	1	3
Dorset	LC	Con	27	5	12	1
East Sussex	LC		20	7	10	7		5
Essex	LC	Con	44	9	9	7	2	RA 1, Ind 3
Gloucestershire	LC		24	9	14	3	1	2
Hampshire	LC	Con	45	4	17	10		2
Hertfordshire	LC	Con	46	15	16
Kent	LC	Con	45	13	7	17	1	RA 1
Lancashire	LC		35	39	6		1	3
Leicestershire	LC	Con	30	10	13	2
Lincolnshire	LC		35	12	4	16		10
Norfolk	LC		40	15	10	14	4	1
North Yorkshire	LC	Con	45	7	8	2		Lib 2, Ind 8
Northamptonshire	LC	Con	35	11	6	3		2
Nottinghamshire	LC	Lab	21	34	8			4
Oxfordshire	LC		31	15	11		2	4
Somerset	LC	Con	30	3	17	3		2
Staffordshire	LC	Con	34	24		2		2
Suffolk	LC	Con	39	15	7	9	2	3
Surrey	LC	Con	58	1	9	3	1	RA 9
Warwickshire	LC		26	22	9		2	3
West Sussex	LC	Con	46	6	8	10		1
Worcestershire	LC	Con	31	12	4	2	2	ICHC 3, Ind 2, RA 1
County Totals			937	382	252	133	19	88

Unitary Authorities
	Exec	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Others
Bath & N.E. Somerset	LC	Con	37	6	15		2	5
Bedford	MC		15	14	9			2
Blackburn with Darwen	LC	Lab	14	47	3
Blackpool	LC	Lab	13	29
Bournemouth	LC	Con	51			1	1	1
Bracknell Forest	LC	Con	41	1
Brighton & Hove	LC		20	23			11
Bristol	LC		15	30	10	1	13	1
Central Bedfordshire	LC	Con	53	2	1			3
Cheshire East	LC	Con	53	16	2			11
Cheshire West & Chester	LC	Lab	36	38				1
Cornwall	LC	Con + Ind	32	8	37	5	1	Ind 36, MK 4
Darlington	LC	Lab	17	29	3			1
Derby	LC	Lab	14	29	6	2
Durham	LC	Lab	4	96	9			17
East Riding of Yorkshire	LC	Con	51	6	2	3		5
Halton	LC	Lab	2	52	2
Hartlepool	AA	Lab	3	22		2		6
Herefordshire	LC	Con	29		2		2	20
Hull	LC	Lab	2	40	15	1		1
Isle of Wight	LC		15	2	1	2		20
Leicester	LC	Lab	1	52	1
Luton	LC	Lab	5	35	8
Medway	LC	Con	36	15		4
Middlesbrough	MC	Lab	4	33				9
Milton Keynes	LC		22	23	12
North East Lincolnshire	LC		10	20	3	9
North Lincolnshire	LC	Con	26	17
North Somerset	LC	Con	36	3	4		1	6
Northumberland	LC		21	32	12			2
Nottingham	LC	Lab	3	52
Peterborough	LC		27	12	4	4		Ind 7, Lib 3
Plymouth	LC		26	28		3
Poole	LC	Con	32		6	1		3
Portsmouth	LC		18	4	15	4		1
Reading	LC	Lab	10	31	2		3
Redcar & Cleveland	LC		10	29	11	1		8
Rutland	LC	Con	16		2	1		7
Shropshire	LC	Con	47	9	13			5
Slough	LC	Lab	9	32		1
South Gloucestershire	AA	Con	40	14	16
Southampton	LC	Lab	20	26				2
Southend-on-Sea	LC		22	9	4	5		11
Stockton-on-Tees	LC	Lab	13	32	1			10
Stoke-on-Trent	LC		7	21		2		14
Swindon	LC	Con	32	23	2
Telford & Wrekin	LC		23	27	3			1
Thurrock	LC		17	18		13		1
Torbay	MC	Con	25		7	1		3
Warrington	LC	Lab	5	43	9
West Berkshire	LC	Con	48		4
Wiltshire	LC	Con	58	4	27	1		8
Windsor & Maidenhead	LC	Con	54		1			2
Wokingham	LC	Con	47		5			2
York	LC		14	15	12		4	2
Unitary Totals			1301	1149	301	67	38	241

London Borough Councils
	Exec	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Others
Barking & Dagenham	LC	Lab		51
Barnet	LC	Con	32	30	1
Bexley	LC	Con	45	15		3
Brent	LC	Lab	6	56	1
Bromley	LC	Con	51	7		2
Camden	LC	Lab	12	40	1		1
Croydon	LC	Lab	30	40
Ealing	LC	Lab	12	53	4
Enfield	LC	Lab	22	41
Greenwich	LC	Lab	8	43
Hackney	MC	Lab	4	50	3
Hammersmith & Fulham	LC	Lab	20	26
Haringey	LC	Lab		48	9
Harrow	LC	Lab	26	34	1			2
Havering	LC		22	1		7		RA 24
Hillingdon	LC	Con	42	23
Hounslow	LC	Lab	11	49
Islington	LC	Lab		47			1
Kensington & Chelsea	LC	Con	37	12	1
Kingston upon Thames	LC	Con	28	2	18
Lambeth	LC	Lab	3	59			1
Lewisham	MC	Lab		53			1
Merton	LC	Lab	20	36	1			RA 3
Newham	MC	Lab		60
Redbridge	LC	Lab	25	35	3
Richmond upon Thames	LC	Con	39		15
Southwark	LC	Lab	2	48	13
Sutton	LC	LDm	9		45
Tower Hamlets	LC		5	22				18
Waltham Forest	LC	Lab	16	44
Wandsworth	LC	Con	41	19
Westminster	LC	Con	44	16
London Totals			612	1060	116	12	4	47

Metropolitan Borough Councils
	Exec	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Others
Barnsley	LC	Lab	4	55				4
Birmingham	LC	Lab	30	79	11
Bolton	LC	Lab	15	39	3	3
Bradford	LC	Lab	23	46	9	1	3	8
Bury	LC	Lab	12	35	2			2
Calderdale	LC		21	24	5			1
Coventry	LC	Lab	13	41
Doncaster	MC	Lab	8	41		2		4
Dudley	LC	Lab	25	38		7	1	1
Gateshead	LC	Lab		55	11
Kirklees	LC		18	34	10		4	3
Knowsley	LC	Lab		63
Leeds	LC	Lab	19	63	9		3	5
Liverpool	MC	Lab		81	2		4	Lib 2, Ind 1
Manchester	LC	Lab		96
Newcastle upon Tyne	LC	Lab		53	21			4
North Tyneside	MC	Lab	9	49	2
Oldham	LC	Lab	2	45	10	2		1
Rochdale	LC	Lab	10	47	2			1
Rotherham	LC	Lab	1	48		12		2
St Helens	LC	Lab	3	42	3
Salford	LC	Lab	8	52
Sandwell	LC	Lab		69		1		2
Sefton	LC	Lab	7	42	16			1
Sheffield	LC	Lab		59	16	5	4
Solihull	LC	Con	32	1	6	2	9	1
South Tyneside	LC	Lab	1	52				1
Stockport	LC		17	21	23			2
Sunderland	LC	Lab	6	66				3
Tameside	LC	Lab	5	52
Trafford	LC	Con	34	26	3
Wakefield	LC	Lab	6	54		2		1
Walsall	LC		25	27	2	3		3
Wigan	LC	Lab	3	64				8
Wirral	LC	Lab	21	39	5		1
Wolverhampton	LC	Lab	10	48	1	1
Metropolitan Totals			388	1746	172	41	29	61

District Councils
	Exec	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Others
Adur	LC	Con	20	1		6		2
Allerdale	LC		17	28		3		8
Amber Valley	LC	Con	24	21
Arun	LC	Con	42	1	5	4		2
Ashfield	LC	Lab	4	22	5			4
Ashford	LC	Con	34	4	1	1		3
Aylesbury Vale	LC	Con	43	2	9	4		1
Babergh	AA	Con	31	1	3			8
Barrow-in-Furness	AA	Lab	9	27
Basildon	LC		18	9	1	11		3
Basingstoke & Deane	LC	Con	32	17	7			4
Bassetlaw	LC	Lab	12	33				3
Blaby	LC	Con	29	6	4
Bolsover	LC	Lab		32				5
Boston	LC		13	2		13		2
Braintree	LC	Con	44	2			1	RA 2
Breckland	LC	Con	42	2		4		1
Brentwood	AA	Con	23	2	10			2
Broadland	LC	Con	43		4
Bromsgrove	LC	Con	18	7				6
Broxbourne	LC	Con	24	3		1		2
Broxtowe	LC	Con	27	12	4			1
Burnley	LC	Lab	5	29	10	1
Cambridge	LC	Lab	1	24	14		1	2
Cannock Chase	LC	Lab	12	22	1	5		1
Canterbury	LC	Con	31	3	3	2
Carlisle	LC	Con	29	20	1	2
Castle Point	LC	Con	22			5		14
Charnwood	LC	Con	43	7	1			1
Chelmsford	LC	Con	52		5
Cheltenham	LC	LDm	12		24			4
Cherwell	LC	Con	41	7	1			1
Chesterfield	LC	Lab		38	9	1
Chichester	LC	Con	42		3			3
Chiltern	LC	Con	35		3			2
Chorley	LC	Lab	14	31				2
Christchurch	AA	Con	19			1		2
Colchester	LC		27	9	20			4
Copeland	MC	Lab	17	29				5
Corby	AA	Lab	5	24
Cotswold	LC	Con	24		10
Craven	AA	Con	20	2	1	1		6
Crawley	LC	Lab	18	19
Dacorum	LC	Con	46	2	3
Dartford	LC	Con	34	7				3
Daventry	AA	Con	31	2	1	2
Derbyshire Dales	AA	Con	29	5	3			2
Dover	LC	Con	25	17		3
East Cambridgeshire	AA	Con	36		2			1
East Devon	LC	Con	37		6			16
East Dorset	AA	Con	24		3			2
East Hampshire	LC	Con	42		2
East Herts	LC	Con	50
East Lindsey	LC	Con	33	4	1	8		9
East Northamptonshire	AA	Con	37	1				2
East Staffordshire	LC	Con	25	12	1	1
Eastbourne	LC	LDm	9		18
Eastleigh	LC	LDm	6		38
Eden	LC	Con	21		7			10
Elmbridge	LC	Con	33		7			RA 19, Ind 1
Epping Forest	LC	Con	38		3	2	1	RA 12, Ind 2
Epsom & Ewell	AA	Ind	4	3				RA 31
Erewash	LC	Con	30	17
Exeter	LC	Lab	10	29	1
Fareham	LC	Con	23		5	1		2
Fenland	LC	Con	34		2			3
Forest Heath	AA	Con	21			2		4
Forest of Dean	LC		21	13		7	1	6
Fylde	LC	Con	32	1	2			Ind 14, RA 2
Gedling	LC	Lab	15	25	1
Gloucester	LC	Con	20	9	7
Gosport	AA	Con	21	6	6	1
Gravesham	LC	Con	23	21
Great Yarmouth	LC		14	14		10		1
Guildford	LC	Con	35	1	9			3
Hambleton	LC	Con	27			1
Harborough	LC	Con	29		8
Harlow	AA	Lab	12	19		2
Harrogate	LC	Con	35		15			Ind 3, Lib 1
Hart	LC		16		8			9
Hastings	LC	Lab	8	24
Havant	LC	Con	31	4	1	2
Hertsmere	LC	Con	37	2
High Peak	LC	Con	23	17	2			1
Hinckley & Bosworth	LC	Con	21	1	12
Horsham	LC	Con	39		4			1
Huntingdonshire	LC	Con	36	2	4	6		4
Hyndburn	LC	Lab	8	24		2
Ipswich	LC	Lab	15	31	2
Kettering	LC	Con	26	9				1
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk	LC	Con	50	10				2
Lancaster	LC		19	29			9	3
Lewes	LC	Con	24		11	1	3	2
Lichfield	LC	Con	41	4	1	1
Lincoln	LC	Lab	6	27
Maidstone	LC		25	2	20	2		6
Maldon	LC	Con	28			1		2
Malvern Hills	LC	Con	23		5		3	7
Mansfield	MC	Lab		19		2		15
Melton	AA	Con	26					2
Mendip	LC	Con	32		11		3	1
Mid Devon	LC	Con	28		5	2		Ind 6, Lib 1
Mid Suffolk	LC	Con	29		4		5	2
Mid Sussex	LC	Con	54
Mole Valley	LC	Con	23		11	1		6
New Forest	LC	Con	58		2
Newark & Sherwood	LC	Con	24	12				3
Newcastle-under-Lyme	LC		20	29	4	2	1	4
North Devon	LC		19		12	1		11
North Dorset	LC	Con	27		4			2
North East Derbyshire	LC	Lab	18	34				1
North Hertfordshire	LC	Con	36	11	2
North Kesteven	LC	Con	28					15
North Norfolk	LC	Con	33		15
North Warwickshire	AA	Con	22	13
North West Leicestershire	LC	Con	25	10	1			2
Northampton	LC	Con	26	17	2
Norwich	LC	Lab		21	3		15
Nuneaton & Bedworth	LC	Lab	3	28			2	1
Oadby & Wigston	AA	LDm	6	1	19
Oxford	LC	Lab		33	8		6	1
Pendle	LC		19	17	12			1
Preston	LC	Lab	19	32	5			1
Purbeck	AA	Con	20		4			1
Redditch	LC	Lab	13	15		1
Reigate & Banstead	LC	Con	40		1	1	2	RA 7
Ribble Valley	AA	Con	35	1	4
Richmondshire	AA	Con	21		2			11
Rochford	LC	Con	29	1	2	3	2	2
Rossendale	LC	Lab	15	19				2
Rother	LC	Con	31	1	2			4
Rugby	LC	Con	22	10	8			2
Runnymede	AA	Con	36					6
Rushcliffe	LC	Con	34	4	2		2	2
Rushmoor	LC	Con	26	11		2
Ryedale	AA	Con	20		2			Ind 5, Lib 3
St Albans	LC	Con	32	8	16		1	1
St Edmundsbury	LC	Con	36	2		4	1	2
Scarborough	LC	Con	26	14		5	2	3
Sedgemoor	LC	Con	35	10	1	2
Selby	LC	Con	22	8				1
Sevenoaks	LC	Con	49	1	2	1		1
Shepway	LC	Con	22	1		7
South Bucks	LC	Con	27					1
South Cambridgeshire	LC	Con	38	1	11			7
South Derbyshire	AA	Con	24	12
South Hams	LC	Con	25	1	2		3
South Holland	LC	Con	28			2		7
South Kesteven	LC	Con	44	3		1		5
South Lakeland	LC	LDm	15	3	32			1
South Norfolk	LC	Con	40		6
South Northamptonshire	LC	Con	35		4			3
South Oxfordshire	LC	Con	33	1	1			1
South Ribble	LC	Con	29	19	2
South Somerset	LC		28		29			3
South Staffordshire	LC	Con	43	1		1		4
Spelthorne	LC	Con	35	1	3
Stafford	LC	Con	29	9				2
Staffordshire Moorlands	LC	Con	35	7	2	2		10
Stevenage	LC	Lab	6	30	3
Stratford-on-Avon	LC	Con	31	1	3			1
Stroud	LC		23	18	3		6	1
Suffolk Coastal	LC	Con	37	1	2			2
Surrey Heath	LC	Con	36	1	1			2
Swale	LC	Con	32	4		9		2
Tamworth	LC	Con	18	11		1
Tandridge	AA	Con	35		6			1
Taunton Deane	LC	Con	36	2	14	1		3
Teignbridge	LC	Con	29		11			6
Tendring	LC		23	4	1	22		Ind 7, RA 3
Test Valley	LC	Con	38		9			1
Tewkesbury	LC	Con	33		3			2
Thanet	LC		18	4		33		1
Three Rivers	LC		17	3	19
Tonbridge & Malling	LC	Con	48		4			2
Torridge	AA	Con	19	1	1	7	2	6
Tunbridge Wells	LC	Con	42	2	3			1
Uttlesford	LC	Con	23		6			10
Vale of White Horse	LC	Con	29		9
Warwick	LC	Con	31	9	2		1	3
Watford	MC		5	13	18
Waveney	LC	Con	27	20			1
Waverley	LC	Con	53					4
Wealden	LC	Con	50					5
Wellingborough	AA	Con	27	9
Welwyn Hatfield	LC	Con	31	14	2			1
West Devon	AA	Con	21					10
West Dorset	LC	Con	30		12
West Lancashire	LC	Lab	23	30				1
West Lindsey	AA	Con	24	3	7			2
West Oxfordshire	LC	Con	40	4	4			1
West Somerset	LC	Con	21	1		3		3
Weymouth & Portland	AA		14	13	6	1		2
Winchester	LC	Con	33	2	22
Woking	LC	Con	24	2	9			1
Worcester	LC	Con	18	15			1	1
Worthing	LC	Con	30		4	2	1
Wychavon	LC	Con	39		5	1
Wycombe	LC	Con	47	6	1	1		5
Wyre	LC	Con	36	14
Wyre Forest	LC	Con	21	2		1		Ind 3, ICHC 2, Lib 1
District Totals			5321	1572	828	242	76	561

Scottish Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	SNP	Others
Aberdeen		3	17	5			15	3
Aberdeenshire		13	2	12		1	29	11
Angus	SNP	4	1	1			15	8
Argyll & Bute	Ind	3	1	4			8	20
Clackmannanshire		1	8				8	1
Dumfries & Galloway		15	14	1			10	7
Dundee	SNP	1	10	1			16	1
East Ayrshire		2	14				15	1
East Dunbartonshire		2	8	3			8	3
East Lothian		3	10				9	1
East Renfrewshire		6	8				4	2
Edinburgh		11	21	3		6	17
Eilean Siar	Ind		2				6	23
Falkirk		2	14				13	3
Fife		3	34	10			27	4
Glasgow	Lab	1	45	1		5	26	1
Highland			8	14			22	36
Inverclyde		1	10	2			6	1
Midlothian			8			1	8	1
Moray		3	3				10	10
North Ayrshire		1	11				12	6
North Lanarkshire	Lab		41				26	3
Orkney	Ind							21
Perth & Kinross		10	4	5			18	4
Renfrewshire	Lab	1	22	1			15	1
Scottish Borders		10		6			9	9
Shetland	Ind							22
South Ayrshire		10	9				9	2
South Lanarkshire	Lab	3	36	1			25	2
Stirling		4	8			1	9
West Dunbartonshire	Lab		12				6	Ind 3, SSP 1
West Lothian		1	16				15	1
Scotland Totals		114	397	70	0	14	416	212

Welsh Unitary Authorities
	Control	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	Plaid	Others
Blaenau Gwent	Lab		33					9
Bridgend	Lab	1	39	3			1	10
Caerphilly	Lab		50				20	3
Cardiff	Lab	7	46	16			2	4
Carmarthenshire			22				28	24
Ceredigion			1	7			19	15
Conwy		13	10	5			12	19
Denbighshire		9	18	1			7	12
Flintshire		8	30	7			1	24
Gwynedd			5	2			36	32
Isle of Anglesey	Ind		2				12	16
Merthyr Tydfil	Lab		25					8
Monmouthshire		19	11	3				10
Neath Port Talbot	Lab		52				8	4
Newport	Lab	10	37	1				2
Pembrokeshire	Ind	3	9	1			5	42
Powys	Ind	10	7	8				48
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Lab	1	60	1			9	4
Swansea	Lab	4	48	11				9
Torfaen	Lab	4	30				2	8
Vale of Glamorgan		12	21		1		7	6
Wrexham		5	23	4			1	19
Wales Totals		106	579	70	1	0	170	328

England, Scotland & Wales Totals	Con	Labour	LibDem	UKIP	Green	SNP	Plaid	Others
	8779	6885	1809	496	180	416	170	1538
Others comprise: Ind 1400, RA 115, Lib 13, ICHC 5, MK 4, SSP 1

Local Council Political Compositions after the elections of May 2015

County Councils

Unitary Authorities

London Borough Councils

Metropolitan Borough Councils

District Councils

Scottish Unitary Authorities

Welsh Unitary Authorities

England, Scotland & Wales Totals