Local Council Political Compositions

This page shows the composition of councils after the elections of May 2023. 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, Welsh Unitary Authorities, and Northern Ireland District Councils.

Two other bodies, the Corporation of the City of London (25 aldermen, 130 councillors), and the Scilly Islands Council (21 councillors), do not fit in any of these classes and have no political groups, so they are not listed.

Keith Edkins - last updated and © 29/05/2023

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.

Abbreviations used in the Others column:
Lib = Liberal Party, MK = Mebyon Kernow, RefUK = Reform UK.
In Northern Ireland: TUV = Tradional Unionist Voice, PUP = Progressive Unionist Party, PBP = People Before Profit.
"Ind" signifies Independents and very local "parties" and residents' associations.

County Councils

 ExecControl  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Others 
Cambridgeshire AA   26 9 22   Ind 4
Derbyshire LC Con 42 15 4 1 RefUK 2
Devon LC Con 38 7 9 2 Ind 4
East Sussex LC Con 27 5 11 4 Ind 3
Essex LC Con 52 5 8 1 Ind 9
Gloucestershire LC Con (minority) 26 5 16 4 Ind 2
Hampshire LC Con 53 3 17   Ind 5
Hertfordshire LC Con 46 7 23 1 Ind 1
Kent LC Con 60 7 5 5 Ind 3
Lancashire LC Con 49 31 2 2  
Leicestershire LC Con 42 4 9    
Lincolnshire LC Con 54 4 3   Ind 9
Norfolk LC Con 55 12 10 3 Ind 3
Nottinghamshire AA Con 35 15 1   Ind 15
Oxfordshire LC LD/Lab/Grn 21 14 21 3 Ind 4
Staffordshire LC Con 55 5     Ind 2
Suffolk LC Con 53 5 5 9 Ind 3
Surrey LC Con 44 2 16 2 Ind 17
Warwickshire LC Con 42 6 5 3 Ind 1
West Sussex LC Con 46 9 11 1 Ind 3
Worcestershire LC Con 44 4 3 4 Ind 2
County Totals  910 174 201 45 92

Unitary Authorities

 ExecControl  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Others 
Bath & N.E. Somerset LC LDm 3 5 41 3 Ind 5
Bedford MC Con (mayor) 14 14 13 3 Ind 2
Blackburn with Darwen LC Lab 12 39      
Blackpool LC Lab 14 28      
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole LC LD/Ind 12 10 28 5 Ind 20
Bracknell Forest LC Lab 10 22 7 2  
Brighton & Hove AA Lab 6 38   7 Ind 3
Bristol MC Lab (mayor) 14 24 5 25 Ind 2
Buckinghamshire LC Con 112 6 16 1 Ind 12
Central Bedfordshire LC Ind (minority) 20 5 10 1 Ind 27
Cheshire East AA   33 31 2   Ind 16
Cheshire West & Chester LC Lab 23 38 1 2 Ind 6
Cornwall LC Con 46 5 13 1 Ind 17, MK 5
Cumberland LC Lab 7 29 5 2 Ind 3
Darlington LC   15 24 3 7 Ind 1
Derby LC Lab (minority) 15 23 4   RefUK 6, Ind 3
Dorset LC Con 43 1 26 5 Ind 6
Durham LC Ind/Con/LD 22 56 17 1 Ind 30
East Riding of Yorkshire LC   29 4 22   Ind 12
Halton LC Lab 2 49 3    
Hartlepool AA   12 18     Ind 6
Herefordshire LC Con/Ind 21 1 12 9 Ind 10
Hull LC LDm   25 32    
Isle of Wight LC Ind (minority) 16 1 3 1 Ind 18
Leicester LC Lab 17 31 3 3  
Luton LC Lab 3 30 15    
Medway LC Lab 22 33     Ind 4
Middlesbrough MC Lab 4 25 2   Ind 15
Milton Keynes LC Lab/LD 17 25 15    
North East Lincolnshire LC Con 27 9 3   Ind 3
North Lincolnshire LC Con 27 16      
North Northamptonshire LC Con 56 16 1 3 Ind 2
North Somerset LC Ind (minority) 15 10 9 7 Ind 9
North Yorkshire LC Con 46 11 13 5 Ind 13, Lib 1
Northumberland LC   33 20 4 2 Ind 8
Nottingham LC Lab   51     Ind 4
Peterborough LC Con (minority) 26 14 8 3 Ind 9
Plymouth LC Lab 17 31   2 Ind 6
Portsmouth LC LD (minority) 8 7 18   Ind 9
Reading LC Lab 5 32 3 7 Ind 1
Redcar & Cleveland LC Lab (minority) 12 23 11   Ind 13
Rutland LC LD (minority) 6 2 11 1 Ind 7
Shropshire LC Con 41 10 15 4 Ind 4
Slough LC Con (minority) 20 19 3    
Somerset LC LDm 36 5 61 5 Ind 3
South Gloucestershire AA   23 17 20   Ind 1
Southampton LC Lab 9 35 3 1  
Southend-on-Sea LC Con (minority) 22 16 4 1 Ind 8
Stockton-on-Tees LC   22 22     Ind 9
Stoke-on-Trent LC Lab 14 29     Ind 1
Swindon LC Lab 23 32 1    
Telford & Wrekin LC Lab 8 38 6   Ind 2
Thurrock LC Con 26 19     Ind 4
Torbay LC Con 19   15   Ind 2
Warrington LC Lab 10 35 8   Ind 4
West Berkshire LC LDm 11 1 29 2  
West Northamptonshire LC Con 65 20 5   Ind 3
Westmorland & Furness LC LDm 11 15 36 1 Ind 2
Wiltshire LC Con 61 3 27   Ind 6
Windsor & Maidenhead LC LDm 7   22   Ind 12
Wokingham LC LD (minority) 22 5 26   Ind 1
York LC Lab 3 24 19   Ind 1
Unitary Totals  1295 1227 679 122 378

London Borough Councils

 ExecControl  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Others 
Barking & Dagenham LC Lab   50     Ind 1
Barnet LC Lab 22 40     Ind 1
Bexley LC Con 32 12     Ind 1
Brent LC Lab 5 49 3    
Bromley LC Con 34 12 5   Ind 7
Camden LC Lab 3 45 5 1  
Croydon LC Con (minority) 33 34 1 2  
Ealing LC Lab 5 59 6    
Enfield LC Lab 25 38      
Greenwich LC Lab 3 52      
Hackney MC Lab 5 50   2  
Hammersmith & Fulham LC Lab 10 40      
Haringey LC Lab   49 7   Ind 1
Harrow LC Con 31 23     Ind 1
Havering LC   20 9     Ind 26
Hillingdon LC Con 30 23      
Hounslow LC Lab 10 52      
Islington LC Lab   47   3 Ind 1
Kensington & Chelsea LC Con 35 13 2    
Kingston upon Thames LC LDm 3   43   Ind 2
Lambeth LC Lab   58 3 2  
Lewisham MC Lab   54      
Merton LC Lab 7 31 17   Ind 2
Newham MC Lab   61   2 Ind 1
Redbridge LC Lab 5 57     Ind 1
Richmond upon Thames LC LDm 1   48 5  
Southwark LC Lab   51 11    
Sutton LC LDm 20 3 29   Ind 3
Tower Hamlets MC Ind 1 19   1 Aspire 24
Waltham Forest LC Lab 13 46     Ind 1
Wandsworth LC Lab 22 35     Ind 1
Westminster LC Lab 23 31      
London Totals  398 1143 180 18 74

Metropolitan Borough Councils

 ExecControl  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Others 
Barnsley LC Lab 2 48 10   Ind 2, RefUK 1
Birmingham LC Lab 22 65 12 2  
Bolton LC   16 26 6   Ind 12
Bradford LC Lab 16 56 5 8 Ind 5
Bury LC Lab 10 31     Ind 10
Calderdale LC Lab 15 28 6 2  
Coventry LC Lab 15 36   2 Ind 1
Doncaster MC Lab 11 40     Ind 4
Dudley LC Con 44 26     Ind 1
Gateshead LC Lab   49 17    
Kirklees LC Lab 18 39 8 3 Ind 1
Knowsley LC Lab   31 3 7 Ind 4
Leeds LC Lab 18 61 6 3 Ind 11
Liverpool MC Lab   61 15 3 Ind 3, Lib 3
Manchester LC Lab   88 4 4  
Newcastle upon Tyne LC Lab   48 23   Ind 7
North Tyneside MC Lab 7 51     Ind 2
Oldham LC Lab 11 32 10   Ind 7
Rochdale LC Lab 9 46 3   Ind 2
Rotherham LC Lab 14 34 4   Ind 6
St Helens LC Lab 2 29 4 6 Ind 7
Salford MC* Lab 8 49 1   Ind 2
Sandwell LC Lab 12 60      
Sefton LC Lab 5 51 9   Ind 1
Sheffield AA   1 39 29 14 Ind 1
Solihull LC Con 29   6 13 Ind 3
South Tyneside LC Lab 1 38   9 Ind 6
Stockport LC LD/Ind   24 29 3 Ind 7
Sunderland LC Lab 13 45 15   RefUK 1
Tameside LC Lab 6 51      
Trafford LC Lab 10 41 6 6  
Wakefield LC Lab 7 49 3   Ind 4
Walsall LC Con 37 20     Ind 3
Wigan LC Lab 2 64     Ind 9
Wirral LC   17 30 6 13  
Wolverhampton LC Lab 13 47      
Metropolitan Totals  391 1533 240 98 126

District Councils

 ExecControl  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Others 
Adur LC Con 16 9   2 Ind 2
Amber Valley LC Lab 7 26 1 6 Ind 2
Arun LC   20 8 14 6 Ind 6
Ashfield LC Ind 2 1     Ind 32
Ashford LC   19 11   8 Ind 9
Babergh AA   7 1 5 10 Ind 9
Basildon AA Con 26 10     Ind 6
Basingstoke & Deane LC Ind/LD 23 10 9 1 Ind 11
Bassetlaw LC Lab 8 38     Ind 2
Blaby LC Con 19 6 9 2  
Bolsover LC Lab 3 31     Ind 3
Boston LC Ind 5   1   Ind 24
Braintree LC Con 26 9   4 Ind 10
Breckland LC Con 30 12 1 1 Ind 5
Brentwood AA   17 2 17   Ind 1
Broadland LC   21 8 14 4  
Bromsgrove LC Con/Ind 11 8 5   Ind 7
Broxbourne LC Con 27 3      
Broxtowe AA Lab 10 26 5   Ind 3
Burnley LC Lab (minority) 7 21 7 7 Ind 3
Cambridge LC Lab   26 10 4 Ind 1
Cannock Chase LC   18 17 1 5  
Canterbury LC   8 18 9 4  
Castle Point LC Ind 8       Ind 33
Charnwood LC Lab (minority) 23 20   8 Ind 1
Chelmsford LC LDm 21   33   Ind 3
Cheltenham LC LDm 5   30 2 Ind 3
Cherwell LC Con (minority) 20 12 10 3 Ind 3
Chesterfield LC Lab   28 12    
Chichester LC LDm 5   25 2 Ind 4
Chorley LC Lab 5 37      
Colchester LC LD (minority) 19 15 15 2  
Cotswold LC LDm 9   21 2 Ind 2
Crawley LC Lab 16 20      
Dacorum LC LDm 18 3 28   Ind 2
Dartford LC Con 29 11   1 Ind 1
Derbyshire Dales AA   11 6 12 4 Ind 1
Dover LC Lab 14 17     Ind 1
East Cambridgeshire AA Con 15   13    
East Devon LC LD/Ind/Grn 17 3 18 2 Ind 19, Lib 1
East Hampshire LC Con/Ind 19 1 14 2 Ind 7
East Herts LC Grn/LD 16 5 10 19  
East Lindsey LC Con (minority) 26 6 1   Ind 22
East Staffordshire LC Lab 15 20     Ind 1
East Suffolk LC Grn/LD 15 12 11 16 Ind 1
Eastbourne LC LDm 8   19    
Eastleigh LC LDm 1   35   Ind 3
Elmbridge LC LD/Ind 12   19   Ind 17
Epping Forest LC Con 34   6 2 Ind 16
Epsom & Ewell AA Ind 2 3 4   Ind 26
Erewash LC Lab 16 28 1 1 Ind 1
Exeter LC Lab 4 25 3 6 Ind 1
Fareham LC Con 24   4   Ind 3
Fenland LC Con 35   2   Ind 6
Folkestone & Hythe LC Ind (minority) 5 10 2 11 Ind 2
Forest of Dean LC Ind (minority) 4 5 3 15 Ind 11
Fylde LC Con 19 2 2   Ind 14
Gedling LC Lab 9 28 4    
Gloucester LC Con 22 3 12   Ind 2
Gosport AA LDm 10 2 16    
Gravesham LC Lab 17 22      
Great Yarmouth AA   19 18     Ind 2
Guildford LC LDm 10 3 25   Ind 10
Harborough LC LD/Lab/Grn 15 3 13 3  
Harlow AA Con 21 12      
Hart LC LD/Ind 11   11   Ind 11
Hastings LC Lab (minority) 11 15   5 Ind 1
Havant LC Con 30 4 2 1 Ind 1
Hertsmere LC Lab/LD 16 14 9    
High Peak LC Lab 10 29 1 2 Ind 1
Hinckley & Bosworth LC LDm 10 2 22    
Horsham LC LDm 11   28 8 Ind 1
Huntingdonshire LC Ind (minority) 21 4 11 1 Ind 15
Hyndburn LC Con (minority) 16 16   2 Ind 1
Ipswich LC Lab 10 33 3   Ind 2
King's Lynn & W. Norfolk LC Ind/Grn 21 11 3 2 Ind 18
Lancaster LC Lab/Grn/LD 5 24 7 21 Ind 4
Lewes LC Grn/Lab   9 15 17  
Lichfield LC Con (minority) 23 17 7    
Lincoln LC Lab 9 20 4    
Maidstone AA   25 6 12 3 Ind 9
Maldon LC   10 1 6   Ind 14
Malvern Hills LC Ind/Grn 7   3 7 Ind 14
Mansfield MC Lab 5 25     Ind 6
Melton AA   11 5 1 1 Ind 10
Mid Devon LC LDm 5   33 3 Ind 1
Mid Suffolk LC   6   4 24  
Mid Sussex LC LD/Ind 18 1 20 4 Ind 5
Mole Valley LC LDm 3   30   Ind 6
New Forest LC Con 26 1 14 3 Ind 4
Newark & Sherwood LC Lab/Con 14 11 3   Ind 11
Newcastle-under-Lyme LC Con 25 19      
North Devon LC LDm 7   22   Ind 13
North East Derbyshire LC Lab 19 28 3 1 Ind 2
North Hertfordshire LC Lab/LD 15 19 15    
North Kesteven LC Con 25 2     Ind 16
North Norfolk LC LDm 12   25   Ind 3
North Warwickshire AA   17 15     Ind 3
North West Leicestershire LC   12 17 5   Ind 4
Norwich LC Lab   23 3 13  
Nuneaton & Bedworth LC Con 27 5   2  
Oadby & Wigston AA LDm 7   19    
Oxford LC Lab   32 9 6 Ind 1
Pendle LC Lab/LD 14 11 7   Ind 1
Preston LC Lab 10 31 7    
Redditch LC Con 16 13      
Reigate & Banstead LC Con 23 1 3 11 Ind 7
Ribble Valley AA   18 7 8 2 Ind 5
Rochford LC   12   9 1 Ind 17
Rossendale LC Lab 9 22   1 Ind 4
Rother LC Ind/LD/Lab/Grn 10 8 7 3 Ind 10
Rugby LC   21 12 9    
Runnymede AA   20 4 4 2 Ind 11
Rushcliffe LC Con 25 9 1 2 Ind 7
Rushmoor LC Con 23 14 2    
Sevenoaks LC Con 33   14 4 Ind 3
South Cambridgeshire LC LDm 9   35   Ind 1
South Derbyshire AA Lab 9 23     Ind 1
South Hams LC LDm 7 1 19 3 Ind 1
South Holland LC Con 19       Ind 18
South Kesteven LC Ind/Grn/LD 24 2 4 4 Ind 22
South Norfolk LC Con 24 9 11   Ind 2
South Oxfordshire LC LDm 1 3 21 8 Ind 3
South Ribble LC Lab 16 29 5    
South Staffordshire LC Con 29 2 4 2 Ind 5
Spelthorne AA   12 7 10 3 Ind 7
St Albans LC LDm 4   48 2 Ind 1
Stafford LC Lab/Ind/Grn 14 13 1 5 Ind 7
Staffordshire Moorlands LC Lab (minority) 22 24 1 1 Ind 8
Stevenage LC Lab 9 24 6    
Stratford-on-Avon LC LDm 12   25 3 Ind 1
Stroud AA   19 5 3 14 Ind 10
Surrey Heath LC LDm 6 2 21   Ind 3
Swale LC   12 15 5 3 Ind 12
Tamworth LC Con (minority) 14 10     Ind 6
Tandridge AA Ind 9   11   Ind 22
Teignbridge LC LDm 9   26   Ind 12
Tendring LC Ind/Lab 19 8 4   Ind 17
Test Valley LC Con 26   17    
Tewkesbury LC   9   16 4 Ind 9
Thanet LC Lab 17 30   5 Ind 4
Three Rivers LC LDm 12 3 22 2  
Tonbridge & Malling LC Con/Ind 20 3 11 8 Ind 2
Torridge AA   6 2 8 4 Ind 16
Tunbridge Wells LC LD/Ind/Lab 11 8 17   Ind 12
Uttlesford LC Ind 11   4   Ind 24
Vale of White Horse LC LDm     34 4  
Warwick LC Grn/Lab 6 11 10 14 Ind 3
Watford MC LDm   9 27    
Waverley LC LD/Lab/Ind/Grn 10 2 22 1 Ind 15
Wealden LC LD/Grn 9 2 13 11 Ind 10
Welwyn Hatfield LC LD/Lab 22 12 14    
West Devon AA   11 1 2 4 Ind 10
West Lancashire LC Lab 15 26     Ind 1
West Lindsey AA   14   18   Ind 4
West Oxfordshire LC LD/Lab/Grn 17 10 18 3 Ind 1
West Suffolk LC Ind/Lab 26 17 1 1 Ind 19
Winchester LC LDm 12   30 2 Ind 1
Woking LC LDm 4 3 20   Ind 3
Worcester AA   8 12 4 10  
Worthing LC Lab 11 24 1 1  
Wychavon LC Con 29 1 7 6  
Wyre LC Con 30 15     Ind 3
Wyre Forest LC Con 20 4 2 1 Ind 6
District Totals  2332 1593 1530 446 899

Scottish Unitary Authorities

 Control  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green    SNP   Others 
Aberdeen   7 12 4   20 Ind 2
Aberdeenshire   24   14   21 Ind 11
Angus   7 1     13 Ind 7
Argyll & Bute   9 1 5 1 12 Ind 8
Clackmannanshire   3 5   1 8 Ind 1
Dumfries & Galloway   17 8 1   11 Ind 6
Dundee SNP 1 9 4   15  
East Ayrshire   4 10     14 Ind 4
East Dunbartonshire   2 4 5   8 Ind 3
East Lothian   4 10   1 6 Ind 1
East Renfrewshire   5 5     6 Ind 2
Edinburgh   9 12 13 10 18 Ind 1
Eilean Siar Ind 1       6 Ind 22
Falkirk   5 9     12 Ind 4
Fife   8 20 13   34  
Glasgow   2 36   10 37  
Highland   9 2 15 4 22 Ind 22
Inverclyde   2 9     8 Ind 3
Midlothian   3 7     8  
Moray   9 3   1 9 Ind 4
North Ayrshire   10 9     12 Ind 2
North Lanarkshire   5 32   1 25 Ind 13
Orkney Ind       2   Ind 19
Perth & Kinross   14 2 4   16 Ind 4
Renfrewshire   5 13 1   21 Ind 3
Scottish Borders   14   3 1 9 Ind 7
Shetland Ind   1   1 1 Ind 20
South Ayrshire   10 5     9 Ind 4
South Lanarkshire   7 24 3 1 26 Ind 2
Stirling   8 5   1 7 Ind 2
West Dunbartonshire     11     8 Ind 3
West Lothian   4 12 1   15 Ind 1
Scotland Totals  208 277 86 35 437 181

Welsh Unitary Authorities

 Control  Con   Labour  LibDem  Green  Plaid  Others 
Blaenau Gwent Lab   22       Ind 11
Bridgend Lab 1 26     2 Ind 22
Caerphilly Lab   45     18 Ind 6
Cardiff Lab 11 55 10   2 Ind 1
Carmarthenshire Plaid   23     38 Ind 14
Ceredigion Plaid     6   20 Ind 11
Conwy   10 10 4 1 7 Ind 23
Denbighshire   7 17   2 8 Ind 14
Flintshire   2 31 4     Ind 30
Gwynedd Plaid   1 1   44 Ind 23
Isle of Anglesey Plaid   3     21 Ind 11
Merthyr Tydfil     15       Ind 15
Monmouthshire   18 22   1   Ind 5
Neath Port Talbot     27 2 1 12 Ind 18
Newport Lab 7 35 1 1   Ind 7
Pembrokeshire Ind 10 10 2   2 Ind 36
Powys   14 9 20 1 3 Ind 21
Rhondda Cynon Taff Lab 2 59     8 Ind 6
Swansea Lab 7 45 11 1   Ind 11
Torfaen Lab   29       Ind 11
Vale of Glamorgan   13 25     8 Ind 8
Wrexham   9 14     9 Ind 24
Wales Totals  111 523 61 8 202 328

England, Scotland & Wales Totals

 ConLabour LibDem Green SNPPlaid Others
  5645 6470 2977 772 437 202 2078
Others comprise: Ind 2033, Aspire 24, RefUK 10, MK 5, Lib 5

Northern Ireland District Councils

 Control   SF    SDLP  APNI  UUP  DUP  Others 
Antrim and Newtownabbey   9 1 8 7 13 Ind 2
Ards and North Down     1 12 8 14 Ind 3, Green 2
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon   15 1 4 6 13 TUV 1, Ind 1
Belfast   21 5 11 2 14 Green 3, PBP 1, TUV 1, Ind 1
Causeway Coast and Glens   12 3 5 4 13 TUV 2, PUP 1
Derry City and Strabane   18 10   3 5 Ind 3, PBP 1
Fermanagh and Omagh SF 21 3 2 7 6 Ind 1
Lisburn and Castlereagh   4 2 13 6 14 Ind 1
Mid and East Antrim   4   7 8 14 TUV 5, Ind 2
Mid Ulster   19 5   2 11 Ind 3
Newry, Mourne and Down   20 8 5 1 5 Ind 2
N.Ireland Totals  143 39 67 54 122 36

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