2010 United Kingdom local elections

2010 United Kingdom local elections

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All 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 20 out of 55 unitary authorities, 76 out of 212 district councils, and 4 directly elected mayors
First party Second party Third party   Leader David Cameron Gordon Brown Nick Clegg Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Leader since 6 December 2005 24 June 2007 18 December 2007 Percentage 35% 27% 26% Swing 4% 1% 1% Councils 66 37 14 Councils +/– 4 17 4 Councillors 3,462 2,976 1,730 Councillors +/– 121 417 132
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

The 2010 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2010, concurrently with the 2010 general election.^[1] Direct elections were held to all 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 76 second-tier district authorities, 20 unitary authorities and various Mayoral posts, all in England. For those authorities elected "all out" these were the first elections since 2006. The results provided some comfort to the Labour Party,^{[citation needed]} losing the general election on the same day, as it was the first time Conservative councillor numbers declined since 1996.^{[citation needed]}