2022 United Kingdom local elections

2022 United Kingdom local elections

← 2021 5 May 2022 2023 →
146 unitary, metropolitan, district and London councils in England All 32 councils in Scotland All 22 councils in Wales 7 directly elected mayors in England
Turnout	33.6% (England)[1] 44.8% (Scotland)[2] 38.0% (Wales)[3]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Keir Starmer Boris Johnson Ed Davey Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 4 April 2020 23 July 2019 27 August 2020[n 4] Projected vote-share[n 1] 35% 30% 19% Swing[n 2] 6% 6% 2% Councillors 3,073 1,403 868 Councillors ± 108 485 224 Councils 74[n 3] 35 16 Councils ± 5 11 3   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Nicola Sturgeon Adam Price Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay Party SNP Plaid Cymru Green Leader since 14 November 2014 28 September 2018 1 October 2021 Projected vote-share[n 1] 34.1%[n 5] TBC 8.2% Swing[n 2] 1.8% TBC TBC Councillors 453 202 159 Councillors ± 22 6 87 Councils 1[n 3] 4 0 Councils ± 1 3
Map showing party control of councils following the elections.   No election otherwise see analysis table

The 2022 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, and for all local authorities in Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and in Scotland and Wales in 2017. The elections coincided with the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election. In 91 cases, most of them in Wales, council seats were uncontested, each having only one candidate. Three seats in Scotland remained unfilled as no one nominated to fill them.

The local elections took place amid the Partygate scandal, in which it was found that numerous parties had been held at 10 Downing Street during national COVID-19 lockdowns, and COVID-19 social distancing laws were breached by numerous individuals. Public dissatisfaction over the events led to a decline in public support for Boris Johnson, the government led by him, and the Conservatives as a whole.

Across Great Britain, the governing Conservative Party had a net loss of 485 seats in comparison to 2017 in Scotland and Wales and 2018 in England, whilst Labour gained 108 seats (22 in England, 20 in Scotland, and 66 in Wales). The Liberal Democrats and Greens made gains of 224 seats and 87 seats, respectively, which exceeded those of the Labour Party in England but were also seen to a more modest extent in Scotland and Wales.

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