2017 Welsh local elections

2017 Welsh local elections

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All 1,254 seats to 22 Welsh councils
First party Second party   Leader Carwyn Jones Leanne Wood Party Labour Plaid Cymru Last election 580 seats, 34.9%[1] 170 seats, 16.1% Seats won 468 208 Seat change 112 38 Popular vote 294,989 160,519 Percentage 30.4% 16.5% Swing 4.5% 0.5%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Andrew RT Davies Mark Williams Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Last election 105 seats, 12.5% 73 seats, 8.0% Seats won 184 63 Seat change 79 10 Popular vote 182,520 66,022 Percentage 18.8% 6.8% Swing 6.3% 1.2%
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right) Key:   Labour   Independent   Plaid Cymru   Conservative   No Overall Control   No election held

The 2017 Welsh local elections were held on 4 May 2017 to elect members of all 22 local authorities in Wales. This included the Isle of Anglesey, which was previously up for election in 2013 due to having its elections delayed for a year. Community council elections also took place on the same day. These local elections were held as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. Apart from Anglesey, the last elections were held in 2012. Normally these elections take place every four years, but the 2017 elections were postponed for a year in order to avoid clashing with the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, which itself had been postponed by a year to avoid clashing with the 2015 general election.

Welsh Labour incurred a net loss of 112 council seats, losing control of the Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend councils. Labour did, however, retain control of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and five other councils. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru saw a net gain of 38 seats and retained control of Gwynedd Council, while also falling just short of controlling Carmarthenshire County Council. The Welsh Conservatives saw a net gain of 79 seats, and gained control of one council, Monmouthshire. The Conservatives also became the largest party in Vale of Glamorgan and Denbighshire. In ten of the 22 councils, no party had overall control of the council.