2022 Wrexham County Borough Council election

2022 Wrexham County Borough Council election

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All 56 ( 4; previously 52) seats to Wrexham County Borough Council 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	36.47%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mark Pritchard Dana Davies Hugh Jones Party Independent Labour Conservative Leader's seat Esclusham Ruabon Rossett Seats before 26[i] 12 9 Seats won 23[ii] 14 9[iii] Seat change 3 2 0   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Marc Jones Party Plaid Cymru Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Grosvenor Seats before 3 2 Seats won 9 1 Seat change 6 1
Map of the election results by electoral ward, coloured in party colours. Stripes indicate two councillor wards where each councillor is of a different affiliation. Inset: location of Wrexham County Borough in Wales
Council control before election No overall control Independent–Welsh Conservatives coalition Council control after election No overall control Independent Group–Welsh Conservatives coalition

The 2022 Wrexham County Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect 56 members to Wrexham County Borough Council, the principal council of Wrexham County Borough, Wales. On the same day, elections were held to the other 21 local authorities, and community councils in Wales as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections. The previous Wrexham County Borough all-council election took place in May 2017 and future elections will take place every five years, with the next scheduled for 2027.

On 5 May 2022, the election was held in forty-one of the forty-nine wards for 2022 in Wrexham County Borough. The remaining eight had no opposition nominated by 5 April 2022, and the councillors for these wards were re-elected unopposed, with their wards not holding the election. The councillors unopposed were six independents and two conservative councillors.

Independent politicians (including "non-specified" and the "Wrexham Independents") formed the largest group in the council with twenty-three councillors, down from 2017's twenty-six, and were six short of the twenty-nine needed for a majority. The second largest group were Labour with fourteen councillors elected, up from 2017's twelve councillors. The Conservatives had the same amount councillors as in 2017 with nine. Plaid Cymru increased their number of councillors to match the Conservatives also at nine, up from their three councillors in 2017. The Liberal Democrats had their share of councillors split to one councillor, down from two in 2017.

Following the results, the council was again under no overall control. Talks between independent politicians and Labour occurred over the weekend. On 10 May 2022, the two formerly separately organised groups of independents in the council, the independents and the "Wrexham Independents" group, merged into one "mega" 21-member "Independent Group". The Independent Group was initially in talks with Welsh Labour councillors but talks collapsed over mandatory councillor anti-discrimination training. On 11 May 2022, the Independent Group formed another coalition with the Welsh Conservatives for another five-year term with a total of thirty members, a two-member majority.

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