2024 Leeds City Council election

2024 Leeds City Council election

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33 of 99 seats on Leeds City Council 50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	34.2% ( 3.0%)
First party Second party   Leader James Lewis Alan Lamb[1] Party Labour Conservative Last election 22 seats, 44.4% 4 seats, 22.3% Seats before 61 18 Seats won 19 5 Seats after 61 15[2] Seat change 3 Popular vote 85,055 40,327 Percentage 43.3% 20.5%
Map of Leeds City Council wards
Leader before election James Lewis Labour Leader after election James Lewis Labour

The 2024 Leeds City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024. It was held on the same day as the second West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.^[3]

The Labour Party maintained control of the council, with their seat count holding steady. For the third year in a row, the Conservative Party lost three seats, all to Labour; the party would additionally lose a seat in Pudsey two days after the election when Trish Smith, re-elected the previous year, resigned to sit as an independent.^[4] The Green Party also succeeded in taking three seats from Labour and saw the largest popular vote share increase out of any of the parties, though Labour in turn unseated Green group leader David Blackburn, preventing the Greens from equalling the Liberal Democrats as the third-largest group on the council. The Social Democratic Party took the third seat in Middleton Park, wiping out the Labour Party's representation in the ward, and all other parties held level in their seat count.