No overall control

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In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom, no overall control (abbreviated to NOC; Welsh: dim rheolaeth gyffredinol)^[1] is a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats, analogous to a hung parliament. Of the 248 councils who had members up for election in the 2019 local elections, 73 (over a quarter) resulted in a NOC administration. In the 2021 election, 14 resulted in no overall control. The term can still be used for several other countries, such as for two local councils of Malta and the General Assembly of Budapest in Hungary.