Norwich City Council election, 2016

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13 of 39 seats (One Third) to Norwich City Council
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Green	Conservative
Seats won	11 (For a total of 26)	1 (For a total of 10)	0 (For a total of 0)
Seat change	4	4
Popular vote	15,542	7,391	4,709
Percentage	44.3%	21.1%	13.4%
Swing	9.4%	3.9%	7.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Liberal Democrat	UKIP
Seats won	1 (For a total of 3)	0 (For a total of 0)
Seat change
Popular vote	3,743	3,697
Percentage	10.7%	10.5%
Swing	0.1%	2.3%

Map showing the 2016 local election results in Norwich.

Council control before election

Labour Party (UK)

Council control after election

Labour Party (UK)

The 2016 Norwich City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party increased their majority at the expense of the Green Party, capturing 4 previously Green-held seats; the Greens retained only Thorpe Hamlet ward, by a margin of 31 votes.

The Labour Party achieved its best result in the city since 1998, winning 44% of the vote and 11 of 13 seats up for election, with the Greens dropping to their worst percentage result since 2005. UKIP achieved its best-ever result in the city, at 10.5%.

The scale of the Green defeat was reported to have surprised both Labour and the Green Party and was partly attributed to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party bringing "some voters who had previously switched to the Greens back to Labour".

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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