Peterborough City Council election, 2016

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All 60 seats to Peterborough City Council
31 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Seats won	31	14	7
Seat change	4	2	3
Popular vote	46,030	37,970	7,882
Percentage	38.8	32.0	6.6
Swing	1.5	2.5	3.5

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Werrington First	Liberal	UKIP
Seats won	3	3	2
Seat change	3		2
Popular vote	4,731	3,341	12,193
Percentage	4.0	2.8	10.3
Swing	4.0	6.0	4.8

Council control before election

No Overall Control

Council control after election

Conservative Party (UK)

No Overall Control

Conservative Party (UK)

The 2016 Peterborough City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Peterborough City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

Following a boundary review, all Peterborough City Council seats were up for election. The number of wards reduced from 24 to 22 but the number of seats rose from 57 to 60.

The Conservatives gained overall control of Peterborough City Council after taking 31 of the 60 seats.

Gain/loss column only indicates direct changes in seats that were contested at the last election and does not include seats picked-up from newly created wards (new seat wins).

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