Suffolk County Council election, 2017

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All 75 seats to Suffolk County Council
38 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Last election	39	15	7
Seats won	52	11	5
Seat change	15	4	3
Popular vote	112,828	56,137	32,237
Percentage	45.6%	22.8%	13.0
Swing	16.2%	1.8%	2.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Independent	Green	UKIP
Last election	3	2	9
Seats won	4	3	0
Seat change	1	1	10
Popular vote	10,977	19,510	13,997
Percentage	4.4	7.9	5.7
Swing	1.8%	0.1%	12.7%

Map of the results of the 2017 Suffolk council election. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow, Labour in red, Greens in green and independents in grey.

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

Conservative

No overall control

Conservative

The 2017 Suffolk County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 75 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each, by first-past-the-post voting, for a four-year term of office.

Voters who live in divisions which elected two councillors (12 divisions) were entitled to cast a maximum of two votes, while those living in divisions only electing one councillor (51 divisions) were only entitled to cast one vote.

Labour and the Conservatives were the only parties fielding candidates in all 63 electoral divisions. The Liberal Democrats had candidates standing in 58 divisions, while the Green Party stood candidates in 46 divisions and UKIP stood candidates in 43 divisions.

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