United Kingdom local elections, 1993

1992 ←

6 May 1993 (England & Wales)
19 May 1993 (Northern Ireland)

→ 1994

All 39 non-metropolitan counties, 1 sui generis authority, all 26 Northern Irish districts and all 8 Welsh counties

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	John Smith	John Major	Paddy Ashdown
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	18 July 1992	28 November 1990	16 July 1988
Percentage	39%	31%	25%
Councillors	9,213	7,802	4,123
Councillors +/-	111	486	395

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1993. The results showed a decline for the governing Conservative Party with the third placed party, the Liberal Democrats, gaining most seats.

The main opposition Labour Party, now led by John Smith following Neil Kinnock's resignation as party leader, gained 111 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 9,213. Their share of the vote was projected to be 39%, their highest since 1990.

The governing Conservative Party lost 486 seats and were left with 7,802 councillors. Their projected share of the vote was 31%, a 15% decline since the previous local elections in 1992.

The Liberal Democrats gained 395 seats and had 4,123 councillors after the elections. Their projected share of the vote was 25%, an increase in 5% from the 1992 local elections.

These were the last elections to the county councils of Avon, Berkshire, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester, Humberside and Isle of Wight before they were abolished by the Local Government Commission for England (1992).

‡ New electoral division boundaries

These were the last elections to the county councils before they were abolished by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.

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