United Kingdom local elections, 2001

United Kingdom local elections, 2001

← 2000 7 June 2001 2002 →
All 34 non-metropolitan counties, 11 out of 46 unitary authorities, 1 sui generis authority and all 26 Northern Irish districts
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader William Hague Tony Blair Charles Kennedy Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Leader since 19 June 1997 21 July 1994 9 August 1999 Percentage 40 31 25 Councils 18 14 0 Councils +/- 5 2 2 Councillors 1,094 830 498 Councillors +/- 121 0 70
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Local elections took place in some parts of the UK on 7 June 2001. Elections took place for all of the English shire counties, some English unitary authorities and all of the Northern Ireland districts. The elections were delayed from the usual date of the first Thursday in May due to the 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis and were held on the same day as the general election.

While the results were overshadowed by the re-election of the Labour government, they did provide some comfort to the Conservative party. The Conservatives consolidated their position as the largest party on the English county councils.

The results of the English local elections saw the Conservative party make significant progress, gaining control of a further five councils. The Labour party lost control of Cumbria and Warwickshire county councils, while the Liberal Democrats suffered losses of both councils and councillors.

In all 34 English county councils the whole council was up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

In two English unitary authorities the whole council was up for election while a further nine unitary authorities had one third of the council up for election.

‡ New ward boundaries

In all 26 Northern Ireland districts the whole council was up for election. They were elected by Single Transferable Vote. They saw the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin make gains at the expense of the other parties.