United Kingdom local elections, 2010

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6 May 2010

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170 English Local Authorities

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	David Cameron	Gordon Brown	Nick Clegg
Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	6 December 2005	24 June 2007	18 December 2007
Last election	39%	26%	25%
Percentage	35%	27%	26%
Swing	4%	1%	1%
Councils	66	37	14
Councils +/–	4	17	4
Councillors	3462	2976	1730
Councillors +/–	121	417	132

The 2010 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2010, when the 2010 general election also took place. Direct elections were held to all 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 76 second-tier district authorities, 20 unitary authorities and various Mayoral posts, all in England. For those authorities elected "all out" these were the first elections since 2006. The elections that were due to be held in Exeter and Norwich were cancelled due to structural changes. The results provided some comfort to the Labour Party, losing the general election on the same day, as it was the first time Conservative councillor numbers declined since 1996.

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All seats in the 32 London Boroughs were up for election.

One third of the seats in all 36 Metropolitan Boroughs were up for election.

One third of the council seats were up for election in 20 unitary authorities.

The elections in Stoke-on-Trent had originally been cancelled following a referendum result which decided to abolish the existing Mayor and Cabinet system of governance, with replacement elections to take place in 2011 following a review of the council by the Boundary Committee for England. However, it was later decided to hold elections to one-third of the council in 2010 as planned.

Seven district councils had half of their seats up for election.

69 district councils had one third of their seats up for election.

There were four mayoral elections.

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