United Kingdom local elections, 2014

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162 councils and 5 directly-elected mayors in England All 11 new councils in Northern Ireland

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ed Miliband	David Cameron
Party	Labour	Conservative
Leader since	25 September 2010	6 December 2005
Popular vote	31%	29%
Swing	2%	4%
Councils	82	41
Councils +/–	6	11
Councillors	2,121	1,364
Councillors +/–	324	236

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Nick Clegg	Nigel Farage
Party	Liberal Democrat	UKIP
Leader since	18 December 2007	5 November 2010
Popular vote	13%	17%
Swing	1%	5%
Councils	6	0
Councils +/–	2	0
Councillors	427	166
Councillors +/–	310	163

Map showing results of English local elections, 2014. Black represents No Overall Control, white represents areas that did not hold an election, blue represents the Conservative Party, red represents the Labour Party and gold represents the Liberal Democrats. Areas shown in grey are not part of England.

The 2014 United Kingdom local elections were held on 22 May 2014. Usually these elections are held on the first Thursday in May but were postponed to coincide with the 2014 European Parliament Elections. Direct elections were held for all 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 74 district/borough councils, 20 unitary authorities and various mayoral posts in England and elections to the new councils in Northern Ireland.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on the day of the election were entitled to vote in the local elections.

For the fourth year running, the Labour Party enjoyed the largest share of the vote in local elections, but its share of the vote was its smallest since 2010. The UK Independence Party, which topped the same day's European elections, finished third with 17% of the votes, claiming council seats from Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Overall in England:

The Respect Party lost both their remaining councillors.

This table depicts how the control of local councils shifted in this election.

The data along the diagonal represents no shift in control in that number of councils: for example, Chorley was among the solid colour no change 73 Labour controlled councils. The other cells represent the shifts of control: for example, Harrow was one of five councils of which Labour gained control from No Overall Control. The intensity of the colour in a table cell other than the diagonal reflects the relative number of losses in council control suffered by each party.

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