United Kingdom local elections, 2015

United Kingdom local elections, 2015

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279 councils in England and 6 directly elected mayors in England
Leader David Cameron Ed Miliband Party Conservative Labour Leader since 6 December 2005 25 September 2010 Councils 163 74 Councils +/– 32 3 Councillors 5,521 2,278 Councillors +/– 541 203   Leader Nick Clegg Nigel Farage Party Liberal Democrat UKIP Leader since 18 December 2007 5 November 2010 Councils 4 1 Councils +/– 4 1 Councillors 658 202 Councillors +/– 411 176
The results in England. White areas indicate elections were not held here in 2015.

The 2015 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 2015, the same day as the general election for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

In 2015, direct elections were held in 279 of the 293 local districts in England: 36 metropolitan boroughs, 194 of the second-tier districts, and 49 of the unitary authorities. There were no local elections in London, Scotland, or Wales.

There were also six elections for directly elected mayors, as well as elections to many parish councils and town councils, and a few local referenda.

As was the case in the simultaneously-held general election, the Conservative Party was considered the clear winners of the local elections, winning overall control of more than thirty local councils, mostly from councils that before the election had no overall control (i.e., no majority held by any one party). The Conservatives retained control of the Solihull and Trafford councils, the only two metropolitan boroughs that it held before the election, slightly increasing its majority on both. Among the unitary councils, the Conservatives won control of Bath and North East Somerset for the first time.

As was the case in the general election, the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats performed poorly. Labour lost control of the Walsall metropolitan borough and the Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent unitary authorities, both to no overall control.