United Kingdom local elections, 2016

United Kingdom local elections, 2016

← 2015 5 May 2016 2017 →
124 councils in England 4 directly elected mayors in England 40 Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
Leader Jeremy Corbyn David Cameron Party Labour Conservative Leader since 12 September 2015 6 December 2005 Popular vote 31% 30% Councils 58 38 Councils +/– 1 Councillors 1,326 842 Councillors +/– 18 48   Leader Tim Farron Nigel Farage Party Liberal Democrat UKIP Leader since 16 July 2015 5 November 2010 Popular vote 15% 12% Councils 4 0 Councils +/– 1 Councillors 378 58 Councillors +/– 45 25
Council control following the 2016 local elections in England.   Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats   No overall control   No election in 2016

The 2016 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 5 May 2016 were a series of local elections which were held in 124 local councils and also saw 4 mayoral elections in England which also coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the London Assembly, the London mayoral election and the England & Wales Police and crime commissioners. These proved to be David Cameron's last local elections as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister as he resigned the following month.

Full results as reported by BBC News; popular vote recorded by Britain Elects.

As these local elections were held in 124 English councils, out of 418 in the whole of the UK, the BBC calculated a Projected National Vote Share (PNV), which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be "if the results were repeated at a general election".

The BBC's Projected National Vote Share was 31% for Labour, 30% for the Conservatives, 15% for the Liberal Democrats and 12% for UKIP. These results are included in the infobox for this article.

Three of 36 metropolitan boroughs had all of their seats up for election.

32 of 36 metropolitan boroughs had one-third of their seats up for election.

3 unitary authorities had all of their seats up for election.

16 unitary authorities had one-third of their seats up for election.

(Con-UKIP coalition)

12 District Councils had all of their seats up for election.