Welsh local elections, 2017

Welsh local elections, 2017

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All 1,271 seats to 22 Welsh councils
First party Second party   Leader Carwyn Jones Leanne Wood Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader since 10 December 2009 16 March 2012 Last election 580 seats, 35.2% 170 seats, 16.2% Seats won 473 203 Seat change 107 33   Third party Fourth party   Leader Andrew R. T. Davies Mark Williams Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 14 July 2011 8 May 2016 Last election 105 seats, 12.6% 73 seats, 8.0% Seats won 184 62 Seat change 80 11
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right) Key:   Labour   Independent   Plaid Cymru   Conservative   No Overall Control   No election held

Local elections were held in Wales on Thursday 4 May 2017 to elect members of all 22 local authorities, including the Isle of Anglesey, which was last up for election in 2013 due to having its elections delayed for a year. These local elections were held alongside local elections in Scotland and parts of England.

The last elections were in 2012. Normally these elections take place every four years, but the 2017 elections were postponed for a year in order to avoid clashing with the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, which itself was postponed by a year to avoid clashing with the previous year's general election.

In the 2017 local elections in Wales, the Labour Party had a net loss of 107 council seats, and also list control of the Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend councils. Labour did, however, retain control of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and five other councils. The Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru had a net gain of 33 seats and retained control of the Gwynedd Council, increasing its majority there; it also fell just short of controlling the Carmarthenshire County Council. The Conservatives had a net gain of 80 seats, and won control of one council, Monmouthshire; the Conservatives also became the largest party in Vale of Glamorgan and Denbighshire. In ten of the 22 councils, no party had overall control of the council.