TYNE & WEAR NORTH YORKSHIRE SOUTH YORKSHIRE DERBYSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LINCOLNSHIRE LEICESTERSHIRE CUMBRIA GREATER MANCHESTER STAFFORDSHIRE WORCESTERSHIRE GLOUCESTERSHIRE OXFORDSHIRE SURREY KENT HAMPSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE GREATER LONDON HERTFORDSHIRE WEST SUSSEX EAST SUSSEX SOMERSET DEVON DORSET WARWICKSHIRE WEST MIDLANDS LANCASHIRE ESSEX SUFFOLK NORFOLK WEST YORKSHIRE NORTHUMBERLAND SCOTTISH BORDERS DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY SOUTH AYRSHIRE EAST LOTHIAN MIDLOTHIAN EDINBURGH WEST LOTHIAN DUNDEE ANGUS PERTH & KINROSS HIGHLAND MORAY CLACKMANNANSHIRE STIRLING GLASGOW RENFREWSHIRE INVERCLYDE NORTH AYRSHIRE ARGYLL & BUTE SOUTH LANARKSHIRE EAST AYRSHIRE EAST RENFREWSHIRE NORTH LANARKSHIRE EAST DUNBARTONSHIRE WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE FALKIRK ABERDEEN ABERDEENSHIRE FIFE GATESHEAD NORTH TYNESIDE SOUTH TYNESIDE HARTLEPOOL STOCKTON- ON-TEES MIDDLESBROUGH SCARBOROUGH RYEDALE BARNSLEY HARROGATE CRAVEN EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE YORK SELBY BRADFORD CALDERDALE DONCASTER ROTHERHAM SHEFFIELD HULL NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE KIRKLEES WAKEFIELD LEEDS HAMBLETON RICHMONDSHIRE REDCAR & CLEVELAND DARLINGTON NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE SUNDERLAND DURHAM ALLERDALE EDEN CARLISLE SOUTH LAKELAND LANCASTER RIBBLE VALLEY FYLDE WIRRAL CHESHIRE WEST & CHESTER CHESHIRE EAST STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS NEWCASTLE- UNDER-LYME STAFFORD WOLVERHAMPTON TAMWORTH CANNOCK CHASE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE DUDLEY EAST STAFFORDSHIRE SHROPSHIRE SOLIHULL REDDITCH COVENTRY WARWICK STRATFORD-ON-AVON HEREFORDSHIRE MALVERN HILLS WYCHAVON TEWKESBURY GLOUCESTER FOREST OF DEAN STROUD SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET BRISTOL NORTH SOMERSET SEDGEMOOR TAUNTON DEANE WEST SOMERSET MID DEVON NORTH DEVON WEST DEVON TORRIDGE CORNWALL TORBAY SOUTH HAMS PLYMOUTH MENDIP SWINDON THANET DOVER SHEPWAY ROTHER HASTINGS EASTBOURNE WEALDEN LEWES BRIGHTON & HOVE MID SUSSEX TANDRIDGE CRAWLEY HORSHAM WAVERLEY TEST VALLEY NEW FOREST ISLE OF WIGHT PORTSMOUTH GOSPORT EAST HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON BASINGSTOKE & DEANE WEST OXFORDSHIRE AYLESBURY VALE WYCOMBE CHILTERN SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE WEST BERKSHIRE READING WOKINGHAM WINDSOR & MAIDENHEAD SOUTH BUCKS SLOUGH WOKING ELMBRIDGE MOLE VALLEY EPSOM & EWELL BRACKNELL FOREST SURREY HEATH SPELTHORNE RUNNYMEDE VALE OF WHITE HORSE CHERWELL OXFORD HAVANT FAREHAM HART RUSHMOOR WINCHESTER EASTLEIGH GUILDFORD ADUR ARUN CHICHESTER WORTHING REIGATE & BANSTEAD ASHFORD SWALE MAIDSTONE MEDWAY NORTH NORFOLK EAST LINDSEY WEST LINDSEY NORTH KESTEVEN BOSTON SOUTH HOLLAND SOUTH KESTEVEN RUTLAND MELTON CORBY KETTERING WELLINGBOROUGH NORTHAMPTON SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DAVENTRY CHARNWOOD RUSHCLIFFE NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH HARBOROUGH OADBY & WIGSTON LEICESTER BLABY BASSETLAW GEDLING NOTTINGHAM BROXTOWE EREWASH SOUTH DERBYSHIRE DERBY AMBER VALLEY DERBYSHIRE DALES HIGH PEAK CHESTERFIELD NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE ASHFIELD BOLSOVER MANSFIELD LINCOLN GREAT YARMOUTH BROADLAND NORWICH SOUTH NORFOLK WAVENEY MID SUFFOLK BABERGH IPSWICH SUFFOLK COASTAL ST EDMUNDSBURY COLCHESTER TENDRING MALDON CHELMSFORD THURROCK BRENTWOOD BASILDON ROCHFORD CASTLE POINT SOUTHEND-ON-SEA BRAINTREE UTTLESFORD EPPING FOREST HARLOW 32 BOROUGHS AND CITY FOREST HEATH BRECKLAND KINGS LYNN & WEST NORFOLK FENLAND EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE HUNTINGDONSHIRE CAMBRIDGE SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE BEDFORD CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE EAST HERTFORDSHIRE NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE STEVENAGE ST ALBANS DACORUM WELWYN HATFIELD HERTSMERE WATFORD THREE RIVERS BROXBOURNE LUTON GRAVESHAM TUNBRIDGE WELLS TONBRIDGE & MALLING DARTFORD SEVENOAKS CANTERBURY SOUTH SOMERSET WILTSHIRE EAST DORSET NORTH DORSET WEST DORSET EAST DEVON TEIGNBRIDGE EXETER WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND PURBECK POOLE CHRISTCHURCH BOURNEMOUTH CHELTENHAM COTSWOLD WYRE FOREST WALSALL BIRMINGHAM SANDWELL NORTH WARWICKSHIRE NUNEATON & BEDWORTH RUGBY BROMSGROVE WORCESTER TELFORD & WREKIN LICHFIELD ROCHDALE OLDHAM TAMESIDE STOCKPORT TRAFFORD STOKE -ON- TRENT HALTON MANCHESTER PRESTON WYRE PENDLE ROSSENDALE BURNLEY HYNDBURN BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN SALFORD BOLTON BURY CHORLEY WIGAN WARRINGTON ISLE OF ANGLESEY CONWY DENBIGHSHIRE FLINTSHIRE GWYNEDD POWYS CEREDIGION CARMARTHENSHIRE PEMBROKESHIRE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT BRIDGEND RHONDDA CYNON TAF CAERPHILLY CARDIFF VALE OF GLAMORGAN NEWPORT BLAENAU GWENT TORFAEN MERTHYR TYDFIL MONMOUTHSHIRE WREXHAM SEFTON ST HELENS KNOWSLEY LIVERPOOL WEST LANCASHIRE SOUTH RIBBLE BLACKPOOL BARROW IN FURNESS COPELAND MILTON KEYNES PETERBOROUGH NEWARK & SHERWOOD SHETLAND ISLANDS ORKNEY ISLANDS COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR MERSEYSIDE Council control is accurate following the elections of 3 May 2018. Control can change as a result of defections or by-elections. Information compiled by Professor Colin Rallings and Professor Michael Thrasher, associate members, Nuffield College, Oxford. HARROW BARNET ENFIELD HARINGEY CAMDEN WANDSWORTH BRENT EALING HOUNSLOW RICHMOND UPON THAMES KINGSTON UPON THAMES MERTON SUTTON CROYDON WALTHAM FOREST HACKNEY ISLINGTON SOUTHWARK LAMBETH WESTMINSTER KENSINGTON & CHELSEA HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM HAVERING BEXLEY BROMLEY LEWISHAM GREENWICH NEWHAM HILLINGDON TOWER HAMLETS CITY BARKING & DAGENHAM REDBRIDGE Elected mayors Metro mayors London boroughs 405 Councils in Great Britain MADE UP OF 201 districts 27 counties 32 London boroughs* 36 metropolitans 55 English unitary* 22 Welsh unitary 32 Scottish unitary 20,110 Councillors* BY PARTY Paul Dossett, Head of Local Government, [email protected], 07919 025198 Guy Clifton, Head of Local Government Advisory, [email protected], 07771 974285 Barrie Morris, Local Government Director – Wales, [email protected], 07771 976684 Mike Thomas, Local Government Director – England, [email protected], 07880 456173 Joanne Brown, Local Government Director – Scotland, [email protected], 07966 971604 Breaking news every day @LGCplus LGCplus.com https://subscribe.lgcplus.com/subbt/ Individual subscription: +44 (0)1604 828 705 Multi-user subscription: +44 (0)20 3953 2729 North Tyneside Middlesbrough Doncaster Mansfield Torbay Bedford Newham Leicester Liverpool Watford Hackney Tower Hamlets Council control 2018 © Local Government Chronicle 2018 21 (65%) 7 (23%) 3 (9%) 1 (3%) 30 (83%) 5 (14%) 1 (3%) 23 (42%) 20 (36%) 12 (22%) 1 (4%) 7 (32%) 11 (50%) 2 (9%) 1 (4%) 3 (9%) 29 (91%) 3 (11%) 24 (89%) 143 (71%) 26 (13%) 23 (11%) 8 (4%) 1 (1%) 201 430 1,873 2,019 9,102 6,485 Lewisham INVERCLYDE EAST RENFREWSHIRE EAST DUNBARTONSHIRE RENFREWSHIRE GLASGOW HART ELMBRIDGE THURROCK TRAFFORD PORTSMOUTH Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Independent and others No overall control Scottish National Party Plaid Cymru Unitaries/counties Districts * = excludes City of London Corporation and Council of the Isles of Scilly ‘Independents and others’ category may include multiple groups and so not give any single one overall control even when these total more than 50% of councillors. KEY Bristol CALDERDALE MOLE VALLEY DERBY DUDLEY STOCKPORT STOKE-ON-TRENT WALSALL NUNEATON & BEDWORTH Counties CUMBRIA NORTH YORKSHIRE LANCASHIRE LINCOLNSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NORFOLK SUFFOLK ESSEX KENT EAST SUSSEX WEST SUSSEX SURREY DORSET SOMERSET DEVON HAMPSHIRE OXFORDSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GLOUCESTERSHIRE DERBYSHIRE STAFFORDSHIRE LEICESTERSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE WORCESTERSHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CUMBRIA HAVERING OXFORDSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Greater Manchester Andy Burnham Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram Cambridgeshire & Peterborough James Palmer West Midlands Andy Street West of England Tim Bowles Greater London Sadiq Khan Tees Valley Ben Houchen Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis Copeland Salford