2000 Leeds City Council election

2000 Leeds City Council election
4 May 2000
33 of the 99 seats on Leeds City Council
50 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative
Last election 21 seats, 46.1% 9 seats, 22.2% 5 seats, 27.6%
Seats won 17 8 7
Seats after 61 19 16
Seat change 8 4 4
Popular vote 58,198 33,916 48,031
Percentage 39.1% 22.8% 32.3%
Swing 7.0pp 0.6pp 4.7pp
  Fourth party
 
Party Green
Last election 1 seat, 3.6%
Seats won 1
Seats after 2
Seat change 1
Popular vote 5,906
Percentage 4.0%
Swing 0.4%
Map of the results for the 2000 Leeds council election.

The 2000 Leeds City Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough Council in West Yorkshire, England. Since the last election, Labour had lost a by-election to the Lib Dems in Harehills, and long-serving Chapel Allerton councillor, Garth Frankland, had defected from Labour to Left Alliance. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. Overall turnout in the election was 27.5%.

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