2023 Medway Council election

2023 Medway Council election
4 May 2023 (2023-05-04)
All 59 seats to Medway Council
30 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Vince Maple Alan Jarrett George Crozer
Party Labour Co-op Conservative Independent
Last election 20 seats, 33.2% 33 seats, 40.1% 2 seats, 9.3%
Seats won 33 22 4
Seat change 13 11 2
Popular vote 61,612 53,841 7,921
Percentage 44.4% 38.8% 5.7%
Swing 11.2% 1.3% 3.6%
Winner of each seat at the 2023 Medway Council election
Leader before election

Alan Jarrett
Conservative

Leader after election

Vince Maple
Labour Co-op

The 2023 Medway Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Medway Council in Kent, England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party won control of the council for the first time since its creation in 1998 under the Labour Co-op banner, winning 11 seats while the incumbent Conservative Party lost 13 seats. This was the first time a council in Britain elected a full Labour Co-op slate and therefore the first council run by the Co-operative Party as well as Labour.

After the previous election, there were boundary changes that increased the number of councillors from 55 to 59 and the number of wards from 22 to 24. This was the first Medway Council election fought under these new boundaries.

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