2024 Leeds City Council election

2024 Leeds City Council election
2 May 2024
33 of 99 seats on Leeds City Council
50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout34.2% (3.0%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader James Lewis Alan Lamb Penny Stables
Party Labour Conservative Green
Last election 22 seats, 44.4% 4 seats, 22.3% 1 seats, 14.2%
Seats before 61 18 3
Seats won 19 5 3
Seats after 61 15 5
Seat change 3 2
Popular vote 85,055 40,327 32,085
Percentage 43.3% 20.5% 16.3%
Swing 1.1pp 1.8pp 2.1pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party Liberal Democrats Morley Borough Independents Garforth and Swillington Independents
Last election 2 seats, 10.6% 2 seats, 2.5% 1 seat, 1.9%
Seats before 6 4 3
Seats won 2 2 1
Seats after 6 4 3
Seat change
Popular vote 18,527 4,538 3,469
Percentage 9.4% 2.3% 1.8%
Swing 1.2pp 0.2pp 0.1pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Party SDP Yorkshire Reform UK
Last election 1 seat, 1.4% 0 seats, 1.1% 0 seats, 0.4%
Seats before 2 0 0
Seats won 1 0 0
Seats after 3 0 0
Seat change 1
Popular vote 3,173 4,064 2,613
Percentage 1.6% 2.1% 1.3%
Swing 0.2pp 1.0pp 0.9pp
Map of Leeds City Council wards
Leader before election

James Lewis
Labour

Leader after election

James Lewis
Labour

The 2024 Leeds City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024. It was held on the same day as the second West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.

The Labour Party maintained control of the council, with their seat count holding steady. For the third year in a row, the Conservative Party lost three seats, all to Labour; the party would additionally lose a seat in Pudsey two days after the election when Trish Smith, re-elected the previous year, resigned to sit as an independent. The Green Party also succeeded in taking three seats from Labour and saw the largest popular vote share increase out of any of the parties, though Labour in turn unseated Green group leader David Blackburn, preventing the Greens from equalling the Liberal Democrats as the third-largest group on the council, though the Greens subsequently won a seat back in a byelection in the same ward and Blackburn returned to the council. The Social Democratic Party took the third seat in Middleton Park, wiping out the Labour Party's representation in the ward, and all other parties held level in their seat count.


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