2014 United Kingdom local elections

2014 United Kingdom local elections
All 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs,; 19 out of 55 unitary authorities, 74 out of 201 district councils,; all 11 Northern Irish councils, and 5 directly elected mayors
	Map showing results of English and Northern Irish local elections, 2014. Council control in England and in Northern Ireland the largest parties are shown (where all councils had no overall control). Black represents No Overall Control, white represents areas that did not hold an election, blue represents the Conservative Party, red represents the Labour Party and gold represents the Liberal Democrats. Areas in light red represent the Democratic Unionist Party. Dark green represents Sinn Féin and light green represents the SDLP. Areas shown in grey are outside England and Northern Ireland

Last updated November 14, 2024

The 2014 United Kingdom local elections were held on 22 May 2014. Usually these elections are held on the first Thursday in May but were postponed to coincide with the 2014 European Parliament Elections. Direct elections were held for all 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 74 district/borough councils, 19 unitary authorities and various mayoral posts in England and elections to the new councils in Northern Ireland.

The BBC's projected national vote share (PNV) put Labour on 31%, the Conservatives on 29%, UKIP on 17%, and the Liberal Democrats on 13%.^[1] Rallings and Thrasher of Plymouth University's national equivalent vote share (NEV) estimated 31% for Labour, 30% for the Conservatives, 18% for UKIP, and 11% for the Liberal Democrats.^[2]

For the fourth year running, the Labour Party enjoyed the largest share of the vote in local elections, but its share of the vote was its smallest since 2010. UKIP, which topped the same day's European Parliament elections, finished third in vote share, claiming council seats from Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Overview of results

UK-wide results

Party		Councillors		Councils
Party		Number	Change	Number	Change
	Labour	2,121	324	82	5
	Conservative	1,364	236	41	11
	Liberal Democrats	427	310	6	2
	UKIP	166	163	0
	DUP	130	15	0
	Sinn Féin	105	10	0
	UUP	88	11	0
	Independent	71	18	0
	SDLP	66	1	0
	Residents	53	14	0
	Green	38	18	0
	Alliance	32	2	0
	Tower Hamlets First	18	18	0
	TUV	13	10	0
	Green (NI)	4	1	0
	PUP	4	1	0
	NI21	1	1	0
	Liberal	2	2	0
	BNP	1	1	0
	Health Concern	1	2	0
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	43	8

England results

Party		Councillors		Councils
Party		Number	Change	Number	Change
	Labour	2,121	324	82	5
	Conservative	1,364	236	41	11
	Liberal Democrats	427	310	6	2
	UKIP	163	161	0
	Independent	71	18	0
	Residents	53	14	0
	Green	38	18	0
	Tower Hamlets First	18	18	0
	Liberal	2	2	0
	BNP	1	1	0
	Health Concern	1	2	0
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	32	8

The Respect Party lost both their remaining councillors.^[3]

English Councils - shift of control

This table depicts how the control of local councils shifted in this election.

The data along the diagonal represents no shift in control in that number of councils: for example, Chorley was among the solid colour no change 73 Labour controlled councils. The other cells represent the shifts of control: for example, Harrow was one of five councils of which Labour gained control from No Overall Control. The intensity of the colour in a table cell other than the diagonal reflects the relative number of losses in council control suffered by each party.

New total	32	82	41	6	161	-
after election →	N.O.C.	Labour	Cons.	Lib. Dem.	Old total	losses
↓ before election	N.O.C.	Labour	Cons.	Lib. Dem.	Old total	losses
No Overall Control	19	5	-	-	24	− 5
Labour	4	73	-	-	77	− 4
Conservative	8	4	40	-	52	−12
Liberal Democrats	1	-	1	6	8	− 2
gains	+13	+ 9	+ 1	-	-	-
Net change	+ 8	+ 5	−11	− 2	-	-

Last updated at 11:30:10 on 27 May 2014^[4]

Northern Ireland results

Party		Councillors			% of councillors			First preference votes			% of FP votes
Party		2011^[5]	2014	+/-	2011^[5]	2014	+/-	2011^[6]	2014^[7]	+/-	2011	2014	+/-
	DUP	145	130	15	31.4%	28.1%	3.3%	179,436	144,928		27.2%	23.1%	4.1%
	Sinn Féin	115	105	10	24.9%	22.7%	2.2%	163,712	151,137		24.8%	24.1%	0.7%
	UUP	77	88	11	16.7%	19.0%	2.3%	100,643	101,385		15.2%	16.1%	0.9%
	SDLP	67	66	1	14.5%	14.2%	0.3%	99,325	85,237		15.0%	13.6%	1.4%
	Alliance	34	32	2	7.4%	6.9%	0.5%	48,859	41,769		7.4%	6.7%	0.7%
	TUV	3	13	10	0.6%	2.8%	2.2%	13,079	28,310		2.0%	4.5%	2.5%
	PUP	1	4	3	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	3,858	12,753		0.6%	2.0%	1.4%
	Green (NI)	1	4	3	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	6,317	5,515		1.0%	0.8%	0.2%
	UKIP	1	3	2	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	2,550	9,311		0.4%	1.4%	1.0%
	NI21	0	1	1	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0	11,495		0.0%	1.8%	1.8%
	People Before Profit	0	1	1	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	1,721	1,923		0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
	NI Conservatives	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		1,321	2,527		0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
	éirígí	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		2,062	1,756		0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
	Workers' Party	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		760	985		0.1	0.2%	0.1%
	Fermanagh Against Fracking	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	555		0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
	Republican Network for Unity	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	502		0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
	Community Partnership	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		800	388		0.1	0.1%	0.0%
	Socialist Party	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		682	272		0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
	BNP	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		491	174		0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
	Democracy First	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	173		0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
	Others	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		2,142	0		0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
	Independent	18	15	3	3.9%	3.2%	0.7%	32,151	26,682		4.9%	4.2%	0.7%
	Total	462	462		100%	100%		660,631	627,777		100%	100%

London boroughs

All seats in the 32 London Borough Councils were up for election.

Summary of results

	Votes won	% votes	Change	Seats	% seats	Change	Councils	Change
Labour	944,967	37.6	+5.1	1,060	57.3	+185	20	+3
Conservative	663,847	26.4	−5.3	612	33.1	−105	9	−2
Liberal Democrats	267,769	10.6	−11.8	116	6.3	−130	1	−1
Green	246,805	9.8	+3.2	4	0.2	+2	0	±0
UKIP	239,001	9.5	+8.4	12	0.6	+12	0	±0
Others	152,684	6.1	+0.4	47	2.5	+26	0	±0
No overall control	—						2	−6

Individual council results

Totals					612	1,052	118	12	4	2	45
Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Green	Ind	Others
Barking and Dagenham		Labour		Labour		51
Barnet		Conservative		Conservative	32	27	1
Bexley		Conservative		Conservative	45	15		3
Brent		Labour		Labour	6	56	1
Bromley		Conservative		Conservative	51	7		2
Camden		Labour		Labour	12	40	1		1
Croydon		Conservative		Labour	30	40
Ealing		Labour		Labour	12	53	4
Enfield		Labour		Labour	22	41
Greenwich		Labour		Labour	8	43
Hackney		Labour		Labour	4	50	3
Hammersmith and Fulham		Conservative		Labour	20	26
Haringey		Labour		Labour		48	9
Harrow		No overall control		Labour	26	34	1			2
Havering		Conservative		No overall control	22	1		7			24
Hillingdon		Conservative		Conservative	42	23
Hounslow		Labour		Labour	11	49
Islington		Labour		Labour		47			1
Kensington and Chelsea		Conservative		Conservative	37	12	1
Kingston upon Thames		Liberal Democrats		Conservative	28	2	18
Lambeth		Labour		Labour	3	59			1
Lewisham		Labour		Labour		53			1
Merton		No overall control		Labour	20	36	1				3
Newham		Labour		Labour		60
Redbridge		No overall control		Labour	25	35	3
Richmond upon Thames		Conservative		Conservative	39		15
Southwark		Labour		Labour	2	48	13
Sutton		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	9		45
Tower Hamlets		Labour		No overall control	4	20					18
Waltham Forest		Labour		Labour	16	44
Wandsworth		Conservative		Conservative	41	19
Westminster		Conservative		Conservative		44	16
Councils whose control changed hands highlighted thus

Harrow's Council was elected in 2010 with a Labour majority but divisions within this majority in 2013 led to a coalition struck between the Conservatives and the Independent Labour Group (formed of eight ex-Labour councillors). Conservatives withdrew their support for Independent Labour on 16 September 2013 leading to a brief Conservative minority administration.

Metropolitan boroughs

One third of the seats in all 36 Metropolitan Boroughs were up for election (showing those elected and each party's total in the new council).

Totals					117, 373	563, 1,741	62, 189	33, 37	28, 104
Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Others
Barnsley		Labour		Labour	1, 4	18, 52			2, 7
Birmingham		Labour		Labour	13, 31	22, 77	5, 12
Bolton		Labour		Labour	5, 15	13, 40	1, 3	2, 2
Bradford		Labour		Labour	7, 21	17, 46	3, 8	1, 1	1,3Grn 2,11Ind
Bury		Labour		Labour	2, 11	15, 38	0, 1		0, 1
Calderdale		No overall control		No overall control (Lab minority, then Con-Ind minority)	6, 19	9, 25	1, 6		1, 1
Coventry		Labour		Labour	6, 11	13, 43
Doncaster		Labour		Labour	3, 8	15, 48		1, 1	2, 6
Dudley		Labour		Labour	7, 20	10, 40		7, 9	0,1Grn 0,2Ind
Gateshead		Labour		Labour		18, 55	4, 11
Kirklees		No overall control		No overall control (Lab minority)	6, 18	10, 32	5, 11		1,5Grn 1,3Ind
Knowsley		Labour		Labour		21, 63
Leeds		Labour		Labour	6, 19	20, 62	4, 9		1,3Grn 2,6Ind
Liverpool		Labour		Labour		27, 79	0, 3		2,4Grn 1,4Ind
Manchester		Labour		Labour		33, 95			1, 1
Newcastle upon Tyne		Labour		Labour		18, 52	8, 24		0, 2
North Tyneside		Labour		Labour	3, 12	15, 44	1, 4
Oldham		Labour		Labour	0, 2	14, 45	3, 10	2, 2	1, 1
Rochdale		Labour		Labour	3, 11	16, 48	1, 1
Rotherham		Labour		Labour	0, 2	11, 50		10, 10	0, 1
St Helens		Labour		Labour	1, 3	14, 43	1, 2
Salford		Labour		Labour	3, 8	17, 52
Sandwell		Labour		Labour	0, 1	23, 70		1, 1
Sefton		Labour		Labour	2, 7	13, 40	6, 17		1, 2
Sheffield		Labour		Labour		18, 60	6, 17	3, 3	2,4Grn
Solihull		Conservative		Conservative	9, 29	0, 2	3, 8	1, 1	4,10Grn
South Tyneside		Labour		Labour	0, 1	17, 49		0, 1	1, 3
Stockport		No overall control		No overall control (Lib Dem minority)	4, 10	7, 22	9, 28		1, 3
Sunderland		Labour		Labour	3, 8	21, 63			1, 4
Tameside		Labour		Labour	2, 6	17, 51
Trafford		Conservative		Conservative	12, 33	9, 27	1, 3
Wakefield		Labour		Labour	1, 6	17, 54		2, 2	1, 1
Walsall		No overall control		No overall control (Lab minority)	6, 21	9, 30	0, 3	3, 3	1, 3
Wigan		Labour		Labour	1, 2	23, 62			1, 11
Wirral		Labour		Labour	8, 22	11, 37	2, 6		1,1Grn
Wolverhampton		Labour		Labour	4, 12	15, 45	0, 2	1, 1

Unitary authorities

Two unitary authorities had all of their seats up for election following boundary changes.

Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP
Milton Keynes		No overall control		No overall control (Lab minority)	18	25	13	1
Slough		Labour		Labour	8	33		1

One third of the council seats were up for election in 17 unitary authorities (elected and totals shown).

Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Ind	Others
Blackburn with Darwen			Labour won the most seats		4	16	1
Blackburn with Darwen		Labour		Labour	12	48	4
Bristol					6	10	6	1	-	3 Green
Bristol		No overall control		No overall control	15	31	16	1	1	6 Green
Derby					6	8	3	1	-
Derby		Labour		Labour	14	27	7	2	1
Halton			Labour won the most seats			16	1
Halton		Labour		Labour	2	51	3
Hartlepool			Labour won the most seats		1	6		2	2
Hartlepool		Labour		Labour	3	19		2	9
Kingston upon Hull			Labour won the most seats		1	12	7	-	-
Kingston upon Hull		Labour		Labour	2	37	15	1	4
North East Lincolnshire					3	3	2	7
North East Lincolnshire		Labour		No overall control (Labour minority)	10	21	3	8
Peterborough					10	2	3	3	2
Peterborough		Conservative		No overall control (Conservative minority)	28	12	4	3	10
Plymouth					9	7		3
Plymouth		Labour		Labour	24	30		3
Portsmouth					5	-	3	6	-
Portsmouth		Liberal Democrats		No overall control (Con with UKIP & Lab support)	12	4	19	6	1
Reading			Labour won the most seats		2	11	1			2 Green
Reading		Labour		Labour	10	31	2			3 Green
Southampton					8	8			1
Southampton		Labour		Labour	18	28			2
Southend-on-Sea					4	4	1	5	4	-
Southend-on-Sea		Conservative		No overall control (Ind/Lab/LD coalition)	19	9	5	5	10
Swindon			Conservatives won most seats		11	8	1
Swindon		Conservative		Conservative	30	23	4
Thurrock					5	6		5	-
Thurrock		Labour		No overall control (Labour minority)	18	23		6	2
Warrington			Labour won the most seats		1	15	5
Warrington		Labour		Labour	3	43	11
Wokingham			Conservatives won most seats		15	1	2		-^[9]
Wokingham		Conservative		Conservative	44	1	7		2
Totals			seats won in May 2014		91	133	36	33	9	5 Green
Totals	Total membership of new councils				264	438	100	37	42	9 Green
source: BBC News, retrieved June 2014					Cons	Lab	LD	UKIP	Ind	others

Non-metropolitan districts

Whole council

Two district councils had all of their seats up for election following boundary changes

Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	Others
Hart		No overall control		No overall control	14		9	10
Three Rivers		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	10	3	23

Half of council

Seven district councils had half of their seats up for election (showing those elected and the new council)

Totals					43, 86	44, 92	23, 43	5, 8	7, 19
Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Others
Adur		Conservative		Conservative	9, 20	0, 1		4, 6	1, 2
Cheltenham		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	4, 11		13, 24		2, 5
Fareham		Conservative		Conservative	11, 23		3, 5	1, 1	1, 2
Gosport		Conservative		Conservative	12, 21	2, 6	2, 6	0, 1
Hastings		Labour		Labour	5, 8	11, 24
Nuneaton and Bedworth		Labour		Labour	2, 3	14, 28			1,2Grn 0,1Ind
Oxford		Labour		Labour		17, 33	5, 8		3,6Grn 0,1Ind

Third of council

65 district councils had one third of their seats up for election

Totals					446, 1,348	283, 796	163, 421	66, 88	47, 211
Council	Previous control		Result
Council	Previous control		Result		Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Others
Amber Valley		Conservative		Labour	4, 21	11, 23			0, 1
Basildon		Conservative		No overall control Con minority	4, 17	0, 10	0, 1	11, 12	0, 2
Basingstoke and Deane		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	8, 28	8, 17	3, 9	1, 2	2, 4
Bassetlaw		Labour		Labour	3, 11	12, 34			1, 3
Brentwood		Conservative		No overall control LibDem/Ind/Lab coalition	6, 18	1, 3	5, 11		0, 5
Broxbourne		Conservative		Conservative	9, 26	1, 3		1, 1
Burnley		Labour		Labour	1, 5	10, 28	4, 12
Cambridge		No overall control		Labour	0, 1	10, 25	4, 14		1, 2
Cannock Chase		Labour		Labour	1, 6	6, 25	1, 2	4, 6	1, 2
Carlisle		Labour		Labour	7, 19	9, 29	0, 2		1, 2
Castle Point		Conservative		No overall control Con minority	20, 20			5, 5	0, 16
Cherwell		Conservative		Conservative	12, 40	4, 7	1, 2		0, 1
Chorley		Labour		Labour	3, 13	13, 32			1, 2
Colchester		No overall control		No overall control LibDem/Lab/Ind coalition	8, 23	2, 8	9, 25		1, 4
Craven		Conservative		Conservative	7, 18		0, 2		2, 10
Crawley		Conservative		Labour	5, 16	8, 20		0, 1
Daventry		Conservative		Conservative	10, 28	0, 4	0, 1	2, 3
Eastleigh		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	2, 4		13, 40
Elmbridge		Conservative		Conservative	12, 33		2, 6		4, 21
Epping Forest		Conservative		Conservative	0, 37	0, 1	2, 3	0, 2	0,1Grn 5,14Ind
Exeter		Labour		Labour	2, 10	10, 27	1, 3
Gloucester		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	8, 18	3, 9	4, 9
Great Yarmouth		Labour		No overall control Lab minority	2, 14	1, 15		10, 10
Harlow		Labour		Labour	3, 11	4, 17		5, 5
Harrogate		Conservative		Conservative	9, 34		8, 15		2, 5
Havant		Conservative		Conservative	10, 31	1, 4	1, 1	2, 2
Hertsmere		Conservative		Conservative	11, 34	2, 5
Huntingdonshire		Conservative		Conservative	11, 34	0, 1	1, 6	3, 7	0,4Grn 2,3Ind
Hyndburn		Labour		Labour	2, 8	7, 23	0, 2	2, 2
Ipswich		Labour		Labour	4, 10	12, 35	1, 3
Lincoln		Labour		Labour	2, 6	9, 27
Maidstone		Conservative		No overall control Con minority	5, 25	1, 2	9, 19	4, 4	1, 5
Mole Valley		No overall control		No overall control	6, 19		4, 15	1, 1	3, 6
Newcastle-under-Lyme		Labour		Labour	5, 16	11, 32	5, 6	0,5	0,1Grn
North Hertfordshire		Conservative		Conservative	12, 33	5, 12	0, 3		0, 1
Norwich		Labour		Labour		8, 21	1, 3		5,15Grn
Pendle		No overall control		No overall control	5, 19	7, 18	3, 11		1, 1
Preston		Labour		Labour	6, 19	7, 32	2, 5		0, 1
Purbeck †		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	6, 12		2, 11		0, 1
Redditch		Labour		Labour	3, 9	6, 17		2, 2	0, 1
Reigate and Banstead		Conservative		Conservative	12, 37		1, 2	1, 1	1,3Grn 2,8Ind
Rochford		Conservative		Conservative	6, 26	1, 1	1, 3	3, 3	1,2Grn 1,4Ind
Rossendale		Labour		Labour	5, 10	6, 24			1, 2
Rugby		Conservative		Conservative	7, 23	3, 10	3, 7		2, 2
Runnymede		Conservative		Conservative	12, 35			0, 1	2, 6
Rushmoor		Conservative		Conservative	8, 24	4, 12		1, 3
St Albans		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	12, 29	3, 10	7, 17		0,1Grn 0,1Ind
South Cambridgeshire		Conservative		Conservative	10, 35	0, 1	7, 13		2, 8
South Lakeland		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	2, 15	0, 3	15, 33
Stevenage		Labour		Labour	2, 2	34, 34	3, 3
Stratford-on-Avon		Conservative		Conservative	15, 35	0, 1	3, 12		0, 5
Stroud		No overall control		No overall control Lab/Green/LibDem coalition	10, 22	6, 20	0, 2		2,6Grn 0,1Ind
Tamworth		Conservative		Conservative	6, 16	3, 12		1, 1	0, 1
Tandridge		Conservative		Conservative	13, 34		1, 6		0, 2
Tunbridge Wells		Conservative		Conservative	14, 38	1, 3	1, 3	0, 2	0, 2
Watford		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	1, 1	4, 11	7, 23		1,1Grn
Welwyn Hatfield		Conservative		Conservative	13, 31	4, 14	1, 2		0, 1
West Lancashire		Conservative		No overall control Con minority	11, 27	8, 27
West Oxfordshire		Conservative		Conservative	15, 40	1, 5	1, 3		0, 1
Weymouth and Portland		No overall control		No overall control Lab/LibDem coalition	4, 11	5, 15	1, 6	1, 1	1, 1
Winchester		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	11, 28	1, 3	7, 25		0, 1
Woking		Conservative		Conservative	7, 23	1, 1	3, 11		1, 1
Worcester		No overall control		No overall control Con minority	6, 17	6, 16	0, 1		0,1Grn
Worthing		Conservative		Conservative	9, 27		1, 7	1, 1	1,1Grn 0,1Ind
Wyre Forest		No overall control		No overall control	5, 15	2, 9		5, 5	1, 13

† Elected councillors will hold office for one year only as Purbeck District will adopt whole council elections from 2015.^[10]^[11]

Mayoral elections

There were five mayoral elections.

Local Authority
Hackney	Jules Pipe (Labour)	Jules Pipe (Labour)
Lewisham	Sir Steve Bullock (Labour)	Sir Steve Bullock (Labour)
Newham	Robin Wales (Labour)	Robin Wales (Labour)
Tower Hamlets	Lutfur Rahman (Independent)	Lutfur Rahman (Tower Hamlets First)
Watford	Dorothy Thornhill (Liberal Democrat)	Dorothy Thornhill (Liberal Democrat)

In Copeland, there was a referendum to establish a post of directly elected mayor, which passed.

Northern Ireland

These were the first elections to the 11 new 'super-councils' in Northern Ireland, following a reorganisation. These will operate in shadow form for one year, with the current 26 councils existing in parallel.^[12]

Sinn Féin (dark green) won more seats than any other party in (1) Belfast, (9) Mid-Ulster, (10) Derry & Strabane and (11) Fermanagh & Omagh. Sinn Féin and the SDLP elected more councillors (14 each) than did any other party in (5) Newry, Mourne & Down . The Democratic Unionist Party (dark orange) won more seats than any other party in each of the other six councils, and won as many as all the other parties combined in (4) Lisburn & Castlereagh.

The eleven new districts NI11w.jpg — **The eleven new districts**

Party composition of new councils

The party abbreviations in this table are explained in the total-vote table that follows it.

Seats won^[7]

	Council	Total seats	SF	SDLP	Alliance	UUP	DUP	TUV	Ind	Others
3	Antrim and Newtownabbey	40	3	4	4	12	15	2
6	Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon	41	8	6		12	13		1	1 UKIP
1	Belfast City	60	19	7	8	7	13	1		5 *
8	Causeway Coast and Glens	40	7	6	1	10	11	3	1	1 PUP
10	Derry and Strabane	40	16	10		2	8		4
11	Fermanagh and Omagh	40	17	8		9	5		1
4	Lisburn and Castlereagh	40		3	7	8	20	1		1 NI21
7	Mid and East Antrim	40	3	1	3	9	16	5	2	1 UKIP
9	Mid-Ulster	40	18	6		7	8		1
5	Newry, Mourne and Down	41	14	14	2	3	4		3	1 UKIP
2	North Down and Ards	40		1	7	9	17	1	2	3 Green^(NI)
Total		462	105	66	32	88	130	13	15	13
1	* Belfast other: 3 Progressive Unionist, 1 Green Party Northern Ireland & 1 People Before Profit
source:^[7]

Votes cast

These elections used the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation. Votes and percentages for each party reflect the first preference on each ballot.

Party		Councillors			% of councillors			First preference votes			% of FP votes
Party		2011 (notional)^[13]	2014	+/-	2011 (notional)	2014	+/-	2011^[6]	2014^[7]	+/-	2011	2014	+/-
	DUP	145	130	15	31.4%	28.1%	3.3%	179,436	144,928		27.2%	23.1%	4.1%
	Sinn Féin	115	105	10	24.9%	22.7%	2.2%	163,712	151,137		24.8%	24.1%	0.7%
	UUP	77	88	11	16.7%	19.0%	2.3%	100,643	101,385		15.2%	16.1%	0.9%
	SDLP	67	66	1	14.5%	14.2%	0.3%	99,325	85,237		15.0%	13.6%	1.4%
	Alliance	34	32	2	7.4%	6.9%	0.5%	48,859	41,769		7.4%	6.7%	0.7%
	TUV	3	13	10	0.6%	2.8%	2.2%	13,079	28,310		2.0%	4.5%	2.5%
	PUP	1	4	3	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	3,858	12,753		0.6%	2.0%	1.4%
	Green (NI)	1	4	3	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	6,317	5,515		1.0%	0.8%	0.2%
	UKIP	1	3	2	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	2,550	9,311		0.4%	1.4%	1.0%
	NI21	0	1	1	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0	11,495		0.0%	1.8%	1.8%
	People Before Profit	0	1	1	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	1,721	1,923		0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
	NI Conservatives	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		1,321	2,527		0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
	éirígí	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		2,062	1,756		0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
	Workers' Party	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		760	985		0.1	0.2%	0.1%
	Fermanagh Against Fracking	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	555		0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
	Republican Network for Unity	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	502		0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
	Community Partnership	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		800	388		0.1	0.1%	0.0%
	Socialist Party	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		682	272		0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
	BNP	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		491	174		0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
	Democracy First	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		0	173		0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
	Others	0	0		0.0%	0.0%		2,142	0		0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
	Independent	18	15	3	3.9%	3.2%	0.7%	32,151	26,682		4.9%	4.2%	0.7%
	Total	462	462		100%	100%		660,631	627,777		100%	100%

Electoral administration

Eligibility to vote

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on the day of the election were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections,^[14] although those who have moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. Those who were registered to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who has a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) were entitled to vote in the local elections at each address, as long as they were not in the same local government area.^[15]^[16]

Enacting legislation

These elections were held on 22 May 2014 as provided by 'The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2014) Order 2013' (S.I. Tooltip Statutory Instrument (UK) 2013/2277).^[12]^[17]^[18]^[19]

Notes

1 2 All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC.
1 2 Swing figures are between the BBC national projected vote share extrapolation from 2013 local elections, and the BBC equivalent vote share projection from these local elections held in different areas
1 2 England: 163 councillors (+161 net). Northern Ireland: 3 councillors (+2 net)

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[VoteShareNote-1] 1 2 All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC.

[SwingNote-2] 1 2 Swing figures are between the BBC national projected vote share extrapolation from 2013 local elections, and the BBC equivalent vote share projection from these local elections held in different areas

[NIUKIP-3] 1 2 England: 163 councillors (+161 net). Northern Ireland: 3 councillors (+2 net)

[electionsetc-4] "BBC Projected National Share of Vote 2014". Elections Etc. Steve Fisher and Jonathan Jones. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2018.

[5] Elise Uberoi; Chris Watson; Richard Keen (19 May 2016). "Local elections 2016" (PDF). House of Commons Library. UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

[6] "England Council Results". Vote 2014. BBC News. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

[7] "Council Elections 2014". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

[auto-8] 1 2 (Notional)

[NI2011-9] 1 2 "Northern Ireland Council Elections". Vote 2011. BBC News. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

[NI2014-10] 1 2 3 4 "Northern Ireland council results". Vote 2014. BBC News. 25 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

[11] "Year Tables". The Elections Centre. 19 December 2015.

[12] "Wokingham Borough election results for 22 May 2014". Wokingham Borough Council. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[13] Riglar, Kirsty (3 March 2014). "District Council Elections in Purbeck". Purbeck District Council Central Services. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[14] "Minutes of the special meeting of the Purbeck District Council". Dorset for You. Dorset Council. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[BelfastTelegraph-15] 1 2 "European Parliament and council polls on same day". Belfast Telegraph. Independent News & Media. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.

[SOT-16] Whyte, Nicholas (6 April 2014). "The 11 new district councils – projecting the 2011 votes". Slugger O'Toole. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

[17] "The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006, Schedule Part 1". Legislation.gov.uk. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2012.

[18] "Students". About my Vote. Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.

[19] "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

[20] "The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2014) Order 2013". Legislation.gov.uk. Open Government. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

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