2022 United Kingdom local elections

2022 United Kingdom local elections

←  2021 5 May 2022 2023  →
200 of 387 councils in Great Britain 7 directly elected mayors
Turnout	35.6% [1] [2] [3]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Keir Starmer Boris Johnson Ed Davey Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 4 April 2020 23 July 2019 27 August 2020 Seats before 5,911 seats [4] 83 councils 7,587 seats 137 councils 2,531 seats 24 councils Projected vote share [a] 35% 6% 30% 8% 19% 2% Seats won (2022) 3,073 74 councils 1,403 35 councils 868 16 councils Councillors (after) 6,100 88 councils [5] 7,159 126 councils 2,765 27 councils Net change (notional) 108 5 councils 485 11 councils 224 3 councils   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Nicola Sturgeon Adam Price Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay Party SNP Plaid Cymru Green Leader since 14 November 2014 28 September 2018 1 October 2021 Seats before 433 seats 0 councils 207 seats 1 council 473 seats 0 councils Projected vote share [a] n/a n/a 11% [6] 1% Seats won (2022) 453 1 council 202 4 councils 159 0 councils Councillors (after) 453 1 council 202 4 councils 568 0 councils Net change (notional) 22 1 council 6 3 councils 86 0 councils
Map showing party control of councils following the elections.   No election otherwise see analysis table

Local authorities with elections:

•   London borough
•   Metropolitan borough
•   Unitary authority
•   District council
•   City of London Corporation
•   No election

The 2022 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, and for all local authorities in Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and in Scotland and Wales in 2017. The elections coincided with the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election. In 91 cases, most of them in Wales, council seats were uncontested, each having only one candidate. Three seats in Scotland remained unfilled as no one nominated to fill them.

The local elections took place amid the Partygate scandal, in which it was found that numerous parties had been held at 10 Downing Street during national COVID-19 lockdowns, and COVID-19 social distancing laws were breached by numerous individuals. Public dissatisfaction over the events led to a decline in public support for Boris Johnson, the government led by him, and the Conservatives as a whole.

Across Great Britain, the governing Conservative Party had a net loss of 485 seats in comparison to 2017 in Scotland and Wales and 2018 in England, whilst Labour gained 108 seats (22 in England, 20 in Scotland, and 66 in Wales). The Liberal Democrats and Greens made gains of 224 seats and 87 seats, respectively, which exceeded those of the Labour Party in England but were also seen to a more modest extent in Scotland and Wales.

Background

In total, 4,411 council seats were contested in England, including irregular by-elections. ^[7]

Most seats in England up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2018. The exceptions are local authorities which have undergone recent boundary reviews. In the 2018 local elections, the Labour Party made gains in London at the expense of the Conservative Party, who in turn made gains in the rest of England at the expense of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Few councils changed overall control. ^[8] Overall, UKIP lost 237 of the 243 seats it had held before the elections. ^[9] According to the BBC's analysis, the results reflected a national political situation with Labour and the Conservatives "neck-and-neck". ^[10]

Overall results

Across Great Britain, the Conservatives had a net loss of 485 seats in comparison to 2017 in Scotland and Wales and 2018 in England, whilst Labour gained 108 seats (22 in England, 20 in Scotland, and 66 in Wales). The Liberal Democrats and Greens made gains of 224 seats and 87 seats, respectively, which exceeded those of the Labour Party in England but were also seen to a more modest extent in Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party (SNP) gained 22 seats in Scotland whilst Plaid Cymru had a net loss of 6 seats in Wales. ^[11]

Party		Councillors			Councils
		Won	After [5]	+/- [b]	Won	After	+/-
	Conservative	1,403	7,159	485	35	126	11
	Labour	3,073	6,100	108	74	88	5
	Liberal Democrats	868	2,765	224	16	27	3
	Green	159	568	87	0	0
	SNP	453	453	22	0	1
	Plaid Cymru	202	202	6	0	4	3
	Aspire	24	24	24	1	1	1
	Reform UK	2	7	2	0	0
	Independent	646	2,190	2	3	8	1
	No overall control	—			66	132	1

England

By party

Results of the 2022 council elections in England ^[12]

Party		Councils		Councillors		Mayors
		Number	Change	Number	Change	Number	Change
	Labour	65	3	2,265	22	4	1
	Conservative	35	10	1,078	336	1	1
	No overall control	29	3	—
	Liberal Democrats	16	3	712	194	1
	Aspire	1	1	24	24	1	1
	Independent	0		143	25	0
	Green	0		116	63	0
	Residents	0		51	7	0
	Reform UK	0		2	2	0
	Liberal [13]	0		1	1	0
	SDP [14]	0		1	1	0
	UKIP	0		0	3	0
Total		146		4,393		7	+1

County councils

County councils are the upper tier of a two-tier system of local government, with the area each council covers subdivided into district councils with different responsibilities. These are first-past-the-post or block voting elections, with a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions. County councils are elected in full every four years, with the last election having been in 2021. However, due to consultations about possible unitarisation, elections for three county councils were postponed to 2022. ^[15] The government has announced plans to replace the councils with unitary authorities pending Parliamentary approval. ^[16]

Elections to the new Somerset Council took place on 5 May 2022 for a unitary authority to run concurrently with the district councils until their abolition in April 2023. ^[17] In a similar way, members of North Yorkshire Council were elected at the same time, with its councillors to serve as county councillors for one year and then to serve an additional four-year term as unitary councillors. ^[18] Cumbria's two new unitary authorities were elected as "shadow authorities" which would go live after gaining their powers in 2023. ^[19]

London boroughs

Main article: 2022 London local elections

Elections for all councillors in all thirty-two London boroughs were held in 2022 in line with their normal election schedule. All twenty-five London borough councils which have not had a boundary review since before 2013 were elected based on new boundaries. ^[20] The previous elections to London borough councils were held in 2018, which saw Labour win its second-best result in any London election and the Conservatives return their lowest-ever number of councillors in the capital. In 2018, Labour won control of Tower Hamlets council which had previously been under no overall control, but did not gain control of Barnet, Wandsworth or Westminster councils, which the party had targeted. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained control of Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames borough councils from the Conservatives. ^[21]

The 2022 elections saw Labour gain all three of Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster councils which they had unsuccessfully targeted in 2018. The Conservatives gained control of Harrow from Labour as well as winning the new position of mayor of Croydon, with Croydon's council under no overall control, having previously been control by Labour. Lutfur Rahman gained the position of mayor of Tower Hamlets from Labour, with his Aspire party winning a majority of seats. ^[22]

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Barking and Dagenham	51 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Barnet	63 [c]		Conservative		Labour	Details
Bexley	45		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Brent	57 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Bromley	58 [c]		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Camden	55 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Croydon	70		Labour		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Ealing	70 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Enfield	63 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Greenwich	55 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Hackney	57		Labour		Labour	Details
Hammersmith and Fulham	50 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Haringey	57 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Harrow	55 [c]		Labour		Conservative	Details
Havering	55 [c]		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (HRA/Labour coalition)	Details
Hillingdon	53 [c]		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Hounslow	62 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Islington	51 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Kensington and Chelsea	50		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Kingston upon Thames	48 [c]		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Lambeth	63 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Lewisham	54 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Merton	57 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Newham	66 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Redbridge	63		Labour		Labour	Details
Richmond upon Thames	54 [c]		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Southwark	63		Labour		Labour	Details
Sutton	55 [c]		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Tower Hamlets	45		Labour		Aspire	Details
Waltham Forest	60 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Wandsworth	58 [c]		Conservative		Labour	Details
Westminster	54 [c]		Conservative		Labour	Details
All 32 councils	1,817

Metropolitan boroughs

There are thirty-six metropolitan boroughs, which are single-tier local authorities. Thirty-three of them elect a third of their councillors every year for three years, with no election in each fourth year. These councils hold their elections on the same timetable, which includes elections in 2022. Birmingham City Council holds its elections on a four-year cycle from 2018, so was due to hold an election in 2022. Due to boundary changes, three councils which generally elect their councillors in thirds elected all of their councillors in 2022. They then returned to the thirds schedule, apart from St Helens Council, which moved to all-out elections every four years starting in 2022. Several other boundary reviews were delayed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scheduled elections in Liverpool in 2022 were cancelled and instead the city moved to all-out elections from 2023 on new ward boundaries. ^[23]

Elections for all councillors

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Birmingham	101		Labour		Labour	Details
Bury	51 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Rochdale	60 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
St Helens	48 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
4 councils	260

Election for one third of councillors

By-elections or uncontested wards can cause the seats up for election to be above or below one third of the council.

Council	Seats		Party control				Details
	up	of	Previous		New
Barnsley	21	63		Labour		Labour	Details
Bolton	20	60		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Bradford	30	90		Labour		Labour	Details
Calderdale	18	51		Labour		Labour	Details
Coventry	18	54		Labour		Labour	Details
Dudley	25	72		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Gateshead	22	66		Labour		Labour	Details
Kirklees	23	69		No overall control (Labour minority)		Labour	Details
Knowsley	15	45		Labour		Labour	Details
Leeds	35	99		Labour		Labour	Details
Manchester	32	96		Labour		Labour	Details
Newcastle upon Tyne	27	78		Labour		Labour	Details
North Tyneside	20	60		Labour		Labour	Details
Oldham	21	60		Labour		Labour	Details
Salford	20	60		Labour		Labour	Details
Sandwell	24	72		Labour		Labour	Details
Sefton	22	66		Labour		Labour	Details
Sheffield	28	84		No overall control (Labour/Green coalition)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Solihull	17	51		Conservative		Conservative	Details
South Tyneside	19	54		Labour		Labour	Details
Stockport	21	63		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Lib Dem minority)	Details
Sunderland	25	75		Labour		Labour	Details
Tameside	19	57		Labour		Labour	Details
Trafford	22	63		Labour		Labour	Details
Wakefield	21	63		Labour		Labour	Details
Walsall	21	60		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Wigan	26	75		Labour		Labour	Details
Wirral	23	66		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Wolverhampton	20	60		Labour		Labour	Details
All 29 councils	655	1,932

District councils

Election of all councillors

Some councils which elect all their councillors every four years did so in 2022. Gosport usually elects its councillors in halves, but all seats were up for election due to new election boundaries. St Albans usually elects by thirds but all seats were up on new boundaries. Harrogate was due to elect all its councillors, but the election was cancelled due to the unitarisation of North Yorkshire, with councillors' terms being extended to April 2023, after which the district councils in North Yorkshire ceased to exist. ^[24]

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Gosport	28 [c]		Conservative		Liberal Democrats	Details
Huntingdonshire	52		Conservative		No overall control (Lib Dem/Independent/Labour/Green coalition)	Details
Newcastle-under-Lyme	44		Conservative		Conservative	Details
South Cambridgeshire	45		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
St Albans	56 [c]		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
All 5 councils	225

Election of councillors by halves

District councils which elect their candidates in halves did so in 2022.

Council	Seats		Party control				Details
	up	of	Previous		New
Adur	14	29		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Cheltenham	21	40		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Fareham	16	31		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Hastings	16	32		Labour		No overall control (Labour/Green coalition)	Details
Nuneaton and Bedworth	17	34		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Oxford	24	48		Labour		Labour	Details
All 6 councils	108	214

Election of councillors by thirds

District councils which elect by thirds that held elections in 2022. Carlisle, Craven and South Lakeland had been due to have a third of councillors up for election but these were cancelled due to the creation of Cumberland, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland and Furness Unitary authorities. ^[25]

Council	Seats		Party control				Details
	up	of	Previous		New
Amber Valley	15	45		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Basildon	14	42		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Basingstoke and Deane	19	54		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Brentwood	13	37		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Broxbourne	10	30		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Burnley	15	45		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
Cambridge	16	42		Labour		Labour	Details
Cannock Chase	13	41		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Castle Point	14	41		Conservative		No overall control (CIIP/PIP coalition)	Details
Cherwell	17	48		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Chorley	14	42		Labour		Labour	Details
Colchester	18	51		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition)	Details
Crawley	12	36		No overall control (Labour/independent coalition)		Labour	Details
Eastleigh	14	39		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Elmbridge	16	48		No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition)		No overall control (Lib Dem/residents coalition)	Details
Epping Forest	20	58		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Exeter	17	39		Labour		Labour	Details
Harlow	12	33		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Hart	11	33		No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control (CCH/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
Havant	14	38		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Hyndburn	12	35		Labour		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Ipswich	17	48		Labour		Labour	Details
Lincoln	11	33		Labour		Labour	Details
Maidstone	18	55		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Mole Valley	14	41		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
North Hertfordshire	18	49		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
Norwich	13	39		Labour		Labour	Details
Pendle	12	33		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Preston	17	48		Labour		Labour	Details
Redditch	11	29		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Reigate and Banstead	15	45		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Rochford	13	39		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Rossendale	12	36		No overall control (Labour minority)		Labour	Details
Rugby	14	42		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Runnymede	14	41		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Rushmoor	13	39		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Stevenage	13	39		Labour		Labour	Details
Tamworth	10	30		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Tandridge	14	42		No overall control (independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)		No overall control (independent/Residents Group Alliance coalition)	Details
Three Rivers	14	39		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Tunbridge Wells	16	48		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Tunbridge Wells Alliance coalition)	Details
Watford	12	36		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Welwyn Hatfield	17	48		Conservative		Conservative	Details
West Lancashire	20	54		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
West Oxfordshire	16	49		Conservative		No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition)	Details
Winchester	15	45		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats	Details
Woking	10	30		No overall control (Conservative minority)		Liberal Democrats	Details
Worcester	13	35		Conservative		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Worthing	14	37		No overall control (Conservative minority)		Labour	Details
All 49 councils	702	2,026

Unitary authorities

Election of all councillors

Reading Borough Council elected all its councillors elected on new ward boundaries. The new unitary authority Somerset Council held its first election under the old Somerset County Council boundaries, with twice as many councillors being elected as previously. Shadow authorities for the two new unitary authorities replacing Cumbria County Council and its districts were elected, as were councillors for the new North Yorkshire Council ahead of its creation in 2023.

Notably, the count for the Skipton West and West Craven seat ended in a tie between independent candidate Andy Solloway and the Labour candidate Peter Madeley. After various methods for deciding the tie were mooted, including drawing from a deck of cards, the candidates drew straws with Andy Solloway drawing the long straw, thus being declared the winner. ^[26]

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Cumberland	46 [d]	No predecessor			Labour	Details
Reading	48 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
North Yorkshire	90		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Somerset	110 [e]		Conservative		Liberal Democrats	Details
Westmorland and Furness	65 [d]	No predecessor			Liberal Democrats	Details
All 5 councils	359

Election of councillors by thirds

Unitary authorities that elect councillors in thirds did so in 2022.

Council	Seats		Party control				Details
	up	of	Previous		New
Blackburn with Darwen	18	51		Labour		Labour	Details
Derby	17	51		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Halton	18	54		Labour		Labour	Details
Hartlepool	13	36		No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition)		No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition)	Details
Hull	19	57		Labour		Liberal Democrats	Details
Milton Keynes	19	57		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
North East Lincolnshire	16	42		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Peterborough	19	60		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Plymouth	19	57		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Conservative majority after party changes)	Details
Portsmouth	14	42		No overall control (Lib Dem minority)		No overall control (Lib Dem minority)	Details
Slough	14	42		Labour		Labour	Details
Southampton	17	48		Conservative		Labour	Details
Southend-on-Sea	18	51		No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control (Labour/independent/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
Swindon	19	57		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Thurrock	16	49		Conservative		Conservative	Details
Wokingham	18	54		Conservative		No overall control (Lib Dem/Labour/independent coalition)	Details
All 16 councils	274	808

City of London Corporation

Main article: 2022 City of London Corporation election

The Court of Common Council is the main decision-making body of the City of London Corporation, which governs the City of London. The 100 councillors were elected across twenty-five wards. Elections were due on 18 March 2021, but as a result of the coronavirus pandemic were delayed to 23 March 2022. ^{[27] [28]}

After 2017 election			Before 2022 election			After 2022 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Independent	85		Independent	84		Independent	78
	Temple and Farringdon Together	10		Temple and Farringdon Together	10		Temple and Farringdon Together	10
	Labour	5		Labour	6		Castle Baynard Independents	7
							Labour	5

Mayors

There were six local authority mayoral elections and one metropolitan mayoral election.

Combined authorities

Combined authority	Mayor before		Mayor-elect		Details
South Yorkshire		Dan Jarvis (Labour Co-op)		Oliver Coppard (Labour Co-op)	Details

Local authorities

Council	Mayor before		Mayor-elect
Croydon	New position			Jason Perry (Con)
Hackney		Philip Glanville (Labour Co-op)		Philip Glanville (Labour Co-op)
Lewisham		Damien Egan (Labour Co-op)		Damien Egan (Labour Co-op)
Newham		Rokhsana Fiaz (Labour Co-op)		Rokhsana Fiaz (Labour Co-op)
Tower Hamlets		John Biggs (Lab)		Luftur Rahman (Aspire)
Watford		Peter Taylor (Lib Dem)		Peter Taylor (Lib Dem)

There was also a referendum in Bristol on whether to continue using the mayor-and-cabinet system or to change to the committee system, with 59% voting to abolish the position of mayor. ^[29]

Scotland

By party

By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Scotland ^[30]

Party	Councillors		Councils
	No.	Change	No.	Change
No overall control	—		27	−2
SNP	453	+22	1	+1
Labour	282	+20	1	+1
Conservatives	214	−63	0	0
Liberal Democrats	87	+20	0	0
Greens	35	+16	0	0
British Unionist [31]	1	+1	0	0
Rubbish [32]	1	0	0	0
West Dunbartonshire Community Party [33]	1	0	0	0
Independents	149	−16	3	0
Total	1,223		32

Councils

Main article: 2022 Scottish local elections

Ballot paper used for the elections in the Victoria Park ward of the Glasgow City Council. The vote is held using the single transferable vote, which allows voters to rank their choices.

Elections were held for all councillors in all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Local elections in Scotland are conducted by the single transferable vote (STV), which results in the number of seats won by each party more proportionally reflecting their share of the vote. ^[34] As a consequence, local elections in Scotland result more often in no overall control and local authorities being governed by minority or coalition administrations. ^[34] In this election two of the 32 councils came under one-party majorities - Dundee (SNP) and West Dunbartonshire (Labour).

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Aberdeen	45		No overall control (Labour/Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (SNP/Lib Dem coalition)	Details
Aberdeenshire	70		No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition)		No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem/independent coalition)	Details
Angus	28		No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Argyll and Bute	36		No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative/independent coalition)	Details
Clackmannanshire	18		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Dumfries and Galloway	43		No overall control (Labour/SNP coalition)		No overall control (Labour/SNP/Lib Dem/independent coalition)	Details
Dundee	29		No overall control (SNP minority)		SNP	Details
East Ayrshire	32		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
East Dunbartonshire	22		No overall control (Lib Dem/Conservative coalition)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
East Lothian	22		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
East Renfrewshire	18		No overall control (SNP/Labour/Independent coalition)		No overall control (Labour/Independent minority)	Details
Edinburgh	63		No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Falkirk	30		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Fife	75		No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Glasgow	85		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Highland	74		No overall control (independent/Lib Dem/Labour coalition)		No overall control (SNP/independent coalition)	Details
Inverclyde	22		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Midlothian	18		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Moray	26		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar	29 [c]		Independent		Independent	Details
North Ayrshire	33 [c]		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
North Lanarkshire	77		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Orkney	21 [c]		Independent		Independent	Details
Perth and Kinross	40		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Renfrewshire	43		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (SNP minority)	Details
Scottish Borders	34		No overall control (Conservative minority)		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)	Details
Shetland	23 [c]		Independent		Independent	Details
South Ayrshire	28		No overall control (SNP/Labour/independent coalition)		No overall control (Conservative minority)	Details
South Lanarkshire	64		No overall control (SNP minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
Stirling	23		No overall control (SNP/Labour coalition)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
West Dunbartonshire	22		No overall control (SNP minority)		Labour	Details
West Lothian	33		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control (Labour minority)	Details
All 32 councils	1,226

Wales

Main article: 2022 Welsh local elections

Elections were held for all councillors in all 22 local authorities as well as for all community council seats in Wales. In all twenty-two councils, the elections were contested under new boundaries. This was the first time Welsh councils could choose between conducting the vote with the current first-past-the-post system or the proportional single transferable vote (STV) system, although practically this will not come into effect until at least 2027, as councils need to give advance notice of such a change. ^{[35] [36]}

By party

By party cumulative results of the 2022 council elections in Wales ^[37]

Party	Councillors		Councils
	No.	Change	No.	Change
No overall control	—		10	−1
Labour	526	+66	8	+1
Plaid Cymru	202	−6	4	+3
Conservatives	111	−86	0	−1
Liberal Democrats	69	+10	0	0
Greens	8	+8	0	0
Gwlad [38]	1	+1	0	0
Propel [39]	1	+1	0	0
Independents	314	+6	0	−2
Total	1,232		22

Councils

Council	Seats	Party control				Details
		Previous		New
Anglesey	35 [c]		No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition)		Plaid Cymru	Details
Blaenau Gwent	33 [c]		Independent		Labour	Details
Bridgend	51 [c]		No overall control (Labour minority)		Labour	Details
Caerphilly	69 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Cardiff	79 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Carmarthenshire	75 [c]		No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition)		Plaid Cymru	Details
Ceredigion	38 [c]		No overall control (Plaid Cymru/independent coalition)		Plaid Cymru	Details
Conwy	55 [c]		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control	Details
Denbighshire	48 [c]		No overall control (Conservative/independent coalition)		No overall control	Details
Flintshire	66 [c]		No overall control (Labour minority)		No overall control	Details
Gwynedd	69 [c]		Plaid Cymru		Plaid Cymru	Details
Merthyr Tydfil	30 [c]		Independent		No overall control	Details
Monmouthshire	46 [c]		Conservative		No overall control	Details
Neath Port Talbot	60 [c]		Labour		No overall control	Details
Newport	51 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Pembrokeshire	60 [c]		No overall control (independent/Labour/Plaid Cymru/Lib Dem coalition)		No overall control	Details
Powys	68 [c]		No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition)		No overall control	Details
Rhondda Cynon Taf	75 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Swansea	75 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Torfaen	40 [c]		Labour		Labour	Details
Vale of Glamorgan	54 [c]		No overall control (Labour/independent coalition)		No overall control	Details
Wrexham	56 [c]		No overall control (independent/Conservative coalition)		No overall control	Details
All 22 councils	1,233

Opinion polling

England

Dates conducted	Pollster	Client	Area	Sample size	Con	Lab	Lib Dem	Green	Independent /others	Lead
22–26 Apr	Survation	Good Morning Britain	England	2,587 [f]	34%	47%	10%	4%	6%	13%
3 May 2018	2018 local elections [g]				32%	41%	14%	7%	6%	9%

Scotland

First preference voting intention

Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Sample size	SNP	Con	Lab	Lib Dem	Green	Alba	Others
5 May 2022	2022 Scottish local elections	N/A	34.1%	19.7%	21.8%	8.6%	6.0%	0.7%	9.2%
29 Apr–3 May 2022	Survation	893	41%	17%	23%	8%	5%	1%	4%
24–28 Mar 2022	Survation/Ballot Box Scotland	1,002	44%	18%	23%	6%	3%	1%	4%
20–26 Oct 2021	Panelbase/Scot Goes Pop	1,001	45%	22%	21%	6%	4%	2%	<1%
4 May 2017	2017 Scottish local elections	1,889,658	32.30%	25.30%	20.16%	6.82%	4.1%	-	10.4%

Northern Ireland

Main article: 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election

The 2022 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place on 5 May 2022.

See also

• 2022 Birmingham Erdington by-election
• 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election
• 2022 Wakefield by-election

Notes

1. All vote shares in the infobox are projected national vote shares calculated by the BBC under Projected National Share (PNS).
2. Because the number of council seats shifts every year due to boundary changes and local government reorganisation, changes are notional changes calculated by the BBC.
3. New election boundaries
4. Shadow authority for a unitary council being created in 2023
5. Old boundaries, with twice as many seats as previously
6. Of these respondents, only those "in areas of England where there are local council elections in May 2022" were prompted.
7. The listed figures are according to Survation, released under its above polling.

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39. Neil McEvoy in Fairwater, Cardiff. BBC website includes him as an independent.