2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election

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2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election
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  2023 2 May 2024 (2024-05-02)2026 

20 out of 60 seats to City of Wolverhampton Council
31 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
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LeaderStephen SimkinsWendy Thompson
Party Labour Conservative Independent
Leader's seatBilston SouthTettenhall
Seats before46131
Seats won1640
Seats after47121
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1Steady2.svg

Wolverhampton UK ward map 2024.svg
Map depicting the winners of each ward.
Red shows a Labour win.
Blue shows a Conservative win.

Leader before election

Stephen Simkins
Labour

Leader after election

Stephen Simkins
Labour

The 2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. One-third of the 60 members of City of Wolverhampton Council in the West Midlands were elected.

Contents

Background

Wolverhampton is a strong Labour council. The party have controlled the council for most of its history, only failing to win a majority in 1987, 1992, 2008, and 2010. [1] The 2023 election was for the entire council on new ward boundaries. [2] In that election, Labour won 47 seats with 57.2% of the vote, and the Conservatives won 13 with 37.0%.

The 2024 election was for seats held by councillors who were elected with the smallest number of votes. [3] Labour defended 15 seats and the Conservatives defended 5. [4]

Previous council composition

After 2023 election Before 2024 election [5] After 2024 election [6]
PartySeatsPartySeatsPartySeats
Labour 47 Labour 46 Labour 47
Conservative 13 Conservative 13 Conservative 12
Independent 0 Independent 1 Independent 1

Changes 2023–2024:

Results

Labour increased their majority on the council, gaining a seat from the Conservatives. [6]

2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Labour 16+185.0314778.330,35556.1–1.1
  Conservative 4–115.081220.017,66732.7–4.3
  Independent 0=0.0111.76521.2+1.1
  Green 0=0.0000.03,2866.1+4.0
  Liberal Democrats 0=0.0000.01,9493.6+0.3
 Party of Women0=0.0000.01610.3N/A

Ward results

An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor seeking re-election.

Bilston North

Bilston North [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Leigh New 1,763 71.29 +16.86
Conservative Audrey Okere71028.71+1.18
Majority1,05342.58
Turnout 2,47326.47
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Bilston South

Bilston South [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rashpal Kaur* 1,549 70.09 +9.54
Conservative Lewis Wastell66129.91+9.09
Majority88840.18
Turnout 2,21021.90
Labour hold Swing

Blakenhall

Blakenhall [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Sally Green* 2,244 75.07 +11.15
Conservative Adam Ansari45315.16−4.22
Green Stephen Petter1264.22New
Liberal Democrats Patrick Bentley862.88−6.81
Independent Tracy Cooper802.67New
Majority1,79159.91
Turnout 2,98934.52
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Bushbury North

Bushbury North [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Simon Bennett* 1,321 47.03 +2.23
Labour Gary Edwards1,27145.25+3.17
Liberal Democrats Gary Peck2177.72−2.21
Majority501.78
Turnout 2,80929.38
Conservative hold Swing

Bushbury South and Low Hill

Bushbury South and Low Hill [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Paul Sweet* 1,323 70.45 +10.35
Conservative Rob Williams40321.46−1.20
Liberal Democrats Ann Jenkins1528.09−4.69
Majority92048.99
Turnout 1,87819.85
Labour hold Swing

East Park

East Park [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Russell 1,433 63.04 +2.95
Conservative Joe Stepien37923.00+5.41
Independent Steve Hall29413.96+6.52
Majority1,05440.04
Turnout 2,10623.19
Labour hold Swing

Ettingshall North

Ettingshall North [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Zee Russell* 2,224 81.98 +18.52
Conservative Amar Bhandal48918.02−1.58
Majority1,73563.96
Turnout 2,71328.20
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Ettingshall South and Spring Vale

Ettingshall South and Spring Vale [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Harbinder Singh* 1,988 71.82 +22.87
Conservative Sian Kumar78028.18−5.70
Majority1,20843.64
Turnout 2,76829.46
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Fallings Park

Fallings Park [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Valerie Evans* 1,299 56.75 +4.32
Conservative Julia Dickens71631.28−6.18
Party of Women Charlotte Hawkins1617.03New
Liberal Democrats Peter Nixon1134.94−4.89
Majority58325.47
Turnout 2,28925.64
Labour hold Swing

Graiseley

Graiseley [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Jacqueline Sweetman* 1,724 59.31 −0.67
Conservative Tony Gething56619.47−4.64
Independent Zahid Shah2789.56New
Green Amy Bertaut2408.26−9.05
Liberal Democrats Jessica Pringle993.40New
Majority1,15839.84
Turnout 2,90733.28
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Heath Town

Heath Town [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jaspreet Jaspal* 1,305 64.35 +10.56
Conservative Joe Banla43221.30+0.23
Green Kwaku Tano-Yeboah1939.52−9.89
Liberal Democrats Vikas Chopra984.83New
Majority87343.05
Turnout 2,02823.55
Labour hold Swing

Merry Hill

Merry Hill [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ben Evans 1,540 47.65 +6.50
Conservative Chris Haynes*1,45945.14+0.84
Green Jennifer Hibell2337.21−9.47
Majority812.51
Turnout 3,23235.66
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Oxley

Oxley [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Barbara McGarrity* 1,444 50.10 +1.85
Conservative Adam Collinge1,03235.81−2.82
Green Mia Clark2669.23New
Liberal Democrats Ian Jenkins1404.86−4.57
Majority41214.29
Turnout 2,88227.85
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Park

Park [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Muhammad Nasim 1,668 52.97 −4.73
Conservative Surrinder Ram69722.13−4.77
Green Paul Darke49115.59New
Liberal Democrats Bryan Lewis2939.31−0.06
Majority97130.84
Turnout 3,14932.98
Labour hold Swing

Penn

Penn [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Singh* 1,733 45.26 +2.74
Labour Co-op Kashmire Hawker1,65643.25+1.95
Green Ayden Young3308.62New
Liberal Democrats Anna Khan1102.87−7.65
Majority772.01
Turnout 3,82939.45
Conservative hold Swing

St Peters

St Peters [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Iqra Tahir* 1,249 51.40 −9.41
Green Mohammed Naseem59924.65New
Liberal Democrats David Murray30012.35−9.49
Conservative Gillian Timms28211.60−4.54
Majority65026.75
Turnout 2,43027.51
Labour hold Swing

Tettenhall Regis

Tettenhall Regis [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Udey Singh* 1,663 51.89 +3.17
Labour Robert Siarkiewicz1,05132.79−2.99
Liberal Democrats Julian Donald2517.83−1.29
Green Don Gwinnett2407.49New
Majority61219.10
Turnout 3,20535.00
Conservative hold Swing

Tettenhall Wightwick

Tettenhall Wightwick [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sally Garner 2,228 63.03 +3.75
Labour Bahadur Dehar95026.87−2.74
Green Andrea Cantrill2677.55−6.02
Liberal Democrats Arfan Khan902.55New
Majority1,27836.16
Turnout 3,53539.69
Conservative hold Swing

Wednesfield North

Wednesfield North [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Bateman* 1,431 66.10 +12.52
Conservative Nathaniel Williams75433.90−2.41
Majority67732.20
Turnout 2,16526.35
Labour hold Swing

Wednesfield South

Wednesfield South [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jacqui Coogan* 1,243 50.57 +0.08
Conservative Pete Dickens91437.18+1.05
Green Hardev Singh30112.25New
Majority32913.39
Turnout 2,45827.77
Labour hold Swing

Changes 2024-2026

Affiliation changes

By-elections

Bilston North

Bilston North by-election: 31 October 2024
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform UK Anita Stanley 652 34.8 N/A
Labour Luke Guy47125.1–46.2
Green Hardev Singh43823.4N/A
Conservative Andrew Randle25713.7–15.0
Liberal Democrats Julian Donald552.9N/A
Majority1819.7N/A
Turnout 1,87319.2–7.3
Registered electors 9,805
Reform UK gain from Labour

References

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    3. "The Wolverhampton (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2022/967, retrieved 16 April 2024
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    6. 1 2 "Wolverhampton Council election result: Labour delight as they take another seat off Tories". Express and Star. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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