Mayor of Leicester

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Mayor of Leicester
Coat of Arms of Leicester City Council.svg
Peter Soulsby.JPG
Incumbent
Peter Soulsby
since 6 May 2011
Style City Mayor (to distinguish from Lord Mayor, a separate post)
AppointerElectorate of Leicester
Term length Four years
Inaugural holderPeter Soulsby
Website Leicester Mayor website

The mayor of Leicester, styled City Mayor to distinguish from the Lord Mayor of Leicester, is responsible for the executive function of Leicester City Council in England. The incumbent is Peter Soulsby of the Labour Party.

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Background

In December 2010 the Labour controlled Leicester City Council approved plans to give the city a directly elected mayor with responsibility for all council decisions during their four-year term and for selecting up to nine councillors as a supporting cabinet. The creation of the post was approved by Leicester City Council on 10 December 2010. A referendum on establishing a directly elected mayoralty was not held. The first election took place in May 2011. [1]

Elections

2011

The first mayoral election on 5 May 2011 saw Peter Soulsby elected as mayor in the first round. [2]

Leicester Mayoral Election 5 May 2011 [3]
PartyCandidate1st round2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
TotalOf roundTransfersTotalOf round
Labour Peter Soulsby 46,94855.3%
Conservative Ross Grant9,68811.4%
Independent Rick Moore7,3658.7%
Liberal Democrats Gary Hunt6,0297.1%
Green Geoff Forse3,4524.1%
Independent Nima Patel3,3584.0%
UKIP Regine Anderson2,1952.6%
Unity for Peace and SocialismMohinda Farma1,9442.3%
Independent David Bowley1,7842.1%
Independent Mu-Hamid Pathan1,4651.7%
Independent Lee Sowden6310.7%
Labour win

2015

Soulsby won re-election in 2015, again polling more than half the first preference vote to win on the first round.

Leicester Mayoral Election 7 May 2015 [4]
PartyCandidate1st round2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
TotalOf roundTransfersTotalOf round
Labour Peter Soulsby 71,53354.6%
Conservative Paul Bremner24,32718.6%
UKIP Dutch Veldhuizen12,5329.6%
Green Tim Grayson8,6376.6%
Liberal Democrats Adrian Barnes8,3156.3%
TUSC Barbie Potter3,0282.3%
Independent Avtar Singh2,6622.0%
Labour hold

2019

Again, Soulsby won re-election in 2019, retaining his position as City Mayor for a third term, with an increased majority.

Leicester Mayoral Election 2 May 2019 [5]
PartyCandidate1st round2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
TotalOf roundTransfersTotalOf round
Labour Peter Soulsby 51,44461.0%
Conservative Sandip Verma 14,51917.2%
Green Mags Lewis6,6597.9%
Liberal Democrats Nigel Porter 4,1015.0%
UKIP Stuart Young3,5254.2%
Independent Sanjay Gogia2,4452.9%
Socialist Alternative Stephen Score1,6432.0%
Labour hold

2023

Leicester Mayoral Election 4 May 2023 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Soulsby 35,002 39.3 Decrease2.svg21.7
Conservative Sanjay Modhwadia26,42229.7Increase2.svg12.5
Liberal Democrats Parmjit Singh Gill 9,67410.9Increase2.svg5.9
Independent Rita Patel7,9668.9New
Green Mags Lewis7,8088.8Increase2.svg0.9
TUSC Steve Score2,1732.4Increase2.svg0.4 [n 1]
Majority8,5809.6Decrease2.svg34.2
Turnout 89,045 [n 2] 36.5Increase2.svg1.7
Labour hold Swing Decrease2.svg17.1

List of mayors

Political partyNameElection
Labour Peter Soulsby.JPG Peter Soulsby 6 May 2011

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References

  1. "Leicester elected mayor plan is approved". BBC Leicester. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  2. "Former MP Peter Soulsby wins Leicester mayoral race". BBC News. 6 May 2011.
  3. "City Mayor Results". Leicester City Council. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  4. Mayoral election results at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 May 2015)
  5. "Mayoral Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Leicester City Council. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  6. "Leicester result - Local Elections 2023 - BBC News". www.bbc.co.uk/news. Retrieved 5 May 2023.


  1. Change from Socialist Alternative in 2019, whose candidate was also Steve Score.
  2. This total does not include spoilt ballots.