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Map depicting the winners of each ward. Red shows a Labour win. Blue shows a Conservative win. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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]
After 2023 election | Before 2024 election [5] | After 2024 election [6] | ||||||
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Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
Labour | 47 | Labour | 46 | Labour | 47 | |||
Conservative | 13 | Conservative | 13 | Conservative | 12 | |||
Independent | 0 | Independent | 1 | Independent | 1 |
Changes:
2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election | ||||||||||
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Labour | 16 | +1 | 85.0 | 31 | 47 | 78.3 | 30,355 | 56.1 | –1.1 | |
Conservative | 4 | –1 | 15.0 | 8 | 12 | 20.0 | 17,667 | 32.7 | –4.3 | |
Independent | 0 | = | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 1.7 | 652 | 1.2 | +1.1 | |
Green | 0 | = | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,286 | 6.1 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | = | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,949 | 3.6 | +0.3 | |
Party of Women | 0 | = | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 161 | 0.3 | N/A | |
An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor seeking re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Leigh New | 1,763 | 71.29 | 11.5 | |
Conservative | Audrey Okere | 710 | 28.71 | 5.8 | |
Majority | 1,053 | 42.58 | / | ||
Turnout | 2,473 | 26.47 | 3.74 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rashpal Kaur* | 1,549 | 70.09 | 15.6 | |
Conservative | Lewis Wastell | 661 | 29.91 | 2.2 | |
Majority | 888 | 40.18 | / | ||
Turnout | 2,210 | 21.90 | 4.12 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Sally Green* | 2,244 | 75.07 | 3.2 | |
Conservative | Adam Ansari | 453 | 15.16 | 1.9 | |
Green | Stephen Petter | 126 | 4.22 | 0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Bentley | 86 | 2.88 | 3.5 | |
Independent | Tracy Cooper | 80 | 2.67 | New | |
Majority | 1,791 | 59.91 | |||
Turnout | 2,989 | 34.52 | 5.38 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Simon Bennett* | 1,321 | 47.03 | ||
Labour | Gary Edwards | 1,271 | 45.25 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Gary Peck | 217 | 7.72 | ||
Majority | 50 | 1.78 | |||
Turnout | 2,809 | 29.38 | 2.80 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Sweet* | 1,323 | 70.45 | ||
Conservative | Rob Williams | 403 | 21.46 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ann Jenkins | 152 | 8.09 | ||
Majority | 920 | 48.99 | |||
Turnout | 1,878 | 19.85 | 3.50 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Stephen Russell | 1,433 | 63.04 | ||
Conservative | Joe Stepien | 379 | 23.00 | ||
Independent | Steve Hall | 294 | 13.96 | ||
Majority | 1,054 | 40.04 | |||
Turnout | 2,106 | 23.19 | 4.71 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Zee Russell* | 2,224 | 81.98 | ||
Conservative | Amar Bhandal | 489 | 18.02 | ||
Majority | 1,735 | 63.96 | |||
Turnout | 2,713 | 28.20 | 5.48 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Harbinder Singh* | 1,988 | 71.82 | ||
Conservative | Sian Kumar | 780 | 28.18 | ||
Majority | 1,208 | 43.64 | |||
Turnout | 2,768 | 29.46 | 3.31 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Valerie Evans* | 1,299 | 56.75 | ||
Conservative | Julia Dickens | 716 | 31.28 | ||
Party of Women | Charlotte Hawkins | 161 | 7.03 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Peter Nixon | 113 | 4.94 | ||
Majority | 583 | 25.47 | |||
Turnout | 2,289 | 25.64 | 3.71 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jacqueline Sweetman* | 1,724 | 59.31 | ||
Conservative | Tony Gething | 566 | 19.47 | ||
Independent | Zahid Shah | 278 | 9.56 | ||
Green | Amy Bertaut | 240 | 8.26 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jessica Pringle | 99 | 3.40 | ||
Majority | 1,158 | 39.84 | |||
Turnout | 2,907 | 33.28 | 4.56 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jaspreet Jaspal* | 1,305 | 64.35 | ||
Conservative | Joe Banla | 432 | 21.30 | ||
Green | Kwaku Tano-Yeboah | 193 | 9.52 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Vikas Chopra | 98 | 4.83 | ||
Majority | 873 | 43.05 | |||
Turnout | 2,028 | 23.55 | 4.79 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ben Evans | 1,540 | 47.65 | ||
Conservative | Chris Haynes* | 1,459 | 45.14 | ||
Green | Jennifer Hibell | 233 | 7.21 | ||
Majority | 81 | 2.51 | |||
Turnout | 3,232 | 35.66 | 2.29 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Barbara McGarrity* | 1,444 | 50.10 | ||
Conservative | Adam Collinge | 1,032 | 35.81 | ||
Green | Mia Clark | 266 | 9.23 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ian Jenkins | 140 | 4.86 | ||
Majority | 412 | 14.29 | |||
Turnout | 2,882 | 27.85 | 2.63 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Muhammad Nasim | 1,668 | 52.97 | ||
Conservative | Surrinder Ram | 697 | 22.13 | ||
Green | Paul Darke | 491 | 15.59 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Bryan Lewis | 293 | 9.31 | ||
Majority | 971 | 30.84 | |||
Turnout | 3,149 | 32.98 | 3.58 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Singh* | 1,733 | 45.26 | 2.70 | |
Labour Co-op | Kashmire Hawker | 1,656 | 43.25 | 4.86 | |
Green | Ayden Young | 330 | 8.62 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Khan | 110 | 2.87 | 1.06 | |
Majority | 77 | 2.01 | 0.90 | ||
Turnout | 3,829 | 39.45 | 1.16 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Iqra Tahir* | 1,249 | 51.40 | ||
Green | Mohammed Naseem | 599 | 24.65 | ||
Liberal Democrats | David Murray | 300 | 12.35 | ||
Conservative | Gillian Timms | 282 | 11.60 | ||
Majority | 650 | 26.75 | |||
Turnout | 2,430 | 27.51 | 5.84 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Udey Singh* | 1,663 | 51.89 | ||
Labour | Robert Siarkiewicz | 1,051 | 32.79 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Julian Donald | 251 | 7.83 | ||
Green | Don Gwinnett | 240 | 7.49 | ||
Majority | 612 | 19.10 | |||
Turnout | 3,205 | 35.00 | 1.66 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sally Garner | 2,228 | 63.03 | ||
Labour | Bahadur Dehar | 950 | 26.87 | ||
Green | Andrea Cantrill | 267 | 7.55 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Arfan Khan | 90 | 2.55 | ||
Majority | 1,278 | 36.16 | |||
Turnout | 3,535 | 39.69 | 0.59 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mary Bateman* | 1,431 | 66.10 | ||
Conservative | Nathaniel Williams | 754 | 33.90 | ||
Majority | 677 | 32.20 | |||
Turnout | 2,165 | 26.35 | 1.00 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jacqui Coogan* | 1,243 | 50.57 | ||
Conservative | Pete Dickens | 914 | 37.18 | ||
Green | Hardev Singh | 301 | 12.25 | ||
Majority | 329 | 13.39 | |||
Turnout | 2,458 | 27.77 | 1.81 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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