The 2022 Coventry City Council election took place on 5 May 2022. One third of councillors — 18 out of 54 — on Coventry City Council were elected. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.
In the previous council election in 2021, Labour maintained its control of the council, holding 39 seats after the election. The Conservative Party held the remaining 15 seats.
Background History
The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Coventry was a district of the West Midlands metropolitan county. The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The West Midlands Combined Authority was created in 2016 and began electing the mayor of the West Midlands from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former West Midlands metropolitan county.
Coventry Council has variously been under Labour control, Conservative control and no overall control since it was established. Labour most recently gained control of the council in the 2010 election, when they gained six seats at the expense of the Conservatives and Socialist Alternative. Labour continued to make gains to consolidate its majority on the council in the 2011 and 2012 elections, since when the party's position has remained stable. In the 2021 Coventry City Council election, Labour won 13 of the seats up for election with 43.6% of the vote, while the Conservatives won the remaining six with 33.4% of the vote. The Green Party received 8.6% of the vote but won no seats. Labour maintained its majority on the council.
Positions up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2018. In that election, Labour won thirteen seats and the Conservatives won five seats.
Electoral process
The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. The election took place using first-past-the-post voting. Each ward was represented by three councillors, with one councillor elected in each ward in each election year to serve a four-year term.
Previous council composition
After 2021 election Before 2022 election Party Seats Party Seats 39 39 15 15
Results summary
Ward results
Bablake
+Bablake Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorConservativeJaswant Singh BirdiOutgoingConservativeTarlochan Singh Jandu2019-IncumbentConservativeSteven Keough2021-Incumbent
Binley and Willenhall
+Binley and Willenhall Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorLabourJohn MuttonOutgoingLabourRam Parkash Lakha2019-IncumbentLabourChristine Elizabeth Thomas2021-Incumbent
Cheylesmore
+Cheylesmore Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorConservativeRoger BaileyOutgoingLabourRichard Brown2019-IncumbentConservativeBarbara Mosterman2021-Incumbent
Earlsdon
+Earlsdon Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorLabourKindy SandhuOutgoingLabourBecky Gittins2019-IncumbentLabourAntony Tucker2021-Incumbent
Foleshill
+Foleshill Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorLabourTariq KhanOutgoingLabourAbdul Salam Khan2019-IncumbentLabourShakila Nazir2021-Incumbent
Henley
+Henley Seats Before the 2022 ElectionPartyCouncillorLabourKevin MatonOutgoingLabourPatricia Seaman2019-IncumbentLabourEd Ruane2021-Incumbent
Holbrook
Longford
Lower Stoke
Radford
Sherbourne
St Michael's
Upper Stoke
Wainbody
Westwood
Whoberley
Woodlands
Wyken
Changes between 2022 and 2023
By-elections
Binley and Willenhall
The by-election followed the death of Labour councillor John Mutton on 14 May 2022.
Sherbourne
The by-election followed the death of Labour councillor Seamus Walsh on 17 July 2022.
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