The 2022 Peterborough City Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members to Peterborough City Council in Cambridgeshire, England. 19 of the 60 seats were contested, including one by-election in Fletton & Stanground ward. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.
Current political makeup
Conservative: 7 defences (21 other seats) Labour and Co-operative: 5 defences (11 other seats) Liberal Democrat: 4 defences (4 other seats) Werrington First: 1 defence (2 other seats) Green: 1 defence (2 other seats) Independent Labour: 1 defence (0 other seats) Independent: 0 defences (1 other seat)
Summary of result
Ward results
Bretton
No For Britain (3.9%) and UKIP (3.4%) candidates as previous.
Central
No Freedom Alliance (2.4%) candidate as previous.
Dogsthorpe
No Independent (11.4%) and UKIP (4.0%) candidates as previous.
East
Eye, Thorney & Newborough
Fletton & Stanground
No Independent (10.6%) and Green (7.2%) candidates as previous.
Fletton & Woodston
No Freedom Alliance (2.7%) candidate as previous.
Gunthorpe
No Christian Peoples Alliance (1.3%) candidate as previous.
Hampton Vale
No Independent (4.8%) candidate as previous.
Hargate & Hempsted
North
No Green (5.6%) and Liberal Democrat (5.6%) candidates as previous.
Orton Longueville
Orton Waterville
A month after contesting the seat, Stevenson (née Howell) resigned from the Green Party to sit as an Independent.
Park
This seat was last contested in 2018. The incumbent (Aasiyah Joseph, Labour) is not seeking re-election.
Paston & Walton
No UKIP (8.1%) candidate as previous.
Ravensthorpe
The incumbent, Ed Murphy, was suspended by the Labour Party in 2021. He contested this election as an independent candidate.
No Green (5.4%) candidate as previous.
Stanground South
This seat was last contested in 2018. The incumbent is Ray Bisby (Conservative).
UKIP (5%), Julian Bray (Independent) (4.5%), and The Liberal Democrats (4.3%) did not contest this time.
Werrington
This seat was last contested in 2018. The incumbent is Steve Lane (Werrington First).
UKIP (2.9%) did not contest this time.
Changes 2022–2023 Julie Stevenson (Orton Waterville) resigned from the Green Party to sit as an independent in June 2022.
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