The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.
Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the Gaza war. The four members subsequently formed the Kirklees Community Independents Group, which had no seats up for election this year. With this exception, the pre-election council makeup had otherwise remained unchanged from the 2023 election.
Labour lost control of the council to no overall control. Following the election, the leader of the council, Cathy Scott, was replaced as Labour group leader by Carole Pattison. However, Cathy Scott managed to retain her position as leader of the council, leaving Labour along with four others to sit as a group of independents calling themselves the Community Alliance.
Councillors standing down CouncillorWardFirst electedPartyDate announcedNaheed MatherDalton2012Labour5 February 2024Donald FirthHolme Valley South1989Conservative6 March 2024Bernard McGuinAlmondbury2016Conservative6 March 2024Elizabeth ReynoldsGolcar2021Labour6 March 2024Adam GreggLindley2021Conservative6 March 2024Melanie StephenLiversedge and Gomersal2021Conservative6 March 2024 Council composition After 2023 election Before 2024 election After 2024 election Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats 39 35 31 18 18 15 1 5 9 8 8 10 3 3 4
Summary Election result
Ward results
Candidates nominated by ward:
Almondbury
Ashbrow
Batley East
Batley West
Birstall & Birkenshaw
Cleckheaton
Colne Valley
Crosland Moor & Netherton
Dalton
Denby Dale
Dewsbury East
Dewsbury South
Dewsbury West
Golcar
Greenhead
Heckmondwike
Holme Valley North
Holme Valley South
Kirkburton
Lindley
Liversedge & Gomersal
Mirfield
Newsome
Changes 2024–2026 Masood Ahmed, Yusra Hussain, Paul Moore, Cathy Scott, Adam Zaman and Habiban Zaman, all elected for Labour, left the party in May 2024 to sit as independents in a new group called the Community Alliance. Musarrat Khan, elected for Labour, also left the party in May 2024, sitting as an ungrouped independent.
By-elections
Holme Valley South
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