The 2024 Leeds City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024. It was held on the same day as the second West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.
The Labour Party maintained control of the council, with their seat count holding steady. For the third year in a row, the Conservative Party lost three seats, all to Labour; the party would additionally lose a seat in Pudsey two days after the election when Trish Smith, re-elected the previous year, resigned to sit as an independent.Pudsey councillor Trish Smith quits Conservative party The Green Party also succeeded in taking three seats from Labour and saw the largest popular vote share increase out of any of the parties, though Labour in turn unseated Green group leader David Blackburn, preventing the Greens from equalling the Liberal Democrats as the third-largest group on the council, though the Greens subsequently won a seat back in a byelection in the same ward and Blackburn returned to the council. The Social Democratic Party took the third seat in Middleton Park, wiping out the Labour Party's representation in the ward, and all other parties held level in their seat count.
Election summary
|- style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" ! scope="row" colspan="2" | Total | 185 | 33 | 4 | 4 | | 100% | 100% | 197,671
The election result had the following consequences for the political composition of the council:
Party2023 electionPrior to electionNew council Labour 61 61 61 Conservative 18 18 15 Liberal Democrat 6 6 6 Morley Borough Independents 6 4 4 Garforth and Swillington Independents 3 3 3 Green 3 3 5 SDP 2 2 3 Independent 0 2 2 Total 99 99 99 Working majority
Councillors not standing for re-election +Councillor/s not standing for re-election (4) Councillor Ward First elected Party Reason Successor Beeston & Holbeck 2018 Labour stood down Shaf Ali (Labour) Bramley & Stanningley 2011 Labour stood down Adele Rae (Labour) Morley North 2018 Morley Borough Independents stood down Simon Brown (Morley Borough Independent) Armley 1988 Labour stood down Lou Cunningham (Green)
Results by ward Adel & Wharfedale
Alwoodley
Ardsley & Robin Hood
Armley
Beeston & Holbeck
Bramley & Stanningley
Burmantofts & Richmond Hill
Calverley & Farsley
Chapel Allerton
Cross Gates & Whinmoor
Farnley & Wortley
Garforth & Swillington
Gipton & Harehills
Guiseley & Rawdon
Harewood
Headingley & Hyde Park
Horsforth
Hunslet & Riverside
Killingbeck & Seacroft
Kippax & Methley
Kirkstall
Little London & Woodhouse
Middleton Park
Moortown
Morley North
Morley South
Otley & Yeadon
Pudsey
Rothwell
Roundhay
Temple Newsam
Weetwood
Wetherby
Changes between 2024 and 2026
By-elections
Defections and resignations May 2024: Trish Smith (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent August 2024: Mark Sewards (Labour) resigns – by-election held October 2024 October 2024: David Blackburn (Green) gains by-election from Labour May 2025: Winifred Kidger (Independent) resigns - by-election held June 2025 Trish Smith (Independent) joins Reform June 2025: Ryan Taylor (Reform) gains by-election nominally from Morley Borough Independents Abigail Marshall Katung (Labour) leaves party to sit as an independent September 2025: Zara Hussain (Labour) leaves party to sit as an independent January 2026: Mahalia France-Mir (Labour) dies - seat left vacant until 2026 election March 2026: Nicole Lloyd (Labour) resigns March 2026: Caroline Anderson (Conservative) resigns March 2026: Robert Finnigan (Morley Borough Independent) resigns
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