2021 Suffolk County Council election

2021 Suffolk County Council election
6 May 2021
All 75 seats to Suffolk County Council
38 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Matthew Hicks Elfrede Brambley-Crawshaw Sarah Adams
Party Conservative Green Labour
Leader since 11 May 2018 7 May 2019 December 2017
Leader's seat Thredling Beccles (Retiring) St John's
Last election 52 seats, 46.3% 3 seats, 6.0% 11 seats, 20.7%
Seats before 48 3 11
Seats won 55 9 5
Seat change 3 6 6
Popular vote 124,969 39,283 55,973
Percentage 47.6% 15.0% 21.3%
Swing 1.3% 6.8% 0.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Penny Otton n/a Victor Lukaniuk
Party Liberal Democrats Independent WSI
Leader since 7 May 2019 n/a May 2017
Leader's seat Thedwastre South n/a Brandon
Last election 5 seats, 10.5% 3 seats, 4.3% 1 seats, 0.9%
Seats before 5 6 1
Seats won 4 1 1
Seat change 1 2
Popular vote 25,885 11,723 1,959
Percentage 9.9% 4.5% 0.8%
Swing 3.8% 0.2% 0.1%
Map showing the results of the 2021 Suffolk County Council election
Makeup of council after the election
Leader before election

Matthew Hicks
Conservative

 Leader after election

Matthew Hicks
Conservative

The 2021 Suffolk County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 75 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions, which return either one or two county councillors each, by first-past-the-post voting, for a four-year term of office.

Voters who live in divisions which elect two councillors (12 divisions) are entitled to cast a maximum of two votes, while those living in divisions only electing one councillor (51 divisions) are only entitled to cast one vote.

The council is subject to a Local Government Boundary Commission for England review where it is proposed to reduce the number of councillors from 75 to 70. The recommendations were due to be implemented at this election but were deferred to the scheduled 2025 Suffolk County Council election owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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