2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

2 May 2024 (2024-05-02)

23 out of 69 seats to Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council
35 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Cathy Scott David Hall
Party Labour Conservative Independent
Last election 39 seats, 42.6% 18 seats, 30.4% 1 seat, 2.5%
Seats before 35 18 5
Seats won 7 5 6
Seats after 31 15 9
Seat change 4 3 4
Popular vote 34,519 26,844 19,121
Percentage 31.2% 24.2% 17.3%
Swing 11.4% 6.2% 14.8%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader John Lawson Andrew Cooper
Party Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 8 seats, 13.7% 3 seats, 10.5%
Seats before 8 3
Seats won 3 2
Seats after 10 4
Seat change 2 1
Popular vote 13,655 15,357
Percentage 12.3% 13.9%
Swing 1.3% 3.4%

Winner of each seat at the 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

Leader before election

Cathy Scott
Labour

Leader after election

Cathy Scott
Independent
No overall control

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.