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2000 United Kingdom local elections
← 1999
4 May 2000
2001 →
All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 27 out of 46 unitary authorities, 89 out of 238 English districts, 1 directly elected mayor and 1 regional assembly
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Tony Blair
William Hague
Charles Kennedy
Party
Labour
Conservative
Liberal Democrats
Leader since
21 July 1994
19 June 1997
9 August 1999
Percentage
30%
32%
26%
Swing
6%
2%
2%
Councils
57
33
11
Councils +/-
16
16
1
Councillors
1,119
1,383
729
Councillors +/-
574
594
18
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
The 2000 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 4 May 2000. A third of the seats on each of the Metropolitan Boroughs were elected along with elections in many of the unitary authorities and district councils. There were no elections in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. On the same day, a parliamentary by-election took place in the Romsey constituency in southern England; the Liberal Democrats won the seat from the Conservatives.
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