2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election information
Local election in Merseyside, England
2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
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22 out of 66 seats to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council 34 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
61,801, 28.9%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Marion Atkinson
John Pugh
Mike Prendergast
Party
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Conservative
Last election
51 seats, 52.9%
9 seats, 16.4%
5 seats, 16.3%
Seats before
48
9
5
Seats after
49
9
4
Seat change
1
1
Popular vote
33,385
10,332
9,098
Percentage
54.0
16.7
14.7
Swing
1.1
0.3
1.6
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Neil Doolin
N/A
N/A
Party
Green
Independent
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents
Last election
0 seat, 6.8%
1 seat, 2.3%
1 seat, 2.5%
Seats before
0
2
1
Seats after
1
2
0
Seat change
1
1
Popular vote
5,445
272
1,245
Percentage
8.8
0.4
2.0
Swing
2.0
1.9
0.5
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Leader before election
Marion Atkinson
Labour
Leader after election
Marion Atkinson
Labour
The 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections across England, Liverpool's City Region mayoral election and Merseyside's Police and Crime Commissioner election.
As is typical for Sefton's local elections, twenty-two seats of the sixty-six total were contested. The Labour party have controlled the council since the 2012 elections, and prior to the election had a comfortable working majority of 13. Shortly before the election, this was reduced from their majority of 18 they had had following the previous year's election; in early March Labour Councillor Trish Hardy resigned from her Litherland ward seat leaving a vacancy, and less than a month before polling day Councillors Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall left Labour in protest of the party's policy direction and stance on the war in Gaza.[2]
The majority of the seats contested were held by Labour, who defended fifteen of the twenty-two seats. The Liberal Democrats defended three seats, and the Conservatives defended two seats.[3] The then-vacant Litherland seat was also contested alongside two seats held by independent councillors.
Labour and the Conservatives contested all seats up for election, while the Green Party contested every seat except 1 (Linacre). As a result of administrative confusion some of the Green Party candidates had the description “Green Party” and the party's logo (16 candidates) next to their name on the voting ballots while others only had the logo (5 candidates). Additionally the Liberal Democrats contested close to all seats, with candidates representing Reform UK, TUSC, Freedom Alliance, localist groups, also stood a small number of candidates alongside 2 independents.
Amongst other results, the Green party gained their first seat ever on the council, narrowly winning in Church ward by just over a hundred votes.[4]
^"2024 Elections in Sefton". Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
^"Councillors quit Labour Party in leadership protest and stance on war in Gaza". Liverpool Echo. 8 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
^"CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED FOR 2024 LOCAL ELECTIONS". On the spot news. 10 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
^Ferguson, Angela; Coleman, Jenny (3 May 2024). "Green Party success but Labour holds Sefton and Knowsley". BBC News. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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