2007 United Kingdom local elections

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Entrance to a polling station in the market town of Haverhill, Suffolk on 3 May 2007. The posters on the left are lists of the candidates in wards contested (St Edmundsbury BC and Haverhill TC) and information about rules and laws about voting.

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A polling station in a temporary cabin in position in the South of Coventry for the UK council elections on 3 May 2007.

The 2007 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same day. There were no local government elections in Northern Ireland. Just over half of English councils and almost all the Scottish councils began the counts on Friday, rather than Thursday night, because of more complex arrangements regarding postal votes.

These elections were a landmark in the United Kingdom as it was the first time that 18- to 20-year-olds could stand as candidates for council seats. The change was due to an alteration of the Electoral Administration Act. At least fourteen 18- to 20-year-olds are known to have stood as candidates for council seats^[1] and as a result William Lloyd became the youngest person to be elected to official office in Britain. There were also a number of councils which used new voting methods such as internet and telephone voting in addition to the traditional methods of polling stations and postal votes.

These were the final elections to be overseen by Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair, who resigned the following month after a decade as prime minister to be succeeded by chancellor Gordon Brown. His party only finished in second place with a narrow lead over the third-placed Liberal Democrats, whose leader Menzies Campbell would also resign later in the year, while it was a strong showing for the Conservatives under David Cameron.

Summary of results

There was a suggestion in February 2006 that many of the 2007 local elections in England would be cancelled due to a reform of local government.^[2] However, since then possible reforms are still in the consultation stage and no decisions have yet been made.

312 English district councils, nearly all districts in England held some form of election – either thirds or full – on Thursday, 3 May 2007.

The final results are summarised below; firstly, with a table ranked by the party with the greatest number of councillors elected.

Party		Councils		Councillors
Party		Number	Change	Number	Change
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	165	Increase39	5,458	Increase932
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	23	Decrease4	2,337	Decrease255
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	36	Decrease18	2,225	Decrease665
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Decrease1	363	Increase182
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	1	Template:Nochange	67	Decrease19
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	62	Increase17
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	10	Increase1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	9	Decrease1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	8	Increase8
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	7	Increase1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	5	Decrease1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	4	Increase1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	3	Template:Nochange
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	1	Increase1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	0	Decrease1
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Template:Nochange	0	Decrease1
	Other	4	Template:Nochange	949	Decrease162
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	85	Decrease27	n/a	n/a

Source BBC BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007 | English councils map

England

United Kingdom local elections, 2007/Metropolitan boroughs

United Kingdom local elections, 2007/Unitary boroughs

United Kingdom local elections, 2007/District councils

Mayoral elections

Council	Independent	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat	Green	Elected	Result
Bedford	15,967	10,710	4,757	10,551	1,538	Frank Branston	Independent hold
Mansfield	13,756	2,770	8,774	1,944	1,489	Tony Egginton	Independent hold
Middlesbrough	17,455	1,733	3,539	7,026	no candidate	Ray Mallon	Independent hold

Scotland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election - all Scottish councils are unitary authorities. These local elections were held on the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. They were the first election for local government in mainland Great Britain to use the Single transferable vote (the system is used in Northern Ireland), as implemented by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.^[3]

Summary of results

Party		Councils - majority	Councils - in coalition/minority	Councillors
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	11	363
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	2	11	348
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	12	166
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	8	143
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	0	8
	Scottish Socialist Party	0	0	1
	Solidarity	0	0	1
	Other	3	9	193
	No overall control	27	-	-

Councils

The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections.^[4]

Council	2003 result (control before May 2007, if different)		Notional control (based on 2003 results)	2007 result
Aberdeen City	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + Con)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + SNP)	Details
Aberdeenshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + Ind)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + Con)	Details
Angus	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + Con + LD + Lab)	Details
Argyll and Bute	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + SNP)	Details
Clackmannanshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
Dumfries and Galloway	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab^[5])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Con + LD)	Details
Dundee City	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + LD+ Con)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + LD)	Details
East Ayrshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP minority)	Details
East Dunbartonshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD^[6])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + Con)	Details
East Lothian	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + LD)	Details
East Renfrewshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + LD)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + LD + Ind + Con)	Details
City of Edinburgh	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (NOC: Lab^[7])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + SNP)	Details
Falkirk	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + Ind + Con)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab + Ind + Con)	Details
Fife	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab^[8])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (LD + SNP)	Details
Glasgow City	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Details
Highland	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + SNP)	Details
Inverclyde	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
Midlothian	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
Moray	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + Con)	Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Details
North Ayrshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
North Lanarkshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Details
Orkney	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Details
Perth and Kinross	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + LD + Ind)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + LD)	Details
Renfrewshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + LD)	Details
Scottish Borders	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + Con)	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Ind + Con + LD)	Details
Shetland	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Independent	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Details
South Ayrshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Con^[9])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Con minority)	Details
South Lanarkshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
Stirling	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (NOC: Lab^[10])	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (Lab minority)	Details
West Dunbartonshire	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	Labour	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + Ind)	Details
West Lothian	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	NOC	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell (SNP + Ind)	Details

Pre-election predictions

A Newsnight poll by the analysts Rallings and Thrasher some days before the election predicted the following results for the English council elections:

Con 38% (Conservatives gaining 330 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006)

Lab 24% (Labour losing 500 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006)

LD 29% (Liberal Democrats gaining 110 seats and gaining 2% of the vote on 2006)

However, these predictions, as in 2006, were largely inaccurate, underestimating Conservative support and grossly overestimating the Lib Dems' performance. However, it did accurately predict the number of seats Labour would lose.

Notes and references

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↑ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)
↑ Labour minority administration
↑ Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)
↑ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)

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[5] Labour minority control. The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Independents and the SNP.

[6] Liberal Democrats lack a majority (LD: 12 councillors; opposition: 12 councillors)

[7] Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)

[8] Labour minority administration

[9] Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)

[10] Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)

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2007 United Kingdom local elections

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Summary of results

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Mayoral elections

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Summary of results

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