2013 United Kingdom local elections
The 2013 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 2 May 2013. Elections were held in 35 English councils: all 27 non-metropolitan county councils and eight unitary authorities, and in one Welsh unitary authority. Direct mayoral elections took place in Doncaster and North Tyneside. These elections last took place on the 4 June 2009 at the same time as the 2009 European Parliament Elections, except for County Durham, Northumberland and the Anglesey where elections last took place in 2008.
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All 27 county councils, 7 out of 55 unitary authorities, 1 out of 22 Welsh principal councils, 1 sui generis authority, and 2 directly elected mayors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing council control (left) and largest party by ward or division (right) following the election. Liberal Democrats
UKIP
Plaid Cymru
No overall control
No election
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The BBC's projected national vote share (PNV) put Labour on 29%, the Conservatives on 25%, UKIP on 23% and the Liberal Democrats on 14%. Elections analysts Rallings and Thrasher estimated 29% for Labour, 26% for the Conservatives, 22% for UKIP and 13% for the Liberal Democrats.
On the same day a parliamentary by-election took place in the North East constituency of South Shields following the departure of David Miliband, with the Labour Party retaining the seat.