2018 Leeds City Council election

The 2018 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England. It was held on the same day as other UK local elections across England.

2018 Leeds City Council election
3 May 2018
All 99 seats on Leeds City Council
50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout34.5% ( 0.2%)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Judith Blake Andrew Carter
Party Labour Conservative
Last election 21 seats, 43.0% 6 seats, 27.4%
Seats won 61 22
Seat change 2 3
Popular vote 250,241 152,316
Percentage 46.4% 28.2%
Labour in red (61), Conservatives in blue (22), Liberal Democrats in yellow (6), Morley Borough Independents in dark grey (5), Garforth & Swillington Independents in light grey (3) and Greens in bright green (2).
Council control before election

Majority administration
Labour

 Council control after election

Majority administration
Labour

Following a full boundary review of Leeds' 33 electoral wards by the Local Government Boundary Commission, the all-out election saw all of the council's 99 available council seats contested based on the new ward boundaries. Three of the previous wards were abolished and replaced (City & Hunslet, Headingley, and Hyde Park & Woodhouse for Headingley & Hyde Park, Hunslet & Riverside and Little London & Woodhouse). The last all-out election in Leeds was in 2004 after the previous full ward boundary review in 2003.

With three seats available for each ward, electors were able to cast up to three votes for three different candidates. The first three candidates past the post in each ward won a council seat.

The Labour Party won the election with 61 of the 99 council seats.

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