United Kingdom local elections, 2001
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Local elections took place in some parts of the UK on 7 June 2001. Elections took place for all of the English shire counties, some English unitary authorities and all of the Northern Ireland districts. The elections were delayed from the usual date of the first Thursday in May due to the 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis and were held on the same day as the general election.
While the results were overshadowed by the re-election of the Labour government, they did provide some comfort to the Conservative party. The Conservatives consolidated their position as the largest party on the English county councils.
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Summary of results
The results of the English local elections saw the Conservative party make significant progress, gaining control of a further five councils. The Labour party lost control of Cumbria and Warwickshire county councils, while the Liberal Democrats suffered losses of both councils and councillors.
| Party | Councils | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gain | Loss | Change | Total | Gain | Loss | Change | Total | ||
| Conservative | +5 | 18 | +120 | 1,093 | |||||
| Labour | -2 | 14 | +7 | 843 | |||||
| Liberal Democrat | -2 | 0 | -80 | 449 | |||||
| Independent | 0 | 0 | -25 | 67 | |||||
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 28 | |||
| No overall control | -1 | 13 | — | — | — | — | |||
England
Non-metropolitan county councils
In all 34 English county councils the whole council was up for election.
‡ New ward boundaries
Unitary authorities
In two English unitary authorities the whole council was up for election while a further nine unitary authorities had one third of the council up for election.
Whole council
| Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight ‡ | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
| Southend-on-Sea ‡ | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
‡ New ward boundaries
Third of council
| Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Bristol | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Halton | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Peterborough | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
| Reading | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Slough | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Thurrock | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Warrington | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
| Wokingham | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
Sui generis
| Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isles of Scilly | Details | ||||
Northern Ireland
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In all 26 Northern Ireland districts the whole council was up for election. They were elected by Single Transferable Vote. They saw the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin make gains at the expense of the other parties.
References
- Vote 2001 BBC News
- The local elections of 7 June 2001. House of Commons Library Research Paper 01/71.
- Northern Ireland local election results
