2019 Selby District Council election
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 Map showing the results of the 2019 Selby District Council elections. Blue showing Conservative, Red showing Labour, Light Blue showing the Yorkshire Party and Grey showing Independents. Striped wards have mixed representation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2019 Selby District Council election was held on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Selby District Council in England. It was the final election to the authority before its dissolution in 2023, and subsequent subsumption into the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The election saw the Conservative Party maintain overall control of the District Council with a reduced majority.[1]
The election was noted for the surprise success of the Yorkshire Party, who won four seats on the council, which remains their best performance to date in a local authority election. However, two of the four councillors elected for the party would rejoin the Conservative Party the following year, a third would resign with their seat being won by the Conservatives in the ensuing by-election, while the fourth would eventually join the Labour Party, leaving the Yorkshire Party with no representation on the council by 2022.
At the previous Selby District Council election, 22 seats were won by the Conservative Party, 8 seats were won by the Labour Party, and one independent candidate, Mary McCartney, was elected in the Eggborough ward. Over the next four years, the following seat changes occurred:
- Jack Crawford, elected as a Labour Party councillor for Byram and Brotherton, died in early 2016. The resulting by-election was won by Bryn Sage of the Conservative Party.
- Donald Bain-Mackay, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Tadcaster, resigned from the Conservatives early in 2017 in order to run as an independent candidate for North Yorkshire County Council at that year's election.
- Michael Jordan, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Camblesforth and Carlton, defected to the Yorkshire Party in July 2018.
Results summary
| Selby District Council election, 2019[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
| Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
| Conservative | 26 | 16 |  6 |
51.6% | 47.9% | 15,156 | 6.8% | ||||||||
| Labour | 24 | 8 |  |
25.8% | 33.2% | 10,496 |  0.2% | ||||||||
| Yorkshire | 5 | 4 | 4 |
12.9% | 9.5% | 3,023 | N/A | ||||||||
| Independent | 3 | 3 | 2 |
9.7% | 8.7% | 2,764 | 4.2% | ||||||||
| Socialist Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 0.7% | 216 | N/A | ||||||
| UKIP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 0.3% | 106 | 5.2% | ||||||
