2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election

2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council

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22 out of 66 seats to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council 34 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	61,801, 28.9%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Marion Atkinson John Pugh Mike Prendergast Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative Leader's seat Molyneux Dukes Dukes Last election 51 seats, 52.9% 9 seats, 16.4% 5 seats, 16.3% Seats before 48 9 5 Seats after 49 9 4 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 33,385 10,332 9,098 Percentage 54.0% 16.7% 14.7% Swing 1.1 pp 0.3 pp 1.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Neil Doolin N/A N/A Party Green Independent Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents Leader's seat Church N/A N/A Last election 0 seat, 6.8% 1 seat, 2.3% 1 seat, 2.5% Seats before 0 2 1 Seats after 1 2 0 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 5,445 272 1,245 Percentage 8.8% 0.4% 2.0% Swing 2.0 pp 1.9 pp 0.5 pp
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Leader before election Marion Atkinson Labour Leader after election Marion Atkinson Labour

The 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections across England, Liverpool's City Region mayoral election and Merseyside's Police and Crime Commissioner election.

As is typical for Sefton's local elections, twenty-two seats of the sixty-six total were contested. The Labour Party have controlled the council since the 2012 elections, and prior to the election had a comfortable working majority of 13. Shortly before the election, this was reduced from their majority of 18 they had had following the previous year's election; in early March Labour Councillor Trish Hardy resigned from her Litherland ward seat leaving a vacancy, and less than a month before polling day Councillors Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall left Labour in protest of the party's policy direction and stance on the war in Gaza.^[2]

The majority of the seats contested were held by Labour, who defended fifteen of the twenty-two seats. The Liberal Democrats defended three seats, and the Conservatives defended two seats.^[3] The then-vacant Litherland seat was also contested alongside two seats held by independent councillors.

Labour and the Conservatives contested all seats up for election, while the Green Party contested every seat except 1 (Linacre). As a result of administrative confusion some of the Green Party candidates had the description “Green Party” and the party's logo (16 candidates) next to their name on the voting ballots while others only had the logo (5 candidates). Additionally the Liberal Democrats contested close to all seats, with candidates representing Reform UK, TUSC, Freedom Alliance, localist groups, also stood a small number of candidates alongside 2 independents.

Labour retained their majority on the council. Amongst other results, the Green Party gained their first seat ever on the council, narrowly winning in Church ward by just over a hundred votes.^[4] One seat remained vacant following the election due to the death of Paula Spencer in March.^[5] This was filled in a by-election in June.^[6]