2024 St Albans City and District Council election
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2 May 2024
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21 out of 56 seats to St Albans City and District Council 29 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 104,563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 43.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Winner of each seat at the 2024 St Albans City and District Council election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 St Albans City and District Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of St Albans City and District Council in Hertfordshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.
There were 21 members of the council up for election, being the usual approximate third of the council plus three by-elections. The council remained under Liberal Democrat majority control.
Candidates by party
Prior to the election, the council was under Liberal Democrat majority control. The leader of the council, Chris White, did not stand for re-election in 2024.[1]
Following the election, the Liberal Democrats retained their majority. They chose Paul De Kort to be their new group leader, who was formally appointed as the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 22 May 2024.[2]
Election result
| 2024 St Albans City and District Council election[3] | ||||||||||
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| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 17 |  2 |
80.9 | 30 | 47 | 83.9 | 22,472 | 49.7 | –0.7 | |
| Conservative | 1 | 1 |
4.8 | 2 | 3 | 5.4 | 9,596 | 21.3 | –5.5 | |
| Green | 1 |  1 |
4.8 | 2 | 3 | 5.4 | 6,591 | 14.6 | +1.8 | |
| Labour | 2 | 2 |
9.5 | 0 | 2 | 3.6 | 5,443 | 12.0 | +2.2 | |
| Reform | 0 |  |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 776 | 1.7 | +1.6 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
0.0 | 1 | 1 | 1.8 | 279 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Communist | 0 | |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 0.1 | ±0.0 | |
