2024 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election

2024 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election

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16 out of 48 seats to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council 25 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	26,848, 32.7%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lynn Chesterman Paul Zukowskyj Tony Kingsbury Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative Last election 12 seats, 30.9% 14 seats, 25.9% 22 seats, 33.8% Seats before 12 14 22 Seats won 8 4 4 Seats after 20 16 12 Seat change 8 2 10 Popular vote 8,549 5,750 9,102 Percentage 31.8% 21.4% 33.9% Swing 0.9% 4.5% 0.1%
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election
Leader before election Paul Zukowskyj Liberal Democrat No overall control Leader after election Max Holloway Labour No overall control

The 2024 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections across England and Hertfordshire's Police and Crime Commissioner election.

As is typical for Welwyn Hatfield's local elections, sixteen seats of the forty-eight total were contested. Of these sixteen, fourteen seats were held by Conservative councillors and two seats were held by Liberal Democrat councillors.

Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being run by a Liberal Democrat and Labour coalition which formed after the 2023 local elections.^[2][3] The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party put candidates forward for all contested seats, with Reform UK additionally contesting seven of these seats and no independent candidates standing for any seat.

Following the election, the council remained under no overall control, with Labour the largest party, overtaking both their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. A Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition continued to run the council after the election. Labour changed their group leader after the election to Max Holloway; he was formally appointed as leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2024.^[4]