2026 Hartlepool Borough Council election
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7 May 2026
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The 2026 Hartlepool Borough Council election will be held on 7 May 2026, alongside the other local elections across the United Kingdom being held on the same day, to elect 13 of 36 members of Hartlepool Borough Council.[1]
| After 2024 election | Before 2026 election | ||||
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| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| Labour | 24 | Labour | 22 | ||
| Reform | 0 | Reform | 4 | ||
| Conservative | 6 | Conservative | 2 | ||
| IU | 1 | IU | 1 | ||
| Independent | 5 | Independent | 7 | ||
Changes 2024–2026:
- August 2024: Jonathan Brash (Labour) resigns – by-election held September 2024[2]
- September 2024: Owen Riddle (Labour) wins by-election[3]
- March 2025: Cameron Sharp (Labour) resigns – by-election held May 2025[4]
- May 2025:
- June 2025: Steve Wallace (Independent, elected as Labour) resigns – by-election held July 2025[8]
- July 2025: Ed Doyle (Reform) nominally gains by-election from Labour[9]
- August 2025: Mike Young (Conservative) joins Reform[10]
- Andrew Martin-Wells (Conservative) and Scott Reeve (Conservative) leave party to sit as independents
Summary
Background
In 2024, Labour gained the council from no overall control.[11] They held the council previously until 2019.[12]
Election result
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| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Labour | 16 | |||||||||
| Independent | 5 | |||||||||
| Reform | 3 | |||||||||
| Conservative | 0 | |||||||||
| IU | 0 | |||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | |||||||||
| Green | 0 | |||||||||
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