2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election

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2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election
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20 out of 60 seats to City of Wolverhampton Council
31 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Stephen Simkins Wendy Thompson
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seat Bilston South Tettenhall
Current seats 46 13
Seats up 15 5
Seats won 16 4
Map depicting the winners of each ward.
Red shows a Labour win.
Blue shows a Conservative win.
Incumbent Leader

Stephen Simkins
Labour



The 2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. One-third of the 60 members of City of Wolverhampton Council in the West Midlands will be elected.

Background[edit]

Wolverhampton is a strong Labour council. The party have controlled the council for most of its history, only failing to win a majority in 1987, 1992, 2008, and 2010.[1] The 2023 election was for the entire council on new ward boundaries.[2] In that election, Labour won 47 seats with 57.2% of the vote, and the Conservatives won 13 with 37.0%.

The 2024 election is for seats held by councillors who were elected with the smallest number of votes.[3] Labour are defending 15 seats and the Conservatives are defending 5.[4]

Previous council composition[edit]

After 2023 election Before 2024 election[5] After 2024 election[6]
Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats
Labour 47 Labour 46 Labour 47
Conservative 13 Conservative 13 Conservative 12
Independent 0 Independent 1 Independent 1

Changes:

  • June 2023: Celia Hibbert suspended from Labour[7]
  • July 2023: Ian Brookfield (Labour) dies; by-election held September 2023[8]
  • September 2023: Paul Brookfield (Labour) wins by-election[9]

Results[edit]

2024 City of Wolverhampton Council election
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour 16 +1 85.0 31 47 78.3 30,355 56.1 –1.1
  Conservative 4 –1 15.0 8 12 20.0 17,667 32.7 –4.3
  Independent 0 = 0.0 1 1 1.7 652 1.2 +1.1
  Green 0 = 0.0 0 0 0.0 3,286 6.1 +4.0
  Liberal Democrats 0 = 0.0 0 0 0.0 1,949 3.6 +0.3
  Party of Women 0 = 0.0 0 0 0.0 161 0.3 N/A

Ward results[edit]

An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor seeking re-election.

Bilston North[edit]

Bilston North[10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Leigh New
Conservative Audrey Okere
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Bilston South[edit]

Bilston South[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rashpal Kaur*
Conservative Lewis Wastell
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Blakenhall[edit]

Blakenhall[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Adam Ansari
Liberal Democrats Patrick Bentley
Independent Tracy Cooper
Labour Co-op Sally Green*
Green Stephen Petter
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Bushbury North[edit]

Bushbury North[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Simon Bennett*
Labour Gary Edwards
Liberal Democrats Gary Peck
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Bushbury South and Low Hill[edit]

Bushbury South and Low Hill[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Ann Jenkins
Labour Paul Sweet*
Conservative Rob Williams
Majority
Turnout
Swing

East Park[edit]

East Park[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Steve Hall
Labour Stephen Russell
Conservative Joe Stepien
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Ettingshall North[edit]

Ettingshall North[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Amar Bhandal
Labour Co-op Zee Russell*
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Ettingshall South and Spring Vale[edit]

Ettingshall South and Spring Vale[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sian Kumar
Labour Co-op Harbinder Singh*
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Fallings Park[edit]

Fallings Park[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julia Dickens
Labour Valerie Evans*
Party of Women Charlotte Hawkins
Liberal Democrats Peter Nixon
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Graiseley[edit]

Graiseley[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Amy Bertaut
Conservative Tony Gething
Liberal Democrats Jessica Pringle
Independent Zahid Shah
Labour Co-op Jacqueline Sweetman*
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Heath Town[edit]

Heath Town[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joe Banla
Liberal Democrats Vikas Chopra
Labour Jaspreet Jaspal*
Green Kwaku Tano-Yeboah
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Merry Hill[edit]

Merry Hill[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ben Evans
Conservative Chris Haynes*
Green Jennifer Hibell
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Oxley[edit]

Oxley[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Mia Clark
Conservative Adam Collinge
Liberal Democrats Ian Jenkins
Labour Co-op Barbara McGarrity*
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Park[edit]

Park[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Paul Darke
Liberal Democrats Bryan Lewis
Labour Muhammad Nasim
Conservative Surrinder Ram
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Penn[edit]

Penn[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Kashmire Hawker
Liberal Democrats Anna Khan
Conservative Paul Singh*
Green Ayden Young
Majority
Turnout
Swing

St Peters[edit]

St Peters[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Murray
Green Mohammed Naseem
Labour Iqra Tahir*
Conservative Gillian Timms
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Tettenhall Regis[edit]

Tettenhall Regis[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Julian Donald
Green Don Gwinnett
Labour Robert Siarkiewicz
Conservative Udey Singh*
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Tettenhall Wightwick[edit]

Tettenhall Wightwick[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Andrea Cantrill
Labour Bahadur Dehar
Conservative Sally Garner
Liberal Democrats Arfan Khan
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Wednesfield North[edit]

Wednesfield North[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mary Bateman*
Conservative Nathaniel Williams
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Wednesfield South[edit]

Wednesfield South[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jacqui Coogan*
Conservative Pete Dickens
Green Hardev Singh
Majority
Turnout
Swing

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wolverhampton City Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ Sweeney, Joe (18 November 2022). "Spotlight on Wolverhampton's boundary changes to rebalance voters". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  3. ^ "The Wolverhampton (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/967, retrieved 16 April 2024
  4. ^ Stubbings, David (5 May 2023). "Full Wolverhampton Council election results as Labour majority grows". Express and Star. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Your Councillors". City of Wolverhampton Council. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Wolverhampton Council election result: Labour delight as they take another seat off Tories". Express and Star. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  7. ^ Madeley, Peter (2 June 2023). "Wolverhampton councillor suspended by Labour Party pending an investigation". Express and Star. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Wolverhampton council leader dies after cancer battle". BBC News. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Bushbury South and Low Hill Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED" (PDF). City of Wolverhampton Council. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Elections 2024". City of Wolverhampton Council. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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