Election Name: | 2023 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
Country: | West Yorkshire |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2022 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
Previous Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | 4 May 2023 |
Next Election: | 2024 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Seats For Election: | 21 of 63 seats on Wakefield Council |
Majority Seats: | 32 |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Leader1: | Denise Jeffery[1] |
Leaders Seat1: | Castleford Central and Glasshoughton |
Seats Before1: | 43 |
Seats1: | 20 |
Seats After1: | 49 |
Seat Change1: | 6 |
Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Leader2: | Tony Hames |
Leaders Seat2: | Pontefract South |
Seats Before2: | 10 |
Seats2: | 0 |
Party4: | Independent politician |
Seats Before4: | 6 |
Seats After4: | 4 |
Seat Change4: | -2 |
Seats4: | 0 |
Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Leader5: | Tom Gordon |
Leaders Seat5: | Knottingley |
Seats Before5: | 3 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Leader | |
Posttitle: | Leader after election |
Before Election: | Denise Jeffery |
Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
After Election: | Denise Jeffery |
After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
Seats After2: | 7 |
Seat Change2: | -4 |
Seats After5: | 3 |
Seat Change5: | - |
The 2023 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Wakefield Council in West Yorkshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England. There were 21 of the 63 seats up for election, being the usual third of the council.[2]
Labour retained its majority on the council.[3] [4]
Labour increased its majority by taking four seats from the Conservatives. After the election Labour had 49 councillors. The Conservatives lost all four seats they were defending, leaving them with seven seats. The Liberal Democrats held the one seat they were defending in Knottingley, leaving them with three councillors overall after the election. Both the independent councillors who were standing re-election were defeated, leaving four independent councillors after the election.[5]
An asterisk (*) indicates a sitting councillor standing for re-election.Changes with 2019.
Comparison for the Wakefield District Independents for this ward are comparing to the Independent candidate in 2019 due to them being of the same grouping, but now formalising this arrangement. However, as a by-election was held in 2021, this seat remains a Labour hold rather than a Labour gain.
Comparison for the Wakefield District Independents for this ward are comparing to the Democrats and Veterans candidate in 2019.
Karl Jones had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party in February 2023 to join the Wakefield District Independents.[6]