United Kingdom local elections, 2001
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Local elections took place in some parts of the UK on the 7 June 2001. Elections took place for all of the English shire counties, some English unitary authorities and all of the Northern Ireland districts. The elections were delayed from the usual date of the first Thursday in May due to the 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis and were held on the same day as the general election.
While the results were overshadowed by the re-election of the Labour government, they did provide some comfort to the Conservative party. The Conservatives consolidated their position as the largest party on the English county councils.
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[edit] Summary of results
The results of the English local elections saw the Conservative party make significant progress, gaining control of a further five councils. The Labour party lost control of Cumbria and Warwickshire county councils, while the Liberal Democrats suffered losses of both councils and councillors.
| Party | Councillors | Councils | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +/- | Total | +/- | Total | ||
| Conservative Party | +120 | 1,093 | +5 | 18 | |
| Labour Party | +7 | 843 | -2 | 14 | |
| Liberal Democrat | -80 | 449 | -2 | 0 | |
| Independents | -25 | 67 | 0 | 0 | |
| Others | -1 | 28 | 0 | 0 | |
| No overall control | 0 | 0 | -1 | 13 | |
[edit] County councils
In all 34 English county councils the whole council was up for election.
| Council | Former control | New control | Type | Link to council election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfordshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Buckinghamshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Cambridgeshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Cheshire | NOC | Conservative | County | |
| Cornwall | NOC | NOC | County | |
| Cumbria | Labour | NOC | County | |
| Derbyshire | Labour | Labour | County | |
| Devon | Liberal Democrat | NOC | County | |
| Dorset | NOC | Conservative | County | |
| Durham | Labour | Labour | County | |
| East Sussex | NOC | Conservative | County | |
| Essex | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Gloucestershire | NOC | NOC | County | |
| Hampshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Hertfordshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Kent | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Lancashire | Labour | Labour | County | Details |
| Leicestershire | NOC | Conservative | County | |
| Lincolnshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Norfolk | NOC | Conservative | County | |
| North Yorkshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Northamptonshire | Labour | Labour | County | |
| Northumberland | Labour | Labour | County | |
| Nottinghamshire | Labour | Labour | County | |
| Oxfordshire | NOC | NOC | County | |
| Shropshire | NOC | NOC | County | |
| Somerset | Liberal Democrat | NOC | County | |
| Staffordshire | Labour | Labour | County | |
| Suffolk | NOC | NOC | County | Details |
| Surrey | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Warwickshire | Labour | NOC | County | |
| West Sussex | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Wiltshire | Conservative | Conservative | County | |
| Worcestershire | NOC | NOC | County |
[edit] Unitary authorities
In two English unitary authorities the whole council was up for election while a further nine unitary authorities had one third of the council up for election.
[edit] Whole council
| Council | Former control | New control | Type | Link to council election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight | NOC | NOC | Unitary | |
| Southend-on-Sea | Conservative | Conservative | Unitary |
[edit] One third of council
| Council | Former control | New control | Type | Link to council election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Bristol | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Halton | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Peterborough | NOC | NOC | Unitary | Peterborough |
| Reading | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Slough | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Thurrock | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Warrington | Labour | Labour | Unitary | |
| Wokingham | NOC | NOC | Unitary |
[edit] Northern Ireland
In all 26 Northern Ireland districts the whole council was up for election. They were elected by Single Transferable Vote. They saw the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin make gains at the expense of the other parties.
| PARTY | Councillors | Votes | ||
| seats | +/- | total | % | |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 154 | -31 | 181,336 | 23% |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 131 | +40 | 169,477 | 21% |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 117 | -3 | 153,424 | 19% |
| Sinn Féin | 108 | +34 | 163,269 | 21% |
| Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 28 | -13 | 40,443 | 5% |
| Progressive Unionist Party | 4 | -3 | 12,261 | 2% |
| United Kingdom Unionist Party | 2 | -2 | 4,763 | 1% |
| UUAP | 2 | 2,648 | 0.3% | |
| Northern Ireland Womens Coalition | 1 | 0 | 3,301 | 0.4% |
| Newtownabbey Rate Payers Association | 1 | -1 | 1,039 | 0.1% |
| Independent | 34 | 51,997 | 7% | |
[edit] External links
- BBC local elections 2001
- parliamentary research paper on the 2001 local elections
- Northern Ireland local election results
| Preceded by United Kingdom local elections, 2000 |
United Kingdom local elections | Succeeded by United Kingdom local elections, 2002 |
