2023 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election

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]

Overview

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]

Results

Results by ward

An asterisk (*) indicates a sitting councillor standing for re-election.Changes with 2019.

Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton

Airedale and Ferry Fryston

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.

Altofts and Whitwood

Comparison for the Wakefield District Independents for this ward are comparing to the Democrats and Veterans candidate in 2019.

Castleford Central and Glasshoughton

Crofton, Ryhill and Walton

Featherstone

Hemsworth

Horbury and South Ossett

Knottingley

Normanton

Ossett

Pontefract North

Pontefract South

South Elmsall and South Kirkby

Stanley and Outwood East

Wakefield East

Wakefield North

Wakefield Rural

Wakefield South

Karl Jones had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party in February 2023 to join the Wakefield District Independents.^[6]

Wakefield West

Wrenthorpe and Outwood West

References

1. Of the five independent councillors prior to the election, two formed the "Wakefield Independent Group", and the other three were described as "Independent".

1. "Find councillor". Wakefield Council. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
2. "Election timetable in England". GOV.UK. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
3. Norden, Jasmine (5 May 2023). "Wakefield Council local election results 2023". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
4. "Local election results 2023: Labour continue to dominate in West Yorkshire". BBC News. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
5. "Local Election Results 2023". Wakefield Council. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
6. Boothroyd, David (3 February 2023). "Bristol fashion now wearing Green". Local Councils. Retrieved 21 May 2023.