Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council elections

Kirklees Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, the council has comprised 69 councillors representing 23 wards. Elections are held three years out of four, with one third of the councillors (one for each ward) elected each time for a four-year term.^[1]

Council elections

Election	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat/Liberal	UKIP	Green	Independent	Other	Control
1973[2]	45	14	8	0	0	1	0	Labour
1975[3]	36	28	7	0	0	1	0	Labour hold
1976[4]	25	50	9	0	0	0	0	Conservative gain from Labour
1978[5]	15	48	9	0	0	0	0	Conservative hold
1979[6]	32	35	5	0	0	0	0	Conservative lose to no overall control
1980[7]	44	25	3	0	0	0	0	Labour gain from no overall control
1982[8][9]	37	19	12	0	0	0	4	Labour hold
1983[10]	37	20	12	0	0	0	3	Labour hold
1984[11]	37	18	14	0	0	0	3	Labour hold
1986[12]	36	18	17	0	0	1	0	Labour hold
1987[13]	33	21	18	0	0	0	0	Labour lose to no overall control
1988[14]	33	23	15	0	0	1	0	No overall control
1990[15]	45	15	12	0	0	0	0	Labour gain from no overall control
1992[16]	41	19	10	0	0	2	0	Labour hold
1994[17]	35	21	15	0	0	1	0	Labour lose to no overall control
1995[18]	40	16	14	0	0	2	0	Labour gain from no overall control
1996[19]	45	6	18	0	1	1	1 vacancy	Labour hold
1998[20]	43	7	20	0	2	0	0	Labour hold
1999[21]	36	10	23	0	3	0	0	Labour lose to no overall control
2000[22]	25	15	29	0	3	0	0	No overall control
2002[23]	26	15	28	0	3	0	0	No overall control
2003[24]	22	16	31	0	3	0	0	No overall control
2004[25]	17	22	25	0	3	1	1	No overall control
2006[26]	20	21	20	0	3	1	4	No overall control
2007[27]	22	20	18	0	4	1	4	No overall control
2008[28]	22	21	19	0	4	0	3	No overall control
2010[29]	24	19	20	0	4	2	0	No overall control
2011[30]	27	21	14	0	4	3	0	No overall control
2012[31]	32	18	10	0	5	4	0	No overall control
2014[32]	32	18	10	0	5	4	0	No overall control
2015[33]	34	18	10	0	4	3	0	No overall control
2016[34]	34	20	9	0	3	3	0	No overall control
2018[35]	36	20	7	0	3	3	0	Labour gain from no overall control
2019[36]	35	17	10	0	3	4	0	Labour hold
2021	33	19	9	0	3	3	2[a]	Labour lose to no overall control
2022	36	18	8	0	3	4	0	Labour gain from no overall control
2023	39	18	8	0	3	1	0	Labour hold
2024	31	15	10	0	4	9		Labour lose to no overall control

• 1998 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 1999 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2000 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2002 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2003 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2004 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election (new ward boundaries)^[37]
• 2006 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2007 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2008 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2010 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2011 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2012 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2014 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2015 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2016 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2018 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2019 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2021 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2022 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2023 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
• 2024 Kirkees Metropolitan Borough Council election

District result maps

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  2004 results map
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  2006 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2008 results map
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  2010 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2012 results map
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  2014 results map
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  2015 results map
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  2016 results map
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  2018 results map
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  2019 results map
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  2021 results map
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  2022 results map
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  2023 results map
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  2024 results map

By-election results

1994-1998

Batley West By-Election 26 September 1996

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		1,558	48.9
	Liberal Democrats		1,179	37.0
	Conservative		375	11.7
	Green		73	2.3
Majority			377	11.9
Turnout			3,185
	Labour hold		Swing

Colne Valley West By-Election 23 January 1997

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats		2,077	50.6
	Labour		1,418	34.5
	Conservative		486	11.8
	Green		124	3.0
Majority			659	16.1
Turnout			4,105	38.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Heckmondwike By-Election 27 November 1997

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		1,219	55.5	+1.7
	Conservative		710	32.3	−3.5
	Liberal Democrats		268	12.2	+6.2
Majority			509	23.2
Turnout			2,197	16.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

1998-2002

Paddock By-Election 24 February 2000

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats		1,236	43.8	+31.3
	Labour		1,039	36.8	−16.6
	Conservative		456	16.2	−9.2
	Socialist Labour		90	3.2	+0.3
Majority			197	7.0
Turnout			2,821	25.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Golcar By-Election 9 November 2000

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats		1,174	43.4	−13.1
	Labour		976	36.0	+13.3
	Conservative		518	19.1	+3.4
	Socialist		40	1.5	+1.5
Majority			198	7.4
Turnout			2,708	21.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Mirfield By-Election 7 June 2001

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative		3,176	41.2	−14.6
	Labour		2,892	37.5	+3.8
	Liberal Democrats		1,651	21.4	+13.6
Majority			284	3.7
Turnout			7,719
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

2002-2006

Heckmondwike By-Election 14 August 2003^[38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	David Exley	1,607	27.7	+27.7
	Liberal Democrats	Tabasum Aslam	1,493	25.8	+3.9
	Independent	Tim Crowther	1,147	19.8	+19.8
	Labour	Florence Smith	982	16.9	−22.9
	Conservative	Roger Roberts	490	8.5	−22.9
	Green	Heidi Smithson	76	1.3	−5.6
Majority			114	1.9
Turnout			5,795	43.8
	BNP gain from Labour		Swing

2006-2010

Greenhead By-Election 27 July 2006^[39]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Jones	2,904	63.5	+6.5
	Liberal Democrats	John O'Reilly	814	17.8	−0.7
	Conservative	Paul Murphy	287	6.3	−4.1
	Green	Paul Cooney	240	5.3	−2.1
	Respect	David Ellis	178	3.9	+3.9
	BNP	Barry Fowler	148	3.2	−3.5
Majority			2,090	45.7
Turnout			4,571	35.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Dalton By-Election 10 July 2008^[40]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Daniel McBride	1,397	40.5	+10.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Louise Munro	1,155	33.5	−0.8
	Conservative	Martin James Leonard	605	17.5	−1.9
	BNP	Jonathan David Baxter Wright	157	4.5	−6.3
	Green	David William Hargreaves	103	3.0	−2.0
	Independent	Colin Anthony Walder	34	1.0	+1.0
Majority			242	7.0
Turnout			3,451	27.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Dewsbury East By-Election 16 October 2008^[41]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cathy Scott	1,513	37.4	−2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dennis Hullock	1,405	34.8	+14.3
	BNP	Joe Barber	690	17.1	−10.6
	Conservative	Amelia Lynne Bolton	345	8.5	−3.9
	Green	Adrian Hugh Cruden	58	1.4	N/A
	Independent	Safiq Ali Patel	17	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Alan Girvan	15	0.4	N/A
Majority			108	2.7
Turnout			4,043	31.0
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing

2010-2014

Liversedge and Gomersal By-Election 13 June 2013^[42]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Alvy	1,517	43.4
	Conservative	Sharon Light	1.378	39.4
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Farnhill	599	17.1
Majority			139	4.0
Turnout			3,494	25.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Golcar By-Election 21 November 2013^[43]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Mary Iredale	1,591	47.6
	Labour	Stephan Georg Jungnitz	901	27.0
	UKIP	Gregory Lloyd Broome	450	13.5
	Green	Daniel Edward Greenwood	210	6.3
	Conservative	Clinton Noel Simpson	189	5.7
Majority			690	20.7
Turnout			3,341	23.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

2014-2018

Batley East By-Election 26 October 2017^[44]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Habiban Nisa Zaman	2,640	76.8
	Conservative	Paul Young	443	12.9
	Independent	Aleks Lukic	140	4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Robert Bloom	136	4.0
	Green	David Michael Smith	70	2.0
Majority			2,197	63.9
Turnout			3,437	25.9
	Labour hold		Swing

2018-2022

Denby Dale By-Election 1 November 2018^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Will Simpson	1,834	46.7
	Conservative	Paula Kemp	1,689	43.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Baskeyfield	289	7.4
	Green	Isabel Walters	116	3.0
Majority			145	3.7
Turnout			3,928
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Colne Valley By-Election 12 December 2019^[46]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Donna Bellamy	4,504	45.8
	Labour	Duggs Carre	3,308	46.7
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Iredale	1,386	14.1
	Green	Ian Vincent	646	6.6
Majority			1,196	12.1
Turnout			9,844
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Dewsbury West By-Election 12 December 2019^[47]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Firth	3,299	42.0
	Conservative	Keith Mallinson	2,669	33.9
	Heavy Woollen Independents	Ian Vincent	1,515	19.3
	Liberal Democrats	Dennis Hullock	380	4.8
Majority			630	8.0
Turnout			7,863
	Labour hold		Swing

2022-2026

Batley East By-Election 31 August 2023^[48]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ebrahim Dockrat	2,248	73.7	+29.4
	Conservative	Beverley Smith	413	13.5	−30.5
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Long	178	5.8	−0.1
	Green	Simon Duffy	145	4.8	−3.9
	Yorkshire	Bikatshi Katenga	42	1.4	+1.4
	SDP	Mark Steele	24	0.8	+0.8
Majority			1,835	60.2
Turnout			3,050
	Labour hold		Swing

Holme Valley South By-Election 17 October 2024^[49]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Damian Brook	1,639	39.1	−2.2
	Labour	Phillip Lucitt	1134	27.0	−18.3
	Green	Toby Cooper	734	17.5	+8.0
	Reform UK	Susan Laird	511	12.2	+12.2
	Liberal Democrats	Howard Cohen	158	3.8	−0.1
	Independent	Miri Finch	17	0.4	+0.4
Majority			1,835	60.2
Turnout			3,050	27.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes

1. 1 Heavy Woollen District Independents and 1 Dewsbury Borough Independents.