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The2010 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2010, concurrently with the2010 general election.[1] Direct elections were held to all 32London boroughs, all 36metropolitan boroughs, 76second-tier district authorities, 20unitary authorities and various Mayoral posts, all in England. For those authorities elected "all out" these were the first elections since 2006.
The results provided some comfort to the Labour Party,[citation needed] losing the general election on the same day, as it was the first time Conservative councillor numbers declined since 1996.[citation needed]
| Party | Councillors | Councils | |||
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| Number | Change | Number | Change | ||
| Conservative | 3,462 |  121 | 66 | 4 | |
| Labour | 2,976 |  417 | 37 | 17 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1,730 | 132 | 14 | 4 | |
| Residents | 63 |  | 0 | | |
| Green | 36 | 8 | 0 | | |
| BNP | 19 | 27 | 0 | | |
| Liberal | 15 | 1 | 0 | | |
| UKIP | 9 | 4 | 0 | | |
| Others | 298 | 117 | 0 | | |
| No overall control | n/a | n/a | 47 | 7 | |
Source:[1]
All seats in the 32 London Boroughs were up for election.
One third of the seats in all 36Metropolitan Boroughs were up for election.
One third of the council seats were up for election in 20unitary authorities.
The elections inStoke-on-Trent had originally been cancelled following a referendum result which decided to abolish the existing Mayor and Cabinet system of governance, with replacement elections to take place in 2011 following a review of the council by theBoundary Committee for England.[2] However, it was later decided to hold elections to one-third of the council in 2010 as planned.[3]
The elections that were due to be held inExeter andNorwich were cancelled due to structural changes.[4][5] Following the2010 general election, the structural changes were cancelled, leading to elections in both cities in September 2010 (see2010 Exeter City Council election and2010 Norwich City Council election).
Seven district councils had half of their seats up for election.
69 district councils had one third of their seats up for election.
There were four mayoral elections.
| Local Authority | Previous Mayor | New Mayor | Details | ||
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| Hackney | Jules Pipe (Labour) | Jules Pipe (Labour) | Details | ||
| Lewisham | Sir Steve Bullock (Labour) | Sir Steve Bullock (Labour) | Details | ||
| Newham | Sir Robin Wales (Labour) | Sir Robin Wales (Labour) | Details | ||
| Watford | Dorothy Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) | Dorothy Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) | Details | ||
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