2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election

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16 of 48 seats (One Third) toSt Helens Metropolitan Borough Council 25 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Derek Long Allan Jones Party Labour Conservative Leader's seat West Park Rainford Last election 15 seats, 57.9% 1 seats, 14.9% Seats before 42 3 Seats won 13 1 Seats after 41 3 Seat change 1 Popular vote 19,035 31,122 Percentage 49.7% 19.9% Swing 8.2% 5.0%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Teresa Sims Party Liberal Democrats Independent Leader's seat Eccleston Last election 1 seat, 7.7% 0 seats, 3.3% Seats before 3 0 Seats won 1 1 Seats after 3 1 Seat change 1 Popular vote 4,128 2,164 Percentage 10.8% 5.7% Swing 3.1% 2.4%
Map of results of 2018 election
Leader of the Council before election Derek Long Labour Leader of the Council after election Derek Long Labour

The2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members ofSt Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as otherlocal elections. It saw the Green Party get the biggest vote growth, However the only seat change was in Rainhill where an Independent beat Labour. Elsewhere UKIP's Vote share collapsed.

Overall result compared with2016.

St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results, 2018
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	16	13	0	1	1	81.3	49.7	19,035	8.2
	Conservative	16	1	0	0		6.3	19.9	7,603	5.0
	Liberal Democrats	5	1	0	0		6.3	10.8	4,128	3.1
	Green	11	0	0	0		0	10.3	3,946	7.6
	Independent	1	1	1	0	1	6.3	5.7	2,164	2.4
	UKIP	9	0	0	0		0	3.3	1,281	10.3
	Democrats and Veterans	1	0	0	0		0	0.3	110	New

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Bond	1,147	46.4	24.2
	Green	Amy Deluce	952	38.5	New
	Conservative	Judith Collins	374	15.1	4.3
Majority			195	7.9	44.0
Registered electors			9,054
Turnout			2,478	27.4
Rejected ballots			5	0.2	0.4
	Labourhold		Swing	22.0

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