2016 United Kingdom local elections

Full results as reported by BBC News.^[6]

Party		Councils		Councillors
		Number	Change	Number	Change
	Labour	58		1,326	18
	Conservative	38	1	842	48
	Liberal Democrats	4	1	378	45
	Independent	0		77	3
	UKIP	0		58	25
	Green	0		45	3
	Residents	0		39	8
	Liberal	0		4	1
	Respect	0		0	5
	No overall control	24		n/a	n/a

As these local elections were held in 124 English councils, out of 418 in the whole of the UK, the BBC calculated a Projected National Vote Share (PNV), which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be "if the results were repeated at a general election".^[7]

The BBC's Projected National Vote Share was 31% for Labour, 30% for the Conservatives, 15% for the Liberal Democrats and 12% for UKIP.^[7] These results are included in the infobox for this article. Longstanding elections analysts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University estimate a National Equivalent Vote (NEV) share, and in 2016 put Labour on 33%, the Conservatives on 31%, the Liberal Democrats on 14% and UKIP on 12%.^[8]

David Cameron celebrated the results, stating that his party did well despite being in office for six years up to that point.^[9] The results were viewed as mixed or poor for Labour. Jeremy Corbyn claimed that the results were better than anticipated, given that Labour was expected to lose more councillors and councils.^{[10] [11] [12]} The Liberal Democrats failed to win back areas where they lost seats in prior elections, though they did make a slight recovery after heavy losses in 2015. UKIP was also assessed to have underperformed, given its association with the upcoming 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.^[13]

Three of 36 metropolitan boroughs had all of their seats up for election.^[14]

32 of 36 metropolitan boroughs had one-third of their seats up for election.^[14]

3 unitary authorities had all of their seats up for election.^[14]

16 unitary authorities had one-third of their seats up for election.^[14]

12 District Councils had all of their seats up for election.^[14]

7 non-metropolitan district councils had half of their seats up for election.^[14]

51 non-metropolitan district councils had one-third of their seats up for election.^[14]

Four direct mayoral elections were held.^[14]

40 elections for Police and Crime Commissioners were held.

• 2016 London Assembly election
• 2016 London mayoral election
• 2016 National Assembly for Wales election
• 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election
• 2016 Scottish Parliament election
• 2016 Ogmore by-election
• 2016 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by-election

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