| Election Name: | 2010 Plymouth City Council election[1] |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2008 Plymouth City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2008 |
| Next Election: | 2011 Plymouth City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
| Seats For Election: | 20 of the 57 seats to Plymouth City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 29 |
| Election Date: | 6 May 2010 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader1: | Vivien Pengelly |
| Last Election1: | 37 |
| Seats Before1: | 37 |
| Seats1: | 11 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Seats After1: | 36 |
| Popular Vote1: | 38,972 |
| Percentage1: | 35.4% |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader2: | Tudor Evans |
| Last Election2: | 20 |
| Seats Before2: | 18 |
| Seats2: | 9 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Seats After2: | 20 |
| Popular Vote2: | 32,767 |
| Percentage2: | 29.8% |
| Party3: | Independent (politician) |
| Leader3: | None |
| Last Election3: | 0 |
| Seats Before3: | 2 |
| Seats3: | 0 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Seats After3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,024 |
| Percentage3: | 1.8% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Conservative |
| After Election: | Conservative |
The 2010 Plymouth City Council election was held on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Plymouth City Council in England.
The Conservative Party remained in control of the council with a reduced majority.
Plymouth City Council held local elections on 6 May 2010 along with councils across the United Kingdom as part of the 2010 local elections. The council elects its councillors in thirds, with nineteen being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year.[2] [3]
Councillors defending their seats were previously elected in 2006. In that election, twelve Conservative candidates and seven Labour candidates were elected.[4] This election followed a by-election in Ham, which resulted in a Labour hold.[5]
The Conservative Party had control of the council ahead of this election, with 37 councillors and a majority of eight seats.
The Conservatives were defending 12 seats, the Labour Party 6 and the former Labour candidate, Andy Kerswell, was defending his seat in Efford and Lipson as an independent.
If the Labour Party was to regain the majority they held on the council until 2006, they needed to gain 11 seats, which they failed to do, although made two gains (one against a Conservative and the other against Andy Kerswell) despite a national swing against them.
|-| colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total| style="text-align: right;" | 20| colspan=5 || style="text-align: right;" | 110,091| style="text-align: right;" |
Note: All changes in vote share are in comparison to the corresponding 2006 election.
Gains are shown by highlighting in the winning party's colours, comparing them to when these councillors were last up for election in 2006.
| width=20% style=" border:1px solid gray;" | Ward | width=20% style=" border:1px solid gray;" | Previous Councillor (2006)[6] | width=20% style=" border:1px solid gray;" | Previous Party (2006) | width=20% style=" border:1px solid gray;" | Winning Councillor[7] | width=20% style=" border:1px solid gray;" | Winning Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budshead | Grant Monahan | Conservative | Grant Monahan | ||||||
| Compton | Ted Fry | Conservative | Ted Fry | Conservative | |||||
| Devonport | William Stevens | Labour Co-operative | William Stevens | Labour Co-operative | |||||
| Drake | Steven Ricketts | Conservative | Steven Ricketts | Conservative | |||||
| Efford and Lipson | Andy Kerswell | Labour Co-operative (later independent) | David Haydon and Pauline Murphy | Labour | |||||
| Eggbuckland | Ian Bowyer | Conservative | Ian Bowyer | Conservative | |||||
| Ham | Ian Gordon | Labour | Ian Gordon | Labour | |||||
| Honicknowle | Pauline Purnell | Labour | Nicky Williams | ||||||
| Moor View | Michael Foster | Conservative | Mike Wright | Labour | |||||
| Peverell | Martin Leaves | Conservative | Martin Leaves | Conservative | |||||
| Plympton Chaddlewood | Glenn Jordan | Conservative | Glenn Jordan | Conservative | |||||
| Plympton St Mary | David James | Conservative | David James | ||||||
| Plymstock Dunstone | VivienPengelly | Conservative | VivienPengelly | Conservative | |||||
| Plymstock Radford | Wendy Foster | Conservative | Wendy Foster | Conservative | |||||
| St Budeaux | Sally Letcher | Labour | Sally Bowie (née Letcher) | Labour | |||||
| St Peter and The Waterfront | Sue McDonald | Labour | Sue McDonald | Labour | |||||
| Southway | James Kirk | Labour Co-operative | Tom Browne | Conservative | |||||
| Stoke | Jill Dolan | Conservative | Jill Dolan | Conservative | |||||
| Sutton and Mount Gould | Mary Aspinall | Labour Co-operative | Mary Aspinall | Labour Co-operative |