| Election Name: | 2011 North Warwickshire Borough Council election |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2007 North Warwickshire Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2007 |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
| Next Election: | 2015 North Warwickshire Borough Council election |
| Election Date: | 5 May 2011 |
| Seats For Election: | All 35 seats to North Warwickshire Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 18 |
| Turnout: | 43.7% 4.9 pp |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 15 |
| Seats After1: | 18 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 9,748 |
| Percentage1: | 47.7% |
| Swing1: | 9.7% |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before2: | 20 |
| Seats After2: | 17 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Popular Vote2: | 10,021 |
| Percentage2: | 49.0% |
| Swing2: | 0.4% |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| Map2 Image: | North Warwickshire Borough Council 2011.svg |
| Map2 Size: | 360px |
| Map2 Caption: | Composition of the council after the election. |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Conservative |
| After Election: | Labour |
Elections to North Warwickshire District Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011.
A total of 35 seats were up for election, all councillors from all wards. The previous election produced a majority for the Conservative Party.[1]
These elections saw Labour narrowly win with a majority of just one seat but losing the overall popular vote to the Conservatives. The number of close results in so many wards perhaps is the reason for this.
The Conservatives lost four seats at these elections, in the following wards.
The number of seats could have flipped the other way if the Conservatives managed to have won in Atherstone North, where both of the Conservative candidates received 522 votes, which was 32 votes behind taking the second seat in that ward, which bizarrely wasn't one of the four seats the Conservatives lost at these elections. Even more astonishingly, Atherstone North had never elected a Conservative councillor in the entirety of the borough council's existence, and would not do so until the following elections in 2015, which coincided with the North Warwickshire parliamentary constituency, which incorporates all of the North Warwickshire borough except for 2 wards (Arley & Whitacre and Hartshill), as well as five Nuneaton and Bedworth wards (Bede, Exhall, Heath, Poplar, and Slough) being held by the Conservatives with an increased majority at the general election on the same day.[2] [3] [4] [5]