| Election Name: | 2013 Derbyshire County Council election |
| Country: | Derbyshire |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Derbyshire County Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Next Election: | 2017 Derbyshire County Council election |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
| Seats For Election: | All 64 seats to Derbyshire County Council |
| Majority Seats: | 33 |
| Election Date: | 2 May 2013 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 33 |
| Seats1: | 43 |
| Seat Change1: | 18 |
| Popular Vote1: | 80,665 |
| Percentage1: | 41.1% |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 21 |
| Seats2: | 18 |
| Seat Change2: | 13 |
| Popular Vote2: | 56,455 |
| Percentage2: | 28.7% |
| Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election3: | 8 |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 15,006 |
| Percentage3: | 7.6% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | No overall control |
| After Election: | Labour |
An election to Derbyshire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. Following the final draft of the 2012 electoral review, 64 councillors were elected from 61 electoral divisions which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.[1] No elections were held in the City of Derby, which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council. The Labour Party won back control of the council by a landslide victory, taking forty-two of the authority's sixty-four seats.
All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections,[2] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.[3]
The previous election ended 28 years of Labour control, giving the Conservatives an overall majority of two seats and control of the council. However, their majority was eroded by the suspension and defection of two Conservative councillors, leaving the council hung.[4] [5] [6]
(10 seats, 9 electoral divisions)
(6 seats, 6 electoral divisions)
(9 seats, 9 electoral divisions)
(6 seats, 6 electoral divisions)
(9 seats, 9 electoral divisions)
(8 seats, 7 electoral divisions)
(8 seats, 7 electoral divisions)
(8 seats, 8 electoral divisions)
By-elections are called when a representative Councillor resigns or dies, so are unpredictable. A by-election is held to fill a political office that has become vacant between the scheduled elections.