Election Name: | 2015 Norwich City Council election |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2014 Norwich City Council election |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2016 Norwich City Council election |
Next Year: | 2016 |
Seats For Election: | 15 of 39 seats to Norwich City Council |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Election Date: | 7 May 2015 |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Seats Before1: | 21 |
Seats1: | 10 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Seats After1: | 22 |
Popular Vote1: | 22,755 |
Percentage1: | 34.9% |
Swing1: | 1.7pp |
Party2: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seats Before2: | 15 |
Seats After2: | 14 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 16,106 |
Percentage2: | 24.7% |
Swing2: | 3.3pp |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seats Before3: | 3 |
Seats After3: | 3 |
Popular Vote3: | 6,932 |
Percentage3: | 10.9% |
Swing3: | 1.6pp |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Labour Party (UK) |
After Election: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2015 Norwich City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect approximately one third of the members of Norwich City Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections and the UK general election. Thirteen seats were due to be contested, with a further two seats up for election where casual vacancies had arisen. Labour won ten of the available seats, the Green Party won four, and the Liberal Democrats one. The Conservatives gained their highest ever vote in many city wards including Town Close and Thorpe Hamlet, and across Norwich came within almost 2000 votes of the Green Party, however failed to gain any seats. Just one seat changed hands - Wensum - which Labour gained from the Greens. Labour retained overall control of the council with 22 seats out of 39, the Greens continue to form the main opposition with 14 seats, and the Liberal Democrats have 3.[2]
All changes in vote share are calculated with reference to the 2011 election, the last time these seats were contested.
|-bgcolor=#F6F6F6| colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total| style="text-align: right;" | 15| colspan=4 style="text-align: right;" |Turnout| style="text-align: right;" | 62.0| style="text-align: right;" | 65,263| style="text-align: right;" | |-|}
Changes in vote share are relative to the last time these seats were contested in 2011.
Below are the ward results for Norwich's 13 wards. All the ward are elected one councillor apart from Sewell and Mile Cross ward, who both elected two councillors. Changes in vote share shown are changes from the result for these seats in the 2011 City Council election.
Mile Cross ward elected two seats in this election, with each voter casting up to two votes under the plurality-at-large voting system.
Sewell ward elected two seats in this election, with each voter casting up to two votes under the plurality-at-large voting system.