| Election Name: | 2015 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Country: | England |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2011 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2011 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Seats For Election: | 59 of 59 seats on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 29 |
| Election Date: | 7 May 2015 |
| Party1: | Labour |
| Seats Before1: | 31 |
| Seats1: | 29 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 59,140 |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats Before2: | 16 |
| Seats2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 5 |
| Popular Vote2: | 24,336 |
| Party3: | Conservatives |
| Seats Before3: | 6 |
| Seats3: | 10 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 19,175 |
| Party4: | Independent |
| Seats Before4: | 2 |
| Seats4: | 6 |
| Seat Change4: | 4 |
| Popular Vote4: | 28,867 |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent council control |
| Before Party: | Labour (2011-2013) then No overall control (2013-15) |
| After Election: | No overall control |
| Party5: | East Cleveland Independent |
| Seats Before5: | 3 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 677 |
| Party6: | Eston Independents |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Seats Before6: | 0 |
| Seat Change6: | 1 |
| Popular Vote6: | 4,860 |
| Colour6: | E6E6E6 |
| Party7: | UKIP |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Seat Change7: | 1 |
| Seats Before7: | 0 |
| Popular Vote7: | 8,360 |
| Party8: | Green |
| Seats8: | 0 |
| Seats Before8: | 0 |
| Popular Vote8: | 3752 |
The 2015 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections, as well as the 2015 General Election.
Three months prior to the election, Council Leader George Dunning and ten other Labour councillors resigned from the party after many were not selected as Labour candidates for the election.[2] This saw the council move back to no overall control, with independent Mary Lanigan elected to lead the council - the first female Council Leader in its history - and forming a cabinet from Independent and Liberal Democrats councillors.[3]
The election saw the council remain as no overall control.[4]
The 2015 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election was held on the same day as other local elections as well as the 2015 General Election.
The Liberal Democrats, who had made gains in the 2011 election, as well as MP Ian Swales in 2010, lost seats in lieu of the Conservatives, UKIP & Multiple independents.
The Labour Party lost several seats, failing to regain the overall control it had between 2011 and 2013.
UKIP gained its first seat on the council as Steve Turner was elected to the borough council. However he would leave the party in 2017, and was elected as Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner in 2021.
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