See main article: 2016 United Kingdom local elections.
The 2016 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of the Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council in England.[1] Following a boundary review, the number of seats was reduced from 63 to 45, with all of these new seats being up for election at the same time.[2] This was held on the same day as other local elections.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
| Party | Seats | ± | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 21 | |||
| 3 | 3 | |||
Overall result compared with 2015.
Number of seats reduced by 18.
| Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results, 2016 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||
| Stood | Elected | Net | Net % | % of total | % | № | Net % | ||
| Labour | 45 | 42 | 21 | 6.7 | 93.3 | 60.6 | 18,445 | 14.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 9 | 3 | 3 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 2,201 | 3.8 | |
| Independent | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 2,153 | 5.8 | |||
| Conservative | 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 2,069 | 1.2 | |||
| First For Kirby | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 1,935 | 0.2 | |||
| Green | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 1,386 | 2.4 | |||
| UKIP | 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 1,258 | 0.2 | |||
| TUSC | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 990 | 1.7 | |||
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:
| 63 | |
| Labour |
After the election, the composition of the council was:
| 42 | 3 | |
| Labour | Liberal Democrat |