| Election Name: | 2017 North Yorkshire County Council election |
| Flag Image: | Coat of arms of North Yorkshire County Council.png |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2013 North Yorkshire County Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Next Election: | 2022 North Yorkshire County Council election |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
| Seats For Election: | All 72 seats to North Yorkshire County Council |
| Majority Seats: | 37 |
| Election Date: | 4 May 2017 |
| Leader1: | Carl Les |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leaders Seat1: | Catterick Bridge |
| Seats Before1: | 45 |
| Seats1: | 55 |
| Seat Change1: | 10 |
| Party2: | Independent (politician) |
| Seats Before2: | 8 |
| Seats2: | 10 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Leader4: | Eric Broadbent |
| Party4: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leaders Seat4: | Northstead |
| Seats Before4: | 7 |
| Seats4: | 4 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Leader5: | Bill Hoult (retiring) |
| Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leaders Seat5: | Knaresborough |
| Seats Before5: | 8 |
| Seats5: | 3 |
| Seat Change5: | 5 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Conservative |
The 2017 North Yorkshire County Council election was held on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom.[1] All 72 councillors were elected from 68 electoral divisions which each returned either one or two county councillors by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.
In common with many other local elections that year, the election was highly successful for the ruling Conservative Party, who won the largest majority in the authority's history (they had previously won more seats in 1977, but this happened when the council still included the city of York, resulting in there being more seats on the council overall), primarily at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, who were reduced to just three seats and fell behind the Labour Party; Labour experienced similarly heavy losses, though not to quite the same extent as their nadir in 2009, when they had been reduced to just one seat. As a result, the North Yorkshire Independent group became the largest opposition grouping.
This was the last election in the council's form prior to the next election in 2022, when it was reformed as the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
| Party | Councillors | Votes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of total | Net | Of total | Net | ||||||||
| Conservative Party | 55 | +10 | data-sort-value="" | 84,420 | 53.3% | +11.9% | |||||
| Labour Party | 4 | -3 | data-sort-value="" | 25,016 | 15.8% | -0.1% | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 3 | -5 | data-sort-value="" | 17,862 | 11.3% | +1.9% | |||||
| Independent | 10 | +2 | data-sort-value="" | 15,068 | 9.5% | -3.1% | |||||
| Green | 0 | 0 | data-sort-value="" | 8,509 | 5.4% | +2.5% | |||||
| UKIP | 0 | -2 | data-sort-value="" | 5,306 | 3.3% | -12.6% | |||||
| Liberal | 0 | -2 | data-sort-value="" | 1,792 | 1.1% | -0.7% | |||||
| Yorkshire | 0 | New | data-sort-value="" | 473 | 0.3% | New | |||||
Andrew Goss was originally elected as a member of the Liberal Democrats in the 2013 North Yorkshire County Council election, however he left the party and proceeded to stand as an independent. The reflected change in the vote for Goss is taken from his vote share as a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2013.
Lindsay Burr was originally elected as a member of the Liberal Democrats in the 2013 North Yorkshire County Council election, however she left the party and proceeded to stand as an independent. The reflected change in the vote for Burr is taken from her vote share as a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2013.