Election Name: | 2017 Worcestershire County Council election |
Country: | Worcestershire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2013 Worcestershire County Council election |
Previous Year: | 2013 |
Next Election: | 2021 Worcestershire County Council election |
Next Year: | 2021 |
Seats For Election: | All 57 council division seats |
Majority Seats: | 29 |
Election Date: | 4 May 2017 |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 30 |
Seats1: | 40 |
Seat Change1: | 10 |
Popular Vote1: | 82,400 |
Percentage1: | 46.85 |
Swing1: | 13.55 |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election2: | 12 |
Seats2: | 10 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 40,235 |
Percentage2: | 22.88 |
Swing2: | 1.06 |
Party4: | UK Independence Party |
Last Election4: | 4 |
Seats4: | 0 |
Seat Change4: | 4 |
Popular Vote4: | 9,778 |
Percentage4: | 5.56 |
Swing4: | 14.88 |
Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election5: | 3 |
Seats5: | 3 |
Popular Vote5: | 20,475 |
Percentage5: | 11.64 |
Swing5: | 3.98 |
Party6: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Last Election6: | 2 |
Seats6: | 2 |
Popular Vote6: | 11,862 |
Percentage6: | 6.74 |
Swing6: | 1.71 |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Conservative |
The 2017 Worcestershire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom.[1] All 57 councillors were elected from 53 electoral divisions which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The Conservatives extended their majority in the council, gaining ten seats, largely at the expense of Labour and UKIP, who lost six seats between them; the Conservative majority increased from one seat to eleven. The number of seats for the Liberal Democrats and Green remained the same, with the Conservatives gaining the remaining five seats from independent politicians and candidates from smaller parties. The Conservatives lost one seat, Alvechurch, to an independent. The Liberals lost their only seat, St Chads in the Wyre Forest district, after they decided not to field any candidates; the Liberal Democrats held the seat, however. UKIP lost all their seats in this election to the Conservatives.
Labour councillor Chris Bloore resigned in 2019 after his election in 2017 to work in Toronto, Canada.[2] Bloore's resignation triggered a by-election on 31 October 2019 in which Labour lost the seat to the Conservatives, dropping to fourth place on a 32.2% swing against Labour.[3]