| Election Name: | 2019 Cheshire East Council election |
| Country: | Cheshire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2015 Cheshire East Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2015 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Cheshire East Council election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 82 seats to Cheshire East Council |
| Majority Seats: | 42 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 51 seats, 45.0% |
| Seats1: | 34 |
| Seat Change1: | 17 |
| Popular Vote1: | 60,839 |
| Percentage1: | 35.5% |
| Swing1: | 9.5% |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 16 seats, 23.8% |
| Seats2: | 25 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 47,807 |
| Percentage2: | 27.9% |
| Swing2: | 4.1% |
| Party3: | Independent politician |
| Last Election3: | 1 seat, 2.8% |
| Seats3: | 11 |
| Seat Change3: | 10 |
| Popular Vote3: | 18,951 |
| Percentage3: | 11.1% |
| Swing3: | 8.3% |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 2 seats, 5.8% |
| Seats4: | 4 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 18,876 |
| Percentage4: | 11.0% |
| Swing4: | 5.2% |
| Party5: | Residents Association |
| Last Election5: | 1 seat, 0.7% |
| Seats5: | 4 |
| Seat Change5: | 3 |
| Popular Vote5: | 5,34 |
| Percentage5: | 3.1% |
| Swing5: | 2.4% |
| Leader of the council | |
| Posttitle: | Leader of the council after election |
| Before Election: | Rachel Bailey |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Sam Corcoran |
| After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
Elections to Cheshire East Council took place on Thursday 2 May 2019 in all 52 wards, with each ward returning between one and three councillors to the council. The Conservative Party lost overall control of the council, losing 17 seats; the Labour Party gained 9 seats, independents gained 6 and the Liberal Democrats gained 2.[1]
The elections were held against a background of a number of controversies, with the council facing eight criminal investigations. Multiple Conservative Cabinet members lost their seats, with Ainsley Arnold (Planning) losing out to Independents in Macclesfield Tytherington and Paul Bates (Finance) falling to fifth place in Congleton East, whilst then-Leader of the Council Rachel Bailey came within 78 votes of losing her seat to the Liberal Democrats. The biggest shocks came in Broken Cross and Upton, with Labour's Rob Vernon and James Barber becoming the first ever Labour councillors for the area and unseating the Mayor-elect, Liz Durham, and Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock, where Laura Crane achieved a huge swing to win the seat for Labour against Conservative councillor Gail Wait.
No party or grouping held a majority of the council seats, and so after a few weeks of negotiation, Labour and the Independents agreed to form a joint-Cabinet that would run the council for the following year, with a focus on changing the system of governance to abolish the Cabinet and replace it with the old committee system.
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This ward's single seat was uncontested.
1. Elected as a Conservative councillor for the same ward in 2015.