Election Name: | 2019 Exeter City Council election[1] |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2018 Exeter City Council election |
Previous Year: | 2018 |
Next Election: | 2021 Exeter City Council election |
Next Year: | 2021 |
Seats For Election: | 13 of 39 seats (One Third) to Exeter City Council |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Election Date: | 2 May 2019 |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Seats Before1: | 29 |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seats After1: | 29 |
Popular Vote1: | 11,897 |
Percentage1: | 36.4% |
Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Seats Before2: | 8 |
Seats2: | 2 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Seats After2: | 6 |
Popular Vote2: | 8,713 |
Percentage2: | 26.7% |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Seats Before3: | 1 |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Seats After3: | 2 |
Popular Vote3: | 5,873 |
Percentage3: | 18.0% |
Party4: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Seats Before4: | 1 |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seats After4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 2,776 |
Percentage4: | 8.5% |
Party5: | Independent (politician) |
Seats Before5: | 0 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Seats After5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 1,486 |
Percentage5: | 4.5% |
Map Size: | 300px |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Labour |
After Election: | Labour |
The 2019 Exeter City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect the members of Exeter City Council in Devon, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. 14 of the 39 seats were up for re-election: those of the candidates who had finished second in the all-out election of 2016, with a double vacancy in Priory ward. The Labour Party remained in control with 29 seats, with the Conservatives as the main opposition party, with 6 seats.[2]
Before this election, the composition of the council was:
29 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
Labour | Conservative | LD | G |
After this election, the composition of the council was:
29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Labour | Conservative | LD | G | Ind |
|- style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"! scope="row" colspan="2" | Total| 64| 14| 4| 4| | 100| 100| 32,883| 434
(*) Asterisk denotes the sitting councillor.
Note: The outgoing councillor Chris Musgrave was elected as Labour in 2016, but defected to the Green Party in February 2017.[3]