Election Name: | 2019 Luton Borough Council election |
Country: | Bedfordshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2015 Luton Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Election Date: | 2 May 2019 |
Next Election: | 2023 Luton Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Seats For Election: | All 48 seats to Luton Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 25 |
Leader1: | Hazel Simmons |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 35 seats, 53.5% |
Seats1: | 32 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 55,649 |
Percentage1: | 56.7% |
Swing1: | 3.2% |
Leader2: | David Franks |
Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Last Election2: | 8 seats, 14.5% |
Seats2: | 12 |
Seat Change2: | 4 |
Popular Vote2: | 16,944 |
Percentage2: | 17.2% |
Swing2: | 2.7% |
Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election3: | 5 seats, 27.5% |
Seats3: | 4 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 18,897 |
Percentage3: | 19.2% |
Swing3: | 8.3% |
Map Size: | 350px |
The 2019 Luton Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of the Luton Borough Council in England.[1] It was held on the same day as other local elections.
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Jeff Petts, elected as a Conservative councillor, joined the Liberal Democrats in December 2021.[2]
Abbas Hussain, elected as a Labour councillor, had the Labour whip withdrawn in 2022. He subsequently sat as an independent councillor until January 2023, when he joined the Liberal Democrats.[3]
In March 2023, three Labour councillors who were not re-selected to be Labour candidates at the 2023 election left the party; two (Ghulam Javed and Summara Khurshid) joined the Liberal Democrats and one (Anne Donelon) sat as an independent.[4]
By-elections between the 2019 and 2023 elections were as follows:[5]