Election Name: | 2021 Amber Valley Borough Council Election |
Country: | Derbyshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2019 Amber Valley Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 2019 |
Next Election: | 2022 Amber Valley Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Seats For Election: | 16 of 45 seats for Amber Valley Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 23 |
Election Date: | 6 May 2021 |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 19 |
Seats1: | 13 |
Seat Change1: | 9 |
Seats After1: | 28 |
Popular Vote1: | 14,684 |
Percentage1: | 53.6% |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Last Election2: | 25 |
Seats2: | 3 |
Seat Change2: | 9 |
Seats After2: | 16 |
Popular Vote2: | 9,728 |
Percentage2: | 35.5% |
Party3: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Last Election3: | 1 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Seats After3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 2,077 |
Percentage3: | 7.6% |
Map Size: | 275px |
The 2021 elections to Amber Valley Borough Council were held on Wednesday 5th May 2021, 16 seats in the council were up for election. The Conservative Party retook control of the council from The Labour Party after losing control in 2019. These seats were due to have been contested in 2020, but the elections were delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic along with other elections.
Following the last election in 2019, the composition of the council was:
25 | 19 | 1 | |
Labour | Conservative | Grn |
After the election, the composition of the council was:
28 | 16 | 1 | |
Conservative | Labour | Grn |
Incumbent councillors are denoted by an asterisk (*)
Only one seat was due to be up for election during this cycle, but a second seat (due up in 2022) was contested due to the death of the sitting councillor[1]