| Election Name: | 2021 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
| Country: | England |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2019 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Next Election: | 2022 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
| Seats For Election: | One third (21) of 63 seats on the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council and one by-election for Airedale and Ferry Fryston division. |
| Majority Seats: | 32 |
| Election Date: | 6 May 2021 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 13 seats, 42.5% |
| Seats Before1: | 49 |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 5 seats, 24.6% |
| Seats Before2: | 11 |
| Seats Needed2: | 21 |
| Party4: | Independent politician |
| Last Election4: | 2 seats, 6.2% |
| Seats Before4: | 2 |
| Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election5: | 1 seat, 9.0% |
| Seats Before5: | 1 |
| Seats Needed5: | 31 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Majority administration |
| Before Party: | Labour |
| Leader1: | Denise Jeffery |
| Leader2: | Nadeem Ahmed |
| Leader5: | Thomas Gordon |
| Leaders Seat1: | Castleford Central and Glasshoughton |
| Leaders Seat5: | Knottingley |
The 2021 Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council election took take place during 2021 to elect members of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016[2] | 2018[3] | 2019[4] | 2021 | |||
| Labour | 53 | 52 | 49 | 43 | ||
| Conservative | 7 | 11 | 11 | 17 | ||
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Lib Dems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
The incumbent Labour councillor Martyn Ward stood down, with the Conservative's Raymond Massey winning the seat.
Incumbent Les Shaw won re-election and Jackie Ferguson won her seat from independent Alex Kear who was expelled from the council after a sexual offense conviction.
Former Mayor of Normanton Josie Farrah won the ward, holding it after former council leader Peter Box CBE's resignation.
Incumbent Richard Forster won re-election.
Paul Stockhill beat incumbent councillor Faith Heptinstall by 79 votes.
Incumbent Maureen Tennant-King won re-election.
Incumbent Pauline Kitching won re-election.
Incumbent Darren Byford won re-election.
Adele Hayes won the seat from incumbent Graham Stokes who stood down.
Labour's Julie Medford held the seat after the death of the former councillor Alan Wassell.
Incumbent councillor Lynn Masterman (Labour) lost her seat to Conservative Tony Homewood, election agent to Imran Ahmad Khan in the 2019 general election.
Incumbent councillor Lorna Malkin (Labour) won re-election for her second term, first being elected in a 2015 by-election.