| Election Name: | 2022 Hartlepool Borough Council election |
| Country: | County Durham |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2021 Hartlepool Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2021 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Hartlepool Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | 13 out of 36 seats to Hartlepool Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 19 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 13 seats, 25.7% |
| Seats1: | 5 |
| Seats After1: | 15 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 6,678 |
| Percentage1: | 34.2% |
| Swing1: | 8.5% |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 11 seats, 30.7% |
| Seats2: | 7 |
| Seats After2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 8,290 |
| Percentage2: | 42.3% |
| Swing2: | 11.6% |
| Party4: | Independent politician |
| Last Election4: | 10 seats, 25.6% |
| Seats4: | 0 |
| Seats After4: | 8 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 2,439 |
| Percentage4: | 12.5% |
| Swing4: | 13.1% |
| Party5: | Independent Union (political party) |
| Last Election5: | 2 seats, 6.3% |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seats After5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 829 |
| Percentage5: | 4.2% |
| Swing5: | 2.1% |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2022 Hartlepool Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Hartlepool Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. 13 of the 36 seats were up for election, with 1 ward (Rural West) electing 2 councillors.[1]
Hartlepool is traditionally a Labour council, with Labour forming the majority party for most of its history. The council fell into no overall control from 1976 to 1979, 2000 to 2004, 2008 to 2010, and from 2019 to the present.[2] [3] A coalition of Conservative, Independent Union, and Veterans and People's Party councillors took control of the council in 2019.[4] IU and VPP councillors left their parties to join the Brexit Party in September 2019,[5] but most rejoined their original parties in early 2020.[6]
In the 2021 election, which was under new boundaries, the Conservatives won 13 seats with 25.75%, Labour won 11 with 30.70%, independents won 10 with 25.55%, and the Independent Union won 2 with 6.27%. Separately, the Conservatives won the 2021 Hartlepool by-election on the same day, taking the seat for the first time.[7]
| After 2021 election | Before 2022 election[8] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 13 | 12 | |||||
| 11 | 11 | |||||
| 10 | 7 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||
| Hartlepool People | 0 | Hartlepool People | 1 | |||
| Putting Seaton First | 0 | Putting Seaton First | 2 | |||
Changes:
An asterisk indicates an incumbent councillor.