| Election Name: | 2022 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Country: | West Midlands |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2021 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2021 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | 17 out of 51 seats to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 30 seats, 46.8% |
| Seats Before1: | 30 |
| Seats1: | 9 |
| Seats After1: | 28 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 24,826 |
| Percentage1: | 46.3% |
| Swing1: | 0.5% |
| Party2: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Last Election2: | 15 seats, 25.1% |
| Seats Before2: | 12 |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seats After2: | 14 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 8,792 |
| Percentage2: | 16.4% |
| Swing2: | 8.7% |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 3 seats, 11.9% |
| Seats Before4: | 3 |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 5 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 9,173 |
| Percentage4: | 17.1% |
| Swing4: | 5.2% |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Last Election5: | 1 seat, 0.0% |
| Seats Before5: | 5 |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seats After5: | 4 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 1,957 |
| Percentage5: | 3.7% |
| Swing5: | N/A |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
The 2022 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. 17 of the 51 seats were up for election.[1]
Since its creation in 1974, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has always had the Conservatives as the largest party. Labour came the closest to overtaking them in 1996, when they won 16 seats to the Conservatives' 17.[2] In the 2021 election, the Conservatives gained three seats on a vote share of 53.8% (+7.9), the Green Party gained 1 seat with 20.5% of the vote (-5.1), the Liberal Democrats lost 3 seats on 12.2% (-1.3), and Labour lost 1 seat on 12.9% (+0.9).
The seats up for election in 2022 were last elected in 2018. In that election, the Conservatives won 49.1% of votes and gained 2 seats from the Liberal Democrats, the Greens gained 1 seat from the Conservatives and won 25.1% of the votes, Labour gained 1 seat from UKIP and won 15.5%, and the Liberal Democrats lost 1 seat and achieved 11.9%.[3]
| After 2021 election | Before 2022 election[4] | After 2022 election[5] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 30 | 30 | 28 | ||||||
| 15 | 12 | 14 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
Changes:
An asterisk indicates an incumbent councillor.
Andy Hodgson's changes are relative to when he stood in the 2018 Elections under the Green Party.