Election Name: | 2023 Peterborough City Council election |
Country: | Cambridgeshire |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2022 Peterborough City Council election |
Previous Year: | 2022 |
Next Election: | 2024 Peterborough City Council election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Seats For Election: | 21 out of 60 seats to Peterborough City Council |
Majority Seats: | 31 |
Leader1: | Wayne Fitzgerald |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Last Election1: | 28 seats, 35.8% |
Leaders Seat1: | West |
Seats Before1: | 28 |
Seats1: | 8 |
Seats After1: | 30 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 15,792 |
Percentage1: | 37.6 |
Leader2: | Dennis Jones |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Leaders Seat2: | Dogsthorpe |
Last Election2: | 17 seats, 34.8% |
Seats Before2: | 14 |
Seats2: | 6 |
Seats After2: | 14 |
Popular Vote2: | 14,278 |
Percentage2: | 34.0 |
Leader3: | Christian Hogg |
Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Leaders Seat3: | Fletton and Stanground |
Last Election3: | 8 seats, 13.4% |
Seats Before3: | 8 |
Seats3: | 4 |
Seats After3: | 8 |
Popular Vote3: | 5,139 |
Percentage3: | 12.2 |
Leader4: | Nicola Day |
Party4: | Green Party of England and Wales |
Leaders Seat4: | Orton Waterville |
Last Election4: | 3 seats, 9.3% |
Seats Before4: | 4 |
Seats4: | 2 |
Seats After4: | 3 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 6,282 |
Percentage4: | 15.0 |
Leader5: | Chris Harper |
Party5: | Peterborough First |
Leaders Seat5: | Stanground South |
Last Election5: | NEW |
Seats Before5: | 4 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seats After5: | 4 |
Popular Vote5: | 1,672 |
Percentage5: | 4.0 |
Leader6: | Julie Stevenson |
Party6: | Independent politician |
Leaders Seat6: | Orton Waterville |
Last Election6: | 1 seat, 0.6% |
Seats Before6: | 2 |
Seats6: | 0 |
Seats After6: | 1 |
Seat Change6: | 1 |
Popular Vote6: | 1,101 |
Percentage6: | 2.6 |
Map Size: | 350px |
Leader | |
Posttitle: | Leader after election |
Before Election: | Wayne Fitzgerald Conservative |
Before Party: | No overall control |
After Election: | Wayne Fitzgerald Conservative |
After Party: | No overall control |
The 2023 Peterborough City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect member of Peterborough City Council in Cambridgeshire, England. There were 21 of the 60 seats on the council contested. The election took place alongside other local elections across England.
The council remained under no overall control, being led by a Conservative minority administration.
Going into the election, the position of the parties and the number of seats they were defending was:
Immediately after the election the position was that the Conservatives had 30 seats, Labour 14, the Liberal Democrats 5, Green 3 and there were 5 independents / Peterborough First.[1] [2]
Two weeks after the elections took place, four councillors, Brian Rush (Stanground South), Peter Hiller (Glinton & Castor), Ray Bisby (Stanground South) and Gavin Elsey (Wittering), left the Conservative Party to join Peterborough First.[3]
In June 2023, after an initial suspension, Councillor Mohammed Farooq (Hargate & Hempsted) quit the Conservative Party, citing a "bullying, toxic culture.[4] He was followed soon after by his son, Councillor Saqib Farooq (Glinton & Castor)[5] and ward-colleague Councillor John Howard.[6]
Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2019; changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2019 election.
UKIP (16.7%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (5.1%) did not contest this election.
Independent Colin Hargreaves (10.7%) and the Veterans and People's Party (5.1%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Katia Yurgutene (Labour Co-op) did not seek re-election.
The Liberal Democrats (9.7%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (14.8%) and SDP (7.9%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (16%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Jade Seager, was elected in 2022.
UKIP (16%) and Our Nation (1.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent was Imtiaz Ali who had defected to the Green Party from Labour.[7]
Hiller defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.[3]
UKIP (9.3%) and the Green Party (3.6%) did not contest this election.
The Green Party (5.4%) did not contest this time.
Councillor Howard left the Conservative group less than five weeks after being re-elected.
UKIP (9.9%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.3%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent was Ansar Ali who had resigned from the Labour Party.[8]
UKIP (16.7%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Heather Skibsted, defected to the Green Party from Labour.[9]
The incumbent, Nicola Day, is Green Party group leader.
There were two vacant seats in this ward following the resignation of Shaz Nawaz[10] (elected 2021, Labour).
The incumbent, Ikra Yasin (Labour), did not seek re-election.[11]
UKIP (15.5%) did not contest this time.
UKIP (12.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Lucinda Robinson (Labour Co-op), is not seeking re-election.
UKIP (17.8%) did not contest this election.
Rush defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.[3]
This is the first time Werrington First have contested an election under the "Peterborough First – Werrington Independent" description.[12]
UKIP (10.5%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Wayne Fitzgerald, is Leader of the Council.