| Election Name: | 2023 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Country: | Yorkshire |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2019 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Next Election: | 2027 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council Election |
| Next Year: | 2027 |
| Seats For Election: | All 59 seats on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 30 |
| Election Date: | 4 May 2023 |
| Party1: | Independent politician |
| Last Election1: | 18 |
| Seats Before1: | 24 |
| Seats1: | 13 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader2: | Alec Brown[1] |
| Last Election2: | 15 |
| Seats Before2: | 15 |
| Seats2: | 23 |
| Seat Change2: | 8 |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leader4: | Karen King |
| Last Election4: | 13 |
| Seats Before4: | 14 |
| Seats4: | 11 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Party5: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader5: | Andrea Turner |
| Last Election5: | 11 |
| Seats Before5: | 6 |
| Seats5: | 12 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Mary Lanigan Independent |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| After Election: | Alec Brown Labour |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2023 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. All 59 seats were up for election. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's elections are held every four years.
Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being run by a coalition of the Liberal Democrats and the "Independent Group", comprising 13 of the independents. The leader of the council was independent councillor Mary Lanigan.[2]
The council remained under no overall control after the election. Labour was the largest party, and both it and the Conservatives made gains, largely at the expense of the independents and Liberal Democrats. Mary Lanigan lost her seat.[3] [4]
A minority Labour administration formed after the election, with Labour group leader Alec Brown being appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 25 May 2023.[5] [6]
| After 2019 election | Before 2023 election | After 2023 election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Change | Party | Seats | Change | |||
| 13 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 3 | ||||||
| 14 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 4 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 23 | 8 | |||||||
| 11 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 6 | ||||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | No Candidates | |||||||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | No candidates | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | No Candidates | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk indicating an incumbent councillor standing for re-election:[4] [7] [2]
‡ Longbeck results were announced on 9 May after three recounts. It was the last ward in England to declare.[8]
Vera Rider, elected as an independent in May 2023 (having previously been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party in 2021), re-joined the Conservatives in November 2023.[9]
Tristan Learoyd resigned from the Liberal Democrats in July 2024,[10] following his suspension by the local party. Learoyd previously represented both Labour (2011) and Green (2014), as well as being part of the Independent Group during the 2011-2015 council, and became independent for the third time.