| Election Name: | 2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election |
| Country: | Lancashire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 17 out of 51 seats to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Leader1: | Phil Riley |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 31 |
| Seats1: | 7 |
| Seats After1: | 29 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 12,749 |
| Percentage1: | 40.4% |
| Swing1: | 22.6% |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before2: | 9 |
| Seats2: | 8 |
| Seats After2: | 13 |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| Popular Vote2: | 10,964 |
| Percentage2: | 34.7% |
| Swing2: | 34.2% |
| Leader3: | John Slater |
| Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before3: | 11 |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Seats After3: | 9 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 7,094 |
| Percentage3: | 22.5% |
| Swing3: | 7.8% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Phil Riley |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Phil Riley |
| After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day, to elect one-third of the 51 members of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in Lancashire.
Labour retained control of the council.[1] Both Labour and the Conservatives lost seats to independent candidates, many of whom were allied to the '4 BwD' group of independents which had formed on the council in autumn 2023. After the election there were 12 councillors in the 4BwD group, overtaking the Conservatives who were left with 9 seats. The 4 BwD group therefore became the council's official opposition.[2]
The Labour Party have governed Blackburn with Darwen for most of its history. They controlled the council from its creation in 1997 as a unitary authority to 2007, and again from 2011 to the present, with a period of no overall control between.[3] In the previous election, Labour won 14 seats (up 2) with 63.0% of the vote, the Conservatives won 3 (down 1) with 30.3%, and the Liberal Democrats lost the seat they were defending with 5.1%.
The seats up for election in 2024 were last contested in 2021; because of the delay of all local elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seats are up for election after 3 years rather than the usual 4. In that election, Labour won 11 seats with 55.4%, the Conservatives won 6 with 38.8%, and the Liberal Democrats won 0 with 5.0%.
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[4] | After 2024 election[5] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 39 | 31 | 29 | ||||||
| 12 | 11 | 9 | ||||||
| 0 | 9 | 13 | ||||||