| Election Name: | 2024 Brentwood Borough Council election |
| Country: | Essex |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Brentwood Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Brentwood Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | All 39 seats to Brentwood Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 20 |
| Leader1: | Will Russell |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 17 seats, 37.5% |
| Seats Before1: | 18 |
| Seats1: | 19 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 21,647 |
| Percentage1: | 39.4% |
| Swing1: | 1.9% |
| Leader2: | Barry Aspinell |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 17 seats, 43.7% |
| Seats Before2: | 17 |
| Seats2: | 17 |
| Popular Vote2: | 21,952 |
| Percentage2: | 39.9% |
| Swing2: | 3.8% |
| Leader3: | Tim Barrett |
| Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election3: | 2 seats, 14.3% |
| Seats Before3: | 2 |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 9,528 |
| Percentage3: | 17.3% |
| Swing3: | 3.0% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Barry Aspinell Liberal Democrats |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| After Election: | Barry Aspinell Liberal Democrats |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2024 Brentwood Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. All 39 members of Brentwood Borough Council in Essex were elected following boundary changes.
The council was under no overall control prior to the election. The Conservatives were the largest party, but the council was being run by a Liberal Democrat and Labour coalition. The election saw a very similar distribution of seats, and the Liberal Democrat and Labour coalition continued to run the council.
Since its creation in 1974, Brentwood has been a mostly Conservative-controlled council. The party held control until 1990, with the Liberal Democrats taking the council from no overall control in 1991.[1] They controlled the council until 2003, with the Conservatives re-taking control in 2004.
The Conservatives held a majority on the council until the most recent election, where the council again fell into no overall control.[2] In that election, the Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats with 43.7% of the vote, the Conservatives lost 3 with 37.5%, and Labour remained at 2 seats with 14.3%.
Brentwood usually elects its councillors in thirds, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards.[3] The change increases the number of councillors by 2.
| Old wards[4] | No. of seats | New wards | No. of seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood North | 3 | Blackmore and Doddinghurst | 3 | |
| Brentwood South | 3 | Brentwood North | 3 | |
| Brentwood West | 3 | Brentwood South | 3 | |
| Brizes and Doddinghurst | 3 | Brentwood West | 3 | |
| Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon | 2 | Brizes, Stondon Massey and South Weald | 3 | |
| Hutton Central | 2 | Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon | 3 | |
| Hutton East | 2 | Hutton East | 3 | |
| Hutton North | 2 | Hutton North | 3 | |
| Hutton South | 2 | Hutton South | 3 | |
| Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing | 3 | Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing | 3 | |
| Pilgrims Hatch | 3 | Pilgrims Hatch | 3 | |
| Shenfield | 3 | Shenfield | 3 | |
| South Weald | 1 | Warley | 3 | |
| Tipps Cross | 2 | |||
| Warley | 3 |
Despite all seats being up for election, the resultant seat numbers were very similar after the election. The Liberal Democrats kept the same number of seats, the Conservatives and Labour each having a net gain of one.[5]
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[6] | After 2024 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 17 | 18 | 19 | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | 17 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
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The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Brentwood Borough Council following the close of nomination on 5 April 2024.[8] The results of the election were announced on 3 May 2024.