| Type: | legislative |
| Country: | Gloucestershire |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Previous Election: | 2022 Cheltenham Borough Council election |
| Next Election: | 2026 Cheltenham Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | All 40 seats to Cheltenham Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 21 |
| Party1: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leader1: | Rowena Hay |
| Last Election1: | 31 |
| Seats Before1: | 30 |
| Seats After1: | 36 |
| Seat Change1: | 6 |
| Popular Vote1: | 31,202 |
| Percentage1: | 51.9% |
| Swing1: | 3.2% |
| Party4: | People Against Bureaucracy |
| Last Election4: | 1 |
| Seats Before4: | 2 |
| Seats After4: | 1 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 928 |
| Percentage4: | 1.5% |
| Swing4: | 1.3% |
| Party2: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Leader2: | Ashleigh Davies |
| Last Election2: | 1 |
| Seats Before2: | 2 |
| Seats After2: | 3 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 9,431 |
| Percentage2: | 15.7% |
| Swing2: | 4.4% |
| Leader5: | Tim Harman[1] |
| Party5: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election5: | 6 |
| Seats Before5: | 5 |
| Seats After5: | 0 |
| Seat Change5: | 5 |
| Popular Vote5: | 15,280 |
| Percentage5: | 25.4% |
| Swing5: | 2.3% |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Rowena Hay |
| Before Party: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| After Election: | Rowena Hay |
| After Party: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
The 2024 Cheltenham 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 40 members of Cheltenham Borough Council in Gloucestershire were elected following boundary changes.
The Liberal Democrats retained control of the local authority.[2] The Conservatives were wiped out losing all their seats on the council, with the Greens replacing them as the largest opposition party.[3] [4]
Since its creation in 1974, control of the council has alternated between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.[5] The Conservatives controlled the council until 1979, when it fell into no overall control until 1991, when the Liberal Democrats took control. The Conservatives briefly controlled the council from 2000 to 2002, with the Liberal Democrats re-taking control from no overall control in 2010. The Liberal Democrats have formed majority administrations since then.
In the most recent election, the Liberal Democrats maintained their seat count with 55.1% of the vote, the Conservatives won 1 seat (down 1) with 27.7%, People Against Bureaucracy kept their 1-seat up for election with 2.8%, and the Green Party gained 1 seat with 11.3%.
Cheltenham usually elects its councillors in halves, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards.[6] All wards have 2 councillors.
| Old wards[7] | New wards | |
|---|---|---|
| All Saints | All Saints | |
| Battledown | Battledown | |
| Benhall and the Reddings | Benhall, the Reddings and Fiddler's Green | |
| Charlton Kings | Charlton Kings | |
| Charlton Park | Charlton Park | |
| College | College | |
| Hesters Way | Hesters Way | |
| Lansdown | Lansdown | |
| Leckhampton | Leckhampton | |
| Oakley | Oakley | |
| Park | Park | |
| Pittville | Pittville | |
| Prestbury | Prestbury | |
| Springbank | Springbank | |
| St Mark's | St Mark's | |
| St Paul's | St Paul's | |
| St Peter's | St Peter's | |
| Swindon Village | Swindon Village | |
| Up Hatherley | Up Hatherley | |
| Warden Hill | Warden Hill |
| After 2022 election | Before 2024 election[8] | After 2024 election[9] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 31 | 30 | 36 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Sitting councilors are marked with an asterisk (*).[16]
Alisha Lewis was a sitting councillor for St Paul's ward
Emma Nelson was a sitting councillor for Leckhampton ward
Stephan Fifield was a sitting councillor for Pittville ward