| Election Name: | 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Country: | West Yorkshire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 23 out of 69 seats to Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 35 |
| Leader1: | Cathy Scott |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 39 seats, 42.6% |
| Seats Before1: | 35 |
| Seats1: | 7 |
| Seats After1: | 31 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 34,519 |
| Percentage1: | 31.2% |
| Swing1: | 11.4% |
| Leader2: | David Hall |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 18 seats, 30.4% |
| Seats Before2: | 18 |
| Seats2: | 5 |
| Seats After2: | 15 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Popular Vote2: | 26,844 |
| Percentage2: | 24.2% |
| Swing2: | 6.2% |
| Party3: | Independent politician |
| Last Election3: | 1 seat, 2.5% |
| Seats Before3: | 5 |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seats After3: | 9 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 19,121 |
| Percentage3: | 17.3% |
| Swing3: | 14.8% |
| Leader4: | John Lawson |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 8 seats, 13.7% |
| Seats Before4: | 8 |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 10 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 13,655 |
| Percentage4: | 12.3% |
| Swing4: | 1.3% |
| Leader5: | Andrew Cooper |
| Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Last Election5: | 3 seats, 10.5% |
| Seats Before5: | 3 |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seats After5: | 4 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 15,357 |
| Percentage5: | 13.9% |
| Swing5: | 3.4% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Cathy Scott |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Cathy Scott Independent |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.[1]
Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the war in Gaza.[2] The four members subsequently formed the Kirklees Community Independents Group,[3] which had no seats up for election this year. With this exception, the pre-election council makeup had otherwise remained unchanged from the 2023 election.
Labour lost control of the council to no overall control.[4] Following the election, the leader of the council, Cathy Scott, was replaced as Labour group leader by Carole Pattison.[5] However, Cathy Scott managed to retain her position as leader of the council, leaving Labour along with four others to sit as a group of independents calling themselves the Community Alliance.[6]
| Councillor | Ward | First elected | Party | Date announced | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naheed Mather | Dalton | 2012 | Labour | 5 February 2024[7] | ||
| Donald Firth | Holme Valley South | Conservative | 6 March 2024[8] | |||
| Bernard McGuin | Almondbury | Conservative | 6 March 2024 | |||
| Elizabeth Reynolds | Golcar | Labour | 6 March 2024 | |||
| Adam Gregg | Lindley | Conservative | 6 March 2024 | |||
| Melanie Stephen | Liversedge and Gomersal | 2021 | Conservative | 6 March 2024 | ||
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election | After 2024 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 39 | 35[9] | 31 | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | 15 | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | 9 | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | 10 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
Candidates nominated by ward:[10]