| Type: | legislative |
| Country: | Buckinghamshire |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Milton Keynes City Council election |
| Next Election: | 2026 Milton Keynes City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 19 out of 57 seats to Milton Keynes City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 29 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader1: | Peter Marland |
| Leaders Seat1: | Wolverton |
| Seats Before1: | 27 |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leader2: | Robin Bradburn |
| Leaders Seat2: | Bradwell |
| Seats Before2: | 16 |
| Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader3: | David Hopkins |
| Leaders Seat3: | Danesborough & Walton |
| Seats Before3: | 14 |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Peter Marland Labour |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| Seats After1: | 30 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Percentage1: | 38.3%[1] |
| Swing1: | 4.3 |
| Seats After2: | 18 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Percentage2: | 19.0% |
| Swing2: | 2.8 |
| Seats After3: | 9 |
| Seat Change3: | 5 |
| Percentage3: | 32.4% |
| Swing3: | 9.6 |
| Seats1: | 9 |
| Seats2: | 6 |
| Seats3: | 4 |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| After Election: | Peter Marland |
| After Party: | Labour |
| Election Name: | 2024 Milton Keynes City Council election |
| Turnout: | 30.3% |
The 2024 Milton Keynes City Council elections were held on Thursday 2 May 2024,[2]
Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being run by a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition, led by Peter Marland of the Labour Party. The election saw Labour win an overall majority of the seats on the council for the first time since the 1999 elections.[3]
Milton Keynes was created as a unitary authority in 1997.[4] Labour controlled the council from its creation until 2000, with the Liberal Democrats winning the council from no overall control in 2002.[5] The Liberal Democrats lost their majority in 2006, and no party has formed a majority since.
The Conservatives became the largest party on the council in 2011,[6] but were overtaken by Labour in 2014.[7] The Conservatives were again the largest group in 2018,[8] with Labour overtaking them in 2019.[9] The Conservatives formed the largest group from 2021 to 2023; in that election, Labour gained 5 seats to become the largest group on the council, the Conservatives lost 6, and the Liberal Democrats gained 1. Labour and the Liberal Democrats formed a majority coalition following the election.[10]
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, the Conservatives won 11 seats (up 6) with 42.0% of the vote, Labour won 7 (down 4) with 34.0%, and the Liberal Democrats won 3 (down 2) with 16.2%.
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[11] | After 2024 election[12] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 25 | 27 | 30 | ||||||
| 15 | 16 | 18 | ||||||
| 17 | 14 | 9 | ||||||
source:[19]
An asterisk indicates an incumbent.