| Election Name: | 2024 Peterborough City Council election |
| Country: | Cambridgeshire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Peterborough City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Peterborough City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 23 out of 60 seats to Peterborough City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 31 |
| Leader1: | Dennis Jones |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 14 seats, 32.1% |
| Seats Before1: | 14 |
| Seats1: | 7 |
| Seats After1: | 19 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 12,153 |
| Percentage1: | 26.0% |
| Swing1: | 6.1% |
| Leader2: | Chris Harper |
| Party2: | Peterborough First |
| Last Election2: | 4 seats, 3.8% |
| Seats Before2: | 10 |
| Seats2: | 8 |
| Seats After2: | 14 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Popular Vote2: | 7,279 |
| Percentage2: | 15.6% |
| Swing2: | 11.8% |
| Leader3: | Wayne Fitzgerald |
| Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election3: | 30 seats, 35.5% |
| Seats Before3: | 22 |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seats After3: | 11 |
| Seat Change3: | 11 |
| Popular Vote3: | 13,782 |
| Percentage3: | 29.5% |
| Swing3: | 6.0% |
| Leader4: | Christian Hogg |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 8 seats, 11.6% |
| Seats Before4: | 8 |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seats After4: | 9 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 4,393 |
| Percentage4: | 9.4% |
| Swing4: | 2.2% |
| Leader5: | Nicola Day |
| Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Last Election5: | 3 seats, 14.1% |
| Seats Before5: | 2 |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seats After5: | 4 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 6,297 |
| Percentage5: | 13.5% |
| Swing5: | 0.6% |
| Party6: | Independent (politician) |
| Last Election6: | 1 seat, 2.5% |
| Seats Before6: | 3 |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Seats After6: | 3 |
| Popular Vote6: | 2,318 |
| Percentage6: | 5.0% |
| Swing6: | 2.5% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Mohammed Farooq Peterborough First |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| After Election: | Dennis Jones Labour |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2024 Peterborough City Council election took place on 2 May 2024[1] to elect members of Peterborough City Council in Cambridgeshire, England. 23 of the 60 seats on the council were contested, including an early election in Werrington. The election took place alongside other local elections across England.
Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being led by a minority administration of local party Peterborough First.
All but two seats up for election in 2024 were last defended in 2021. Park ward was last defended in 2023, whilst one vacated seat in Werrington was last defended in 2022.
Going into the election, the position of the parties and the number of seats they were defending was:
*Two of the Conservative defences were in Stanground South and Wittering, where the incumbents had defected to Peterborough First.[2] [3]
**Peterborough First's two defences were in Werrington, where the incumbents were elected for the group's predecessor, Werrington First.
***The Green Party's defence was in Orton Waterville, where the incumbent councillor - Kirsty Knight - resigned from the party shortly before the election.[4]
Following the election, the council remained under no overall control. Labour became the largest party.[5] Labour subsequently formed a minority administration, with their group leader Dennis Jones being formally appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 20 May 2024.[6]
Source:[7]
Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election.[8] Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2021; changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2021 election.
The incumbent, David Over (Conservative) did not contest this election.
UKIP (3.35% in 2021) and For Britain (1.08% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Freedom Alliance (2.42% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Colin Hargreaves (Independent – 11.35% in 2021) and UKIP (3.95% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Incumbent Jackie Allen (Conservative) did not contest this seat in 2024. She, instead, contested the Orton Waterville ward.
Incumbent Nigel Simons (Conservative) and the Liberal Democrats (3.6% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Incumbent Oliver Sainsbury (Conservative) and John Whitby (Independent – 10.6% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Freedom Alliance (2.7% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Blakemore-Creedon's win made her one of the youngest councillors in the country[9] - and the youngest ever elected in Peterborough.[10]
The incumbent, Saqib Farooq (Peterborough First), defected from the Conservative Party in July 2023.[11] He will not fight this seat in 2024, instead, contesting Hargate and Hempsted.
Christian Peoples Alliance (1.3% in 2021) did not contest this election.
Incumbent Nicolle Trust (Conservative) did not contest this election.
Saqib Farooq (Peterborough First) was an incumbent councillor in Glinton and Castor prior to this election.
Incumbent Mohammed Haseeb (Labour) did not contest this election.
Incumbent Graham Casey (Conservative) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Kirsty Knight (Independent), quit the Green Party in March 2024.[12]
Conservative Party candidate Jackie Allen was an incumbent councillor in East Ward prior to the election.
This seat was last contested in 2023, changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2023 election.
Incumbent Muhammad Asif (Conservative) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Chris Harper (Leader of Peterborough First), defected from the Conservative Party in December 2021.[13]
One vacant seat was up for election, alongside the incumbent.[14]
The two seats were previously represented by Werrington First - the predecessor group to Peterborough First.
Freedom Alliance (1.9% in 2021) and UKIP (1.7% in 2021) did not contest this election.
The incumbent Gavin Elsey (Peterborough First) defected from the Conservative Party in May 2023.[15]
John Stannage (Independent – 14.3% in 2021), the Green Party (25.35%) and the Liberal Democrats (3.14%) will not be contesting this election.