| Election Name: | 2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Flag Image: | Coat of arms of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council.png |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | 25 out of 75 seats to Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 38 |
| Leader1: | David Molyneux |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 64 |
| Seats1: | 21 |
| Seats After1: | 64 |
| Popular Vote1: | 34,940 |
| Percentage1: | 51.7% |
| Swing1: | 9.2% |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before2: | 9 |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seats After2: | 10 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 11,918 |
| Percentage2: | 17.6% |
| Swing2: | 4.9% |
| Leader3: | Ray Whittingham |
| Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before3: | 2 |
| Seats3: | 0 |
| Seats After3: | 1 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 10,200 |
| Percentage3: | 15.1% |
| Swing3: | 2.2% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | David Molyneux |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | David Molyneux |
| After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect one third of the members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in England. The election was held on the same day as other local elections.
The council remained under Labour majority control. Labour won a seat from the Conservatives, who were left with only one seat after the election. Labour also lost one seat to an independent candidate, leaving their overall total number of seats unchanged.[1]
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election | After 2024 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 64 | 64 | 64 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
Source:[2]
Incumbent councillors seeking re-election in their ward are marked with an asterisk (*). Vote Share changes for Incumbent Councillors are relative to their own result in 2023. For non-incumbent candidates it is relative to their highest result in 2023.