The latest updates on local electoral information are as follows.
Results
- None this week.
Changes of allegiance
- Hyndburn: Diane Fielding, who was elected for the Labour Party in Spring Hill ward, has left the party to sit as an Independent councillor. She is not standing for re-election when her term ends in May.
- Liverpool: The group of Labour councillors who opposed the budget have now left the party and established the Liverpool Community Independents group. Five have joined from Labour: Alan Gibbons (Warbreck ward), who was separately expelled from the Labour Party this week, together with Joanne Calvert and Rona Heron (both representing Old Swan ward), Alison Clarke (Knotty Ash ward), and Alfie Hincks (Everton ward). The group has also recruited three ex-Labour councillors who left at the end of last year: Sam Gorst (Cressington ward), Sarah Morton (Clubmoor ward), and Anna Rothery (Princes Park ward). This leaves George Knibb (Norris Green ward) outside the group. It is also noted that Alan Tormey, who was elected for the Liberal Democrats in Childwall ward, has joined the Liberal Party.
- Middlesbrough: Lee Garvey, who was elected as a Middlesbrough Independent Group councillor for Berwick Hills and Pallister ward but announced in March that he had joined the Labour Party, has been rejected for membership and remains an Independent councillor.
- Selby: John Cattanach, who was elected for the Conservatives in Cawood with Wistow ward, has left the party to sit as an Independent councillor.
- South Kesteven: Ian Stokes, who was elected for the Conservatives in Peascliffe and Ridgeway ward but was suspended from the party over a remark made while chairing a meeting, has been readmitted following extra training.
New vacancies
- Hyndburn: Overton ward, after the resignation of Labour councillor Michael Hindley. Term ends 2024.
- North East Derbyshire: Pilsley and Morton ward, after the resignation of Labour councillor Ann Holmes. Term ends 2023.
- North Kesteven: Sleaford Quarrington and Mareham ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Mike Kent. Term ends 2023.
- North Warwickshire: Hartshill ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Barry Lees. Term ends 2023.
- Shropshire: Highley division, after the resignation of Independent councillor Dave Tremellen. Term ends 2025.
Dates for byelections
- Gedling: The byelection due in Gedling ward will be held on 26 May.
- North Kesteven: The byelection due in Sleaford Quarrington and Mareham ward will be held on 26 May.
- Redbridge: The postponed poll due in Mayfield ward will be held on 26 May.
- Spelthorne: The byelection due in Laleham and Shepperton Green ward will be held on Wednesday 25 May.
Other updates
- Malvern Hills: The Green Party group has left the ruling coalition. The council leadership is currently vacant and it is unclear who will form the administration after next month.
- Sunderland: The election in Copt Hill ward has been postponed after the death of Reg Coulson, who had been nominated as a UK Independence Party candidate.
- Waltham Forest: Anna Mbachu, who has been nominated as a Labour candidate in Grove Green ward, has been expelled from the party. She remains on the ballot paper under her previous allegiance but if re-elected will serve as an Independent councillor.
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