Council by-elections
Update on council by-elections since May 2022
On this site we maintain an updated log of Council by-elections.
This can be found in a spreadsheet here. (previous iterations can be downloaded from the page here).
There have been 41 by-elections since May 2022:
- 9 in 2022;
- 9 in 2023; and
- 23 so far in 2024.
There are another 17 scheduled to take place before Christmas with one already planned for January 2025.
Many of the by-elections this year have been as a consequence of councillors being elected as MPs at the UK Parliamentary General Election in July 2024 and then resigning as councillors. 18 councillors were elected as MPs on 4 July and all but one of those councillors have now resigned with by-elections either having taken place already or are scheduled in the next few weeks. That volume has obvioulsy added significantly to the number of by-elections that Returning Officers, Electoral Registration Officers and their teams have had to deliver this year in addition to what was a short notice General Election.