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2024 Bristol City Council election

2024 Bristol City Council election
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All 70 seats to Bristol City Council
36 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
  Blank Blank
Leader Emma Edwards[a] Tom Renhard
Party Green Labour
Last election 24 seats 24 seats
Seats before 24 23
Seats after 34 21
Seat change Increase10 Decrease3
Popular vote 50,512 38,868
Percentage 41.2% 31.7%
Swing Increase9.4 Steady

  Third party Fourth party
  Blank Blank
Leader Jos Clark Mark Weston
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative
Last election 8 seats 14 seats
Seats before 5 14
Seats after 8 7
Seat change Increase3 Decrease7
Popular vote 13,359 17,398
Percentage 10.9% 14.2%
Swing Decrease3.8 Decrease7.1

Winner of each seat at the 2024 Bristol City Council election

Mayor before election

Marvin Rees
Labour
No overall control

Leader after election

Tony Dyer
Green
No overall control

The 2024 Bristol City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024,[2] alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom.[3] It elected all 70 councillors to the Bristol City Council for a four-year term.[3]

Until this election the council was led by the directly-elected Mayor of Bristol; that post was abolished following a 2022 referendum which saw 59% of voters in favour of replacing the mayoral system with a committee system. Prior to the election the council was under no overall control. The Green Party were the largest party, but the mayoralty was held by Marvin Rees of the Labour Party and all the cabinet positions were held by Labour.

Following the election the council remained under no overall control. The Greens remained the largest party and increased their number of seats, but fell two seats short of winning an overall majority. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 21 May 2024, Green councillor Tony Dyer was appointed to the re-established position of leader of the council (which had been abolished on the creation of the directly elected mayoralty in 2012). Policy committee chair positions were shared amongst the Greens and Liberal Democrats.[4][5]

  1. ^ Booth, Martin (18 April 2024). "Tony Dyer set to be council leader under Green administration". B24/7. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Bristol City Council". 2023-12-29. Archived from the original on 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  3. ^ a b "Types of elections". 2023-12-29. Archived from the original on 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  4. ^ "Bristol City Council's new committee roles are approved". BBC News. 2024-05-21. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  5. ^ Postans, Adam (2024-05-15). "Greens to lead Bristol City Council in 'coalition' with Lib Dems". Bristol Live. Retrieved 2024-05-21.


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