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2010 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election

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The 2010 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England.^[1] This election was held on the same day as other local elections.

Main article: 2010 United Kingdom local elections

Quick Facts 23 of 66 seats (One Third and one by-election)to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council 34 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...

2010 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election

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6 May 2010 (2010-05-06)

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23 of 66 seats (One Third and one by-election)
to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
34 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

65.3% (

29.3%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Steve Foulkes	Jeff Green	Simon Holbrook
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat	Claughton	West Kirby and Thurstaston	Prenton
Last election	5 seats, 25.6%	11 seats, 43.6%	6 seats, 22.6%
Seats before	20	25	20
Seats won	12	8	3
Seats after	24	27	15
Seat change	4	2	5
Popular vote	58,715	50,206	35,168
Percentage	37.6%	32.1%	22.5%
Swing	12.0%	11.5%	0.1%

Map of results of 2010 election

Leader of the Council before election

Steve Foulkes (Labour)
No Overall Control

Leader of the Council after election

Jeff Green (Conservative)
No Overall Control

The council stayed under no overall control, with the Conservatives becoming the largest single party, and resulted in a new Lib-Con coalition.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

More information Party, Seats ...

	Seats	±
Conservative	27	2
Labour	24	4
Liberal Democrat	15	5
Ind. Conservative	0	1

^[1]

Election results

Overall election result

Overall result compared with 2008.

More information Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election result, 2010, Party ...

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election result, 2010

Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	23	12	4	0	4	54.5	37.6	58,715	12.0
	Conservative	23	8	4	2	2	34.1	32.1	50,206	11.5
	Liberal Democrats	23	3	0	5	5	11.4	22.5	35,168	0.1
	Green	21	0	0	0		0.0	3.6	5,623	1.3
	UKIP	19	0	0	0		0.0	3.4	5,307	1.0
	BNP	5	0	0	0		0.0	0.9	1,339	0.3
	Ind. Conservative	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0.0	0	N/A

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Changes in council composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓
25	20	19	1	1
Con	Lab	Lib Dem	IC	V

After the election the composition of the council was:

↓
27	24	15
Con	Lab	Lib Dem