Birmingham_City_Council_elections

Birmingham City Council elections

British municipal elections

Birmingham City Council elections are held every four years. Birmingham City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan district of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2018, 101 councillors have been elected from 69 wards.^[1] Prior to 2018 elections were held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time.^[2]

By-election results

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Party in control		Years
	Labour	1974–1975
	No overall control	1975–1976
	Conservative	1976–1979
	No overall control	1979–1980
	Labour	1980–1982
	Conservative	1982–1984
	Labour	1984–2003
	No overall control	2003–2012
	Labour	2012–present

Councillor		From	To
Clive Wilkinson^[6]	Labour	1 Apr 1974	May 1976
Neville Bosworth^[7]	Conservative	May 1976	May 1980
Clive Wilkinson^[8]	Labour	May 1980	May 1982
Neville Bosworth^[9]	Conservative	May 1982	May 1984
Dick Knowles^[10]	Labour	May 1984	Oct 1993
Theresa Stewart^[11]	Labour	Oct 1993	May 1999
Albert Bore^[12]	Labour	May 1999	May 2004
Mike Whitby	Conservative	June 2004	3 May 2012
Albert Bore	Labour	3 May 2012	1 Dec 2015
John Clancy^[13]^[14]	Labour	1 Dec 2015	11 Sep 2017
Ian Ward^[15]	Labour	7 Nov 2017	23 May 2023
John Cotton^[16]	Labour	23 May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Saima Ahmed	2,410	69.6	2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Shaukat Khan	517	14.9	10.6
	Conservative	Zhor Malik	305	8.8	14.6
	Workers Party	Phil Bevin	158	4.6	4.6
	Green	Michael Harrison	72	2.1	2.5
Majority			1,893	54.7
Turnout			3,462
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Deborah Harries	1,312	65.3	0.4
	Labour	Carmel Corrigan	609	30.3	0.1
	Conservative	Pervez Akhtar	89	4.4	0.5
Majority			703	35.0
Turnout			2,010
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Katherine Carlisle	2,553	54.0	8.0
	Conservative	Clair Felton	1,534	32.5	8.0
	Green	Joseph Peacock	252	5.3	0.7
	Independent	Nadia Rashid	107	2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Neal	91	1.9	2.4
	Independent	James Dalton	64	1.4
	Freedom Alliance	John Goss	49	1.0
	Reform UK	Ian Bishop	42	0.9
	TUSC	Abdul Haq	34	0.7
Majority			1,019	21.3
Turnout			4,781
Rejected ballots			55
	Labour hold		Swing	8.0

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Saima Suleman	2,542	53.7	0.6
	Independent	Bob Harvey	833	17.6	2.4
	Conservative	Pranav Gupta	819	17.3	4.8
	Green	Chris Garghan	246	5.2	1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andy Spruce	242	5.1	1.9
	TUSC	Eamonn Flynn	55	1.2	1.2
Majority			1,709	36.1
Turnout			4,737
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darius Sandhu	1,981	54.4	14.0
	Labour	Uzma Ahmed	1,086	29.8	21.8
	Liberal Democrats	Joshua Bunting	238	6.5	2.3
	Green	Benjamin Craddock	165	4.5	0.7
	Independent	Graham Green	112	3.1	3.1
	TUSC	Ted Woodley	58	1.6	1.6
Majority			895	24.6
Turnout			3,640
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dominic Stanford	2,728	48.7	6.5
	Labour	Elaine Kidney	2,344	41.8	2.8
	Green	Peter Beck	323	5.8	0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Stephanie Garrett	182	3.2	3.4
	TUSC	Mia Wroe	27	0.5	0.5
Majority			384	6.9
Turnout			5,604
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Liz Clements	3,138	42.0
	Liberal Democrats	Tanveer Choudhry	1,889	25.2
	Conservative	Obaid Khan	1,683	22.5
	UKIP	Alan Blumenthal	462	6.1
	Green	Gareth Courage	307	4.1
Majority			1,249	16.7
Turnout			7,479	39.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Morriam Jan	2,387	44.1
	Labour	Mohammed Hanif	2,156	39.8
	Conservative	Minu Sungu	558	10.3
	Green	Matthew Ford	314	5.8
Majority			231	4.3
Turnout			5,415	33.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gary Sambrook	1,571	47.0	7.3
	Labour	Lorraine Owen	1,433	42.8	6.9
	UKIP	Roger Tempest	266	7.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Lippiatt	43	1.3	0.7
	National Front	Terry Williams	33	1.0	0.2
Majority			138	4.1
Turnout			3,355	19
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victoria Quinn	3,932	56.7	6.9
	Respect	Mohammed Ishtiaq	2,301	33.2	5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Adil Rashid	395	5.7	0.8
	Green	Peter Tinsley	179	2.6	0.4
	Conservative	Sahar Rezazadeh	133	1.9	0.8
Majority			1,631	23.5
Turnout			6,965	33.0
	Labour gain from Respect		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Barrie	1,633	58.3	8.8
	Labour	Robert Pocock	505	18.0	5.6
	UKIP	Maddy Westrop	344	12.3	12.3
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Hardware	319	11.4	2.7
Majority			1,128	40.3
Turnout			2,801	15.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Respect	Shokat Ali	2,495	39.6	7.0
	Labour	Mohammed Azim	2,228	35.4	1.3
	Conservative	Abdul Kadir	799	12.7	7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Naeem Qureshi	506	8.0	1.5
	Green	Charles Alldrick	213	3.4	3,4
	Independent	Sakander Mahmood	55	0.9	0.9
Majority			267	4.2
Turnout			6,296	32.3
	Respect hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hendrina Quinnen	3,018	42.2	31.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sabirul Islam	2,000	28.0	15.1
	Conservative	Raja Khan	1,622	22.7	22.9
	Green	Ankaret Harmer	297	4.2	8.6
	UKIP	Melvin Ward	208	2.9	2.9
Majority			1,018	14.2
Turnout			7,145	38.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Brandwood By-election, 20 September 2007^[37]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Leddy	1,998	42.7	9.1
	Conservative	Ken Axford	1,663	35.6	4.2
	BNP	Robert Purcell	290	6.2	2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Peace	285	6.1	4.9
	Green	Anna Masters	193	4.1	2.6
	Independent	Frank Chance	157	3.4	3.4
	UKIP	Francois Jones	64	1.4	1.4
	New Nationalist Party	Keith Axon	25	0.5	0.5
Majority			335	7.1
Turnout			4,675	26.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Tyburn By-election, 8 September 2005^[38]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynda Clinton	1,451	52.4	19.3
	Conservative	Gerald Brien	982	35.5	12.5
	Liberal Democrats	John Line	334	12.1	4.3
Majority			469	16.9
Turnout			2,767	15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Bordesley Green By-election, 28 July 2005 (3 seats)^[39]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	People's Justice	Shaukat Ali	2,241
	Labour	Shafique Shah	2,183
	People's Justice	Saeed Mohammed	2,065
	People's Justice	Choudhry Ullah	2,041
	Labour	Zulfiqar Khan	2,009
	Labour	Stewart Stacey	1,875
	Liberal Democrats	Qamar Nawaz	1,372
	Liberal Democrats	Nazar Hussain	1,117
	Liberal Democrats	Azad Aslam	1,058
	Green	Alan Clawley	314
	Conservative	David Fazakerley	251
	Conservative	Mohammed Shariff-Malik	154
	Conservative	Jasbir Singh	153
Turnout			16,833	31.3
	People's Justice gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	People's Justice gain from Labour		Swing

Stockland Green By-election, 20 November 2003^[41]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sarah-Jayne Plant	1,377	43.0	4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Foley	759	23.7	5.0
	Conservative	Derek Green	512	16.0	6.0
	BNP	Robert Purcell	503	15.7	15.7
	Socialist Alliance	Maria Werson	48	1.5	1.5
Majority			618	19.3
Turnout			3,199	18.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Ayoub Khan	2,081
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Aziz	2,044
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Khalique	1,905
	Labour	Ziaul Islam	1,896
	Labour	Anthony Kennedy	1,843
	Labour	Changese Khan	1,578
	Conservative	Raja Iqbal	282
	Green	Anna Dunstan	182
	Conservative	David Williams-Masinda	166
	Conservative	Mohammed Mushtaq	148
Turnout			12,125	25.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barry Henley	4,162	37.4	7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Zaman Khan	3,898	35.1	4.0
	Conservative	Barry Hands	1,889	16.9
	Green	Stuart Masters	1,184	10.6	5.7
Majority			264	2.3
Turnout			11,133	61.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,172	42.5	13.7
	Conservative	1,044	37.9	15.1
	Liberal Democrats	287	10.4	7.8
	UKIP	255	9.2	9.2
Majority		128	4.6
Turnout		2,758	15.0
	Labour gain from Conservative	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Sharpe	1,113	57.2	5.5
	Conservative	Craig Smeaton	679	34.9	4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Emily Rohaise	105	5.4	4.1
	Socialist Alliance	Steven Godward	37	1.9	1.9
	UKIP	Alan Ware	13	0.7	0.7
Majority			434	22.3
Turnout			1,947	16.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Matthew Redmond	4,311	52.5	20.2
	Liberal Democrats	Penelope Wagg	2,838	34.6	23.1
	Conservative	Paul Burke	1,010	12.3	0.2
Majority			1,473	17.9
Turnout			8,159	48.2
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Langley	1,369	70.2	9.9
	Conservative	Paul Valdmanis	432	22.1	0.6
	Justice for the Elderly	Christopher F S Rose	229	11.7	6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Derek P Parsons	148	7.6	4.4
Majority			937	48.1
Turnout			2,178	12.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mike Whitby	2,719	53.4	8.5
	Labour	Stephen Cormell	1,859	36.5	6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Conall Boyle	420	8.2	1.3
	Green	Peter Beck	96	1.9	0.4
Majority			860	16.9
Turnout			5,094	29.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	2,623	80.2	16.0
	Liberal Democrats	426	13.0	5.6
	Conservative	221	6.8	4.9
Majority		2,197	67.2
Turnout		3,270
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,731	64.9	3.5
	Conservative	700	26.3	1.5
	Liberal Democrats	184	6.9	4.0
	BNP	50	1.9	1.9
Majority		1,031	38.6
Turnout		2,665	16.4
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	James Whorwood	3,134	59.9
	Labour	Brenden O'Brien	1,626	31.1
	Conservative	Peter Osborn	407	7.8
	UKIP	Alan Ware	60	1.1
Majority			1,508	26.1
Turnout			5,227	26.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Jackson	3,285	67.5
	Labour	Lewis Berry	1,191	24.4
	Conservative	Bryan Brooke	395	8.1
Majority			2,094	42.9
Turnout			4,871	27.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Anita Ward	1,240	52.0
	Conservative	Barry Hands	790	33.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Hagan	352	14.8
Majority			450	18.9
Turnout			2,382	12.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Douglas McCarrick	3,268	62.0
	Small Heath Res	Kenneth Greaves	920	17.5
	Conservative	Nasreen Kayani	861	16.3
	Green	Alan Clawley	181	3.4
	Natural Law	Tessa Portsmouth	37	0.7
Majority			2,348	44.6
Turnout			5,267	25.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Richard Bashford	2,919	46.6
	Conservative	Edward Grant	2,625	41.9
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Sherwen	529	8.4
	Green	Peter Beck	195	3.1
Majority			294	0.1
Turnout			5,267	39.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Hood	3,539	45.8
	Liberal Democrats	Marie Cope	3,118	40.3
	Labour	Frank Hooley	797	10.3
	National Front	Louise Holland	171	2.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Tessa Portsmouth	104	1.4
Majority			421	0.1
Turnout			7,729	33.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Anthony Kennedy	2,232	55.9
	Conservative	Aziz-ul Hassan	1,306	32.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Hagan	311	7.8
	Green	Charles Alldrick	147	3.7
Majority			926	23.2
Turnout			3,996	24.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Neil Biddlestone	3,462	62.1
	Labour	Ian Jamieson	1,407	25.2
	Conservative	Clifford Beasley	705	12.6
Majority			2,055	36.8
Turnout			5,577	27.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Stanley Yapp	1,539	47.2
	Conservative	Leonard Kirby	937	28.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Henry	782	24.0
Majority			602	18.4
Turnout			3,261	18.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Graham Vickers	3,179
	Conservative	Donald Bailey	1,770
	Liberal Democrats	Dennis Pearson	1,716
	National Front	Reginald Barlow	371
Majority			1,409
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing