2024 Norwich City Council election
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13 out of 39 seats to Norwich City Council
20 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
  Blank Blank
Leader Mike Stonard Lucy Galvin
Party Labour Green
Last election 23 seats 13 seats
Seats before 19 13
  Third party Fourth party
  Blank Blank
Leader None James Wright
Party Independent Liberal Democrats
Last election Did not stand 3 seats
Seats before 4 3
Leader before election

Mike Stonard
Labour

Leader after election

TBD

The 2024 Norwich City Council election will take place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Norwich City Council in Norfolk, England. This will be on the same day as other local elections in England.

Background

At the previous local elections in 2023, Labour retained its overall majority despite losing two seats to the Green Party. However, in November of that year four councillors resigned from the ruling Labour group, depriving the party of their majority for the first time in more than eleven years.[1][2] As a result, the council fell into no overall control.

Changes in council composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:[3]

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19 13 4 3
Lab Grn Ind LD

References

  1. ^ "Labour loses control of Norwich City Council after four resign". BBC News. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ Sinclair, Andrew (29 November 2023). "Sixth Norwich Labour councillor resigns in party row". BBC News. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ George Thompson. "With four members gone from Norwich City Council, Labour no longer holds a majority. Before this evening Labour held 23 seats on the city council, the Greens 13 and the Lib Dems three. The make-up is now Labour 19, Greens 13, Independents four, and Lib Dems three". Twitter/X. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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