English council by-elections, 2021–2022
Local elections were held in England on 6th May 2021 and 5th May 2022. Between these elections 222 by-elections were held to fill vacancies that arose.
In these by-elections the Liberal Democrats and Green Party saw large gains, the Labour Party maintained its position, and the Conservative Party and UKIP suffered large losses.
| Party | Hold | Gain | Loss | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | 28 | 26 | 6 | 20 |
| Green Party | 3 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| Labour Party | 38 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 2 | −2 |
| Other local parties | 5 | 2 | 6 | −4 |
| Independents | 4 | 10 | 19 | −9 |
| Conservative Party | 48 | 26 | 46 | −20 |
Individual by-election results
The following table shows the results of all council by-elections between the local elections on 6th May 2021 and 5th May 2022. The data comes from Andrew Teale’s Local Elections Archive Project.
| Date | Council | Ward | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th April | Durham | West Auckland | > | ||
| 14th April | Maldon | Heybridge West | > | ||
| 14th April | Surrey Heath | Bisley and West End | > | ||
| 14th April | Tewkesbury | Brockworth East | > | ||
| 7th April | Dorset | Lyme and Charmouth | > | ||
| 7th April | East Riding of Yorkshire | South Hunsley | > | ||
| 7th April | High Peak | Cote Heath | > | ||
| 7th April | Horsham | Storrington and Washington | > | ||
| 7th April | Liverpool | Everton | > | ||
| 7th April | Liverpool | Warbreck | > | ||
| 7th April | Mid Devon | Cullompton South | > | ||
| 7th April | Telford and Wrekin | Brookside | > | 7th April | Wolverhampton | East Park | > |
| 31st March | Doncaster | Wheatley Hills and Intake | > | ||
| 31st March | Melton | Melton Sysonby | > | ||
| 31st March | Scarborough | Mayfield | > | ||
| 24th March | Horsham | Deane | > | ||
| 24th March | Northumberland | Seghill with Seaton Delaval | > | ||
| 24th March | Test Valley | North Baddesley | > | ||
| 24th March | Thanet | Nethercourt | > | ||
| 10th March | Herefordshire | Bromyard West | > | ||
| 10th March | Hertfordshire | Hitchin South | > | ||
| 10th March | North Hertfordshire | Hitchin Highbury | > | ||
| 10th March | Rutland | Ryhall and Casterton | > | ||
| 3rd March | East Lindsey | Halton Holegate | > | ||
| 3rd March | Essex | Rayleigh North | > | ||
| 3rd March | New Forest | Hythe West and Langdown | > | ||
| 3rd March | Rochford | Downhall & Rawreth | > | ||
| 3rd March | Sevenoaks | Brasted, Chevening, and Sundridge | > | ||
| 3rd March | South Somerset | Neroche | > | ||
| 3rd March | Southend-on-Sea | Southchurch | > | ||
| 3rd March | Sunderland | Redhill | > | ||
| 24th February | Castle Point | St Peter’s | > | ||
| 24th February | Durham | Ferryhill | > | ||
| 24th February | Lincolnshire | Colsterworth Rural | > | ||
| 24th February | Maldon | Wickham Bishops and Woodham | > | ||
| 24th February | South Kesteven | Aveland | > | ||
| 24th February | South Kesteven | Isaac Newton | > | ||
| 23rd February | Spelthorne | Stanwell North | > | ||
| 17th February | Allerdale | Stainburn and Clifton | > | ||
| 17th February | Bristol | Southmead | > | ||
| 17th February | Mid Suffolk | Thurston | > | ||
| 17th February | Newark and Sherwood | Collingham | > | ||
| 17th February | North East Lincolnshire | Park | > | ||
| 17th February | North Northamptonshire | Oundle | > | ||
| 17th February | Nottinghamshire | Collingham | > | ||
| 17th February | Oadby and Wigston | Wigston Meadowcourt | > | ||
| 17th February | West Devon | Tavistock North | > | ||
| 10th February | Eastleigh | Eastleigh Central | > | ||
| 10th February | Somerset West and Taunton | Alcombe | > | ||
| 10th February | Wealden | Hailsham South | > | ||
| 3rd February | Cotswold | Campden and Vale | > | ||
| 3rd February | Dacorum | Berkhamsted West | > | ||
| 3rd February | Dacorum | Boxmoor | > | ||
| 3rd February | Leicester | Evington | > | ||
| 3rd February | Manchester | Ancoats and Beswick | > | ||
| 3rd February | Tamworth | Spital | > | ||
| 27th January | Dartford | Maypole and Leyton Cross | > | ||
| 27th January | Dartford | Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone, and Hawley | > | ||
| 27th January | Kent | Wilmington | > | ||
| 20th January | Charnwood | Loughborough Shelthorpe | > | ||
| 20th January | Charnwood | Loughborough Shelthorpe | > | ||
| 20th January | East Lindsey | Chapel St Leonards | > | ||
| 20th January | Selby | Byram and Brotherton | > | ||
| 13th January | Wychavon | The Littletons | > | ||
| 6th January | Gedling | Cavendish | > | ||
| 23rd December | New Forest | Bransgore and Burley | > | ||
| 16th December | Ashford | Highfield | > | ||
| 16th December | Horsham | Roffey South | > | ||
| 16th December | Lichfield | Armitage with Handsacre | > | ||
| 16th December | Medway | Rochester East | > | ||
| 16th December | Middlesbrough | North Ormesby | > | ||
| 16th December | Northumberland | Hexham East | > | ||
| 16th December | Telford and Wrekin | Dawley and Aqueduct | > | ||
| 16th December | Walsall | Pleck | > | ||
| 16th December | West Berkshire | Tilehurst South and Holybrook | > | ||
| 16th December | West Lindsey | Nettleham | > | ||
| 9th December | Bracknell Forest | Old Bracknell | > | ||
| 9th December | Rotherham | Anston and Woodsetts | > | ||
| 9th December | Rotherham | Aughton and Swallownest | > | ||
| 9th December | Tonbridge and Malling | Castle | > | ||
| 9th December | Tonbridge and Malling | Kings Hill | > | ||
| 9th December | Tonbridge and Malling | West Malling and Leybourne | > | ||
| 9th December | Torridge | Northam | > | ||
| 2nd December | Adur | Hillside | > | ||
| 2nd December | Breckland | Hermitage | > | ||
| 2nd December | Lancaster | Bare | > | ||
| 2nd December | Lancaster | Upper Lune Valley | > | ||
| 2nd December | North Norfolk | Stalham | > | ||
| 2nd December | Warwick | Whitnash | > | ||
| 2nd December | Wealden | Hartfield | > | ||
| 2nd December | Worthing | Marine | > | ||
| 30th November | Wyre Forest | Franche and Habberley North | > | ||
| 25th November | Allerdale | Maryport South | > | ||
| 25th November | Basildon | Lee Chapel North | > | ||
| 25th November | Halton | Halton Castle | > | ||
| 25th November | Hambleton | Raskelf and White Horse | > | ||
| 25th November | Lancaster | Carnforth and Millhead | > | ||
| 25th November | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Knutton | > | ||
| 25th November | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Bar Pool | > | ||
| 25th November | Tunbridge Wells | Speldhurst and Bidborough | > | ||
| 25th November | Wandsworth | Bedford | > | ||
| 25th November | West Suffolk | Horringer | > | ||
| 25th November | Wigan | Bryn | > | ||
| 25th November | Wirral | Oxton | > | ||
| 18th November | Canterbury | Gorrell | > | ||
| 18th November | Liverpool | Anfield | > | ||
| 18th November | Liverpool | Clubmoor | > | ||
| 18th November | Liverpool | Kirkdale | > | ||
| 18th November | Manchester | Chorlton | > | ||
| 18th November | Ryedale | Cropton | > | ||
| 18th November | South Ribble | Bamber Bridge East | > | ||
| 18th November | Tewkesbury | Brockworth East | > | ||
| 18th November | West Devon | Bere Ferrers | > | ||
| 11th November | Lancaster | University and Scotforth Rural | > | ||
| 11th November | Melton | Melton Dorian | > | ||
| 11th November | North Kesteven | Metheringham | > | ||
| 11th November | North Kesteven | Metheringham | > | ||
| 11th November | North Kesteven | Sleaford Castle | > | ||
| 11th November | Thanet | Thanet Villages | > | ||
| 4th November | Gloucester | Longlevens | > | ||
| 4th November | Huntingdonshire | Huntingdon East | > | ||
| 4th November | Rutland | Oakham North West | > | ||
| 4th November | Salford | Blackfriars and Trinity | > | ||
| 4th November | West Lancashire | North Meols | > | ||
| 4th November | West Sussex | Bourne | > | ||
| 28th October | Bolton | Bromley Cross | > | ||
| 28th October | Carlisle | Currock and Upperby | > | ||
| 28th October | Luton | South | > | ||
| 28th October | South Kesteven | Grantham Arnoldfield | > | ||
| 28th October | South Kesteven | Stamford All Saints | > | ||
| 28th October | South Staffordshire | Kinver | > | ||
| 28th October | South Staffordshire | Wombourne South East | > | ||
| 21st October | Birmingham | Yardley East | > | ||
| 21st October | Horsham | Forest | > | ||
| 21st October | Newark and Sherwood | Rainworth South and Blidworth | > | ||
| 14th October | Harrow | Pinner South | > | ||
| 14th October | Surrey Heath | Frimley Green | > | ||
| 14th October | Wigan | Leigh West | > | ||
| 7th October | Nottingham | St Ann’s | > | ||
| 7th October | Nottingham | Sherwood | > | ||
| 7th October | Rushcliffe | Musters | > | ||
| 7th October | Somerset | Comeytrowe and Trull | > | ||
| 7th October | Somerset West and Taunton | Wilton and Sherford | > | ||
| 7th October | Waverley | Cranleigh East | > | ||
| 30th September | East Hampshire | Horndean Downs | > | ||
| 30th September | East Staffordshire | Tutbury and Outwoods | > | ||
| 30th September | Eden | Penrith West | > | ||
| 30th September | Sunderland | Hetton | > | ||
| 30th September | Swale | Priory | > | ||
| 30th September | West Suffolk | The Rows | > | ||
| 28th September | Broadland | Brundall | > | ||
| 28th September | Broadland | Brundall | > | ||
| 28th September | Broadland | Old Catton and Sprowston West | > | ||
| 23rd September | Charnwood | Shepshed West | > | ||
| 23rd September | East Cambridgeshire | Soham North | > | ||
| 23rd September | East Devon | Exe Valley | > | ||
| 23rd September | Epsom and Ewell | Cuddington | > | ||
| 23rd September | Hammersmith and Fulham | Wormholt and White City | > | ||
| 23rd September | South Lakeland | Kendal North | > | ||
| 16th September | Ealing | Hobbayne | > | ||
| 16th September | Malvern Hills | Tenbury | > | ||
| 16th September | Middlesbrough | Ladgate | > | ||
| 16th September | Sheffield | Firth Park | > | ||
| 9th September | Newcastle upon Tyne | Castle | > | ||
| 9th September | North East Derbyshire | Barlow and Holmesfield | > | ||
| 9th September | North East Derbyshire | Killamarsh East | > | ||
| 9th September | North Tyneside | Camperdown | > | ||
| 9th September | South Derbyshire | Seales | > | ||
| 9th September | South Tyneside | Cleadon and East Boldon | > | ||
| 2nd September | Calderdale | Park | > | ||
| 2nd September | Calderdale | Ryburn | > | ||
| 2nd September | Cheshire East | Wilmslow Dean Row | > | ||
| 26th August | Cumbria | Corby and Hayton | > | ||
| 26th August | Medway | Princes Park | > | ||
| 26th August | Medway | Strood North | > | ||
| 19th August | Ashford | Downs North | > | ||
| 19th August | Dover | Sandwich | > | ||
| 19th August | East Riding | East Wolds and Coastal | > | ||
| 19th August | Ribble Valley | Littlemoor | > | ||
| 19th August | Ribble Valley | Primrose | > | ||
| 19th August | Rutland | Oakham South | > | ||
| 12th August | East Suffolk | Orwell and Villages | > | ||
| 12th August | South Lakeland | Grange | > | ||
| 12th August | Tower Hamlets | Weavers | > | ||
| 29th July | Basildon | Pitsea North West | > | ||
| 29th July | Bassetlaw | East Retford South | > | ||
| 29th July | Harrogate | Knaresborough Scriven Park | > | ||
| 29th July | Norfolk | Gaywood South | > | ||
| 29th July | South Tyneside | Fellgate and Hedworth | > | ||
| 22nd July | Camden | Fortune Green | > | ||
| 22nd July | Leicester | Humberstone and Hamilton | > | ||
| 22nd July | North Somerset | Congresbury and Puxton | > | ||
| 22nd July | Spelthorne | Staines | > | ||
| 22nd July | Thanet | Cliftonville East | > | ||
| 22nd July | Wirral | Liscard | > | ||
| 15th July | Sandwell | Tividale | > | ||
| 8th July | East Devon | Feniton | > | ||
| 8th July | East Devon | Honiton St Michael’s | > | ||
| 8th July | East Suffolk | Aldeburgh and Leiston | > | ||
| 8th July | East Suffolk | Aldeburgh and Leiston | > | ||
| 8th July | Harlow | Mark Hall | > | ||
| 8th July | Huntingdonshire | St Neots East | > | ||
| 8th July | Mid Sussex | Ardingly and Balcombe | > | ||
| 1st July | Chelmsford | Writtle | > | ||
| 1st July | Elmbridge | Cobham and Downside | > | ||
| 1st July | Enfield | Bush Hill Park | > | ||
| 1st July | Islington | Tollington | > | ||
| 1st July | Newark and Sherwood | Bridge | > | ||
| 1st July | Newark and Sherwood | Bridge | > | ||
| 1st July | North East Lincolnshire | Heneage | > | ||
| 1st July | Stoke-on-Trent | Penkhull and Stoke | > | ||
| 24th June | Chichester | Chichester East | > | ||
| 24th June | Isles of Scilly | Bryher | > | ||
| 24th June | Rugby | Wolvey and Shilton | > | ||
| 24th June | Somerset West and Taunton | North Curry and Ruishton | > | ||
| 24th June | Swindon | Priory Vale | > | ||
| 17th June | Mid Devon | Upper Culm | > | ||
| 17th June | Somerset West and Taunton | Old Cleeve and District | > | ||
| 17th June | Tandridge | Felbridge | > | ||
| 10th June | Waltham Forest | Grove Green | > | ||
| 10th June | Waltham Forest | Lea Bridge | > | ||