The 2019 Hartlepool Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Hartlepool Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
On 9 May 2019, the former Labour council leader Christopher Akers-Belcher and two fellow party members defected to the Socialist Labour Party following the Labour Party's defeat in the recent local elections. On 13 September 2019, ten independent councillors joined the Brexit Party. The Conservative councillors then formed a pact with the Brexit Party councillors to become the largest group on the council.