The 2022 North Yorkshire Council election took place on 5 May 2022, alongside the other local elections. These were the last elections to North Yorkshire County Council, and the elected councillors would also serve as the first councillors on the North Yorkshire Council (a new unitary authority), which replaced the existing county council in April 2023.
The scheduled 2021 North Yorkshire County Council elections were not held due to the restructure of local government in the county.
The North Yorkshire County Council was led by a Conservative Party majority prior to the election.
Previous council composition
Changes:
- July 2018: Michael Jordan leaves Conservatives to join the Yorkshire Party.
- August 2018: David Goode gains seat for Liberal Democrats from Conservatives in by-election
- July 2019: John Blackie (independent) dies; by-election held October 2019
- October 2019: Yvonne Peacock gains seat for Conservatives from independent in by-election
- October 2019: Andrew Jenkinson leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent
- November 2019: Andrew Backhouse leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent
- August 2020: Michael Jordan returns from the Yorkshire Party to the Conservatives.
- January 2021: Richard Welch (Conservative) dies; by-election held in May 2021
- March 2021: Geoff Weber (Liberal Democrats) dies; by-election held in May 2021
- May 2021: Matt Scott gains seat for Conservatives from Liberal Democrats in by-election, David Staveley retains seat for Conservatives in by-election
- February 2022: Caroline Goodrick leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent
- Val Arnold leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent
- David Hugill leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent
Results summary
Ward results
Statements of persons nominated were published on 6 April.
Craven area
Aire Valley
Bentham & Ingleton
Changes are shown from 2017 with the identical North Craven division of North Yorkshire County Council.
Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven
Mid Craven
Settle & Penyghent
Skipton East & South
Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
Skipton West & West Craven
<sup>1</sup> â Solloway and Madeley were both tied on 503 votes; Solloway won the seat via drawing of lots.
Hambleton area
Aiskew & Leeming
Bedale
Easingwold
Great Ayton
Hillside & Raskelf
Huby & Tollerton
Hutton Rudby & Osmotherley
Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske
Northallerton North & Brompton
Northallerton South
Romanby
Sowerby & Topcliffe
Stokesley
Thirsk
Harrogate area
Bilton & Nidd Gorge
Bilton Grange & New Park
Boroughbridge & Claro
Coppice Valley & Duchy
Fairfax & Starbeck
Harlow & St. Georges
High Harrogate & Kingsley
Killinghall, Hampsthwaite & Saltergate
Knaresborough East
Knaresborough West
Masham & Fountains
Oatlands & Pannal
Ouseburn
Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
Ripon Minster & Moorside
Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith
Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
Washburn & Birstwith
Wathvale & Bishop Monkton
Richmondshire area
Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale
Hipswell & Colburn
Leyburn & Middleham
North Richmondshire
Richmond
Scotton & Lower Wensleydale
Upper Dales
Ryedale area
Amotherby & Ampleforth
Helmsley & Sinnington
Kirkbymoorside & Dales
Malton
Norton
Pickering
Sheriff Hutton & Derwent
Thornton Dale & Wolds
Scarborough area
Castle
Cayton
Danby & Mulgrave
Derwent Valley & Moor
Eastfield
Esk Valley & Coast
Falsgrave & Stepney
Filey
Hunmanby & Sherburn
Newby
Northstead
Scalby & the Coast
Seamer
Weaponness & Ramshill
Wharfedale
Whitby Streonshalh
Whitby West
Woodlands
Selby area
Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton
Barlby & Riccall
Brayton & Barlow
Camblesforth & Carlton
Changes are shown from the 2021 by-election to the identical Camblesforth & Carlton ward of Selby District Council.
Cawood & Escrick
Cliffe & North Duffield
Monk Fryston & South Milford
Osgoldcross
Selby East
Selby West
Sherburn in Elmet
Tadcaster
Thorpe Willoughby & Hambleton
Changes 2022âÂÂ2027
Masham and Fountains
Eastfield
Tony Randerson, who had been elected in 2022 for Labour, was a candidate of the Social Justice Party, but was listed as an independent on the ballot paper due to the party not being registered with the Electoral Commission. The party was subsequently formally registered in February 2024.
- In June 2023, Mike Jordan, elected as a Conservative in 2022, left the party to contest the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election as an independent candidate, causing the council to go under no overall control. He subsequently joined Reform UK in February 2024.
- Also in June 2023, Mike Schofield, elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2022, left the party to sit as an independent. He would later join the Green Party in December 2025.
Hutton Rudby & Osmotherley
- Joseph Body was originally nominated by the Labour Party, but withdrew as a candidate prior to the closing of nominations.
Sowerby & Topcliffe
- In February 2024, Pat Marsh, elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2022, was expelled from the Liberal Democrat group due to comments made about the Gaza war on social media. She then sat as an independent until her resignation from the council later that month.
- In March 2024, Paul Haslam, elected as a Conservative in 2022, left the party to contest the 2024 York and North Yorkshire mayoral election as an independent candidate.
Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
Eastfield
- In October 2025, Karl Arthur, elected as a Conservative in 2022, moved to Reform UK.
- In November 2025, John Mann, elected as a Conservative in 2022, left the party to sit as an independent. This meant that the Conservatives and Independents group no longer held a majority on the council.
Current council composition
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