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2023 East Riding of Yorkshire Council election

The 2023 East Riding of Yorkshire Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 67 members of East Riding of Yorkshire Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

The Conservatives lost their majority on the council at this election, which saw the council go under no overall control.

The Conservatives remained the largest party and managed to form a minority administration. Immediately after the election the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both changed their group leaders. The Conservative leader Jonathan Owen was replaced by Anne Handley, who was then appointed the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 18 May 2023. The Liberal Democrats replaced their leader David Nolan with Denis Healy. There had been no Labour councillors prior to the election; there were four afterwards and they appointed Steve Gallant as their leader.

Results summary

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Almost a quarter of the 67 councillors prior to the election did not stand for re-election.

Ward results

Sitting councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).

Beverley Rural

Bridlington Central and Old Town

Bridlington North

Bridlington South

Cottingham North

Cottingham South

Dale

Driffield and Rural

East Wolds and Coastal

Goole North

Goole South

Hessle

Howden

* Elected as a Conservative, but defected to the Liberal Democrats mid term

Howdenshire

Mid Holderness

Minster and Woodmansey

North Holderness

Pocklington Provincial

Snaith, Airmyn and Rawcliffe and Marshland

South East Holderness

South Hunsley

South West Holderness

St Mary's

Tranby

Willerby and Kirk Ella

Wolds Weighton

Changes 2023–2027

  • David Nolan, elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2023, joined Labour in January 2024.
  • Maria Bowtell, elected as a Conservative in 2023, joined Reform UK in February 2024. Bowtell proceeded to resign from Reform UK in March 2025, and later joined Restore Britain in February 2026, becoming their first councillor nationally.
  • Caroline Fox, elected as a Conservative, left the party in May 2024 to sit as an independent.

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