The 2023 Peterborough City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect member of Peterborough City Council in Cambridgeshire, England. There were 21 of the 60 seats on the council contested. The election took place alongside other local elections across England.
The council remained under no overall control, being led by a Conservative minority administration.
Going into the election, the position of the parties and the number of seats they were defending was:
Immediately after the election the position was that the Conservatives had 30 seats, Labour 14, the Liberal Democrats 5, Green 3 and there were 5 independents / Peterborough First.
Two weeks after the elections took place, four councillors, Brian Rush (Stanground South), Peter Hiller (Glinton & Castor), Ray Bisby (Stanground South) and Gavin Elsey (Wittering), left the Conservative Party to join Peterborough First.
In June 2023, after an initial suspension, Councillor Mohammed Farooq (Hargate & Hempsted) quit the Conservative Party, citing a "bullying, toxic culture. He was followed soon after by his son, Councillor Saqib Farooq (Glinton & Castor) and ward-colleague Councillor John Howard.
Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2019; changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2019 election.
UKIP (16.7%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (5.1%) did not contest this election.
Independent Colin Hargreaves (10.7%) and the Veterans and People's Party (5.1%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Katia Yurgutene (Labour Co-op) did not seek re-election.
The Liberal Democrats (9.7%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (14.8%) and SDP (7.9%) did not contest this election.
UKIP (16%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Jade Seager, was elected in 2022.
UKIP (16%) and Our Nation (1.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent was Imtiaz Ali who had defected to the Green Party from Labour.
Hiller defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.
UKIP (9.3%) and the Green Party (3.6%) did not contest this election.
The Green Party (5.4%) did not contest this time.
Councillor Howard left the Conservative group less than five weeks after being re-elected.
UKIP (9.9%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.3%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent was Ansar Ali who had resigned from the Labour Party.
UKIP (16.7%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Heather Skibsted, defected to the Green Party from Labour.
The incumbent, Nicola Day, is Green Party group leader.
There were two vacant seats in this ward following the resignation of Shaz Nawaz (elected 2021, Labour).
The incumbent, Ikra Yasin (Labour), did not seek re-election.
UKIP (15.5%) did not contest this time.
UKIP (12.7%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Lucinda Robinson (Labour Co-op), is not seeking re-election.
UKIP (17.8%) did not contest this election.
Rush defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.
This is the first time Werrington First have contested an election under the "Peterborough First â Werrington Independent" description.
UKIP (10.5%) did not contest this election.
The incumbent, Wayne Fitzgerald, is Leader of the Council.