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2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.

Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the Gaza war. The four members subsequently formed the Kirklees Community Independents Group, which had no seats up for election this year. With this exception, the pre-election council makeup had otherwise remained unchanged from the 2023 election.

Labour lost control of the council to no overall control. Following the election, the leader of the council, Cathy Scott, was replaced as Labour group leader by Carole Pattison. However, Cathy Scott managed to retain her position as leader of the council, leaving Labour along with four others to sit as a group of independents calling themselves the Community Alliance.

Councillors standing down

Council composition

Summary

Election result

Ward results

Candidates nominated by ward:

Almondbury

Ashbrow

Batley East

Batley West

Birstall & Birkenshaw

Cleckheaton

Colne Valley

Crosland Moor & Netherton

Dalton

Denby Dale

Dewsbury East

Dewsbury South

Dewsbury West

Golcar

Greenhead

Heckmondwike

Holme Valley North

Holme Valley South

Kirkburton

Lindley

Liversedge & Gomersal

Mirfield

Newsome

Changes 2024–2026

  • Masood Ahmed, Yusra Hussain, Paul Moore, Cathy Scott, Adam Zaman and Habiban Zaman, all elected for Labour, left the party in May 2024 to sit as independents in a new group called the Community Alliance.
  • Musarrat Khan, elected for Labour, also left the party in May 2024, sitting as an ungrouped independent.

By-elections

Holme Valley South

References