The 2007 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same day. There were no local government elections in Northern Ireland. Just over half of English councils and almost all the Scottish councils began the counts on Friday, rather than Thursday night, because of more complex arrangements regarding postal votes.
All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 45 out of 46 unitary authorities, 231 out of 238 English districts, all 32 Scottish council areas, and 3 directly elected mayors
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Entrance to a polling station in the market town of Haverhill, Suffolk on 3 May 2007. The posters on the left are lists of the candidates in wards contested (St Edmundsbury BC and Haverhill TC) and information about rules and laws about voting.A polling station in a temporary cabin in position in the South of Coventry for the UK council elections on 3 May 2007.
These elections were a landmark in the United Kingdom as it was the first time that 18- to 20-year-olds could stand as candidates for council seats. The change was due to an alteration of the Electoral Administration Act. At least fourteen 18- to 20-year-olds are known to have stood as candidates for council seats[1] and as a result William Lloyd became the youngest person to be elected to official office in Britain. There were also a number of councils which used new voting methods such as internet and telephone voting in addition to the traditional methods of polling stations and postal votes.
These were the final elections to be overseen by Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair, who resigned the following month after a decade as prime minister to be succeeded by chancellor Gordon Brown. His party only finished in second place with a narrow lead over the third-placed Liberal Democrats, whose leader Menzies Campbell would also resign later in the year, while it was a strong showing for the Conservatives under David Cameron.
There was a suggestion in February 2006 that many of the 2007 local elections in England would be cancelled due to a reform of local government.[2] However, since then possible reforms are still in the consultation stage and no decisions have yet been made.
312 English district councils, nearly all districts in England held some form of election – either thirds or full – on Thursday, 3 May 2007.
The final results are summarised below; firstly, with a table ranked by the party with the greatest number of councillors elected.
The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections.[5]
Council
2003 result (control before May 2007, if different)
A Newsnight poll by the analysts Rallings and Thrasher some days before the election predicted the following results for the English council elections:
Con 38% (Conservatives gaining 330 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006)
Lab 24% (Labour losing 500 seats and losing 2% of the vote on 2006)
LD 29% (Liberal Democrats gaining 110 seats and gaining 2% of the vote on 2006)
However, these predictions, as in 2006, were largely inaccurate, underestimating Conservative support and grossly overestimating the Lib Dems' performance. However, it did accurately predict the number of seats Labour would lose.
Notes and referencesedit
^"Teenagers to run as councillors". BBC News. 4 April 2007.
^"Council polls could be scrapped". BBC News. 8 February 2006.
^ abYoung, Ross (19 July 2007). "Local and Mayoral elections 2007" (PDF). House of Commons Library. SOCIAL AND GENERAL STATISTICS SECTION (RESEARCH PAPER 07/47). Retrieved 17 December 2023.
^Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)
^Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)
External linksedit
Results table (BBC News)
Overview of councils up for election 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine
CityMayors article
Young candidates article
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The 2007 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 3 May 2007 These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same day There were no local government elections in Northern Ireland Just over half of English councils and almost all the Scottish councils began the counts on Friday rather than Thursday night because of more complex arrangements regarding postal votes 2007 United Kingdom local elections 2006 3 May 2007 2008 All 36 metropolitan boroughs 45 out of 46 unitary authorities 231 out of 238 English districts all 32 Scottish council areas and 3 directly elected mayors First party Second party Leader David Cameron Tony BlairParty Conservative LabourLeader since 6 December 2005 21 July 1994Percentage 40 27 Swing 1 1 Councils 165 36Councils 39 18Councillors 5 458 2 225Councillors 932 665 Third party Fourth party Leader Menzies Campbell Alex SalmondParty Liberal Democrats SNPLeader since 2 March 2006 3 September 2004Percentage 26 Swing 1 Councils 23 0Councils 4 1Councillors 2 337 363Councillors 255 182Colours denote the winning party as shown in the main table of results Entrance to a polling station in the market town of Haverhill Suffolk on 3 May 2007 The posters on the left are lists of the candidates in wards contested St Edmundsbury BC and Haverhill TC and information about rules and laws about voting A polling station in a temporary cabin in position in the South of Coventry for the UK council elections on 3 May 2007 These elections were a landmark in the United Kingdom as it was the first time that 18 to 20 year olds could stand as candidates for council seats The change was due to an alteration of the Electoral Administration Act At least fourteen 18 to 20 year olds are known to have stood as candidates for council seats 1 and as a result William Lloyd became the youngest person to be elected to official office in Britain There were also a number of councils which used new voting methods such as internet and telephone voting in addition to the traditional methods of polling stations and postal votes These were the final elections to be overseen by Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair who resigned the following month after a decade as prime minister to be succeeded by chancellor Gordon Brown His party only finished in second place with a narrow lead over the third placed Liberal Democrats whose leader Menzies Campbell would also resign later in the year while it was a strong showing for the Conservatives under David Cameron Contents 1 Summary of results 2 England 2 1 Whole council 2 2 Third of council 3 District councils 3 1 Whole council 3 2 Third of council 3 3 Mayoral elections 4 Scotland 4 1 Summary of results 4 2 Councils 5 Pre election predictions 6 Notes and references 7 External linksSummary of results editThere was a suggestion in February 2006 that many of the 2007 local elections in England would be cancelled due to a reform of local government 2 However since then possible reforms are still in the consultation stage and no decisions have yet been made 312 English district councils nearly all districts in England held some form of election either thirds or full on Thursday 3 May 2007 The final results are summarised below firstly with a table ranked by the party with the greatest number of councillors elected Party Councils CouncillorsNumber Change Number ChangeConservative 165 nbsp 39 5 458 nbsp 932Liberal Democrats 23 nbsp 4 2 337 nbsp 255Labour 36 nbsp 18 2 225 nbsp 665SNP 0 nbsp 1 363 nbsp 182Residents 1 nbsp 67 nbsp 19Green 0 nbsp 62 nbsp 17BNP 0 nbsp 10 nbsp 1Liberal 0 nbsp 9 nbsp 1Scottish Green 0 nbsp 8 nbsp 8Mebyon Kernow 0 nbsp 7 nbsp 1UKIP 0 nbsp 5 nbsp 1Health Concern 0 nbsp 4 nbsp 1Respect 0 nbsp 3 nbsp Solidarity 0 nbsp 1 nbsp 1Scottish Socialist 0 nbsp 0 nbsp 1Socialist Alternative 0 nbsp 0 nbsp 1Other 4 nbsp 949 nbsp 162No overall control 85 nbsp 27 n a n aSource BBC BBC NEWS Politics Vote 2007 English councils mapEngland editAll 36 English Metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election Council Previous control Result DetailsBarnsley Labour Labour hold DetailsBirmingham No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBolton No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBradford No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBury No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCalderdale No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCoventry Conservative Conservative hold DetailsDoncaster No overall control No overall control hold DetailsDudley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsGateshead Labour Labour hold DetailsKirklees No overall control No overall control hold DetailsKnowsley Labour Labour hold DetailsLeeds No overall control No overall control hold DetailsLiverpool Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsManchester Labour Labour hold DetailsNewcastle upon Tyne Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsNorth Tyneside No overall control No overall control hold DetailsOldham Labour No overall control DetailsRochdale No overall control Liberal Democrats gain DetailsRotherham Labour Labour hold DetailsSalford Labour Labour hold DetailsSandwell Labour Labour hold DetailsSefton No overall control No overall control hold DetailsSheffield Labour No overall control gain DetailsSolihull Conservative No overall control gain DetailsSouth Tyneside Labour Labour hold DetailsSt Helens No overall control No overall control hold DetailsStockport Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsSunderland Labour Labour hold DetailsTameside Labour Labour hold DetailsTrafford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWakefield Labour Labour hold DetailsWalsall Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWigan Labour Labour hold DetailsWirral No overall control No overall control hold DetailsWolverhampton Labour Labour hold Details Whole council edit In 25 English unitary authorities the whole council was up for election Council Previous control Result DetailsBath and North East Somerset No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBlackpool Labour Conservative gain DetailsBournemouth Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsBracknell Forest Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBrighton amp Hove No overall control No overall control hold DetailsDarlington Labour Labour hold DetailsEast Riding of Yorkshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsHerefordshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsLeicester No overall control Labour gain DetailsLuton No overall control Labour gain DetailsMedway Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMiddlesbrough Labour Labour hold DetailsNorth Lincolnshire Conservative Labour gain DetailsNorth Somerset No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNottingham Labour Labour hold DetailsPoole Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRedcar and Cleveland No overall control No overall control hold DetailsRutland Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Gloucestershire No overall control No overall control hold DetailsStockton on Tees No overall control No overall control hold DetailsTelford and Wrekin No overall control No overall control hold DetailsTorbay Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsWest Berkshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWindsor and Maidenhead Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsYork Liberal Democrats No overall control gain DetailsThird of council edit In 20 English unitary authorities one third of the council was up for election Council Previous control Result DetailsBlackburn with Darwen Labour No overall control gain DetailsBristol No overall control No overall control hold DetailsDerby No overall control No overall control hold DetailsHalton Labour Labour hold DetailsHartlepool Labour Labour hold DetailsKingston upon Hull No overall control Liberal Democrats gain DetailsMilton Keynes No overall control No overall control hold DetailsNorth East Lincolnshire No overall control No overall control hold DetailsPeterborough Conservative Conservative hold DetailsPlymouth No overall control Conservative gain DetailsPortsmouth No overall control No overall control hold DetailsReading Labour Labour hold DetailsSlough No overall control No overall control hold DetailsSouthampton No overall control No overall control hold DetailsSouthend on Sea Conservative Conservative hold DetailsStoke on Trent No overall control No overall control hold DetailsSwindon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsThurrock Conservative No overall control DetailsWarrington No overall control No overall control hold DetailsWokingham Conservative Conservative hold DetailsDistrict councils editWhole council edit In 153 English district authorities the whole council was up for election 3 Council Previous control Result DetailsAllerdale No overall control No overall control hold DetailsAlnwick No overall control No overall control hold DetailsArun Conservative Conservative hold DetailsAshfield Labour No overall control DetailsAshford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsAylesbury Vale Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBabergh No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBerwick upon Tweed No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBlaby Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBlyth Valley Labour Labour hold DetailsBolsover Labour Labour hold DetailsBoston No overall control Boston Bypass Independents gain DetailsBraintree No overall control Conservative gain DetailsBreckland Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBridgnorth No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBroadland Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBromsgrove Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBroxtowe No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCanterbury No overall control Conservative gain DetailsCaradon No overall control Liberal Democrats gain DetailsCarrick Liberal Democrats No overall control DetailsCastle Morpeth No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCharnwood No overall control Conservative gain DetailsChelmsford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsChester le Street Labour Labour hold DetailsChesterfield Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsChichester Conservative Conservative hold DetailsChiltern Conservative Conservative hold DetailsChristchurch Conservative Conservative hold DetailsCopeland Labour Labour hold DetailsCorby Labour Labour hold DetailsCotswold Conservative Conservative hold DetailsDacorum Conservative Conservative hold DetailsDartford No overall control Conservative gain DetailsDerbyshire Dales Conservative Conservative hold DetailsDerwentside Labour Labour hold DetailsDover No overall control Conservative gain DetailsDurham Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats holdEasington Labour Labour hold DetailsEastbourne Conservative Liberal Democrats gain DetailsEast Cambridgeshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsEast Devon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEast Dorset Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEast Hampshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEast Hertfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEast Lindsey No overall control No overall control hold DetailsEast Northamptonshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEast Staffordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEden Independent No overall control DetailsEpsom and Ewell Residents Association Residents Association hold DetailsErewash No overall control Conservative gain DetailsFenland Conservative Conservative hold DetailsForest Heath Conservative Conservative hold DetailsForest of Dean No overall control Conservative gain DetailsFylde Conservative Conservative hold DetailsGedling No overall control Conservative gain DetailsGravesham Labour Conservative gain DetailsGuildford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHambleton Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHarborough No overall control Conservative gain DetailsHigh Peak No overall control Conservative gain DetailsHinckley and Bosworth Conservative Liberal Democrats gain DetailsHorsham Conservative Conservative hold DetailsKennet Conservative Conservative hold DetailsKerrier Independent No overall control DetailsKettering Conservative Conservative hold DetailsKing s Lynn and West Norfolk Conservative Conservative hold DetailsLancaster No overall control No overall control hold DetailsLewes Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsLichfield Conservative Conservative hold DetailsLincoln Labour Conservative gain DetailsMaldon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMalvern Hills No overall control Conservative gain DetailsMansfield Independent Independent hold DetailsMelton Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMendip Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMid Bedfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMid Devon No overall control No overall control hold DetailsMid Suffolk No overall control Conservative gain DetailsMid Sussex No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNew Forest Conservative Conservative hold DetailsNewark and Sherwood No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorth Cornwall No overall control No overall control hold DetailsNorth Devon Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsNorth Dorset No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorth East Derbyshire Labour Labour hold DetailsNorth Hertfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsNorth Kesteven No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorth Norfolk Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsNorth Shropshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorth Warwickshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorth West Leicestershire Labour Conservative gain DetailsNorth Wiltshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsNorthampton No overall control Liberal Democrats gain DetailsOadby and Wigston Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsOswestry No overall control Conservative gain DetailsRestormel No overall control No overall control hold DetailsRibble Valley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRichmondshire Independent No overall control DetailsRother Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRushcliffe Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRyedale No overall control No overall control hold DetailsSalisbury Conservative No overall control DetailsScarborough Conservative No overall control DetailsSedgefield Labour Labour hold DetailsSedgemoor Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSelby Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSevenoaks Conservative Conservative hold DetailsShepway No overall control Conservative gain DetailsSouth Bucks Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Derbyshire Labour Conservative gain DetailsSouth Hams Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Holland Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Kesteven Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Norfolk Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsSouth Northamptonshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Oxfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Ribble No overall control Conservative gain DetailsSouth Shropshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsSouth Somerset Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsSouth Staffordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSpelthorne Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSt Edmundsbury Conservative Conservative hold DetailsStafford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsStaffordshire Moorlands No overall control Conservative gain DetailsSuffolk Coastal Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSurrey Heath Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTaunton Deane Conservative No overall control DetailsTeesdale Independent Independent hold DetailsTeignbridge No overall control No overall control hold DetailsTendring No overall control No overall control hold DetailsTest Valley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTewkesbury No overall control No overall control hold DetailsThanet Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTonbridge and Malling Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTorridge Independent No overall control DetailsTynedale Conservative Conservative hold DetailsUttlesford Liberal Democrats Conservative gain DetailsVale of White Horse Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsVale Royal No overall control No overall control hold DetailsWansbeck Labour Labour hold DetailsWarwick No overall control Conservative gain DetailsWaverley No overall control Conservative gain DetailsWealden Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWear Valley Labour No overall control DetailsWellingborough Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWest Devon No overall control No overall control hold DetailsWest Dorset Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWest Somerset Conservative Independent gain DetailsWest Wiltshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsWychavon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWycombe Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWyre Conservative Conservative hold Details 3 Third of council edit In 78 English district authorities one third of the council was up for election Council Previous control Result DetailsAmber Valley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBarrow in Furness No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBasildon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBasingstoke and Deane Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBassetlaw Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBedford No overall control No overall control hold DetailsBrentwood Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBroxbourne Conservative Conservative hold DetailsBurnley No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCambridge Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsCannock Chase No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCarlisle No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCastle Point Conservative Conservative hold DetailsCherwell Conservative Conservative hold DetailsChester No overall control Conservative gain DetailsChorley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsColchester No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCongleton Conservative Conservative hold DetailsCraven No overall control No overall control hold DetailsCrawley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsCrewe and Nantwich No overall control No overall control hold DetailsDaventry Conservative Conservative hold DetailsEastleigh Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsEllesmere Port and Neston Labour Labour hold DetailsElmbridge No overall control No overall control hold DetailsEpping Forest Conservative Conservative hold DetailsExeter No overall control No overall control hold DetailsGloucester No overall control No overall control hold DetailsGreat Yarmouth Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHarlow No overall control No overall control hold DetailsHarrogate No overall control No overall control hold DetailsHart No overall control No overall control hold DetailsHavant Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHertsmere Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHuntingdonshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsHyndburn Conservative Conservative hold DetailsIpswich No overall control No overall control hold DetailsMacclesfield Conservative Conservative hold DetailsMaidstone No overall control No overall control hold DetailsMole Valley Conservative Conservative hold DetailsNewcastle under Lyme No overall control No overall control hold DetailsNorwich No overall control No overall control hold DetailsPendle Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsPenwith No overall control No overall control hold DetailsPreston No overall control No overall control hold DetailsPurbeck Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRedditch No overall control No overall control hold DetailsReigate and Banstead Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRochford Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRossendale Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRugby No overall control Conservative gain DetailsRunnymede Conservative Conservative hold DetailsRushmoor Conservative Conservative hold DetailsShrewsbury and Atcham Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Bedfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSouth Cambridgeshire No overall control Conservative gain DetailsSouth Lakeland Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsSt Albans Liberal Democrats No overall control DetailsStevenage Labour Labour hold DetailsStratford on Avon Conservative Conservative hold DetailsStroud Conservative Conservative hold DetailsSwale Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTamworth Conservative Conservative hold DetailsTandridge Conservative Conservative hold DetailsThree Rivers Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsTunbridge Wells Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWatford Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsWaveney Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWelwyn Hatfield Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWest Lancashire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWest Lindsey Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats hold DetailsWest Oxfordshire Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWeymouth and Portland No overall control No overall control hold DetailsWinchester Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWoking No overall control Conservative gain DetailsWorcester Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWorthing Conservative Conservative hold DetailsWyre Forest No overall control No overall control hold DetailsMayoral elections edit Council Independent Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Green Elected ResultBedford 15 967 10 710 4 757 10 551 1 538 Frank Branston Independent holdMansfield 13 756 2 770 8 774 1 944 1 489 Tony Egginton Independent holdMiddlesbrough 17 455 1 733 3 539 7 026 no candidate Ray Mallon Independent holdScotland editMain article 2007 Scottish local elections All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election all Scottish councils are unitary authorities These local elections were held on the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election They were the first election for local government in mainland Great Britain to use the Single transferable vote the system is used in Northern Ireland as implemented by the Local Governance Scotland Act 2004 4 Summary of results edit Party Councils majority Councils in coalition minority CouncillorsSNP 0 11 363Labour 2 11 348Liberal Democrats 0 12 166Conservative 0 8 143Scottish Green 0 0 8Scottish Socialist Party 0 0 1Solidarity 0 0 1Other 3 9 193No overall control 27 Councils edit The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert Professors at the University of Strathclyde produced on 3 June 2005 calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections 5 Council 2003 result control before May 2007 if different Notional control based on 2003 results 2007 result DetailsAberdeen City No overall control LD Con NOC No overall control LD SNP DetailsAberdeenshire No overall control LD Ind NOC No overall control LD Con DetailsAngus SNP NOC No overall control Ind Con LD Lab DetailsArgyll and Bute Independent Independent No overall control Ind SNP DetailsClackmannanshire Labour NOC No overall control Lab minority DetailsDumfries and Galloway No overall control Lab 6 NOC No overall control Con LD DetailsDundee City No overall control Lab LD Con NOC No overall control Lab LD DetailsEast Ayrshire Labour Labour No overall control SNP minority DetailsEast Dunbartonshire No overall control LD 7 NOC No overall control Lab Con DetailsEast Lothian Labour NOC No overall control SNP LD DetailsEast Renfrewshire No overall control Lab LD NOC No overall control Lab LD Ind Con DetailsCity of Edinburgh Labour NOC Lab 8 NOC No overall control LD SNP DetailsFalkirk No overall control SNP Ind Con NOC No overall control Lab Ind Con DetailsFife No overall control Lab 9 NOC No overall control LD SNP DetailsGlasgow City Labour Labour Labour DetailsHighland Independent Independent No overall control Ind SNP DetailsInverclyde Liberal Democrats NOC No overall control Lab minority DetailsMidlothian Labour NOC No overall control Lab minority DetailsMoray Independent Independent No overall control Ind Con DetailsNa h Eileanan Siar Independent Independent Independent DetailsNorth Ayrshire Labour Labour No overall control Lab minority DetailsNorth Lanarkshire Labour Labour Labour DetailsOrkney Independent Independent Independent DetailsPerth and Kinross No overall control SNP LD Ind NOC No overall control SNP LD DetailsRenfrewshire Labour NOC No overall control SNP LD DetailsScottish Borders No overall control Ind Con NOC No overall control Ind Con LD DetailsShetland Independent Independent Independent DetailsSouth Ayrshire No overall control Con 10 NOC No overall control Con minority DetailsSouth Lanarkshire Labour Labour No overall control Lab minority DetailsStirling Labour NOC Lab 11 NOC No overall control Lab minority DetailsWest Dunbartonshire Labour Labour No overall control SNP Ind DetailsWest Lothian Labour NOC No overall control SNP Ind DetailsPre election predictions editA Newsnight poll by the analysts Rallings and Thrasher some days before the election predicted the following results for the English council elections Con 38 Conservatives gaining 330 seats and losing 2 of the vote on 2006 Lab 24 Labour losing 500 seats and losing 2 of the vote on 2006 LD 29 Liberal Democrats gaining 110 seats and gaining 2 of the vote on 2006 However these predictions as in 2006 were largely inaccurate underestimating Conservative support and grossly overestimating the Lib Dems performance However it did accurately predict the number of seats Labour would lose Notes and references edit Teenagers to run as councillors BBC News 4 April 2007 Council polls could be scrapped BBC News 8 February 2006 a b Young Ross 19 July 2007 Local and Mayoral elections 2007 PDF House of Commons Library SOCIAL AND GENERAL STATISTICS SECTION RESEARCH PAPER 07 47 Retrieved 17 December 2023 Electoral Panorama Panorama Electoral electionresources org Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 11 September 2008 Retrieved 6 February 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Labour minority control The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats Independents and the SNP Liberal Democrats lack a majority LD 12 councillors opposition 12 councillors Labour lack a majority after by election loss to Scottish National Party Lab 29 councillors opposition 29 councillors Labour minority administration Conservative and Unionist control on a cut of the cards Con 15 councillors opposition 15 councillors Labour lack a majority after by election loss to Scottish National Party Lab 11 councillors opposition 11 councillors External links editResults table BBC News Overview of councils up for election Archived 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine CityMayors article Young candidates article Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2007 United Kingdom local 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