Английская Википедия:2016 Leeds City Council election

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The 2016 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 5 May 2016 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England. It was on the same day as other local elections.

As per the election cycle, one third of the council's seats were up for election. The councillors subsequently elected replaced those elected when their individual seats were previously contested in 2012.

The Labour Party retained all 21 of their contested council seats, maintaining their majority control of the council with a total of 63 of the 99 elected councillors. It was the second election in a row in which no party gained or lost any seats.

Election summary

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

Party		2015 election	New council
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color; width: 3px;" |	Labour	63	63
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color; width: 3px;" |	Conservative	19	19
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color; width: 3px;" |	Liberal Democrat	9	9
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color; width: 3px;" |	Morley Borough Independent	5	5
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color; width: 3px;" |	Green	3	3
Total		99	99
Working majority		Шаблон:Color box	Шаблон:Color box

Councillors who did not stand for re-election

Councillor/s who did not stand for re-election (5)

Councillor	Ward	First elected	Party		Reason	Successor
Ann Castle	Harewood	1988, 2000	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Conservative	stood down	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Ryan Stephenson (Conservative)
Шаблон:Sortname	Temple Newsam	2012	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Labour	stood down	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Debra Coupar (Labour)
Maureen Ingham	Armley	2012	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Labour	stood down	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Denise Ragan (Labour)
Andrea McKenna	Garforth & Swillington	2003	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Labour	stood down	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Sarah Field (Labour)
Bill Urry	Roundhay	2012	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Labour	stood down	width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |	Eleanor Tunnicliffe (Labour)

Incumbent Labour councillors, Debra Coupar (Cross Gates & Whinmoor), Roger Harington (Gipton & Harehills) and Janette Walker (Headingley), all stood for new wards. Coupar was elected to represent Temple Newsam and Walker replaced Coupar as a councillor for Cross Gates & Whinmoor. Harington lost to the Liberal Democrats in Weetwood.