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United Kingdom local elections, 2007
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The 2007 UK local government elections were held on 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.
These elections were a landmark in the United Kingdom as it was the first time that 18-20 year olds could stand as candidates for council seats. The change is due to an alteration of the Electoral Administration Act. At least fourteen 18-20 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.
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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.[1] 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 | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gain | Loss | Change | Total | Gain | Loss | Change | Total | ||
| Conservative | 47 | 8 | +39 | 165 | +911 | 5315 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 9 | -4 | 23 | -246 | 2171 | |||
| Labour | 3 | 10 | -8 | 34 | −504 | 1877 | |||
| Residents Associations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -19 | 67 | |||
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +17 | 62 | |||
| British National Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 10 | |||
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 9 | |||
| Mebyon Kernow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 7 | |
| UK Independence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 5 | |||
| Health Concern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | |
| Respect | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Socialist Alternative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | 4 | -162 | 949 | |||||
| No overall control | -27 | 85 | – | – | – | – | |||
All 36 English Metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.
In 25 English Unitary authorities the whole council was up for election.
In 20 English Unitary authorities one third of the council was up for election.
In 153 English district authorities the whole council was up for election.