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Percentage of council seats won by Liberal Democrats (3377) Metric type
- Help text
- This metric is the percentage of seats won by Liberal Democrat candidates at the local council elections. It is calculated based on the total number of seats won divided by the total number of vacant seats expressed as a percentage. The figure takes account of any by-election changes as well as the transfers of seats during the main round of local elections but not those resulting from elected councillors switching party allegiance.
Local councillors are elected for 4-year terms by the local community, at the end of this term elections are held for the relevant wards. The election cycle varies for different councils, some councils elect all of their councillors at the same time (once every four years), other councils elect half or a third of their councillors at each election. Therefore this should be kept in mind when comparing the figures for different councils.
Structural changes to local government areas and ward changes in order electoral equality is achieved where every councillor represents roughly the same number of electors, may result in the seats won by a party changing, even when the percentage vote share by that party is constant.
Election results published by Nuffield Politics Research Centre and House of Commons Library.
- Modified
- 22 Feb 2023
- Data last updated
- 20 Feb 2024
- Short label
- % of council seats won by Liberal Democrats
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Percentage share of council seats won
- Dataset
- Council election results
- Collection
- Local Elections Handbook
- Source
- The Elections Centre
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