Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is the local council of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of seven in the West Midlands and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties ...

is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blyth ...

in the West Midlands, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, 51

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s have been elected from 17 wards.

Political control

Solihull was a

municipal borough Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in S ...

from 1954, with a borough council. It was made a

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent te ...

in 1964, becoming independent from

Warwickshire County Council Warwickshire County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire in England. Its headquarters are located at Shire Hall, Market Square, in centre of the county town of Warwick. Politically the county is ...

. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory enlarged and became a metropolitan borough, with

West Midlands County Council West Midlands County Council (WMCC) was, from 1974 to 1986, the upper-tier administrative body for the West Midlands county, a metropolitan county in England. History The WMCC existed for a total of twelve years. It was established on 1 April 1 ...

providing county-level services. The first election to the reconstituted borough council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. West Midlands County Council was abolished in 1986 and Solihull became a

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. Political control of the council since 1974 has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 2005 have been:

Council elections

Borough result maps

File:Solihull UK local election 1984 map.png, 1984 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1986 map.png, 1986 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1987 map.png, 1987 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1988 map.png, 1988 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1990 map.png, 1990 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1991 map.png, 1991 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1992 map.png, 1992 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1994 map.png, 1994 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1995 map.png, 1995 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1998 map.png, 1998 results map File:Solihull UK local election 1999 map.png, 1999 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2000 map.png, 2000 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2002 map.png, 2002 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2003 map.png, 2003 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2006 map.svg, 2006 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2007 map.svg, 2007 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2008 map.svg, 2008 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2010 map.svg, 2010 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2011 map.svg, 2011 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2012 map.svg, 2012 results map File:Solihull UK local election 2021 map.svg, 2021 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of the by-elections; full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

References

External links

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
{{Metropolitan districts of England Politics of Solihull Council elections in the West Midlands (county)