Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, which styles itself "

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", is the local authority for the

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Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield. Walsall is th ...

in the

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. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, 60

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s have been elected from 20 wards.

Political control

From 1889 to 1974

was 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 ...

, independent of any county council. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory enlarged and became a metropolitan borough, with

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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 Walsall 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 2004 have been:

Council elections

Borough result maps

File:Walsall UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2006 map.svg, 2006 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2007 map.svg, 2007 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2008 map.svg, 2008 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2011 map.svg, 2011 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2012 map.svg, 2012 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2018 map.svg, 2018 results map File:Walsall UK local election 2021 map.svg, 2021 results map

By-election results

1997-2001

2001-2005

2005-2009

2009-2013

2013-2017

2021-

Cheema was unable to take her seat, due to being employed by Walsall Libraries at the time.

References

By-election results

External links

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