The 2016 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of the
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Knowsley Council, or Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the ...
in England.
Following a boundary review, the number of seats was reduced from 63 to 45, with all of these new seats being up for election at the same time. This was held on the same day as other
local elections
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After the election, the composition of the council was:
Election Results
Overall election result
Overall result compared with
2015
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Events
January
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Number of seats reduced by 18.
Changes in council composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Ward results
Cherryfield
Halewood North
Halewood South
Northwood
Page Moss
Prescot North
Prescot South
Roby
Shevington
St Gabriel's
St Michael's
Stockbridge
Swanside
Whiston and Cronton
Whitfield
Changes between 2016 and 2018
St Michael's by-election July 2017
Page Moss by-election March 2018
References
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Knowsley
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2010s in Merseyside