The 2023 Peterborough City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect member of

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, England. There were 21 of the 60 seats on the council contested. The election took place alongside other local elections across England. The council remained under

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, being led by a

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minority administration.

Overview

Going into the election, the position of the parties and the number of seats they were defending was: *

: 6 defences (22 other seats) * Labour (and Co-operative): 6 defences (6 other seats) *

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: 4 defences (4 other seats) *

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: 3 defences (1 other seat) * Werrington /

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First: 1 defence (3 other seats) *

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: 1 defence (1 other seat) Immediately after the election the position was that the Conservatives had 30 seats, Labour 14, the Liberal Democrats 5, Green 3 and there were 5 independents / Peterborough First. Two weeks after the elections took place, four councillors, Brian Rush (Stanground South), Peter Hiller (Glinton & Castor),

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(Stanground South) and Gavin Elsey (Wittering), left the Conservative Party to join Peterborough First. In June 2023, after an initial suspension, Councillor Mohammed Farooq (Hargate & Hempsted) quit the Conservative Party, citing a "bullying, toxic culture. He was followed soon after by his son, Councillor Saqib Farooq (Glinton & Castor) and ward-colleague Councillor John Howard.

Overall results

Ward results

Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2019; changes in vote share are therefore compared to the 2019 election.

Bretton

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(16.7%) did not contest this election.

Central

(5.1%) did not contest this election.

Dogsthorpe

Colin Hargreaves (10.7%) and the Veterans and People's Party (5.1%) did not contest this election. The incumbent, Katia Yurgutene (

Labour Co-op Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated to Labour Co-op; ) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party. Candidates contest elections under an el ...

) did not seek re-election.

East

The Liberal Democrats (9.7%) did not contest this election.

Eye, Thorney and Newborough

(14.8%) and SDP (7.9%) did not contest this election.

Fletton and Stanground

(16%) did not contest this election. The incumbent, Jade Seager, was elected in

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Fletton and Woodston

(16%) and Our Nation (1.7%) did not contest this election. The incumbent was Imtiaz Ali who had defected to the

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from Labour.

Glinton and Castor

Hiller defected from the

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to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.

Gunthorpe

(9.3%) and the

(3.6%) did not contest this election.

Hampton Vale

The

(5.4%) did not contest this time.

Hargate and Hempsted

Councillor Howard left the

group less than five weeks after being re-elected.

North

(9.9%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.3%) did not contest this election. The incumbent was Ansar Ali who had resigned from the Labour Party.

Orton Longueville

(16.7%) and the Liberal Democrats (5.7%) did not contest this election. The incumbent, Heather Skibsted, defected to the

from Labour.

Orton Waterville

The incumbent, Nicola Day, is

group leader.

Park

There were two vacant seats in this ward following the resignation of Shaz Nawaz (elected

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, Labour). The incumbent, Ikra Yasin ( Labour), did not seek re-election.

Paston and Walton

(15.5%) did not contest this time.

Ravensthorpe

(12.7%) did not contest this election. The incumbent, Lucinda Robinson (

), is not seeking re-election.

Stanground South

(17.8%) did not contest this election. Rush defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First less than two weeks after being re-elected.

Werrington

This is the first time Werrington First have contested an election under the "Peterborough First – Werrington Independent" description.

West

(10.5%) did not contest this election. The incumbent, Wayne Fitzgerald, is Leader of the Council.

Changes 2023–2024

*Councillors Bisby, Hiller and Rush defected from the

to Peterborough First just two weeks after the local election in May 2023. Councillor Elsey defected the following day. *Councillor Mohammed Farooq was suspended by the Conservative Party in May 2023. Despite being re-admitted in June, Cllr (M) Farooq quit the party due to a "bullying, toxic culture - followed by his son, Cllr Saqib Farooq and ward-colleague Cllr John Howard.

References

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