The 2024 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Solihull Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local govern ...

in the West Midlands alongside other local elections on the same day. 17 of the 51 seats were up for election.

Background

Since its creation in 1974, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has always had the

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as the largest party, with some periods of

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. Labour came the closest to overtaking them in

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, when they won 16 seats to the Conservatives' 17. In the 2023 election, the Conservatives gained two seats on a vote share of 38.4% (-7.5), the

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lost 1 seat with 29.8% of the vote (+4.2), the Liberal Democrats gained 1 seat on 16.1% (+2.6), and Labour lost their sole remaining seat on 14.9% (+2.9). The seats up for election in 2024 were last elected in

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(the election was delayed by 1 year due to

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, meaning these councillors served a 3-year term). In that election, the Conservatives gained 3 seats with 53.8% of the vote, the Green Party gained 1 with 20.5%, the Liberal Democrats lost 3 with 12.2%, and Labour lost 1 with 12.9%.

Previous council composition

Changes 2023–2024: * Stephen Rymer leaves Green Party to sit as an independent

Councillors standing down

Summary

The council remained under Conservative majority control.

Election result

Results by ward

Bickenhill

Blythe

Castle Bromwich

Chelmsley Wood

Dorridge and Hockley Heath

Elmdon

Kingshurst and Fordbridge

Knowle

Lyndon

Meriden

Olton

Shirley East

Shirley South

Shirley West

Silhill

Smith's Wood

St. Alphege

References

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